Dreary Quotes

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All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
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
It is not hard work that is dreary; it is superficial work. — Edith Hamilton
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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

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