Naomi Alderman Quotes

When we learn to TOLERATE boredom, we find out who we really are.

Naomi Alderman

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• Life ain't always beautiful, but it's a beautiful ride.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Ride

• I have a little bit of that gamer spirit in me. I just don't have the time to be a gamer. But in another life, I would be one.

  

  J. Cole
  • Life
  • Time
  • Spirit

• Spend at least an hour today giving your fullest gift, whatever that is for today, so that when you go to sleep at night you know you couldn't have lived your day with more courage, creativity, and giving.

  

  David Deida
  • Today
  • Night
  • Giving

• Fundamentals are the most valuable tools a player can possess. Bunt the ball into the ground. Hit the cutoff man. Take the extra base. Learn the fundamentals.

  

  Dick Williams
  • Player
  • Ball
  • Fundamentals

• The tyrant, who in order to hold his power, suppresses every superiority, does away with good men, forbids education and light, controls every movement of the citizens and, keeping them under a perpetual servitude, wants them to grow accustomed to baseness and cowardice, has his spies everywhere to listen to what is said in the meetings, and spreads dissension and calumny among the citizens and impoverishes them, is obliged to make war in order to keep his subjects occupied and impose on them permanent need of a chief.

  

  Aristotle
  • War
  • Cowardice
  • Tyrant

• You men do not understand the delights of a glance, of a pressure of the hand... but as for me, I swear to you that, when I listen to your voice, I feel such a deep, strange bliss that the most passionate kisses could not take its place.

  

  Mikhail Lermontov
  • Voice
  • Understand
  • Kisses

• A lot of hip-hop artists wear fur, and they think it's a status symbol. That doesn't register for me; I just see dead animals.

  

  Tommy Lee Mötley Crüe
  • Artists
  • Symbol
  • Dead Animals

• I'm not into that Keith Richard trip of having all those guitars in different tunings. I never liked the Rolling Stones much anyway.

  

  Ritchie Blackmore Blackmore's Night
  • Guitar
  • Stones
  • Rolling

• It often happens that we blurt out things that may in some kind of way be harmful to us, but we are silent about things that may make us look ridiculous; because in this case effect follows very quickly on cause.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Way
  • Things
  • Silent

• Corruption springs from light: 'tis one same power Creates, preserves, destroys; matter whereon It works, on e'er self-transmutative form, Common to now the living, now the dead.

  

  Philip James Bailey
  • Creates
  • Springs
  • Self-transmutative

• The price of training is always a certain "trained incapacity": the more we know how to do something, the harder it is to learn to do it differently.

  

  Abraham Kaplan
  • Training
  • Learn
  • Price

• Luxury either comes of riches or makes them necessary; it corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Rich
  • Poor
  • Possession

• Whenever I start thinking of my love for a person, I am in the habit of immediately drawing radii from my love - from my heart, from the tender nucleus of a personal matter- to monstrously remote points of the universe. Something impels me to measure the consciousness of my love against such unimaginable and incalculable things as the behaviour of nebulae (whose very remoteness seems a form of insanity), the dreadful pitfalls of eternity, the unknowledgeable beyond the unknown, the helplessness, the cold, the sickening involutions and interpenetrations of space and time.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Thinking
  • Heart
  • Cold

• Although I may find the type of programming seen during the 2004 Super Bowl and the 2003 Golden Globe Awards disgusting and disturbing, we must always work hard to defend the cherished freedoms so clearly outlined in our Constitution, including a healthy and free press.

  

  Mike Rogers
  • Healthy
  • Disgusting
  • Programming

• People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • People
  • Happiness
  • Despair

• When we learn to TOLERATE boredom, we find out who we really are.

  

  Naomi Alderman
  • Boredom
  • Tolerate