Laboured Quotes

#1. Comedy should be easy, not laboured.

Tracy Morgan

#2. Not so many moons ago, he had been able to run to the summit of the temple without losing a single breath; however, now he felt like an old camel that laboured under a load of corn. Years pass so quickly, and the dreams of youth are lost forever.

Alan Kinross

#3. If I had known that the dress I laboured over would be my only warmth in a room that reeked of sour skin. If I had known that the dress would one day be put on in the night, in a hurry, to be soaked with sweat as I ran through the witching hours to Stapar, screaming fit to raise the dead.

Hannah Kent

#4. I have not contended for Democrat, Republican, Protestant or Baptist for an agent. I have worked for freedom, I have laboured to give my race a voice in the affairs of the nation.

Sarah Winnemucca

#5. I once laboured hard for the free will of man, until the grace of God at length overcame me.

Saint Augustine

#6. The only reason anyone would sell salt more cheaply than usual would be because he was desperate for money. And anyone who took advantage of that situation would be showing a lack of respect for the sweat and struggle of the man who laboured to produce it.

Paulo Coelho

#7. By a kind of happy pre-established harmony, such as a later age discovered between the needs of society and the self-interest of the individual, success in business is in itself almost a sign of spiritual grace, for it is a proof that a man has laboured faithfully in his vocation.

R. H. Tawney

#8. His hearts beat crazily in his chest, so laboured he thought it might burst.

Stephen Lloyd Jones

#9. We have laboured long to build a heaven, only to find it populated with horrors.

Alan Moore

#10. Great God! this is an awful place and terrible enough for us to have laboured to it without the reward of priority.

Robert Falcon Scott

#11. Like every great writer before or since, Jonson understood that the best poets 'are both made and born'. That all great writing has to be hammered out and all great poets stand or fall by that 'second heat', their laboured revision.

James Shapiro

#12. My work is on the one hand laboured, and on the other completely happenstance and intuitive.

Ellen Gallagher

#13. There is a better chance of getting an exciting painting from a laboured study with texture than from a fine drawing without it.

John French Sloan

#14. What one has most to work and struggle for in painting is to do the work with a great amount of labour and sweat in such a way that it may afterward appear, however much it was laboured upon, to have been done almost quickly and almost without any labour, and very easily, although it was not.

Michelangelo

#15. With this sweet hope of ultimate acceptance with God, I have always enjoyed much cheerfulness before men; but I have at the same time laboured incessantly to cultivate the deepest humiliation before God.

Charles Simeon

#16. One knows that after violent exercise one breathes heavily for some time: the more violent the exercise, the longer one's respiration is laboured.

Archibald Hill

#17. Men have laboured to divide the faithful from their Master, but their attempts have been fruitless in every age.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#18. Many folk like to know beforehand what is to be set on the table; but those who have laboured to prepare the feast like to keep their secret; for wonder makes the words of praise louder. - Gandalf

J.R.R. Tolkien

#19. I'd laboured over it a long while, and labour brings a thing near the heart's core.

Mary Webb

#20. After ... all the philosophy and science that we've laboured on for centuries, it's becoming very hard to find a story we can buy.

Steve Hagen

#21. He was Darth Vader, and I was Jar Jar Binks.

Denise Grover Swank

#22. Once You Feel Like You Are Avoided By Someone,
Never Disturb Them Again..

Anynomous

#23. I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.

Socrates

#24. Love is something worth suffering for...

Scott Hahn

#25. Ponnammal set the example for the others by quietly doing what they did not care to do. Her spirit created a new climate in the place, and the time came when there was not one nurse who would refuse to do whatever needed to be done.

Elisabeth Elliot

#26. The soul cannot be perceived by the five senses.The soul speaks to us through our intuitive mind.-Serena Jade

Serena Jade

#27. It takes a number of years to learn to hold the mind perfectly in one place. But each day we do it a little better, and in the doing we're releasing energy that is taking our mind in higher diffuse planes of attention.

Frederick Lenz

#28. He's such a drag
He's not insane
It's just that everybody
Has to feel his pain.

Elvis Costello

#29. I have learned that human beings are all about incentives

Harlan Coben

#30. Ellis Island lies in New York Harbor 1,300 feet from Jersey City, New Jersey, and one mile from the tip of Manhattan. At the time of the first European settlement, it was mostly mud, sand, and oyster shells, which nearly disappeared at high tide.

David Souter

#31. We are convinced that sleep is a waste of valuable time and continue to chase these fantasies far into the night.

Alan W. Watts

#32. It matters infinitely less what we do than what we are.

Harriet Martineau