Monotony has nothing to do with a place; monotony, either in its sensation or its infliction, is simply the quality of a person. There are no dreary sights; there are only dreary sight seers.
G.K. Chesterton
Related The distinct feature of everything extant is its monotony. VLADIMIR NABOKOV Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humb... NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF There is nothing in the world more dreary than a prayer that attempts to inform God of anything at a... EDWARD N. WEST No matter how dreary and gray our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there th... L. FRANK BAUM The next time you feel unworthy, inadequate or inferior, remember that these experiences have nothin... GARY ZUKAV The story goes as the line follow... alone... loony.... ... That's what's happening.... DEYTH BANGER Courage brother, do not stumble,
though thy path be dark as night:
There is a star to gui... NORMAN MACLEOD But it was better to know of it than to see it in its daily monotony. DAISY GOODWIN Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it. MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE As long as there is a new twist in the storyline, there cannot be any space for monotony. DIVYANKA TRIPATHI Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it. W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with i... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it. W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it. WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM There is no sitting on the fence,its either you are for prosperity or for lack. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) In the U.S. you have to be a deviant or exist in dreary boredom. Make no mistake; all intellectuals ... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS When the soul looks out of its body, it should see only beauty in its path. These are the sights we ... YUSEF LATEEF Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER Though the customer is always right, there are some customers you do not want. JEFFREY FRY There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves ... COCO CHANEL There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves ... COCO CHANEL Wherever you are, be all there. CRAIG GROESCHEL What a person cannot do he will not do, no matter how much he wants to do it. Normative economics ha... HERBERT SIMON The roses under my window make no reference to former roses or better ones; they are what they are; ... RALPH WALDO EMERSON There is no place for crisis or delay, ... Each side has to do its homework ... Israel keeps and wil... DAVID LEVY Is there nothing to sing about to-day? Then borrow a song from tomorrow; sing of what is yet to... CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON What is second sight? A gift? A training? Or is it simply that suddenly within the brain a thousand ... LOUIS L'AMOUR There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. ANDREW JACKSON The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony. V. S. PRITCHETT The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony VICTOR SAWDON PRITCHETT Each instinct and passion of man is amoral; it is only the abuse of these passions that makes them w... FULTON J. SHEEN Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of... MAHATMA GANDHI What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow... OSCAR WILDE There is nothing neutral about the soul. It is the seat and the source of life. Either we respond to... THOMAS MOORE And there is no animal in the earth but on Allah is the sustenance of it, and He knows its resting p... QURAN I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria. VANCE PACKARD A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected w... WALTER DE LA MARE A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected w... WALTER DE LA MARE There can be no reproach to pain unless we assume human dignity, there is no reason for restraints o... RAVI ZACHARIAS There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If ... LIU SHAO-CH'I No matter where you go - there you are CONFUCIUS Life would be very dreary if there were no magic. If the real world were only that veil of tears, I ... VICTORIA MORAN There is simply nothing of comparable value to life. SUNDAY ADELAJA What makes life dreary is the want of a motive. GEORGE ELIOT What makes life dreary is the want of a motive. T.S. ELIOT It there any nation that acknowledges its errors and its sins and its crimes and the things it has d... BILL BENNETT The endurance of monotony has about the same place in a healty mind that the endurance of darkness h... JOHN RUSKIN Every category has its snobs: music, books, movies. There are so many things a man is only pressured... CRISS JAMI We will starve terrorists of funding, turn them one against another, drive them from place to place,... GEORGE W. BUSH There are some men who possess a quality which goes way beyond romantic or even sexual appeal, a qua... LUCILLE KALLEN I think that the worst thing as an actor is to fall into a monotony with characters. JORDAN GAVARIS There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo -- or heterosex... GORE VIDAL There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexua... GORE VIDAL There was no quality, no sound integrity. It was good for broadcasting political rallies or football... BUDDY CAGE Unless a person can give reasons, there is, literally, no reason why anyone else should take that pe... N.T. WRIGHT In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all t... MARGUERITE DURAS There is nothing love cannot face; there is no limit to its faith, its hope, its endurance. Love wil... BIBLE The lie has long since lost its honest function of misrepresenting reality. Nobody believes anybody,... THEODOR W. ADORNO The lie has long since lost its honest function of misrepresenting reality. Nobody believes anybody,... THEODOR ADORNO In countries operating a largely capitalist system, there does not appear to be a wide understanding... EDMUND PHELPS Digital Chocolate has 60% of its developers in Finland where the sun never sets in the summer and th... TRIP HAWKINS There are only two things to worry about, either you are healthy or you are sick. If you are healthy... SOURCE UNKNOWN The US is still recognized as a leading place to do business, the home of desirable brands and popul... SIMON ANHOLT Nature is unfair? So much the better, inequality is the only bearable thing, the monotony of equalit... FRANCIS PICABIA Nature is unfair? So much the better, inequality is the only bearable thing, the monotony of equalit... FRANCIS PICABIA Despise not any man, and do not spurn anything; for there is no man who has not his hour, nor is the... BEN AZAI You can find sorrow in the arithmetic, and you can find a bittersweet hope. DAVID LEVITHAN Peter...” She let her head fall