Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Geldof

My depressions aren't so much... depression's too heavy a word. I get very down and y'know, boredom is the key to it as I've said.

Walter Kirn

Thanks to Twitter, iPads, BlackBerrys, voice-activated in-dash navigation systems, and a hundred other technologies that offer distraction anywhere, anytime, boredom has loosened its grip on us at last - that once-crushing 'weight' has become, for the most part, a memory.

Charles Caleb Colton

Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice.

David Mitchell

To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom.

David Nevins

The enemy of good television is boredom and predictability.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.

Edgar Degas

Boredom soon overcomes me when I am contemplating nature.

Charlaine Harris

He managed to convey indifference, contempt, and boredom in the one word.

Charles Baudelaire

Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

Mahatma Gandhi

Love never claims, it ever gives; love never suffers, never resents, never revenges itself. Where there is love there is life; hatred leads to destruction.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The devil doesn't fill us with hatred for God, but with forgetfulness of God.

Deepak Chopra

Fear is the emotion behind hatred. Fear comes when you are threatened either physically or emotionally or psychologically.

Abdu'l Baha

If religion becomes a cause of dislike, hatred and division it were better to be without it...

Dick Cheney

Europeans know that their great experiment in building peace, unity and prosperity cannot survive as a privileged enclave, surrounded on its outskirts by breeding grounds of hatred and fanaticism.

Tim Hardaway

As an African-American, I know all too well the negative thoughts and feelings hatred and bigotry cause.

A. R. Rahman

Music is something that takes you to a world which is very different from the world of hatred,jealousy, and all those negative emotions

Camille Paglia

It is not male hatred of women but male fear of women that is the great universal.

C. J. Mahaney

Unless you see yourself standing there with the shrieking crowd, full of hostility and hatred for the holy and innocent Lamb of God, you don’t really understand the nature and depth of your sin or the necessity of the cross.

Rob Wheeler

Mainly we helped people gut out their houses. We had a desire to help and serve the people.

Stephen Davis

Lemme tell you about that run. That was desire. That was heart. That was want.

George Meredith

Love that so desires would fain keep her changeless; / Fain would fling the net, and fain have her free.

Robert Frost

Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Mabel Illidge

Many students from the social sciences have expressed a desire to learn the language because they know it will be useful in their field of work.

Granth Sahib

Serving at the Feet of the Holy Saints, all desires are fulfilled.

Albert Einstein

So long as they don't get violent, I want to let everyone say what they wish, for I myself have always said exactly what pleased me.

Oliver Cromwell

Mr Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture freely like me, and not flatter me at all; but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it

Archer John Porter Martin

Much can often be learned by the repetition under different conditions, even if the desired result is not obtained.