Bores Quotes - Page 13

• Let us leave tomorrow's trouble for the One who bore our troubles on the cross.

  T. B. Joshua

  Tomorrow, Trouble, Crosses

  "Prophet TB Joshua Predicted The Death Of Michael Jackson". Africa News, June 29, 2009.

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• Tallulah [Bankhead] never bored anyone, and I consider that humanitarianism of a very high order indeed.

  Anita Loos

  Order, Bored, Humanitarianism

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• Gays have become colossal bores. Once interesting and iconoclastic, all they seem to crave nowadays is the State's pension and seal of approval. They ought to go back to the days of the Stonewall Riots, when the police's violations of privacy and private property were the object of their anger and activism.

  Ilana Mercer

  Gay, Interesting, Police

  "Brokeback Mountain' Revisited". WorldNetDaily.com, June 9, 2006.

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• nothing is so pleasant ... as to display your worldly wisdom in epigram and dissertation, but it is a trifle tedious to hear another person display theirs.

  Ouida

  Wit, Trifles, Worldly Wisdom

  Ouida (1870). “Puck: His Vicissitudes, Adventures, Observations, Conclusions, Friendships, and Philosophies”, p.131

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• It is always your heaviest bore who is astonished at the tameness of modern celebrities: naturally; for a little of his company has reduced them to a state of flaccid fatigue.

  George Eliot

  Littles, Modern, States

  George Eliot (2016). “Impressions of Theophrastus Such: Top Novelist Focus”, p.35, 谷月社

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• It's bad enough when married people bore one another, but it's much worse when only one of them bores the other.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  People, Married, Enough

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1994). “Aphorisms”, Ariadne Press (CA)

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• For most men, a stepford wife would bore them to tears after a couple of weeks

  Na'ima B. Robert

  Couple, Men, Wife

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• In Ronald Reagans case, he always bore with him this extraordinary ability to radiate confidence, optimism, clarity, a blitheness of spirit, in what other people saw as chaos. And after the 1970s, that was catnip.

  Rick Perlstein

  Optimism, People, Saws

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• Because I think a lot of people felt like, ultimately - and this isn't the first time I've said this, so I'll bore you again with it - but ultimately it was... I think it felt like homework a bit for people.

  Will Arnett

  Thinking, Bores You, People

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• I've always tried to be cheerful, because I think people who whine are boring, and I never could tolerate bores.

  Beverly Sills

  Thinking, People, Cheerful

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• No one has ever explained why it is that parents and guardians consider dull people such safe matrimonial investments for their young charges. Even granting the unsound assumption that dull people are more apt to be content with their own matrimonial fetters, they are certainly more apt to be the cause of discontent in others.

  Alice Duer Miller

  People, Parent, Causes

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• The Prophet's words were true;
  The mouth of Ali is the golden door
  Of Wisdom."
  When his friends to Ali bore
  These words, he smiled and said: "And should they ask
  The same until my dying day, the task
  Were easy; for the stream from Wisdom's well,
  Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.

  Bayard Taylor

  Wisdom, Doors, Dying

  Bayard Taylor (1866). “The Poems”, p.130

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• Work/Loaf Ratio”...I have spent fourteen years perfecting... I won't bore you with a long-winded explanation of the “W/LR” save to say that it is an algebraic formula of such complex numeric subtlety that it can be understood only by mathematicians and hobos.

  Gary Reilly

  Years, Bores You, Long

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• Ye winds ye unseen currents of the air,
  Softly ye played a few brief hours ago;
  Ye bore the murmuring bee; ye tossed the air
  O'er maiden cheeks, that took a fresher glow;
  Ye rolled the round white cloud through depths of blue;
  Ye shook from shaded flowers the lingering dew;
  Before you the catalpa's blossoms flew,
  Light blossoms, dropping on the grass like snow.

  William C. Bryant

  Flower, Clouds, Light

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• Will there never come a season Which shall rid us from the curse? Of a prose which knows no reason And an unmelodious verse: When the world shall cease to wonder At the genius of an Ass, And a boy's eccentric blunder Shall not bring success to pass: When mankind shall be delivered From the clash of magazines, And the inkstand shall be shivered Into countless smithereens: When there stands a muzzled stripling, Mute, beside a muzzled bore: When the Rudyards cease from Kipling And the Haggards Ride no more.

  James Kenneth Stephen

  Boys, World, Eccentric

  James Kenneth Stephen, “To R. K.”

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• Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates - but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage of all sorts of sages, who in his life-time, each was deemed a bore! The loftiest minds outrun their tardy ages.

  Lord Byron

  Life, Philosophy, Philosophical

  Lord Byron (2015). “Don Juan”, p.502, Xist Publishing

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• If he descended from heaven today the great warrior who beat the money-traders you would shout your "crucifige!" and nail him to the cross which he himself bore. But he mildly smiles upon your hate: "The truth will prevail, even if the bearer falls; the faith will live, for I give my life ... and stand tall at the cross for all warriors of the world.

  Baldur von Schirach

  Hate, Fall, Warrior

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• As we know, our own mother bore us only into pain and dying. But our true mother, Jesus, who is all love, bears us into joy and endless living. Blessed may he be.

  Julian of Norwich

  Mother, Jesus, Pain

  Julian of Norwich (1985). “Daily Readings with Julian of Norwich”, Templegate Pub

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• What after all, has maintained the human race on this old globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind, if not faith in new possibilities, and courage to advocate them. Doubtless many times these new possibilities were declared by a man who, quite unconscious of courage, bore the "sense of being an exile, a condemned criminal, a fugitive from mankind." Did every one so feel who, in order to travel on his own proper path had been obliged to leave the traditional highway?

  Jane Addams

  Men, Race, Order

  Jane Addams (2010). “Peace and Bread in Time of War”, p.85, University of Illinois Press

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• The words that bore the deathless verse of Homer from bard to a group of fascinated hearers, and with whose fading sounds the poems passed beyond recall, are fixed on the printed page in a hundred tongues. They carry to a million eyes what once could reach but a hundred ears.

  Nicholas Murray Butler

  Eye, Ears, Pages

  Nicholas Murray Butler (1911). “Philosophy”

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• I love the idea of changing my look. I think one owes it to the audience, to go out there and give them something different each time, so as not to bore them to death.

  Johnny Depp

  Thinking, Ideas, Giving

  Interview with Iggy Pop, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 19, 2014.

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• Faith of the bore: everything is worth saying.

  Mason Cooley

  Faith, Boredom

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• Bores: People who talk of themselves, when you are thinking only of yourself.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Thinking, People

  Marguerite Countess of Blessington, Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1839). “Desultory Thoughts and Reflections”, p.16

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• We are almost always wearied in the company of persons with whom we are not permitted to be weary.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Company, Weary, Persons

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• We often boast that we are never bored; but yet we are so conceited that we do not perceive how often we bore others.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Conceited, Bored, Egotism

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