back against the seat and sighed. “Let’s not go there.” MICHEL FABER One moment you are here, othere there, then there. Then you can't move! DEYTH BANGER Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out. In Paradise there are no stories,... MARGARET ATWOOD New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten ... JOHN STEINBECK Once upon a midnight dreary, while EDGAR ALLAN POE There is no such thing as second place. Either you're first or you're nothing. GABE PAUL There is no road to success but through a clear strong purpose. Nothing can take its place. A purpos... THORNTON T. MUNGER There are no clear borders, Only merging invisible to the sight. DEJAN STOJANOVIC There is no social entity with a good that undergoes some sacrifice for its own good. There are only... ROBERT NOZICK I am wary of the whole dreary deadening structured mess that we have built into such a glittering to... JOHN D. MACDONALD You're not going to be dreary on the inside if you're not dreary on the outside. ALEXANDRA STODDARD Trouble is the next best thing to enjoyment. There is no fate in the world so horrible as to have no... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW We are a democracy, and there is only one way to get a democracy on its feet in the matter of its in... JOSEPH PULITZER If your morals make you dreary, depend on it , they are wrong. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON If your morals make you dreary, depend on it , they are wrong. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON If your morals make you dreary, depend on it , they are wrong. ROBERT STEVENSON If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it, they are wrong ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON We are not called to be safe, we are simply promised that when we are in danger, God is right there ... KATIE J. DAVIS What makes like dreary is the want of motive. GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) No campaign materials are allowed inside the polling place. Either on the person or signs. ANN BEARD The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind. ALBERT EINSTEIN There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, the... MARQUIS DE SADE New Orleans is probably the only city in America that has its own culture. There are things you can'... BRANFORD MARSALIS Academic research is supposed to be peer-reviewed, with the idea being that the best science wins ou... JAMES SAVAGE We are born in relation, we live in relation, we die in relation. There is, literally, no such human... CARTER HEYWARD There is a time to stop reading, there is a time to STOP trying to WRITE, there is a time to kick th... CHARLES BUKOWSKI There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep ... KARL MARX I am convinced that the human heart hungers for constancy. In forfeiting the sanctity of sex by casu... ELISABETH ELLIOT I think the American people are going to fall asleep watching the drab debate the dreary. RALPH NADER How many of us are able to distinguish between the odors of noon and midnight, or of winter and summ... LIN YUTANG We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with... SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
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CHESTERTON As for the general view that the Church was discredited by the War—they might as well say that the... G.K. CHESTERTON The paradise of my fancy is one where pigs have wings G.K. CHESTERTON ..."vers libre," (free verse) or nine-tenths of it, is not a new metre any more than sleeping in a d... G.K. CHESTERTON I do not deny, but strongly affirm, the right of the State to interfere to cure a great evil. I say ... G.K. CHESTERTON To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once. G.K. CHESTERTON If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ... G.K. CHESTERTON It is quite certain that the skirt means female dignity, not female submission; it can be proved by ... G.K. CHESTERTON On the third day the friends of Christ coming at daybreak to the place found the grave empty and the... G.K. CHESTERTON The center of every man's existence is a dream. 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CHESTERTON Do not be proud of the fact that your grandmother was shocked at something which your are accustomed... G.K. CHESTERTON As long as the vision of heaven is always changing, the vision of earth will be exactly the same. No... G.K. CHESTERTON I mean that we here are on the wrong side of the tapestry,' answered Father Brown. 'The things that ... G.K. CHESTERTON How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win. G.K. CHESTERTON The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens... G.K. CHESTERTON No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for edu... G.K. CHESTERTON A man's minor actions and arrangements ought to be free, flexible, creative; the things that should ... G.K. CHESTERTON A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. A mode... G.K. CHESTERTON These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own. G.K. CHESTERTON There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people. G.K. CHESTERTON Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, b... G.K. CHESTERTON There is a limit to human charity," said Lady Outram, trembling all over. "There is," sai... G.K. CHESTERTON He wondered why the pelican was the symbol of charity, except it was that it wanted a good deal of c... G.K. CHESTERTON Charity is the power of defending that which we know to be indefensible. Hope is the power of being ... G.K. CHESTERTON We do not admire, we hardly excuse, the fanatic who wrecks this world for love of the other. But wha... G.K. CHESTERTON Dear Sir: Regarding your article 'What's Wrong with the World?' I am. Yours truly, G.K. CHESTERTON There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions. G.K. CHESTERTON We have all forgotten what we really are. All that we call common sense and rationality and practica... G.K. CHESTERTON He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's wha... G.K. CHESTERTON If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly. G.K. CHESTERTON The first two facts which a healthy boy or girl feels about sex are these: first that it is beautifu... G.K. CHESTERTON I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles. G.K. CHESTERTON My country, right or wrong,” is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperat... G.K. CHESTERTON The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid. G.K. CHESTERTON Can you not see, […] that fairy tales in their essence are quite solid and straightforward; but th... G.K. CHESTERTON the things common to all men are more important than the things peculiar to any men. Ordinary things... G.K. CHESTERTON The pessimists believe that the cosmos is a clock that is running down; the progressives believe it ... G.K. CHESTERTON