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• The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Long, Horizon

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.9, Modern Library

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• There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Busy, Great Gatsby American Dream, Great Gatsby Book

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2002). “F. Scott Fitzgerald: Trimalchio: An Early Version of 'The Great Gatsby'”, p.65, Cambridge University Press

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• I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?

  Jean Kerr

  Beauty, Beautiful, Adorable

  The Snake Has All the Lines (1958)

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• Somewhere between a third and a quarter of all people living in America today were born between 1946 and 1965 and if you think you're tired of hearing about us, you should try being one of us.

  Anna Quindlen

  Thinking, America, People

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private”, p.103, Ballantine Books

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• Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore, send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

  Emma Lazarus

  Inspirational, Freedom, Doors

  "The New Colossus" l. 10 (1883).

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• The best antidote I know for worry is work. The best cure for weariness is the challenge of helping someone who is even more tired. One of the great ironies of life is this: He or she who serves almost always benefits more than he or she who is served.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Inspiring, Helping Others, Helping Someone

  Gordon B. Hinckley (2009). “Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes”, p.65, Harmony

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• Whenever I get fed up with life I love to go wandering in nature.

  Andrea Arnold

  Wandering Around, Feds, Fed Up

  "Andrea Arnold Tackles An Iconic Love Story". Interview with Ella Taylor, www.npr.org. October 9, 2012.

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• The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I'd been up all night inventing the Camcorder.

  Al Gore

  Funny, Night, Internet

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• Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

  Anton Chekhov

  Science, Night, Medicine

  Letter to A. S. Suvorin, 11 Sept. 1888

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• I am tired of hiding and I am tired of lying by omission. I suffered for years because I was scared to be out. My spirit suffered, my mental health suffered and my relationships suffered. And I'm standing here today, with all of you, on the other side of that pain.

  Ellen Page

  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

  "Time to Thrive". www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2014.

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• Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Hurt, Sex

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• I'm tired of living unable to love anyone. I don't have a single friend - not one. And, worst of all, I can't even love myself. Why is that? Why can't I love myself? It's because I can't love anyone else. A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else. Do you understand what I am saying? A person who is incapable of loving another cannot properly love himself.

  Haruki Murakami

  Simple, I Love Myself, How To Love

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “1Q84: Books 1 and 2”, p.434, Random House

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• When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

  Samuel Johnson

  Life, Men, Luxury

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 20 Sept. 1777)

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• A sex symbol is a heavy load to carry when one is tired, hurt and bewildered.

  Clara Bow

  Hurt, Sex, Heavy

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

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• I'm tired of pretending I'm not special.

  Charlie Sheen

  Special, I'm Tired, Pretending

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

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• You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

  John Lennon

  Love, Life, Motivational

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• Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

  Mark Twain

  God, Educational, Men

  Notebook, 1903

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• A pitfall of making a comedy with a studio-and it's also an American cultural thing-is that I get tired of being encouraged to go always for laughs.

  Alexander Payne

  Laughing, Pitfalls, Comedy

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• I'm tired of being considered property.

  L. Neil Smith

  I'm Tired, Property

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• I'm tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.

  Rosa Parks

  Class, Citizens, Treated

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• I was tired of an outlaw's life.

  Frank James

  Outlaw

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• I'm tired of being lied to by government, by the media, and by every corporation I have anything to do with.

  L. Neil Smith

  Government, Media, Corporations

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• I just got tired of being sick and tired and feeling down. Unfortunately, you don't realize this until you're getting sober but the reason why you're depressed all the time is it's the drugs that are depressing you.

  Steven Adler

  Depressing, Sick, Feelings

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• Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.

  Will Durant

  Mother, Memories, Discipline

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• You never get tired of the buzz of touring.

  Peter Noone

  Buzz, Touring

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