Tired Quotes - Page 5

• The problem with all these tired excuses for inaction is that it suggests a fundamental lack of faith in American business and American ingenuity.

  Barack Obama

  Fundamentals, Global Warming, Problem

  "Coal-state Dems chisel away at Obama climate plan". www.foxnews.com. June 29, 2013.

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• All the tired horses in the sun How'm I supposed to get any ridin' done? Hmm.

  Bob Dylan

  Horse, Done, Sun

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• Id rather be nauseous than tired, I think.

  Sam Simon

  Thinking

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• I was tired of playing the goodie-two-shoes.

  Donna Mills

  Shoes, Two

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• I don't travel so much now, I get tired

  Ruskin Bond

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• Long is the night to him who is awake; long is a mile to him who is tired; long is life to the foolish who do not know the true law.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Night, Law

  Gautama Buddha (2013). “The Dhammapada”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• Wait. You don't understand. I just wanted it to stop. Wanted the hurting to stop." I smoothed a bloodied lock of hair from her eyes and felt very tired as I said, "The only people who never hurt are dead." The light died out of her eyes, her breath slowing. She whispered, barely audible, "I don't understand." I answered, "I don't either." A tear slid from her eye and mixed with the blood. Then she died.

  Jim Butcher

  Hurt, Eye, Light

  Jim Butcher (2002). “Summer Knight: Book four of The Dresden Files”, p.358, Penguin

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• Because Larry, by then, was a drummer, who would sort of get bored and tired, and rather stand up and blow kisses to people. So we needed the bass to sort of drive along.

  Neil Innes

  Kissing, Blow, People

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• I think maybe we were just a little bit overdone. It was saturated. People may have gotten tired of us. We were everywhere, all the time.

  Robin Zander

  Time, Thinking, People

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• It is formatted, and I'm tired of using vi. I get really bored.

  Bill Joy

  Bored, I'm Tired, Get Real

  Interview with Bill Joy by Jim Joyce, Unix Review magazine, August, 1984.

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• I begin to grow heartily tired of the etiquette and nonsense so fashionable in this city.

  George Mason

  Cities, Nonsense, Etiquette

  Letter to his son, George Mason, May 27, 1787.

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• Babies act out when they're hungry, cold, tired. They do this for survival.

  Marilu Henner

  Baby, Survival, Cold

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• I am tired of the misrepresentation, calumny and detraction, heaped upon me by wicked men; and desire and claim, only those principles guaranteed to all men by the Constitution and laws of the United States and of Illinois.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Freedom, Men, America

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• People are tired of wasteful government programs and welfare chiselers, and they are angry about the constant spiral of taxes and government regulations, arrogant bureaucrats, and public officials who think all of mankind's problems can be solved by throwing the taxpayers dollars at them.

  Ronald Reagan

  Thinking, Government, People

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• Not to wax nostalgic about the 1970s, but back then people got upset when they saw injustice. They got tired of seeing our air, land and water polluted. They were shocked when the Cuyahoga River in Ohio was polluted so badly it caught fire. And on one great day 20 million Americans marched all across this land. Politicians had no choice but to take notice.

  John F. Kerry

  Fire, Air, Ohio

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• We're all a little tired.

  Michael Phelps

  Swimming, Littles

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• When we got in the race, we knew what we had to do and knew what we wanted to do. Having three of four guys from the American record 800 free relay is a pretty solid relay, so we thought we could take a crack at the U.S. Open record tonight. We're all a little tired, but that's fifth-fastest American relay ever, so it's not a bad time. We ended tonight on a great note.

  Michael Phelps

  Swimming, Race, Guy

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• I get so sick and tired of hearing people gripe about what their parents did to them. You know what your parents did to you? The best thing they could do. The best thing they knew how, the only thing in many cases that they knew how. Nobody has set out maliciously to hurt their child, unless they were psychotic.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Hurt, Children, Parenting

  LEO BUSCAGLIA, PH.D. (1982). “LIVING, LOVING & LEARNING”

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• We had various kinds of tape-recorded concerts and popular music. But by the end of the flight what we listened to most was Russian folk songs. We also had recordings of nature sounds: thunder, rain, the singing of birds. We switched them on most frequently of all, and we never grew tired of them. It was as if they returned us to Earth.

  Anatoly Berezovoy

  Song, Rain, Bird

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• I was in continual agony; I have never in my life been so tired as on the summit of Everest that day. I just sat and sat there, oblivious to everything.

  Reinhold Messner

  Nature, Travel, Agony

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• Those days are long gone. But our corporations haven't caught up with it. Our law firms, our higher education system, and our medical institutions haven't figured out how this family policy is going to work. Men are tired of the 80- to 100-hour work week as well.

  Vicki Donlan

  Men, Law, Long

  Interview with Erik Hansen, tompeters.com.

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• Eat, drink, and be merry is perfectly good in itself; nothing is wrong in it. But it is not enough. Soon you will get tired of it. One cannot just go on eating, drinking, and merrying. Soon the merry-go-round turns into a sorry-go-round - because it is repetitive. Only a very mediocre mind can go on being happy with it.

  Rajneesh

  Sorry, Drinking, Perfectly Good

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• I didn't start out about weight loss. I was very tired and my energy was low. This is my second go-around in love, so I want to make sure I'll be around to enjoy it.

  Niecy Nash

  Loss, Energy, Weight

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• I pull my eyelashes when I'm tired or thinking - it's a nervous thing.

  Sheridan Smith

  Thinking, Eyelashes, Nervous

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2012.

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• Canadians know that our difficulties will not be resolved overnight. They are tired of politicians who pretend they will be.

  Kim Campbell

  Politician, Difficulty, Knows

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