Tedium Synonyms Quotes & Sayings

What can a state institution teach us? In what way can I be reformed by a penal colony and you by, say, Russian TV Channel 1? In his Nobel lecture, Joseph Brodsky said, 'The more substantial an individual's aesthetic experience is, the sounder his taste, the sharper his moral focus, the freer - though not necessarily the happier - he is.' We in Russia once again find ourselves in a situation where resistance, especially aesthetic resistance, becomes the only viable moral choice as well as a civic duty." Nadya — Masha Gessen

Regard as your most faithful friends, not those who praise everything you say or do, but those who criticize your mistakes. — Isocrates

So you eat them. And don't try chucking them away. I'll know. I empty the bins. — Diana Wynne Jones

If you're going to get technical, you're going to lose all your friends. — C.E. Murphy

Imprint deep upon your minds the principles of piety towards God, and a reverence and fear of His holy name. The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom and its consummation is everlasting felicity. Possess yourselves of just and elevated notions of the Divine character, attributes, and administration, and of the end and dignity of your own immortal nature as it stands related to Him. — William Samuel Johnson

Shoes off in the whale! And don't try and make a break for the anus. — Christopher Moore

The prisoner grows to love his chains. — Plato

How could I tell the doctor what was wrong with me? I didn't understand it myself. I couldn't articulate the pain; it was the pain of nothingness. My fear was of the weather, the atmosphere, the very air. What good did safety tips do me now? 'Avoid water, metal objects, rooftops; stay off the telephone in a storm, don't think glass can protect you; even if a storm was 8 miles away, you're still not safe from a strike. Avoid life perhaps that was the answer. The number one safety tip, stay away from it all. — Alice Hoffman

Call me Beth, please," she said. "I am no longer Mrs. Ackerley and have become, to our mutual astonishment, your sister." Hart — Jennifer Ashley

Conscience is the spiritual, supernatural principle in man, and it is not of social origin at all. It is rather the perversion and confusion of conscience that is of social origin. — Nikolai Berdyaev

I have emotions, I whisper. I am nothing but a black hole of emotions. — Beth Revis

Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets. — George Eliot

The mind abhors a vacancy & is wont to people it with phantoms. — David Mitchell