Bother Quotes

1148 Bother quotes by 892 unique authors

Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering. — A A Milne
Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and… — Joseph Campbell
We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place--or not to bother — Jane Goodall
Real miracles bother people, like strange sudden pains unknown in medical literature. It's true: They rebut every rule all we good citizens take comfort in.… — Leif Enger
He's got hands so long and white and dainty I think they carved each other out of soap, and sometimes they get loose and glide… — Ken Kesey
When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm… — Marilyn Monroe
People don't remember me. Really. It's not a paranoid thing; I just have this habit of slipping through memories. It doesn't bother me all that… — William Goldman
The public school system is not about educating black children. Never has been. Inner-city schools are about social control. Period. They’re operated as holding pens—miniature… — Barack Obama
Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand. — Mark Twain
Fancy sleeping on air. I wonder if anyone's done it before. I don't suppose they have. Oh, bother—-Scrubb probably has! — C.S. Lewis
Death didn't bother me much. Strong Christian and all that. Method of death did. Being eaten alive. One of my top three ways not to… — Laurell K. Hamilton
If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
She knew it should bother her more, being evil and all, but after she put on a little mascara and some lipstick and poured herself… — Christopher Moore
Electronic books are a bad thing because they cannot be accumulated on shelves to remind you of your past, to impress your neighbors and colleagues,… — J P Donleavy
The question occurred to me: Well, if that's so, if the Divine is ultimately formless and genderless, what's the big deal? Why all this bother?… — Sue Monk Kidd
Why bother with a cunning plan when a simple one will do? — Terry Pratchett
I was perpetually grief-stricken when I finished a book, and would slide down from my sitting position on the bed, put my cheek on the… — Marya Hornbacher
I was a loner as a child. I had an imaginary friend - I didn't bother with him. — George Carlin
No writer in a free country should be expected to bother about the exact demarcation between the sensuous and the sensual; this is preposterous; I… — Vladimir Nabokov
Don't you think I have sense enough to worry about my motives for saying the prayer? That's exactly what's bothering me so. Just because I'm… — J D Salinger
After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades… — Richard Dawkins
Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of… — C.S. Lewis
The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun… — Michael Pollan
Don’t bother trying to explain your emotions. Live everything as intensely as you can and keep whatever you felt as a gift from God. The… — Paulo Coelho
God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly… — C.S. Lewis

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