Boring Quotes - Page 18

• You can't want to be happy, because that's too easy and too boring.

  Paulo Coelho

  Want, Easy, Want To Be Happy

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• The White Mansion isn't boring, lass. Never boring. It's the grand demesne the Unseelie King built for his concubine. It's a living, breathing love story, testament to the brightest passion that ever burned between our races. You can follow the scenes through if you've time enough and are willing to risk getting lost for a few centuries.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Kings, Passion, Race

  FaceBook post by Karen Marie Moning from Sep 12, 2013

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• However brief our time in the sun, if we waste a second of it, or complain that it is dull or barren or (like a child) boring, couldn't this be seen as a callous insult to those unborn trillions who will never even be offered life in the first place?

  Richard Dawkins

  Children, Complaining, Dull

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• Nothing is as boring as other people's dreams.

  John Green

  Dream, People

  John Green (2010). “Paper Towns”, p.61, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Polly felt questing eyes boring into her. She was embarrassed, of course. But not for the obvious reason. It was for the other one, the little lesson that life sometimes rams home with a stick: you are not the only one watching the world. Other people are people; while you watch them they watch you, and they think about you while you think about them. The world isn’t just about you.

  Terry Pratchett

  Home, Eye, Thinking

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Monstrous Regiment: (Discworld Novel 31)”, p.142, Random House

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• That's right,' she told the girls. 'You are bored. And I'm going to let you in on a little secret about life. You think it's boring now? Well, it only gets more boring. The sooner you learn it's on you to make life interesting, the better off you'll be.

  Maria Semple

  Life, Girl, Thinking

  Maria Semple (2012). “Where'd You Go, Bernadette”, p.36, Hachette UK

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• I was perfectly happy in my boring life before you came along.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Boring Life

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.291, A&C Black

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• "A date," Jace repeated. "Often a 'boring thing you have to memorize in history class," but in this case,' 'an offer of a n evening of blisteringly white-hot romance with yours truly.'"

  Cassandra Clare

  Class, White, Romance

  "City of Lost Souls". Book by Cassandra Clare, books.google.ru. 2015.

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• Having all the answers just means you've been asking boring questions.

  Joey Comeau

  Mean, Asking, Answers

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• Here's where I ask why don't you spend your time doing something safer and more boring. Like maybe administering suppositories to rabid gorillas.

  Jim Butcher

  Gorillas, Asks

  Jim Butcher (2002). “Summer Knight: Book four of The Dresden Files”, p.125, Penguin

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• Willie said normal was boring and that I should be grateful that I had a touch of spice. She said no one cared about boring people, and when they died, they were forgotten, like something that slips behind the dresser.

  Ruta Sepetys

  Grateful, People, Spices

  Ruta Sepetys (2013). “Out of The Easy”, p.33, Penguin

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• That's why people grow weary of listening to Dumpees obsess over their troubles: getting dumped is predictable, repetitive, and boring. They want to stay friends; they feel smothered; it's always them and it's never you; and afterward, you're devastated and their relieved; it's over for them and just starting for you.

  John Green

  People, Listening, Want

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.93, Penguin

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• I just hope I don't become so blissful I become boring. I think I'll always be neurotic enough to do something weird.

  Kurt Cobain

  Thinking, Truthful, Enough

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• Anna Petrovna (to Shabelsky): You can't make a simple joke without an injection of venom. You are a poisonous man. Joking apart, Count, you're very poisonous. It's hideously boring to live with you. You're always grumpy, complaining, you find everyone bad, good for nothing. Tell me frankly, Count, did you ever speak well of anyone?

  Anton Chekhov

  Simple, Men, Complaining

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• The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from the latin mundus, meaning 'the world'. And the world is anything but dull: The world is wonderful. There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.

  Richard Dawkins

  Real, Latin, Mean

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• ...we should be grateful for them because without our family—the ancestors we descend from, the cousins we see once a year, the loves our lives we see every day—life is pretty boring.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Cousin, Grateful, Years

  Ellen DeGeneres (2011). “Seriously...I'm Kidding”, p.34, Hachette UK

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• It’s funny, but I was just thinking I wouldn’t mind a repeat of that boring evening when we elapsed to 1953,” said Gideon. “Just you and me and Cousin Sofa.

  Kerstin Gier

  Cousin, Thinking, Mind

  Kerstin Gier (2014). “The Ruby Red Trilogy”, p.551, Macmillan

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• Be boring, knowing everything. You have to give all that stuff up if you're going to muck about here.

  Neil Gaiman

  Knowing Everything, Giving, Stuff

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• Dying's a boring side effect.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Dying, Sides, Side Effects

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves”, p.340, Scholastic UK

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• Christianity, boring? So is television...if we don't plug in.

  Reinhard Bonnke

  Television, Christianity, Plugs

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• I found that Steve's passion for wildlife and willingness to lay his life on the line so exciting. What you have in our academic arena is a lot of people who are brilliant at what they do-and boring as the day is long.

  Terri Irwin

  Passion, Long, People

  "Interview with Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin - Part 4: Adrenaline Junkie?". Interview with Sarah Simpson, www.scientificamerican.com. March 26, 2001.

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• Valuing differences is what really drives synergy. Do you truly value the mental, emotional, and psychological differences among people? Or do you wish everyone would just agree with you so you could all get along? Many people mistake uniformity for unity; sameness for oneness. One word--boring! Differences should be seen as strengths, not weaknesses. They add zest to life.

  Stephen Covey

  Mistake, Emotional, Zest

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• There are so many aspects to the sport. It never gets boring because you always do something different. Maybe you train really hard on a sport climbing and get tunnel vision for a while, but as soon as you burn out a bit, you concentrate on another aspect, like traveling. You see the world through the vehicle of climbing.

  Wolfgang Gullich

  Sports, Tunnels, Climbing

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• Being vulgar is fine, but oh please just don't be boring.

  Diana Vreeland

  Fine, Vulgar, Please

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• You can tell how boring a person is by the lack of fear in their eyes when someone is flipping through photos on their phone.

  Bill Murray

  Eye, Phones, Persons

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