Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wallace Stevens

It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.

Wayne Dyer

The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way.

Wayne Dyer

Life is never boring, but some people choose to be bored.

Elias Canetti

The first effect of adjusting to other people is that one becomes boring.

Judith Viorst

Mid-grade readers don't have short attention spans, they just have low boredom tolerance.

John Jay Chapman

As for boredom ... I notice that it leaves me as soon as I am doing something that has got to be done.

Lord Hailsham

You ought not to be ashamed of being bored. What you ought to be ashamed of is being boring.

Freya Stark

monotony is not to be worshipped as a virtue; nor the marriage bed treated as a coffin for security rather than a couch from which to rise refreshed.

Madame de Stael

One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering.

Bill Cowher

Whatever happens, and you kind of deal with the circumstances that you are dealt with. I think, at this point, that is the mindset that we have to have and we will deal with whatever decisions or other choices we have at that time. I am not going to waste any time thinking about that or talking about that.

Lana Stanley

What is encouraging to us is a lot of people seem to recognize that if they don't support the 'mom and pop stores' they will go away and then their only choices will be the 'big boxes' and they know that they won't be happy with those as their only choices.

Tom Wood

I think we showed a little character. We kind of hung in there and that was nice to see. We missed some shots and made some funny choices with what we wanted to do with the basketball, but we managed to win the game.

Richard Bach

We design our lives through the power of our choices. We feel most helpless when we've made choices by default, when we haven't designed our lives on our own.

Rose McGowan

I've seen many actors go awry by making the wrong choices early on.

Truman Capote

I live in Brooklyn. By choice,

Wayne Dyer

Begin at once to live and count each day a separate life time.” - Seneca “Our lives are the sum total of the choices we have made.

Wayne Dyer

You are the sum total of your choices.

Veerappa Moily

We need to do more to conserve fuel or face tougher choices such as steep price increase or even quantitative restrictions.

Richard Paul Evans

Suffering ceases to be suffering when we form a clear picture of it.

Whitley Strieber

I wondered if I might not be in the grip of demons, if they were not making me suffer for their own purposes, or simply for their enjoyment.

Samuel Johnson

The equity of Providence has balanced peculiar sufferings with peculiar enjoyments.

Willa Cather

Only a Woman, divine, could know all that a woman can suffer.

W. Somerset Maugham

We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

Willie Nelson

We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.

Marcel Proust

There is not a woman in the world the possession of whom is as precious as that of the truths which she reveals to us by causing us to suffer.

Marcel Proust

Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians.

Jose Rizal

He who would love much has also much to suffer.