Quotes for All
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,\” we forfeit something we cannot well do without. There is dullness, monotony, sheer boredom in all of life when virginity and purity are no longer protected and prized. Elisabeth Elliot
It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles. Eleanor Roosevelt
…I have always lived on contrasts! To me the only death is monotony. Beware of monotony; it’s the mother of all the deadly sins. Edith Wharton
Beware of monotony; it’s the mother of all the deadly sins. Edith Wharton
Cows sometimes wear an expression resembling wonderment arrested on its way to becoming a question. In the eye of superior intelligence, on the other hand, lies the nil admirari spread out like the monotony of a cloudless sky. Friedrich Nietzsche
Successful technologies often begin as hobbies. Jacques Cousteau invented scuba diving because he enjoyed exploring caves. The Wright brothers invented flying as a relief from the monotony of their normal business of selling and repairing bicycles. Freeman Dyson
monotony is not to be worshipped as a virtue; nor the marriage bed treated as a coffin for security rather than a couch from which to rise refreshed. Freya Stark
Nature is unfair? So much the better, inequality is the only bearable thing, the monotony of equality can only lead us to boredom. Francis Picabia
Were you to realize the forms minute and glorious, which invisibly play their parts in service around you, there could be no monotony – only a divine rapture of gratitude for such ministry. Flower A. Newhouse
Breaking up monotony is key to life and it doesn’t matter whether I’m stacking shelves or writing songs, if I was doing the same thing every day I just couldn’t take it. Doc Brown