Dull Quotes - Page 20

• If there is no dull and determined effort, there will be no brilliant achievement.

  Xunzi

  Motivational, Achievement, Effort

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• Dull witted brooding people love to stuff themselves with quantities of heavy food, just like animals for fattening. Bubbly intellectual people love foods which stimulate the taste buds without overloading the belly. Profound, meditative people prefer neutral foods which do not have an assertive flavor and are not difficult to digest, and therefore do not demand too much attention.

  Carl Friedrich von Rumohr

  Animal, People, Profound

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• It is the way with half the truth amidst which we live, that it only haunts us and makes dull pulsations that are never born into sound.

  George Eliot

  Truth, Sound, Half

  George Eliot (1863). “Romola”, p.25

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• Perhaps it is this theory of all work and no play that has made the Marxist such a very dull boy.

  Herbert Read

  Boys, Play, Anarchy

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• Quick music sounds dull unless every note is articulated.

  Herbert von Karajan

  Sound, Notes

  Herbert von Karajan, Richard Osborne (1989). “Conversations with Karajan”

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• He that comes to Christ cannot, it is true, always get on as fast as he would. Poor coming soul, thou art like the man that would ride full gallop whose horse will hardly trot. Now the desire of his mind is not to be judged of by the slow pace of the dull jade he rides on, but by the hitching and kicking and spurring as he sits on his back. Thy flesh is like this dull jade, it will not gallop after Christ, it will be backward though thy soul and heaven lie at stake.

  John Bunyan

  Art, Horse, Lying

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• Our Lord has many weak children in his family, many dull pupils in his school, many raw soldiers in his army, many lame sheep in his flock. Yet he bears with them all, and casts none away. Happy is that Christian who has learned to do likewise with his brethren.

  J. C. Ryle

  Christian, Children, School

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible commentary - The gospel of John”, p.356, Editora Dracaena

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• Are you tempted? Look unto Jesus. Are you afflicted? Look unto Jesus. Do all speak evil of you? Look unto Jesus. Do you feel cold, dull, and backsliding? Look unto Jesus.

  J. C. Ryle

  Jesus, Evil, Looks

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• If you want a little fear and terror because your life is dull, get a future. Terrifying!

  Byron Katie

  Littles, Want, Life Is

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• If a man devotes himself to the instructions of his own unconscious, it can bestow this gift [of renewal], so that suddenly life, which has been stale and dull, turns into a rich unending inner adventure, full of creative possibilities

  Marie-Louise von Franz

  Inspirational, Life, Adventure

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• The artist brain is the sensory brain: sight and sound, smell and taste, touch.  These are the elements of magic, and magic is the elemental stuff of art.  In filling the well, think magic.  Think delight.  Think fun.  Do not think duty.  Do not do what you should do-spiritual sit-ups like reading a dull but recommended critical text.  Do what intrigues you, explore what interests you; think mystery, not mastery.

  Julia Cameron

  Spiritual, Art, Fun

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• Baseball is a dull game only for those with dull minds.

  Red Smith

  Baseball, Games, Mind

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• If the gospel is old news to you, it will be dull news to everyone else.

  Kevin DeYoung

  News, Old News, Ifs

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• Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment.

  Lynn Abbey

  Commitment, Writing, Two

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• There is scarcely anything so dull and meaningless as Bible doctrine taught for its own sake. Truth divorced from life is not truth in its Biblical sense, but something else and something less.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Biblical, Doctrine, Sake

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• In many cases a dull proof can be supplemented by a geometric analogue so simple and beautiful that the truth of a theorem is almost seen at a glance.

  Martin Gardner

  Beautiful, Simple, Proof

  "Mathematical Games". Scientific American (October 1973), later quoted in Roger B. Nelson "Proofs Without Words: Exercises in Visual Thinking" ("Introduction", p. 5), 1993.

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• Because it is the Midwest, no one really glitters because no one has to, it's more of a dull shine, like frequently used silverware.

  Charles Baxter

  Shining, Midwest, Glitter

  Charles Baxter (2001). “The feast of love”, Vintage

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• When the Sun shrinks to a dull red dwarf, it will not be dying. It will just be starting to live and everything that has gone before will merely be a prelude to its real history.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Real, Dwarves, Dying

  Arthur C. Clarke (2011). “Voices from the Sky”, p.32, Hachette UK

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• The swan, like the soul of the poet, By the dull world is ill understood.

  Heinrich Heine

  Inspiring, Moving, Heart

  Heinrich Heine (1866). “The Poems of Heine: Complete”, p.17

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• We must come to the Bible with the purpose of self-exposure consciously in mind. I suspect not many people make more than a token stab in that direction. It's extremely hard work. It makes Bible study alternately convicting and reassuring, painful and soothing, puzzling and calming, and sometimes dull - but not for long if our purpose is to see ourselves better.

  Larry Crabb

  Hard Work, Self, Long

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• You can imagine the kind of dinner parties I had to go to at a young age... pretty dull.

  Prince Harry

  Party, Age, Dinner

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Well-washed and well-combed domestic pets grow dull; they miss the stimulus of fleas.

  Francis Galton

  Dog, Missing, Pet

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• It does not bother me that some say I'm dull and boring because the people that do know me will tell you a different story. It is very difficult to be open with people you don't know. There is nothing I can do about the fact that the real me does not get across and it is probably difficult to know the real me.

  Alan Shearer

  Real, People, Facts

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• It [Dr Phil] was great. We had such a good time. Never a dull moment on set, considering the 18 kids. It never got boring.

  Miranda Cosgrove

  Kids, Dr Phil, Drs

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• Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.

  A. A. Gill

  People, Facts, Opinion

  A.A. Gill (2007). “The Angry Island: Hunting the English”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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