Famous Quotes & Sayings

B. F. Skinner

Something doing every minute' may be a gesture of despair-or the height of a battle against boredom.

Cecil Beaton

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.

Kevin Rooney

His own boredom could be a problem. He could stay on top a long time -- if that's what he wants. That's a big 'if.' That's up to him. He's under a lot of pressure, and the next few years will be a problem. He won't mature until he's 25.

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.

Dwight L. Moody

True will-power and courage are not on the battlefield, but in everyday conquests over our intertia, laziness, boredom.

Daphne du Maurier

Boredom is a pleasing antidote for fear

Alexander McCall Smith

Do you realise that people die of boredom in London suburbs? It's the second biggest cause of death amongs the English in general. Sheer boredom...

Clint Eastwood

If you're afraid to take risks in anything in life, it's just boredom.

C. S. Lewis

If you never take risks, you'll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived.

Carrie Mae Weems

It's very important for me to really use this body as a barometer of a certain kind of knowledge--to take the personal risk of exposing my own body in a certain kind of way. I can't ask anybody else to do something that I don't do first myself.

Carl Sagan

All inquiries carry with them some element of risk.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You risk tears if you let yourself be tamed.

Bill Vaughan

Improving efficiency on the farm is not only a risk-reduction strategy, it's a profitability strategy.

Brett Basanez

That's the risk you take in the shotgun. But it was nothing serious.

Scott Riggs

That's the risk when you come down here with no points.

John Barlow

That's a world worth taking a risk for,

Paul Browne

I think that we are talking about a very, very small risk -- but not zero.

Becca Fitzpatrick

If I lose you, I lose everything

Becca Fitzpatrick

I'm yours, if you'll have me.

C. S. Lewis

If there ever was a time that nothing existed, then nothing would exist now

Carl Sagan

If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.

Paul Rodio

There are so many ifs with this group.

Carl Jung

Because if you're gonna make someone choose, then you shouldn't be surprised when they don't choose you.

Anton LaVey

What good are friends if they cant do you any good?

Billie Joe Armstrong

You can't go voicing something if it's just not right.

Ayn Rand

The moral absolute should be: if and when, in any dispute, one side initiates the use of physical force, that side is wrong - and no consideration or discussion of the issues is necessary or appropriate.