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«Where life is colorful and varied, religion can be austere or unimportant. Where life is appallingly monotonous, religion must be emotional, dramatic and intense. Without the curry, boiled rice can be very dull.»
Author: C. Northcote Parkinson
(Writer)
| About:
Life,
Religion
| Keywords:
appallingly, austere, boiled, boil over, colorful, curried, curries, curry, dramatic, dull, emotional, intense, monotonous, rice, unimportant, varied
«This severe, ascetic music, calm and horizontal as the line of the ocean, monotonous by virtue of its serenity, anti-sensuous, and yet so intense in its contemplativeness that it verges sometimes on ecstasy»
Author: Charles Gounod
| Keywords:
anti, ascetic, ascetics, calm, contemplativeness, ecstasy, horizontal, intense, monotonous, ocean, sensuous, serenity, severe, verges
«Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life»
Author: Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Philosopher)
| About:
Belief,
Religion
| Keywords:
cruel, escape, escape from, monotonous
«I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject, when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron scumbags devoid of any admirable human qualities.I failed history.»
Author: Sting
| Keywords:
admirable, baron, Barons, devoid, devoid of, monotonous, robber, sordid, succession
«There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.»
Author: James Russell Lowell
(Critic, Diplomat, Editor, Essayist, Poet)
| Keywords:
cruelty, desperately, monotonous, pirate, pirates
«What a person thinks on his own without being stimulated by the thoughts and experiences of the other people is even in the best case rather paltry and monotonous»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
case, experiences, monotonous, on his own, paltry, stimulate, stimulated, stimulates
«The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| Keywords:
aged, campaigning, middle-aged, monotonous, weather
«Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.»
Author: Charles Dickens
| Keywords:
actor, begets, begot, beneath, brief, circle, confusion, departure, departures, dug, dust, familiar, habituate, habituated, instant, monotonous, narrow, objects, propagated, propagates, propagating, rock, sand, scene, signal, signaling, space travel, sprung, travels
«Topographically the country is magnificent -- and terrifying. Why terrifying? Because nowhere else in the world is the divorce between man and nature so complete. Nowhere have I encountered such a dull, monotonous fabric of life as here in America. Here boredom reaches its peak.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
| Keywords:
encountered, fabric, magnificent, monotonous, peak, reaches, terrifying, the Peak, topographically
«Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupation is exhilarating and life giving.»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
exhilarate, exhilarated, exhilarating, give rise, law of nature, life-giving, manner, monotonous, monotony, occupation, rises, Rising Sun, Sun rise, sun rose, The Law
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