Zitat des Tages über Ermüdend / Tiresome:
I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
Solemnity in politicians is not only tiresome but may even mask those twin sins - self-righteousness and intolerance - for the opinions of others. If I couldn't laugh, I couldn't live, especially in politics.
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
Lately I've been falling asleep listening to 'Common One' by Van Morrison, specifically the song 'Summertime in England.' It's 15 minutes long, so to make it through the entire song is a real task unto itself, but Van has that emotional payoff that makes even his most tiresome songs more powerful than most people's entire catalog.
Be convinced that, if man were able to reach the end without preparatory studies, such studies would not be preparatory but tiresome and utterly superfluous.
What was a problem was the excessive amount of media attention to the appointment of the first woman and everything she did. Everywhere that Sandra went, the press was sure to go. And that got tiresome; it was stressful.
Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
All styles are good except the tiresome kind.
Everything in life can be tiring and tiresome if we don't have the ability to look at it as if it's the first time we've ever done it.
The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.
These awful middle-class queens - which is what the gay movement has become - are so tiresome. It's all Abercrombie & Fitch and strollers.
There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.
While all Republicans acknowledge that there were mistakes made during the Bush Administration, again the continuous pointing a finger at President Bush has gotten tiresome.
Traveling the road can be quite tiresome.
Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
I don't think of myself as funny. I think of myself as rather grave, actually. And I'm suspicious of fun. I never quite know what that is or how to deal with it or how to generate it. That's my fault. I know it's a burden on the people I'm with. It's tiresome.
