Laborious Quotes

63 quotes by 53 authors

Writing scripts is a laborious job that can be a real pain. — Shane Black
That's why modern corporate movie making has become so laborious that comedians are kind of kicked out by 50. — Dana Carvey
When the Promise of American life is conceived as a national ideal, whose fulfillment is a matter of artful and laborious work, the effect thereof… — Herbert Croly
All whom the Lord has chosen and received into the society of his saints ought to prepare themselves for a life that is hard, difficult,… — John Calvin
No man ever was glorious, who was not laborious. — Benjamin Franklin
Old Peter Grimes made fishing his employ; His wife he cabined with him and his boy, And seemed that life laborious to enjoy. — George Crabbe
I grew up on a farm. We learned that there was a season to plant, a season to water, and season to harvest. The planting… — John Wooden
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs. — Confucius
Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles. — Samuel Johnson
There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on… — Anais Nin
Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony. — Horace Walpole
At first blush I am tempted to conclude that a satisfactory hobby must be in large degree useless, inefficient, laborious, or irrelevant. — Aldo Leopold
Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a… — Jorge Luis Borges
Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he… — Jorge Luis Borges
He felt as though he were failing in practically every area of his life. Lately, happiness seemed as distant and unattainable to him as space… — Nicholas Sparks
How can it be a large career to tell other people's children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to tell one's own… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Loving is a laborious and complex business. — Mahbod Seraji
She did know that the journey to happiness was laborious and strewn with seeds of suffering. She guessed that it was probably a place each… — Lurlene McDaniel
Let's face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short. — George Orwell
Mannerism is not character, and affectation is the avowed enemy of grace. Every dancer ought to regard his laborious art as a link in the… — August Bournonville

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