"Few beautiful women were willing to indicate in public that they belonged to someone. I had known enough women to realize this. I accepted them for what they were and love came hard and very seldom. When it did it was usually for the wrong reasons. One simply became tired of holding back love and let it go because it needed some place to go. Then, usually, there was trouble."
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"I'm too careless. I don't put out enough effort. I'm tired."
"Think of working forever at something you love to do, for one you love with all your heart, and never getting tired! We will never know weariness in heaven."
"I got really tired of metal music. How do you pick what's good to sell when you're not totally into what you're listening to and marketing?"
"All the tired horses in the sun How'm I supposed to get any ridin' done? Hmm."
"I'm tired of good people getting ripped off by diet products that don't work!"
"I dont think you ever get tired of the well-written, well-crafted songs."
"I'm just tired and bored with myself."
"Some of us are returning to sanity, because we're tired of the pain. We're in a hurry. No time to mess around."
"Craving for power is not a vice of the body, consequently it knows none of the limitations imposed by a tired or satiated physiology upon gluttony, intemperance and lust"
"I'm too tired to hate."
"I write everything as a wake-up call to myself and others, to anyone who may have gotten tired of hitting the snooze button."
"I was delighted to be able to do the movie ["Terminator: Genisys"] without getting exhausted or feeling old or tired or anything like this. I felt I was in great shape and I felt really young."
"They mustn't know my despair, I can't let them see the wounds which they have caused, I couldn't bear their sympathy and their kind-hearted jokes, it would only make me want to scream all the more. If I talk, everyone thinks I'm showing off; when I'm silent they think I'm ridiculous; rude if I answer, sly if I get a good idea, lazy if I'm tired, selfish if I eat a mouthful more than I should, stupid, cowardly, crafty, etc. etc."
"There's something happening everyday, but I'm too tired and lazy to write it all down."
"The mind wants to forget because it weighs so much on the heart and soul. I am tired of crying and feeling so helpless. I want to breathe again -just for a little while."
"First thing in the morning, we're really tired, and we look at each other and we wonder, 'Are we ever going to get sleep?' And yet, it doesn't matter if you don't get sleep. It's an honor to take care of them."
"[on the reason for his seven-year hiatus in direction] My son Aditya made Mohabbatein, which took a lot of time and energy. Then we started looking for a script for me to direct. Nothing seemed to excite us both. There's a complete bankruptcy of screenwriting in our cinema. I wanted a very earthy and Indian subject. I was tired of the promos on television. With semi-clad girls, they all looked the same. Of course Dhoom has them too. But I'd personally not make a film like that."
"We need to connect with the image of an expanding source - one which never becomes stagnant or gets tired of growing and improving. And when we see there are no limits to our potential, we can tap into abundance knowing there's more than enough."
"I must be overtired', Buttercup managed. 'The excitement and all.' 'Rest then', her mother cautioned. 'Terrible things can happen when you're overtired. I was overtired the night your father proposed."