Dreary Quotes
141 quotes by 123 authors
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All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Renounce and give up. What did Christ say? "He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it." Again and again did he preach…
— Swami Vivekananda
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So we down-to-earth, gutsy, tough, realistic, and practical types have just been squandering billions of dollars and unimaginable amounts of energy, nerve-work, and materials in…
— Alan Watts
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If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for they may be all you…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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It is not hard work that is dreary; it is superficial work.
— Edith Hamilton
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Let us, then, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind. Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the dreary intercourse of daily life,…
— William Wordsworth
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If there is anything that can bind the heavenly mind of man to this dreary exile of our earthly home and can reconcile us with…
— Johannes Kepler
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He spoke wistfully of a sudden leaving, a breaking of old ties, a flight into a strange world, ending in this dreary valley, and Ettie…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Social Science, is not a 'gay science' but rueful, which finds the secret of this universe in 'supply and demand' and reduces the duty of…
— Thomas Carlyle
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I drank a lot, but I wouldn't have missed it. I look back on it as sort of dreary enjoyment, because I don't have to…
— Anthony Hopkins
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LSD burst over the dreary domain of the constipated bourgeoisie like the angelic herald of a new psychedelic millennium. We have never been the same…
— Terence McKenna
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If European symbols and traditions have grown tired, perfunctory and oppressively banal in Australia, or been drained of spirit and meaning by the dreary dictates…
— Michael Leunig
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There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. Every minority, be…
— Ray Bradbury
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We have not been left alone. We have the light of Christ and the Holy Ghost to lead and guide us in an otherwise very…
— Robert D. Hales
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When our days become dreary with low hovering clouds of despair, and when our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, let us remember that…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The world needs more than just itself. Amid the dreariness, people do not need a distraction that will in the end become dreary itself; they…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Your machinery is beautiful. Your society people have apologized to me for the envious ridicule with which your newspapers have referred to me. Your newspapers…
— Oscar Wilde
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Capital requires protection, as do the institutions through which it operates. As capital expands its operations, the state that is associated with its protection must…
— Michael Parenti
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But also out here in this dreary, difficult war, I think history will record that this may have been one of Americas finest hours, because…
— Richard M. Nixon
Who Wrote These Dreary Quotes
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