A Quote by Guy Gavriel Kay

Why did becoming accustomed to something have to render its pleasures stale.

Guy Gavriel Kay

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Guy Gavriel Kay
Canadian - Author
Born: November 7, 1954

What terrible harm Wagner did by interspersing his pages of genius with harmonic and modulatory outrages to which both young and old are gradually becoming accustomed and which have procreated d'Indy and Richard Strauss.

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Rock music is becoming stale. Let's put the fun back.

Ray Toro

There is a line that I always loved from Lucretius. He said, "The sublime is the art of exchanging easier for more difficult pleasures." The presumption of that formulation is that the more difficult pleasures are actually better than the easier pleasures. That is why one makes the exchange.

Andrew Solomon

Use the previous techniques in rotation. It will prevent your meditation experience from becoming stale.

Frederick Lenz

I'm completely opposed to the idea of becoming accustomed to foreign military campaigns.

Guido Westerwelle

I didn't even have that many close LGBT friends or anything like that, but I suppose it was growing up and becoming aware of how you are in a cultural landscape that is blatantly homophobic... you turn around and say, 'Why did I grow up in a homophobic place? Why did I grow up in a misogynistic place?'

Hozier

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

Joseph Addison

Why did I come here? I thought. Why is it always only a matter of choosing between something bad and something worse?

Charles Bukowski

Show business is stale ideas and stale actors.

Jackie Coogan

We are becoming so accustomed to millions and billions of dollars that 'thousands' has almost passed out of the dictionary.

Everett Dirksen

Stale water is a poor drink. Stale skill is worse. And the man who walks in his own footsteps only ends where he began.

Lloyd Alexander

Beware of every hour and how it passes, and only spend it in the best possible way, do not neglect yourself, but render it accustomed to the noblest and best of actions, and send to your grave that which will please you when you arrive to it.

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

Why did humans lose their body hair? Why did they start walking on their hind legs? Why did they develop big brains? I think that the answer to all three questions is sexual selection.

Richard Dawkins

Why has marriage failed? In the first place, we raised it to unnatural standards. We tried to make it something permanent, something sacred, without knowing even the abc of sacredness, without knowing anything about the eternal. Our intentions were good but our understanding was very small, almost negligible. So instead of marriage becoming something of a heaven, it has become a hell. Instead of becoming sacred, it has fallen even below profanity.