What I’ve learned at close quarters is that excellence…

To sustain hatred is a very difficult thing to do, year after year. It's exhausting.

— Nick Cave

Having your goal to focus on is key, but don't let it become more important than your excellence next year and the year after.

— Bill Rodgers

You know, most boys would enjoy being trapped in close quarters with a girl." I roll my eyes. "Not claustrophobic people, Tris.

— Veronica Roth

I watched Hiddink and Ferguson at close quarters, and I realized that I am not a coach.

— Park Ji-sung

“One can love one's neighbours in the abstract, or even at a distance, but at close quarters it's almost impossible.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“This is close quarters.’ ‘Close enough to see your eyelashes,’ said Damen.”

— S.U. Pacat

Today's competitiveness, so much imposed from without, is exhausting, not exhilarating; is unending-a part of one's social life, one's solitude, one's sleep, one's sleeplessness.

— Louis Kronenberger

Seeing people I've been friends with for well over a decade just turn on me. It was just so exhausting.

— Tom Sandoval

It's exhausting trying to impress someone and be a version of yourself that might be attractive to them.

— Mae Martin

One day I would want to be an Egyptologist, the next day an ornithologist. I was an exhausting child.

— Sue Perkins

It is utterly exhausting being Black in America - physically, mentally, and emotionally. While many minority groups and women feel similar stress, there is…

— Marian Wright Edelman

“It was exhausting being a schizophrenic, which he was still convinced he was.”

— Meg Wolitzer

Friendship is a difficult, dangerous job. It is also (though we rarely admit it) extremely exhausting.

— Elizabeth Bibesco

I'm OK with my appearance. I have made my peace with it after a long and frankly exhausting battle.

— Sue Perkins

I talk a lot, and that is probably exhausting.

— Jodie Whittaker