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• She felt... how life, from being made up of little separate incidents which one lived one by one, became curled and whole like a wave which bore one up with it and threw one down with it, there, with a dash on the beach.

  Virginia Woolf

  Beach, Littles, Chaos

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.286, Wordsworth Editions

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• Fire is a speed reader, which is why the ignorant burn books: fire races through pages, takes care of all the knowledge, and never bores you with a summary.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Book, Fire, Race

  Elizabeth McCracken (2013). “The Giant's House”, p.250, Random House

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• After all, a woman didn't leave much behind in the world to show she'd been there. Even the children she bore and raised got their father's name. But her quilts, now that was something she could pass on.

  Sandra Dallas

  Inspirational, Motivational, Quilts

  Sandra Dallas (2010). “Prayers for Sale”, p.68, Macmillan

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• The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish something. The strongest, by dispensing his over many, may fail to accomplish anything. The drop, by continually falling, bores its passage through the hardest rock. The hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar, and leaves no trace behind.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Fall, Persistence, Rocks

  "The Life of Friedrich Schiller: Comprehending an Examination of His Works". Book by Thomas Carlyle, 1825.

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• It was just terrible! And the worst part was, I knew what a bore I was being, I knew how I was depressing people, or even hurting their feelings- but I just couldn't stop! I just could not stop picking!

  J. D. Salinger

  Depressing, Hurt, People

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• Without time,” the angel said, “you have only the bottomless, shapeless mire of eternity.” “FYI, philosophy bores me.” “Not philosophy. Reality. Time is what gives life significance.

  J.R. Ward

  Philosophy, Angel, Reality

  J.R. Ward (2009). “Lover Avenged: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.254, Penguin

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• ~You know how parents rattle on to you about, 'Oh, you won't believe your life will never be the same,' and you think, Why can't these people just get over it? All they're doing is yakking about their kids. It's such a bore. And then you have kids and you just want to do the same thing.~

  Uma Thurman

  Believe, Kids, Parenting

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• I travelled among unknown men,
  In lands beyond the sea;
  Nor England! did I know till then
  What love I bore to thee.

  William Wordsworth

  Love, Nature, Travel

  'I travelled among unknown men' (1807)

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• The woman who bore me is no longer alive, but I seem to be her daughter in increasingly profound ways.

  Johnnetta B. Cole

  Mother Daughter, Honesty, Mother And Daughter

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• On my fortieth birthday, rather than merely bore my friends by having anything as mundane as a midlife crisis I decided it might be more interesting to actually terrify them by going completely mad and declaring myself to be a magician.

  Alan Moore

  Mad, Interesting, Midlife

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• Now that cleverness was the fashion most people were clever - even perfect fools; and cleverness after all was often only a bore: all head and no body

  Walter de La Mare

  Fashion, Clever, People

  Walter de La Mare (2013). “The Return”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• Last comes the beverage of the Orient shore, Mocha, far off, the fragrant berries bore. Taste the dark fluid with a dainty lip, Digestion waits on pleasure as you sip.

  Pope Leo XII

  Coffee, Dark, Waiting

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• Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Fear, Intelligent, Speech

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• Doctrinal preaching certainly bores the hypocrites; but it is only doctrinal preaching that will save Christ's sheep.

  J. I. Packer

  Hypocrite, Sheep, Christ

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• As I lay stretched upon the beach of Nice, I began to feel hatred for birds which flew back and forth across my blue sky, cloudless sky, because they tried to bore holes in my greatest and most beautiful work.

  Yves Klein

  Beautiful, Beach, Nice

  Yves Klein (2000). “Yves Klein: Long Live the Immaterial”, Delano Greenridge Editions

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• At the cross in holy love God through Christ paid the full penalty of our disobedience himself. He bore the judgment we deserve in order to bring us the forgiveness we do not deserve. On the cross divine mercy and justice were equally expressed and eternally reconciled. God's holy love was 'satisfied.'

  John Stott

  Order, Justice, God Love

  John Stott, Dale Larsen, Sandy Larsen (2009). “The Cross”, p.67, InterVarsity Press

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• The meaning of atonement is not to be found in our penitence evoked by the sight of Calvary, but rather in what God did when in Christ on the cross He took our place and bore our sin.

  John Stott

  Sight, Christ On The Cross, Sin

  John Stott (2012). “The Cross of Christ”, InterVarsity Press

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• Trivial participation ultimately bores you, leaves behind a sense of shallowness, contributes little to your deeper sense of life. Significant participation, on the other hand, engages you, enthralls and satisfies you, it contributes to the meaning of your life

  Henryk Skolimowski

  Healing, Hands, Bores You

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• Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Art, Past, Bores You

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.157, New Directions Publishing

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• Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness.

  Blaise Pascal

  Loneliness, Passion, Men

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• I don't know about bores. Maybe you shouldn't feel too sorry if you see some swell girl getting married to them. They don't hurt anybody most of them, and maybe they're all terrific whistlers or something. Who the hell knows? Not me.

  J. D. Salinger

  Girl, Hurt, Sorry

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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• The trouble with tea is that originally it was quite a good drink. So a group of the most eminent British scientists put their heads together and made complicated biological experiments to find a way of spoiling it. To the eternal glory of British science, their labour bore fruit.

  George Mikes

  Tea, Together, Groups

  "How to Be an Alien: A Handbook for Beginners and More Advanced Pupils". Book by George Mikes, 1946.

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• The air of caricature never fails to show itself in the products of reason applied relentlessly and without correction. The observation of clinical facts would seem to be a pursuit of the physician as harmless as it is indispensable. [But] it seemed irresistibly rational to certain minds that diseases should be as fully classifiable as are beetles and butterflies. This doctrine ... bore perhaps its richest fruit in the hands of Boissier de Sauvauges. In his Nosologia Methodica published in 1768 ... this Linnaeus of the bedside grouped diseases into ten classes, 295 genera, and 2400 species.

  Wilfred Trotter

  Butterfly, Air, Hands

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• Unless a man has been taught what to do with success after getting it, the achievement of it must inevitably leave him a prey to boredom.

  Bertrand Russell

  Success, Boredom, Achievement

  "The Conquest of Happiness".

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• The devil's name is dullness.

  Robert E. Lee

  Names, Boredom, Devil

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