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• ... the monotonous beauty of wealth.

  Judith Guest

  Wealth

  Judith Guest (1982). “Ordinary People”, p.95, Penguin

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• I always find cardio the most monotonous. Running on a treadmill shows me why hamsters are so crazy.

  Luke Evans

  Running, Crazy, Cardio

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What's monotonous about being an actor and often makes me want to throw in the towel or drive a car off a bridge is the auditioning - the waiting around.

  Chris Messina

  Waiting Around, Bridges, Car

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• To me it seems that too many young women of this time share the same creed. 'Live, laugh, love, be nothing but happy, experience everything, et cetera et cetera.' How monotonous, how useless this becomes. What about the honors of Joan of Arc, Beauvoir, Stowe, Xena, Princess Leia, or women that would truly fight for something other than just their own emotions?

  Criss Jami

  Princess, Fighting, Live Laugh Love

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.122, Criss Jami

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• No enlightened person would deny its premise, but as an ongoing program it is monotonous, limited, locked in a perception of victimization.

  Robert Brustein

  Perception, Ongoing, Enlightened

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• Some men are very entertaining for a first interview, but after that they are exhausted, and run out; on a second meeting we shall find them flat and monotonous; like hand-organs, we have heard all their tunes.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Running, Men, Hands

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.458

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• There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.

  Agnes Repplier

  Fancy, Phrases, Virtue

  Agnes Repplier (1898). “Varia”

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• The enormous influence of novelty--the way in which it quickens observations, sharpens sensations, and exalts sentiment--is not half enough taken note of by us, and is to me a very sorrowful matter. And yet, if we try to obtain perpetual change, change itself will become monotonous.

  John Ruskin

  Taken, Trying, Matter

  John Ruskin (1850). “Modern Painters: pt. 4. Of many things”, p.299

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• If the painter works directly from nature, he ultimately looks for nothing but momentary effects; he does not try to compose, and soon he gets monotonous.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Trying, Doe, Looks

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• When you're onstage, it's important to try and feel some type of therapy in getting the material out, because then you don't leave the stage so tired. If you're onstage and you're doing the same routine over and over, then it gets monotonous. You want to be able to try to get to the truth constantly, and I think the more you do that, the easier it is.

  Pauly Shore

  Tired, Thinking, Trying

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• A lot of people don't like touring because it's monotonous and you're waiting around a lot but for me it's great. I'm inspired by being in a different town every day - all the people I meet, all the things I see.

  Alison Mosshart

  People, Waiting, Different

  Source: www.elle.com

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• If we don't hope, if we don't stay positive - at least about love, or finding love - then the rest of life becomes really just painful to think about, because for the most part, you know, day-to-day stuff is monotonous.

  Nev Schulman

  Thinking, Rest Of Life, Stay Positive

  "Q&A: Catfish's Nev Schulman on How Real the Show Is". Interview with Anna Peele, www.esquire.com. June 25, 2013.

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• The youngsters coming up now just go through the motions necessary to make the play. They should bounce around a little, show some life and zip. It adds a little action and gives the fans something to look at rather than the monotonous routine, no matter how perfectly the play is made.

  Al Lopez

  Play, Giving, Littles

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• In reality nothing is so beautiful as the good, nothing is so monotonous and boring as evil.

  Simone Weil

  Beautiful, Reality, Evil

  Source: www.apologetics315.com

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• The future is a monotonous instrument

  Francis Picabia

  Instruments

  Francis Picabia (2007). “I Am a Beautiful Monster: Poetry, Prose, and Provocation”, Mit Press

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• Your least frequent, most extreme exertions will have the greatest influence on your fitness. The peak moments of a workout count far more than the amount of time you spend working out. This is why a series of 40-yard sprints at full speed benefits you more than half an hour of jogging. It's also the reason why lifting a weight heavy enough to make your heart pound and your muscles burn counts more than spending hours at the gym always in your comfort zone, never truly challenging your body. When a work-out becomes an unvarying, monotonous routine, it loses its effectiveness.

  Arthur De Vany

  Workout, Heart, Effectiveness

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• People to whom their daily life appears too empty and monotonous easily grow religious; this is comprehensible and excusable, only they have no right to demand religious sentiments from those whose daily life is not empty and monotonous.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Religious, People, Religion

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.76, Courier Corporation

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• Evil is license, and that is why it is monotonous: everything has to be drawn from ourselves. One is condemned to false infinity. That is hell itself.

  Simone Weil

  Evil, Infinity, Hell

  Simone Weil (1977). “The Simone Weil Reader”

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• At the end of the table, the secretary was reading the decision in some case, but in such a mournful and monotonous voice, that the condemned man himself would have fallen asleep while listening to it. The judge, no doubt, would have been the first of all to do so, had he not entered into an engrossing conversation while it was going on.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Reading, Men, Voice

  Nikolai Gogol (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Nikolai Gogol (Illustrated)”, p.782, Delphi Classics

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• One of the truest tests of spiritual maturity is seeing the miraculous in the monotonous.

  Mark Batterson

  Spiritual, Maturity, Tests

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• The greatest satisfaction you can obtain from life is your pleasure in producing, in your own individual way, something of value to your fellowmen. That is creative living! For you, life can be a succession of glorious adventures. Or it can be a monotonous bore.
  Take your choice!

  Neil Gaiman

  Adventure, Choices, Creative

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• Here life goes on, even and monotonous on the surface, full of lightning, of summits and of despair, in its depths. We have now arrived at a stage in life so rich in new perceptions that cannot be transmitted to those at another stage - one feels at the same time full of so much gentleness and so much despair - the enigma of this life grows, grows, drowns one and crushes one, then all of a sudden in a supreme moment of light one becomes aware of the sacred.

  May Sarton

  Crush, Light, Perception

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• The writing in mathematics text is not only laconic to a fault; it is cold, monotonous, dry, dull, and even ungrammatical... The books are not only printed by machines; they are written by machines.

  Morris Kline

  Book, Writing, Faults

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• The truth is that nothing is less sensational than pestilence, and by reason of their very duration great misfortunes are monotonous.

  Albert Camus

  Pestilence, Duration, Truth Is

  Albert Camus (1960). “Collected fiction”

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• I watch the springs, the summers, the autumns; And when comes the winter snow monotonous, I shut all the doors and shutters To build in the night my fairy palace.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Summer, Spring, Autumn

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