Overcome Boredom Quotes

#1. The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#2. Once again, President Clinton is using American troops to deflect attention from his record of lies, distortions, obstructions of justice and abuse of power.

Ron Paul

#3. This is how the whole of our life slips by. We seek repose by battling against certain obstacles, and once they are overcome we find rest is unbearable because of the boredom it generates ... We can't imaging a condition that is pleasant without fun and noise.

Blaise Pascal

#4. We seek rest in a struggle against some obstacles. And when we have overcome these, rest proves unbearable because of the boredom it produces ...

Blaise Pascal

#5. 'Vogue' celebrates plenty of women of substance.

Tina Brown

#6. The existence of so much leisure would have created tremendous problems a century before. Education had overcome most of these, for a well stocked mind is safe from boredom.

Arthur C. Clarke

#7. I really don't get this whole oranges thing. It's like, does he want to eat them or go out with them?

Hillary DePiano

#8. It's the failure to see this planet as a single entity that causes so much pain so many times. You cannot attack one part of the world without it affecting the whole earth, the whole body. Attacking other cultures, other nations, is a self-destructive act. It always comes back on you in some way.

Gorillaz

#9. None can comprehend eternity but the eternal God. Eternity is an ocean, whereof we shall never see the shore; it is a deep, where we can find no bottom; a labyrinth from whence we cannot extricate ourselves and where we shall never lose the door.

Thomas Boston

#10. God is good to all of us. He knows what we need better than we do. And just because he thinks it is better not to give you what you want right now doesn't mean he isn't answering you. You shall have what you ask for but not until the right time comes.

Johanna Spyri

#11. I think I do want to go into politics. I really, really do. And I don't know if I will.

Alec Baldwin

#12. I try to write my own music. It's a good way of de-stressing.

Alexandra Daddario

#13. For the undocumented immigrants, the big priority is just to get out from the shadows, be able to get a driver's license, buy an airplane ticket and stop worrying about sudden deportation. But for the country as a whole, it's crucial that everybody have a citizen's stake in the nation's welfare.

Gail Collins

#14. Nobody has any right to find life uninteresting or unrewarding who sees within the sphere of his own activity a wrong he can help to remedy, or within himself an evil he can hope to overcome.

Charles William Eliot