Monotony Quotes
103 Monotony quotes by 86 unique authors
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Do we fear suffering or apathy most? Is it from experience or the monotony of a commonplace existence that we quickest flee?
— Anna Katharine Green
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Say the Holy Rosary. Blessed be that monotony of Hail Mary's which purifies the monotony of your sins!
— Josemaria Escriva
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Today I divide my day between being actor, producer and distributor, and the monotony is broken.
— Ajay Devgan
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Some people say I make mistakes. I just say that in fact this is the secret of enjoying life. I hate monotony. Why don't they…
— Bode Miller
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Monotony collapses time. Novelty unfolds it.
— Joshua Foer
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No more we meet in yonder bowers Absence has made me prone to roving; But older, firmer hearts than ours, Have found monotony in loving.
— Lord Byron
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The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation. Sex does not thrive on monotony. Without feeling,…
— Anais Nin
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Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force. There lies its immense value. For what it seeks is to disturb monotony of…
— Oscar Wilde
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In a world full of war, famine, oppression, deceit, monotony, what—apart from the eternal innocence of animals—offers an image of hope? A mother with a…
— Harry Mulisch
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It's a lonely road for those of us who choose to be remarkable, and the path of convention can sometimes be appealing. That path is…
— Chris Guillebeau
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The bravest love is wildly faithful and it falls hard again every morning... It knows what we seek may be found in what we already…
— Ann Voskamp
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But could it be little me you was hecklin me Now it's monotony winnin regularly
— Nicki Minaj
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What's given, in fact, always depends on the person or thing it's given to. A minor incident in the street brings the cook to the…
— Fernando Pessoa
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I am convinced that the human heart hungers for constancy. In forfeiting the sanctity of sex by casual, nondiscriminato ry "making out" and "sleeping around,"…
— Elisabeth Elliot
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On graduating from school, a studious young man who would withstand the tedium and monotony of his duties has no choice but to lose himself…
— Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
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Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.
— Guillaume Apollinaire
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The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature. What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities,…
— Oscar Wilde
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What attracted me was less art itself than the artist’s life and all that it meant for me: the idea of creativity and freedom of…
— Pierre Bonnard
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How many of us are able to distinguish between the odors of noon and midnight, or of winter and summer, or of a windy spell…
— Lin Yutang
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Fate stalks us with depressing monotony from womb to tomb, and, when we are least expecting it, deals us a series of crushing blows from…
— Hesketh Pearson
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What novelty is worth the sweet monotony where everything is known, and loved because it is known?
— George Eliot
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It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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Interstate highways dull the reality of place and distance almost as effectively as jetliners do: I loathe their scary monotony.
— Jonathan Raban
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There is no such thing as happiness. Life bends joy and pain, beauty and ugliness, in such a way that no one may isolate them.…
— Jean Toomer
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If you're constantly moving, you can get in a monotony that's just as equally boring as sitting still for a long period of time.
— Amy Seimetz
Who Wrote These Monotony Quotes
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