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Every day is important for us because it is a day ordained by God. If we are bored with life there is something wrong with our concept of God and His involvement in our daily lives. Even the most dull and tedious days of our lives are ordained by God and ought to be used by us to glorify Him.
- Jerry Bridges
Man the sum of what have you. A problem in impure properties carried tediously to an unvarying nil: stalemate of dust and desire.
- William Faulkner
My dear Arthur, I never talk scandal. I only talk gossip. What is the difference between scandal and gossip? Oh! Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
- Oscar Wilde
Do you know I am afraid that good people do a great deal of harm in this world. Certainly the greatest harm they do is that they make badness of such extraordinary importance. It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
- Oscar Wilde
Relations are simply a tedious pack of people who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.
- Oscar Wilde
But see! theVirgin blessed Hath laid her Babe to rest. Time is our tedious song should here have ending.
- John Milton
When you first start writing a song, it's fun, then when you start recording it, it's fun, but by the time you've finished recording it, you're sick of it.
- Julian Casablancas
This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
The ordinary life of every day, so far as it is not moved by passion, is tedious and insipid; and if it is so moved, it soon becomes painful.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.
- Hilaire Belloc
Hell is having to execute a pointless act from which nothing ever comes except the need to do it again.
- Timothy Keller
A man is like a phonograph with half-a-dozen records. You soon get tired of them all; and yet you have to sit at table whilst he reels them off to every new visitor.
- George Bernard Shaw