#tedious

Actually, I can't imagine anything more tedious than a perfect person, especially if it was someone who also demanded perfection from me. ↗

— Hugh Mackay

#also #anything #demanded #especially #i

When you're in danger of losing a thing it becomes precious and when it's around us, it's in tedious abundance and we take it for granted as if we're going to live forever, which we're not. ↗

— John McGahern

#around #becomes #danger #forever #going

Every life has its years in which one progresses as on a tedious and dusty street of poplars, without caring to know where he is. ↗

— Max Muller

#dusty #every #know #life #progresses

I find it incredibly tedious, hate that it murders itself with its own conservative pomposity. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

#find #hate #i #incredibly #itself

But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and self-serving. ↗

— Mark Strand

#curious #expressive #i #me #never

Writing old school HTML code was never very much fun but now it's getting downright tedious for most people. ↗

— Mike Davidson

#downright #fun #getting #html #most

Who is better off? The one who writes to revel in the voluptuousness of the life that surrounds them? Or the one who writes to escape the tediousness of that which awaits them outside? Whose flame will last longer? ↗

— Roman Payne

#books #escape #flame #heroic #heroism

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#become #even #friends #friendship #greatest

I think it has something to do with being British. We don't take ourselves as seriously as some other countries do. I think a lot of people take themselves far too seriously; I find that a very tedious attitude. ↗

— Joan Collins

#being #british #countries #far #find

Play difficult and interesting things. If you play boring things, you risk losing your appetite. Saxophone can be tedious with too much of the same. ↗

— Steve Lacy

#boring #boring things #difficult #interesting #interesting things