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If the word only made you think of rational, deserved causes like teaching a less whitewashed version of American history, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez would still want to own it. But it's a joke because it makes you think of people who wake up offended and take orders from Twitter. And their oversensitivity has grown tiresome. – Bill Maher	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
She painted leftists as somehow victims in all this, which is such a tiresome trick the left plays when people they don't like are in power. The image she paints of anyone who's not in her camp is one of brutality and violence that's such a tired trope yet it's actually dangerous. She's advocating for a more dramatic return to tribalism and that'll do nothing to cool the temperature of our discourse. – Editor Curtis Houck	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes a man may have committed or how cynically he may have debased his talent or his friends, variations on the answer Yes, but I did it for the money, satisfy all but the most tiresome objections. – Lewis Lapham	added by anonymous 8 years ago
I used to fly the planes, but I don't like flying planes no more, it's a little bit longer and a little bit more tiresome, but I feel a little bit more safer on the train. – Ruben Barry Hubbard	Found on CNN 8 years ago
But the silly male fool is often unaware of how much a look,a touch, a word can hold for a woman.Nor does he seem to have any idea at all of the degree to which their absence can make her cross,resentful ,tiresome." This is from her essay "The Power Men have over Women – Marya Mannes	added by anonymous 8 years ago
As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it's a bore. – Henry Adams	added by anonymous 10 years ago
It is the character of a simpleton to be a bore. A man of sense sees at once whether he is welcome or tiresome; he knows to withdraw the moment that precedes that in which he would be in the least in the way. – La Bruy?re	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Comprehensive talkers are apt to be tiresome when we are not athirst for information; but, to be quite fair, we must admit that superior reticence is a good deal due to lack of matter. Speech is often barren, but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled nest-egg; and, when it takes to cackling, will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion. – George Eliot	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Grown ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. – Antoine De Saint-Exupery	added by anonymous 14 years ago
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. – Arnold Bennett	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity. – Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire	added by anonymous 14 years ago

If the word only made you think of rational, deserved causes like teaching a less whitewashed version of American history, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez would still want to own it. But it's a joke because it makes you think of people who wake up offended and take orders from Twitter. And their oversensitivity has grown tiresome.

– Bill Maher

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

She painted leftists as somehow victims in all this, which is such a tiresome trick the left plays when people they don't like are in power. The image she paints of anyone who's not in her camp is one of brutality and violence that's such a tired trope yet it's actually dangerous. She's advocating for a more dramatic return to tribalism and that'll do nothing to cool the temperature of our discourse.

– Editor Curtis Houck

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes a man may have committed or how cynically he may have debased his talent or his friends, variations on the answer Yes, but I did it for the money, satisfy all but the most tiresome objections.

– Lewis Lapham

added by anonymous
8 years ago

I used to fly the planes, but I don't like flying planes no more, it's a little bit longer and a little bit more tiresome, but I feel a little bit more safer on the train.

– Ruben Barry Hubbard

Found on CNN
8 years ago

But the silly male fool is often unaware of how much a look,a touch, a word can hold for a woman.Nor does he seem to have any idea at all of the degree to which their absence can make her cross,resentful ,tiresome." This is from her essay "The Power Men have over Women

– Marya Mannes

added by anonymous
8 years ago

As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it's a bore.

– Henry Adams

added by anonymous
10 years ago

It is the character of a simpleton to be a bore. A man of sense sees at once whether he is welcome or tiresome; he knows to withdraw the moment that precedes that in which he would be in the least in the way.

– La Bruy?re

added by anonymous
12 years ago

Comprehensive talkers are apt to be tiresome when we are not athirst for information; but, to be quite fair, we must admit that superior reticence is a good deal due to lack of matter. Speech is often barren, but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled nest-egg; and, when it takes to cackling, will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.

– George Eliot

added by anonymous
12 years ago

Grown ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

– Antoine de Saint-Exupery

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

– Antoine De Saint-Exupery

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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.

– Arnold Bennett

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

– Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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