Fight Boredom Quotes

#1. Didn't you tell me smoking ruined your stamina as a boxer?
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Ruined is a strong word, I'd say.
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It helps fight boredom. It gives you more to do and less time to do it in.

Mohsin Hamid

#2. Marriage is like a book. The whole story takes place between the covers.

Mae West

#3. When I sing along with Britney Spears I will sing in an American accent. But eventually I found my own voice. My songs are so brutally honest, it would be alien to sing in any accent other than my own. Don't get me wrong - I can imitate singers. I can do bar mitzvahs and weddings.

Ellie Goulding

#4. So what causes men to become violent? I'll tell you, boredom, silly rules, muggy screws and pathetic governors. What else can we do - swallow it, wipe our mouths out. You have to fight for your rights. Not sit back and take it.

Stephen Richards

#5. Boredom is what you fight. Constant, ever-present boredom. So you learn to look forward to small things. Sunlight glimpsed through a cloud, an extra piece of pie or candy, good thread to sew your blouse, a ribbon to wear in your hair.

Valerie Wilson Wesley

#6. The fact that we are here and that I speak these words is an attempt to break that silence and bridge some of those differences between us, for it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence. And there are so many silences to be broken.

Audre Lorde

#7. I don't apologize for my behavior anymore. Whatever I do or don't do shouldn't matter. Moral certainty is dangerous. Moral certainty is what makes people go to war unnecessarily and illegally. Morality, as any halfway intelligent human being would tell you, is a very subjective thing.

Steve Coogan

#8. There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

George Eliot

#9. Conclusion 1:
Boredom= Flared tempers= hard words

Bisco Hatori

#10. I feel guilty because I want to act more than I want to write songs. I'm a person who likes to transition; I like to grow.

Ester Dean

#11. Time changes everything, including the soul of a face.

Yasmina Reza

#12. You're a bad person, Ellie," he said without a trace of irony.
"I'm not bad. The world is bad and I'm just trying to survive in it.

Karina Halle

#13. Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.

Ralph Richardson

#14. I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.

Oprah Winfrey

#15. As actors, the thing we have to fight, more than even the business part of making movies, is boredom.

Linda Fiorentino

#16. The curse of cancer created a strange and strained existence, challenging me to be neither blind to, nor bound by, death's approach. Even when the cancer was in retreat, it cast long shadows. When

Paul Kalanithi

#17. I have some girls who I look back on and I think, 'Wow, they were really horrible to me.' I would love an apology from a few girls, but whatever. I'm not holding any grudges. I'm over it.

Odette Annable

#18. If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.

Thomas Sowell

#19. Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.

Friedrich Nietzsche