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  • The public has always, and in every age, been badly brought up. They are continually asking Art to be popular, to please their want of taste, to flatter their absurd vanity, to tell them what they have been told before, to show them what they ought to be tired of seeing, to amuse them when they feel heavy after eating too much, and to distract their thoughts when they are wearied of their own stupidity.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Art Quotes , Tired Quotes
  • France was a land, England was a people, but America, having about it still that quality of the idea, was harder to utter - it was the graves at Shiloh and the tired, drawn, nervous faces of its great men, and the country boys dying in the Argonne for a phrase that was empty before their bodies withered. It was a willingness of the heart.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Country Quotes , Tired Quotes
  • The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active. That is why it is necessary to happiness that one should be tired.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Tired Quotes , Mean Quotes
  • Harriet Tubman didn't have strategy meetings or a movement behind her, she was the movement, she was inspired by being sick and tired of the injustice she was experiencing and she knew she had a right to liberty or death, one or the other she was going to have by any means necessary.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Aisha Hinds Quotes , Tired Quotes , Mean Quotes
  • My big complaint with myself is that I get tired. But, I forgive myself because it's human to get tired. But, I didn't always feel like I could forgive myself. There's a certain [drive], I think. But, now I feel like, "OK, you can be tired. People should let you be tired. Then you should go and take a nap, and you should sleep." That's about it.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Tired Quotes , Sleep Quotes
  • Pessimism is not in being tired of evil but in being tired of good. Despair does not lie in being weary of suffering, but in being weary of joy. It is when for some reason or other good things in a society no longer work that the society begins to decline; when its food does not feed, when its cures do not cure, when its blessings refuse to bless.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Lying Quotes , Tired Quotes
  • Men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of the oscillations of the world between these two extremes. An epoch is but a swing of the pendulum; and each generation thinks the world is progressing because it is always moving.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Moving Quotes , Tired Quotes