A Quote by Rona Jaffe

boredom has a tendency to bring out the worst in people's faces.

Rona Jaffe

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Boredom Bring Faces Out People Tendency Worst

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Rona Jaffe
American - Novelist
June 12, 1931 - December 30, 2005

Some people bring out the worst in you, others bring out the best. And there are remarkably rare ones, who just bring out the most of everything that even you don't know that you have.

Cedi Osman

Some people bring out the worst in you, others bring out the best, and then there are those remarkably rare, addictive ones who just bring out the most. Of everything.

Karen Marie Moning

The nature of football can bring out the best in people, but it can also bring out the worst in people.

Chris Hughton

You should thank the people who bring out the worst in you. Had it not been for them, you would never have come to know of your worst side.

Ramesh Babu

People have a natural tendency to read emotions out of faces, so when you see a face that is hyperreal but without the life behind the eyes, it's really off-putting and intriguing.

Hiro Murai

Certainly, hunger can bring out the worst in us. But it can also bring out the best.

Hamza Yusuf

Sales bring out the worst in people.

Haley Webb

an the president bring out the voters who were so enthusiastic about him in 2008 and seem a little disenchanted now? Can he bring out young people? Can he bring out Latinos? Can he bring out those white suburban moms?

Anna Quindlen

Patience and boredom are closely related. Boredom, a certain kind of boredom, is really impatience. You don't like the way things are, they aren't interesting enough for you, so you deccide- and boredom is a decision-that you are bored.

Bertrand Russell

The tendency is to blame boredom on the environment. "This town is really dull" or "What a boring speaker." The particular town or speaker is never dull, it is you experiencing the boredom, and you can eliminate it by doing something else with your mind or energy at that moment.

Wayne Dyer

Pressure brings the best out of people, or it can bring the worst out. It's just how you use it.

Clint Dempsey

Football can bring out the best and worst in people.

Demba Ba

Like families, competitors can bring out the worst as well as the best in each other. Like romance, competition has many faces, some of them ugly. In addition to showing me my grace and graciousness, the mirror of sports has reflected back to me my jealousy, pettiness, and arrogance.

Mariah Nelson

I always think that struggle can bring out the best in people - or the worst.

Abby Wambach

The fancies that take their monstrous birth from the spinelessness and boredom of usurped wealth bring in their wake every defect ... and though rich men's crimes escape the law, protected as they are by the cowardice of governments and people, Nature, more real than society, sets her anarchic example by abandoning the wretched time servers of Capital to the shame and madness of the worst aberrations.