Bores Quotes - Page 18

• The leaf was darkish, and had prickles on it, But in another country, as he said, Bore a bright golden flow'r, but not in this soil; Unknown, and like esteem'd, and the dull swain Treads on it daily with his clouted shoon.

  John Milton

  Country, Boredom, Dull

  John Milton, Merritt Yerkes Hughes (1957). “Complete Poems and Major Prose”, p.104, Hackett Publishing

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• I don't use a crap camera, I don't eat junk, and I'm not going to a dance where the boys are bores

  Adriana Trigiani

  Boys, Use, Cameras

  Adriana Trigiani (2010). “Viola in Reel Life”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• As Christ bore and received us as sinners so we in his fellowship may bear and receive sinners into the fellowship of Christ through the forgiving of sins.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Forgiving, May, Fellowship

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.79, SCM Press

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• I entered the water as naked as when my mother bore me. When I first touched the cold water I felt a shudder go through me, then the shudder was transformed into a sensation of wakefulness.

  Tayeb Salih

  Mother, Water, Naked

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• Faith is not our saviour. It was not faith that was born at Bethlehem and died on Golgotha for us. It was not faith that loved us, and gave itself for us; that bore our sins in its own body on the tree; that died and rose again for our sins. Faith is one thing, the Saviour is another. Faith is one thing, and the cross is another. Let us not confound them, nor ascribe to a poor, imperfect act of man, that which belongs exclusively to the Son of the Living God.

  Horatius Bonar

  Son, Men, Rose

  Horatius Bonar (1873). “The everlasting righteousness; or, How shall man be just with God?.”, p.110

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• Few of us will reach our potential without the nurturing of both the mother who bore us and the mothers who bear with us.

  Sheri L. Dew

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Bears

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• What [man landing on the moon] is doing up there is indulging his obsession with the impossible. The impossible infuriates and tantalizes him. Show him an impossible job and he will reduce it to a possibility so trite that eventually it bores him.

  Russell Baker

  Jobs, Science, Moon

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• Mr. Presley has no discernible singing ability . . . For the ear he is an unutterable bore, not nearly so talented as Frank Sinatra back in the latter's rather hysterical days at the Paramount Theater.

  Jack Gould

  Singing, Ears, Hysterical

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• Fight fire with fire. If you must have bores, always put them together or at the same table ... bores have an effervescent chemical reaction on one another at a party. They invariably have a marvelous time trading banalities in the absence of competition. Clichés roll trippingly off the tongue like sparkling epigrams and trite observations acquire depth sinking into receptive minds.

  Elsa Maxwell

  Party, Fighting, Fire

  Elsa Maxwell (1955). “I married the world”

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• After I discovered the real life of mothers bore little resemblance to the plot outlined in most of the books and articles I'd read, I started relying on the expert advice of other mothers--especially those with sons a few years older than mine. This great body of knowledge is essentially an oral history, because anyone engaged in motherhood on a daily basis has no time to write an advice book about it.

  Mary Blakely

  Mother, Real, Book

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• Science blogs bore me. When everyone is an expert, no one is an expert.

  Leonard Susskind

  Experts, Blogs

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• Keeping your coat on indoors in Russia, no matter how public the place, is far worse than keeping your hat on as the flag goes by. It is worse than going into a Catholic church in Spain with your upper arms bare. It is worse than telling a mother her baby bores you.

  Ilka Chase

  Mother, Baby, Bores You

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• But how do I get to having to write a book?... It was a mother who bore me, not an inkwell!

  Robert Musil

  Mother, Book, Writing

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• Some of the biggest bores I've ever known are men who have been highly successful in business, particularly self-made heads of big companies. Before the first olive has settled into the first martini, they pour the stories of their lives into the nearest and sometimes the remotest ears capturable.... These men have indeed paid the price of success. To rise to the top of a big company often takes a totality of effort, concentration and dedication. Others, too, have to pay part of the price. Wife and children are out of mind even when in sight.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Children, Successful, Men

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• Sometimes I dread loneliness more than bores. Other times, the reverse.

  Mason Cooley

  Loneliness, Boredom, Sometimes

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• A philistine is habitually bored and looks for things that won't bore him. An artist finds things boring, but is never bored.

  Karl Kraus

  Art, Boredom, Looks

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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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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• The symptoms of compassion and benevolence, in some people, are like those minute guns which warn you that you are in deadly peril.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Compassion, Gun, People

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• It is one of the vexatious mortifications of a studious man to have his thoughts disordered by a tedious visit.

  Roger L'Estrange

  Men, Mortification, Tedious

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• Perfection bores me, in art, in music; most of all, in people. Luckily, perfection is rare.

  Vicki Baum

  Art, People, Perfection

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• As a tree my sin stands
  To darken all lands;
  Death is the fruit it bore.

  Christina Rossetti

  Land, Tree, Fruit

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.204, Delphi Classics

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