Bores Quotes - Page 14

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The Vietnam War was so obviously evil and bore down most heavily upon working class youth that it made me think about things more deeply than I had before. It disillusioned me completely and forever about the government. And it made me aware that the media and the government lied almost as a matter of course. But it also opened my eyes to what was really going on in America.

  Michael Yates

  War, Eye, Thinking

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• 'T is greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And ask them what report they bore to heaven.

  Edward Young

  Wise, Past, Heaven

  Edward Young, John Doran, James Nichols (1854). “The Complete Works, Poetry and Prose of the Rev. Edward Young, LL.D.: Revised and Collated with the Earliest Editions. To which is Prefixed A Life of the Author”, p.23

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• The deepest need that you and I have in weakness and adversity is not quick relief, but the well-grounded confidence that what is happening to us is part of the greatest purpose of God in the universe - the glorification of the grace and power of his Son - the grace and power that bore Him to the cross and kept him there until the work of love was done.

  John Piper

  Adversity, Son, Grace

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• I believe I'm a caterpillar buried deep down under the ground. The entire earth is above me, crushing me and I begin to bore through the soil, making a passage to the surface so that I can penetrate the crust and issue into the light. It's hard work boring through the entire earth, but I'm able to be patient because I have a strong premonition that as soon as I do issue into the light I shall become a butterfly.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Crush, Strong, Believe

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

  Mason Cooley

  Loneliness, Boredom, Sometimes

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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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• My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O! my soul is white; White as an angel is the English child, But I am black as if bereaved of light.

  William Blake

  Mother, Children, Angel

  'Songs of Innocence' (1789) 'The Little Black Boy'

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• Far from New England's blustering shore,New England's worm her hulk shall bore,And sink her in the Indian seas,Twine, wine, and hides, and China teas.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wine, Sea, Tea

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers (Annotated Edition)”, p.121, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Mythology is the crop which the Old World bore before its soil was exhausted.

  Henry David Thoreau

  World, Soil, Exhausted

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walking: Top Essays”, p.14, 谷月社

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• They, the holy ones and weakly,
  Who the cross of suffering bore,
  Folded their pale hands so meekly,
  Spake with us on earth no more!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Hands, Suffering, Earth

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1849). “The Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; Complete in One Volume”, p.10

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• I dont like sticking to just one thing; it bores me.

  Judi Shekoni

  Just One, One Thing

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• I don't mind people putting us down, because if everybody really liked us, it would be a bore. You've got to have people putting you down. It doesn't give any edge to it if everybody just falls flat on their face saying, "You're great." We enjoy some of the criticisms as well, they're quite funny; some of the clever criticisms, not the ones that don't know anything, but some of the clever ones are quite fun.

  John Lennon

  Music, Clever, Fun

  "The Beatles Anthology" by The Beatles, (p. 120), 2000.

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• The worst fault a salesman can commit is to be a bore. Foster any attempt to talk about other things; the longer you stay the better you get to know the prospect, and the more you will be trusted.

  David Ogilvy

  Faults, Worst, Commit

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• One of the great difficulties about being a member of a minority race is that so many kindhearted, well-meaning bores gather around to help.

  Langston Hughes

  Race, Minorities, Helping

  Langston Hughes (2002). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The later simple stories”, p.163, University of Missouri Press

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• One cardinal rule of American journalism is that The New York Times Sunday Magazine is a chore, a bore, and a penance to be endured.

  Martin Nolan

  New York, Sunday, Media

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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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• Some people read for instruction, which is praiseworthy, and some for pleasure, which is innocent, but not a few read from habit, and I suppose that this is neither innocent or praiseworthy. Of that lamentable company am I. Conversation after a time bores me, games tire me and my own thoughts, which we are told are the unfailing resource of a sensible man, have a tendency to run dry. Then I fly to my book as the opium-smoker to his pipe.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Running, Book, Men

  W. Somerset Maugham (2009). “Collected Short Stories”, p.11, Random House

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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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• The look of being too deliberately dressed, with everything cautiously matching, always bores me.

  Babe Paley

  Looks, Matching

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