Bother Quotes - Page 26

• I have a big problem when the sanctimonious, holier than thou congressmen and women go on national television for six hours and beat somebody up with a stick, and not because I'm 'Ms. Manners.' That's not what bothers me. People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

  Bernard Goldberg

  Glasses, People, House

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• You can laugh at my behavior that will never bother me, say the devil is my savior, but I don't pay no heed.

  Roger Hodgson

  Evil, Laughing, Pay

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• If halfway love is all you want or all you care to give, why bother with love at all and only halfway live.

  Marty Robbins

  Love, Giving, Care

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• Without reason, why bother? Existence needs purpose: to be able to endure the pain of life with dignity; to give us a reason to continue. The meaning must enter our hearts, not our heads. We must understand the meaning of our suffering

  Sarah Winman

  Pain, Heart, Giving

  Sarah Winman (2017). “The Sarah Winman Collection: WHEN GOD WAS A RABBIT and A YEAR OF MARVELLOUS WAYS”, p.19, Hachette UK

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• If you're going to do something, strive to do it better than anyone else. Do it all the way. If you're going to half-ass it, why bother?

  Ashly Lorenzana

  Half, Way, Ass

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• I know at times we feel that perhaps in our prayers we ask too much. Or possibly we feel something isn't important enough to be bothering God with it. Maybe we should let Him decide these things.

  Ronald Reagan

  Prayer, Important, Too Much

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• Let's say music is needed for only 43 seconds of film. You have to score it so it is an entity, so it won't bother anyone when it ends so quickly. Or if a song runs 2 minutes and 45 seconds, but the titles run a minute longer, you have to arrange that song so it doesn't get repetitious.

  Marvin Hamlisch

  Running, Song, Titles

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• I have a horror of boring someone or, worse still, of someone boring me. I said to my mother when I was seven, 'But, Mums, if it was only my husband and me in the house together, what would we talk about?' I've never wanted to answer my own question, and doubt I'll bother now.

  Celia Imrie

  Mother, Husband, House

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• The past is only an unreliable memory held in the present. The future is only a projection of our present conceptions. The present itself vanishes as soon as we try to grasp it. So why bother with attempting to establish an illusion of solid ground?

  Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

  Memories, Past, Trying

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• Now, I'm for interracial marriage. I'm for same-sex marriage. I'm the one that introduced the bill to have same-sex marriage. I don't care who marry who. If a man meet a little mule and he wanna get married to the little mule, as long as he and the little mule get along all right, that's fine with me. It doesn't bother me any kind of way.

  Alvin Holmes

  Sex, Men, Long

  "Alabama Dem Shocks Radio Audience With His Support for a Man Marrying a ‘Little Mule’" by Mike Opelka, www.theblaze.com. April 11, 2014.

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• It bothers me a lot that you want to broadcast that you're associating with black people.

  Donald Sterling

  Yale, People, Black

  "Obama leads backlash against LA Clippers owner's alleged racist remarks" by Rory Carroll, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2014.

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• If winning isn't everything why bother to keep the score?

  Knute Rockne

  Winning, Score, Ifs

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• Rigging is like Zen meditation. You must bend over the boat until your back is breaking, until your brain is filled with numbers and fractions of numbers, until you can accurately measure an oarlock's pitch without bothering to use the pitch meter. Only then will you see the way of eternal rigging happiness.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Numbers, Meditation, Brain

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• We have reached the point where we can lose a game or two and not drop out of sight in the rankings. I've been asked if it bothers me that BYU hasn't received the recognition it deserves. Well, BYU's gotten a lot of recognition over the years; I've never felt slighted. I honestly believed that we didn't deserve to be ranked any higher last year.

  LaVell Edwards

  Sight, Years, Byu

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• To say that New York came up to its advance billing would be the baldest of understatements. Being there was like being in heaven without going to all the bother and expense of dying.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  New York, Heaven, Dying

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• Why bother lifting weights if you aren't following a sound nutritional regimen? Sure, it may be fun, but are you really accomplishing anything?

  Robert Cheeke

  Fun, Bodybuilding, Lifting Weights

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• They have no power over you. It's all a show, a deception. Your urges scream and bluster at you; they cajole; they coax; they threaten; but they really carry no stick at all. You give in out of habit. You give in because you never really bother to look beyond the threat. It is all empty back there. There is only one way to learn this lesson, though. The words on this page won't do it.

  Henepola Gunaratana

  Discipline, Giving, Over You

  Bhante Gunaratana, Henepola Gunaratana (2011). “Mindfulness in Plain English: 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

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• But I'm saying we are loosing the people who are going to pay my social security. And that bothers me.

  Joycelyn Elders

  Stupid, Humorous, People

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• Why do most great pictures look uncontrived? Why do photographers bother with the deception, especially since it so often requires the hardest work of all? The answer is, I think, that the deception is necessary if the goal of art is to be reached: only pictures that look as if they had been easily made can convincingly suggest that beauty is commonplace.

  Robert Adams

  Art, Thinking, Goal

  Robert Adams (1989). “Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values”

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• I would decriminalize marijuana, but you step out of your house high and you bother somebody else in any way, shape or form, I'm going to slap a fine on you that's going to curl your hair!

  Bill O'Reilly

  Marijuana, Hair, House

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• Values and verdicts never bother me half as much as people trying to weasel their way around them, or people compromising their reason to pander to their own prejudices and preconceptions, which they are so rarely competent to look in the face.

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, People, Trying

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• A dugout is much superior to a conventional manufactured canoe because you can get soaking wet without bothering to capsize it.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Sailing, Boat

  P. J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader”, p.429, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• In Africa, you often see that the difference between a village where everybody eats and a village where people starve is government. One has a functioning government, and the other does not. Which is why it bothers me when I hear people say that government is the enemy. They don't understand its fundamental role.

  Barack Obama

  Government, Differences, People

  Profile in The Independent Magazine, March 10, 2007.

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• Having spent alarmingly large chunks of my life studying the white side of the Open Sicilian, I find myself asking, why did I bother?

  Daniel J. King

  Asking Why, White, Chess

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• There are two kinds of people: one who goes on thinking about the future, not bothering about the present at all. That future is not going to come, that future is just a fool's imagination. I don't think about the future. I am a totally different kind of person. I don't think about the future at all, it is irrelevant.

  Rajneesh

  Thinking, Two, People

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