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If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.
Barbara Bush
Problems
Thrive
Unlimited
Possessing
Weaknesses
Perceived
Rather
Instead
Dull
Than
Human
Human Beings
Capabilities
Then
Beings
Grow
Strengths
Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!
William Butler Yeats
Me
You
Ride
World
Dance
Wind
Mountains
Flame
Out
Would
Take
Come
Like
Fairies
Dull
Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?
Charles de Lint
Life
Mysteries
Everything
Indeed
Strive
Would
Would-Be
Known
Without
Were
Dull
Left
Very
Our diversity is our strength. What a dull and pointless life it would be if everyone was the same.
Angelina Jolie
Life
Strength
Diversity
Everyone
Our
Would
Would-Be
Pointless
Dull
Same
Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It's kinda half suicide where you just dull yourself with substances.
Robert Crumb
You
Courage
Commitment
Yourself
People
Desperation
Half
Cowardly
Suicide
Kind
Kinda
Lead
Takes
Major
Most
Dull
Just
Substances
Where
Lives
Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.
Virginia Woolf
Soul
People
Other
Once
Outer
Nerves
Finer
Indifferent
Steals
Faculties
Over
Inward
She
Callous
Emptiness
Because
Becomes
Dull
Conform
Show
Lethargy
Don't let the insecurities of others dull your sparkle. Shine like the star you are born to be.
Karen Civil
You
Shine
Others
Insecurities
Born
Like
Dull
Sparkle
Your
Star
My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.
Arthur Conan Doyle
Work
Me
Intelligence
Problems
Mind
Own
Analysis
Intricate
Abhor
Atmosphere
Exaltation
Mental
Give
Proper
Give Me
My Own
Most
Am
Dull
Existence
Crave
Stagnation
Rebels
Routine
I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.
Oprah Winfrey
Life
Learning
Woman
Experience
Conflict
Try
Every
Everybody
Everybody Else
Else
Take
Never
Like
Learn
Am
Dull
Trying
Just
Process
Perfect is very boring, and if you happen to have a different look, that's a celebration of human nature, I think. If we were all symmetrical and perfect, life would be very dull.
Natalie Dormer
Life
Nature
You
Human Nature
Think
Would
Would-Be
Boring
Perfect
Perfect Life
Look
Were
Dull
Very
Celebration
Human
Different
Happen
Symmetrical
It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.
Mark Twain
Man
Animal
Vanity
Perceptions
Like
Call
Because
His
Dull
Dumb
Just
I should like to save the Shire, if I could - though there have been times when I thought the inhabitants too stupid and dull for words, and have felt that an earthquake or an invasion of dragons might be good for them.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Good
Words
Thought
Stupid
Too
Earthquake
Though
Invasion
Could
Like
Felt
Been
Dull
Times
Them
Might
If I Could
Should
Inhabitants
Dragons
Save
The pursuit of natural knowledge, the investigation of the world - mental and material - in which we live, is not a dull and spiritless affair: rather is it a voyage of adventure of the human mind, a holiday for reckless and imaginative souls.
Archibald Hill
Knowledge
Natural
World
Mind
Live
Reckless
Mental
Rather
Pursuit
Investigation
Adventure
Voyage
Souls
Material
Affair
Dull
Human
Which
Holiday
Human Mind
Imaginative
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
Alfred Hitchcock
Life
Drama
Bits
Out
Dull
Cut
I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.
Heinrich Heine
Book
Reading
Dreamed
Boredom
Fell
Sheer
Dull
Asleep
Kept
Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes', otherwise you'll lead a very dull life.
Ian Fleming
Life
You
Otherwise
Say
Lead
Never
Adventures
Always
Dull
Yes
Very
People think because I can make them laugh on the stage, I'll be able to make them laugh in person. That isn't the case at all. I am essentially a rather quiet, dull person who just happens to be a performer.
Rowan Atkinson
People
Stage
Think
Laugh
Able
Case
Rather
Performer
Make
Because
Am
Dull
Quiet
Person
Essentially
Just
Happens
Them
Who
If you find the mirror of the heart dull, the rust has not been cleared from its face.
Rumi
You
Heart
Face
Mirror
Find
Rust
Cleared
Been
Dull
Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.
A. E. Housman
Good
Great
Perception
Mellow
Though
Must
Great Literature
Some
Sharpen
Reader
Opinions
His
Dull
Discrimination
Personal
Blunt
Literature
Should
The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.
C. S. Lewis
Adversity
Prosperity
Weather
Long
Devil
Monotonous
Excellent
Years
Dull
Campaigning
Middle-Aged
Every once in a while, I get mad. 'The Lorax' came out of my being angry. The ecology books I'd read were dull... In 'The Lorax,' I was out to attack what I think are evil things and let the chips fall where they might.
Dr. Seuss
Angry
Evil
Fall
Every
Think
Books
Once
Mad
Out
Ecology
Attack
Read
Came
Were
Dull
Get
Being
Where
While
Might
Chips
Things
Some men like a dull life - they like the routine of eating breakfast, going to work, coming home, petting the dog, watching TV, kissing the kids, and going to bed. Stay clear of it - it's often catching.
Hedy Lamarr
Life
Work
Home
Dog
Men
Breakfast
Kids
TV
Stay
Some
Some Men
Eating
Kissing
Clear
Catching
Like
Bed
Coming
Coming Home
Dull
Going
Often
Routine
Watching
Watching Tv
I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.
Tallulah Bankhead
Life
Alone
Hate
Water
Three
My Life
Slick
Phobias
Would
Mute
Ditch
Could
Sonnet
Make
Bed
Go
Dull
Up
Get
Which
Them
I stopped and gazed on the little dull man who was being paid to be a teacher of teachers. I turned and walked to the door, slammed it closed with a bang, and broken glass crashed to the floor. There was uproar behind me in the class, which did not interest me at all.
Burl Ives
Teacher
Me
Broken
Class
Man
Closed
Gazed
Broken Glass
Glass
Dull
Walked
Did
Bang
Behind
Uproar
Stopped
Being
Door
Crashed
Which
Interest
Little
Turned
Paid
Teachers
Who
Slammed
Floor
The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.
Charles Horton Cooley
Life
Great
Natural
Illusion
Minds
Seeing
Variety
Idea
Obvious
Doing
Dull
Going
Place
Means
Things
One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
James D. Watson
Stupid
Only
Could
Supported
Goodly
Conception
Also
Without
Mothers
Narrow-Minded
Scientist
Scientists
Dull
Contrast
Just
Newspapers
Realizing
Successful
Popular
Number
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