Thought is not a gift to man but a laborious, precarious and volatile acquisition. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
I always read the translator's draft all the way through - a very laborious business. — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Invention in photography is so laborious as to be in most instances perverse. — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
Learning would be exceedingly laborious, not to mention hazardous, if people had to rely solely on the effects of their own actions… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
I'm not saying I didn't have a great 2008. I just made it a chore. I made it look laborious. — Katie Hoff Copy Share Image
Pleasure is by much the most laborious trade I know, especially for those who have not a vocation to it. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
The preacher's sharpest and strongest preaching should be to himself. His most difficult, delicate, laborious, and thorough work must be with himself. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
My dear, the duty that devolved wholly on you in my absence of guiding and expanding the minds of our dear children… — Ezra Cornell Copy Share Image
A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business. — A. A. Milne Copy Share Image
A writer should not so much write as embroider on paper; the work should be painstaking, laborious. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Songs can click together really quickly, and other times, they're really laborious and heavy-lifting. — James Murphy Copy Share Image
This much is true: When we created the euro, it wasn't possible to create a political union along with it. People weren't… — Wolfgang Schauble Copy Share Image
Hat-making is laborious and time-consuming. It's a very tactile medium, and you can develop the skills, but it's one of those things:… — Philip Treacy Copy Share Image
“It is a laborious madness and an impoverishing one, the madness of composing vast books - setting out in five hundred pages… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Working in Hollywood for the orchestra world is a very time consuming and laborious job. — John Williams Copy Share Image
I train three, four, five times a week, protein six times a day, resistance training for at least 45 minutes... it's so… — Gwendoline Christie Copy Share Image
“Solving crimes is as difficult and laborious as committing them, with the difference that the lunch breaks are paid.” — Sascha Arango Copy Share Image
I do seem to try to make things harder and harder for myself. In some perverse way, obstacles interest me and I'm… — Taryn Simon Copy Share Image
Lots of kids, including my son, have trouble making the leap from reading words or a few sentences in picture books to… — Rhea Perlman Copy Share Image
