Bother Quotes - Page 17

• 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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• Who is a god? A god is one who has learned the secret of being happy with the whole universe, with every flower and with every river and with every rock and every star; who has become one with this continuous eternal celebration; who celebrates, who doesn't bother whose celebration this is. And wherever there is a celebration, he participates.

  Rajneesh

  Stars, Flower, Rocks

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• The most spectacular thing about Johnny [von Neumann] was not his power as a mathematician, which was great, or his insight and his clarity, but his rapidity; he was very, very fast. And like the modern computer, which no longer bothers to retrieve the logarithm of 11 from its memory (but, instead, computes the logarithm of 11 each time it is needed), Johnny didn't bother to remember things. He computed them. You asked him a question, and if he didn't know the answer, he thought for three seconds and would produce and answer.

  Paul Halmos

  Memories, Science, Thinking

  "PAUL HALMOS Celebrating 50 Years of Mathematics: Celebrating 50 Years of Mathematics".

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• Why bother choosing a certain chair? Because that chair says something about you.

  David Bowie

  Chairs, Certain, Why Bother

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• Don't bother me, leave me alone. Anyway, I'm almost grown.

  Chuck Berry

  Leave Me Alone, Growth, Leaving Me

  Song: Almost Grown, 1959

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• If you don't believe you can make every putt, why bother trying?

  Ernie Els

  Believe, Trying, Ifs

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• It is worth a lot of bother to be able to think properly.

  L. Frank Baum

  Thinking, Able

  L. Frank Baum (2015). “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz”, p.22, Xist Publishing

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• Blocking and countering like they do in the films doesn't work, so don't bother trying.

  Geoff Thompson

  Block, Trying, Film

  Geoff Thompson (1998). “The Art of Fighting Without Fighting: Techniques in Personal Threat Evasion”, p.36, Summersdale Publishers LTD - ROW

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• The highly motivated people in society are the ones causing all the trouble. It's not the lazy unmotivated folks sitting in front of a TV eating potato chips who bother anyone.

  George Carlin

  Motivation, People, Lazy

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• A young lady went into a bookstore and asked the clerk for Irving Stone's book, "Immoral Wife." The title is "Immortal Wife," the clerk replied. "I'll get it for you." Oh, please don't bother, If that's the correct name of the book, I don't think I'd care for it. I had something else in mind.

  James Keller

  Book, Thinking, Names

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• But if Christians don’t get Jesus right, what chance is there that other people will bother much with him?

  N. T. Wright

  Christian, Jesus, People

  N. T. Wright (2011). “Simply Jesus: A New Vision of Who He Was, What He Did, and Why He Matters”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• When you find a man who knows his job and is willing to take responsibility, keep out of his way and don't bother him with unnecessary supervision. What you may think is cooperation is nothing but interference.

  Thomas Dreier

  Jobs, Responsibility, Men

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• India - a land where the last thing one needs to bother with is looking good. In India - at least in the circles I moved in - it's natural to look beautiful by the smile in your heart and the way you move through the world.

  Erin Lokitz

  Beautiful, Travel, Moving

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• On a morning from a Bogart movie, in a country where they turn back time. You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre, contemplating a crime. She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running like a watercolor in the rain. Don't bother asking for explanations, she'll just tell you that she came in the year of the cat.

  Al Stewart

  Running, Country, Travel

  Song: The Year Of The Cat

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• My epiphany came in that police cell: I realized I was about to lose everything and it didn't bother me, not in the slightest. I'd come to hate cycling because I blamed it for the lie I was living.

  David Millar

  Hate, Lying, Cycling

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• My English is perfect. I just like to say garbled nonsense to throw people off and keep them from bothering me. Cryptic is cool and it just adds to my mystique. I mean, Cancellara says some wacky stuff in English and nobody makes fun of him.

  Peter Sagan

  Fun, Mean, Cycling

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• Learn to see that it is not things that bother us, that we go out to bother them. See the world as a mirror. It is all a reflection of the mind. When you know this, you can grow in every moment, and every experience reveals truth and brings understanding.

  Ajahn Chah

  Reflection, Mirrors, Understanding

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• Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother.

  Moshe Dayan

  Dog, Israel, Mad

  "On Israel Flattening Beirut: There is Nothing New Under the Sun" by Halim Shebaya, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 25, 2016.

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• I never write a book unless I can't help it. Something has to bother me, like a mosquito, until I have to do something to relieve the itch.

  Gregory Maguire

  Book, Writing, Mosquitoes

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• Those who escape hell however never talk about it and nothing much bothers them after that

  Charles Bukowski

  Hell

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• I just never let anything bother me, man. I know myself really well. Nobody's opinion of me can shake my opinion of myself.

  Ruben Studdard

  Men, Opinion, Wells

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  Look for 3 things in a person. Intelligence, Energy, & Integrity.
  If they don't have the last one, don't even bother with the first two.

  Warren Buffett

  Integrity, Two, Energy

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• Christianity asserts that every individual human being is going to live for ever, and this must be either true or false. Now there are a good many things which would not be worth bothering about if I were going to live only seventy years, but which I had better bother about very seriously if I am going to live for ever.

  C. S. Lewis

  Years, Good Man, True Or False

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.72, HarperCollins UK

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