"In short, humans are programmed to get bored."

-- Emily Oster

#Bored Quotes #Humans Quotes

“One of the advantages of the book's having been out there for more than a quarter century is that there's been time for people to report back on what it's done for them.”
“What do you get out of hating people, out of having this bitterness in your heart always?”
“I suppose that, after the passion of love, water rights have caused more trouble than anything else to the human species.”
“It is the love of the people; it is their attachment to their government, from the sense of the deep stake they have in such a glorious institution, which gives you your army 168 and your navy, and infuses into both that liberal obedience, without which your army would be a base rabble, and your navy nothing but rotten timber.”
“As long as the sun rises over Ontario and sets over the Pacific, I will dedicate myself to bringing the people of Oregon what they want and need most - an era of hope, change, and economic renewal.”

Source : Ted Kulongoski's Inaugural Address, January 13, 2003.
“I like to drink young wines, wines which are robust and have a lot of forward fruit to them.”
“Those who profess contempt for men, and put them on a level with beasts, yet wish to be admired and believed by men, and contradict themselves by their own feelings--their nature, which is stronger than all, convincing them of the greatness of man more forcibly than reason convinces them of his baseness.”
“You can't possibly prepare for what happens to you the day you hit No. 1 and people treat you differently.”

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