Quotessence
Home / Topics / Bores Quotes

Bores Quotes

Browse 680 quotes about Bores.

Related topics

IfsPeopleBoredomBores YouMenBoredThinkingWorldKnowsWantWayWritingWellsBookPersonsArtGivingBeing BoredSaidFunny BoredomLongMadeLiteratureLooksChildrenMeanMotherInterestShouldTwoFactsFeelingsMayNeedsPlayChristFirstsHandsHumansLittlesMindRealSeemsSinYearsEarthFeelsHappensKindMightProblemSometimesBearsBelieveCrossesFacesReaderStatesBeautifulBigsBitsCharacterCompanyCoursesEndsEyeFatherFunnyGirlHas BeensIdeasLastsStoriesTerribleTryingWholeDullFunGreaterHeavenHellLifeLife IsNamesReasonSidesStillsSubjectsAgeCountryDifferentDoeDoneHeartHelpingHuman BeingsInspirationalLaughingLightMattermore

Bores Quotes

“Still, I also know that most people, including me, tend to applaud the wrong things: the showy, dramatic record-setting sprint rather than the years of dogged preparation or the unwavering grace displayed during a string of losses. Applause, then, never bore much relation to the reality of my life as an astronaut, which was not all about, or even mostly about, flying around in space.”

PeopleKnowsYearsStillsRealityLossSpaceRecordsGraceRelationIncludingFlyingSettingSettingsPreparationDramaticStringsBoresApplauseAstronautWrong ThingsSprintUnwaveringShowy
Author:Chris Hadfield
Create image

“The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. Some of their most esteemed inventions have no other apparent purpose - for example, the dinner party of more than two, the epic poem, and the science of metaphysics.”

HumansTwoHumorSeemsFunnyPurposeHuman BeingsAnimalPartyGreaterExampleCapacityDinnerInventionBoredomBoresEpicMetaphysicsDinner PartyEpic Poems
Book:Minority Report
Create image

“O give me new figures! I can't go on dancing The same that were taught me ten seasons ago; The schoolmaster over the land is advancing, Then why is the master of dancing so slow? It is such a bore to be always caught tripping In dull uniformity year after year; Invent something new, and you'll set me a skipping: I want a new figure to dance with my Dear!”

WantGivingYearsI CanLandFiguresTaughtMastersGoes OnTenSeasonsGive MeDancingDearCaughtDullSomething NewBoresAdvancingUniformityTripping
Author:Thomas Haynes Bayly
Create image

“The great biblical tradition says that loving God and loving one's neighbor are not two separate actions but two sides of the same action. It was the prophet Amos who bore witness to the fact that divine worship is nothing but human justice being offered to God and human justice is nothing but divine worship being lived out.”

HumansTwoFactsActionSidesJusticeDivineWorshipTraditionNeighborWitnessProphetBoresBiblicalLoving GodTwo SidesGreat Biblical
Author:John Shelby Spong
Create image

“As when the dove returning bore the mark Of earth restored to the long labouring ark; The relics of mankind, secure at rest, Oped every window to receive the guest, And the fair bearer of the message bless'd.”

LongEarthMankindMessagesFairsWindowMarkSecureBlessGuestsBoresDoveRelicsArk
Book:The Poetical Works of John Dryden, with Biographical and Critical Notices, Edited by Ludwig Gantter
Create image

“There still remains one effort of magnanimity, one sacrifice of prejudice and passion, to be made by the individuals throughout the nation who have heretofore followed the standards of political party. It is that of discarding every remnant of rancor against each other, of embracing as countrymen and friends, and of yielding to talents and virtue alone that confidence which in times of contention for principle was bestowed only upon those who bore the badge of party communion.”

MadeStillsPoliticalPassionIndividualNationsPartyEffortPrinciplesVirtueSacrificeTalentStandardsPrejudiceRemainsBoresCommunionPolitical PartiesContentionBadgesCountrymenRemnantsMagnanimityRancor
Author:John Quincy Adams
Create image

“When you say that [Martin Luther] King was a prophet, you don't say that he predicted anything; you say that he bore witness. He left a committed life so that people would never forget the suffering of people that he was connected to. King was prophetic because he lived a committed life. Now he did critique society, saying you're going to go under if you don't treat your poor right. I mean, that is part of prophetic calling, but it's not predicting anything.”

PeopleIfsMeanSufferingLeftForgetPoorKingsCallingTreatsCommittedConnectedWitnessProphetNever ForgetBoresLutherCritiquePropheticPredicting
Author:Cornel West
Create image

“Atlas, we read in ancient song, Was so exceeding tall and strong, He bore the skies upon his back, Just as the pedler does his pack; But, as the pedler overpress'd Unloads upon a stall to rest, Or, when he can no longer stand, Desires a friend to lend a hand, So Atlas, lest the ponderous spheres Should sink, and fall about his ears, Got Hercules to bear the pile, That he might sit and rest awhile.”

ShouldDoeHandsMightDesireSongFallStrongSkyBearsEarsAncientTallSpheresBoresPacksAtlas
Book:Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)
Create image

“What after all, has maintained the human race on this old globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind, if not faith in new possibilities, and courage to advocate them. Doubtless many times these new possibilities were declared by a man who, quite unconscious of courage, bore the "sense of being an exile, a condemned criminal, a fugitive from mankind." Did every one so feel who, in order to travel on his own proper path had been obliged to leave the traditional highway?”

IfsMenFeelsHumansOrderRacePathFailingMankindPossibilityCriminalsTraditionalDespiteHuman RaceUnconsciousTragicBoresGlobesHighwaysExileObligedCalamityFugitiveNew Possibilities
Book:Peace and Bread in Time of War
Create image