Years passed; and he endured the idleness of his intelligence and the inertia of his heart. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world. — John Green Copy Share Image
Once you have something so deeply infused in your culture and your brand, it would be very difficult to reverse that inertia… — Andrew Mason Copy Share Image
“Those whom even love cannot shake from their habitual aversion to risk and inertia are those who are truly unredeemable.” — Cristina Nehring Copy Share Image
We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given. — Todd Gitlin Copy Share Image
To begin is easy; to persevere is sanctity.- Let your perseverance not be a blind consequence of the first impulse, the work… — Josemaria Escriva Copy Share Image
If we are to find our way across troubled waters, we are better served by the company of those who have built… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
The spirit in motion heals, expands, circles in and out of the body, moving through the layers of consciousness from inertia to… — Gabrielle Roth Copy Share Image
The stillness and stasis of bed are the perfect opposite of travel: inertia is what I've come to consider the default mode,… — Lynne Sharon Schwartz Copy Share Image
The eager and often inconsiderate appeals of reformers and revolutionists are indispensable to counterbalance the inertia and fossilism marking so large a… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
There can be no doubt about this. It even held true for the soldiers involved in the Kosovo War. For the soldiers… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
To refuse everything, to say, even when there is something which really should be done, "Ah, that's no longer feminist," is a… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
All nature works, and then rests; works and rests. I caught its rhythm and worked and rested with it. When I felt… — Elizabeth Towne Copy Share Image
Few economic problems, if any, are difficult of solution. The difficulty, all but invariably, is in confronting them. We know what needs… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
You might find it necessary to 'snap' out of your mental inertia, moving slowly at first, then increasing your speed, until you… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
It is not inertia alone that is responsible for human relationships repeating themselves from case to case, indescribably monotonous and unrenewed: it… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
There are lone figures armed only with ideas, sometimes with just one idea, who blast away whole epochs in which we are… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The other producer of old age is habit: the deathly process of doing the same thing in the same way at the… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“You know, the whole thing about perfectionism. The perfectionism is very dangerous. Because of course if your fidelity to perfectionism is too… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought,… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
LAOCOON, n. A famous piece of antique scripture representing a priest of that name and his two sons in the folds of… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“Even if I could write the book I want to write nobody would take it - I know my compatriots only too… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Take the case (to use an easy example) of a river, carrying boats and communicating to them its own velocity, yet limited… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A nonviolent struggle necessarily involves construction on a small scale. It cannot therefore lead to tamas or darkness or inertia. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I think there's nothing worse than inertia. You can inert and study your navel and gradually you'll fall off the chair. I… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
If history is a guide, a victory for Obama means he faces the prospect of a second term dogged by scandal or… — Ron Fournier Copy Share Image
We have to tackle the triple malady which holds our villages fast in its grip; want of corporate sanitation, deficient diet and… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Most people are not for or against anything; the first object of getting people together is to make them respond somehow, to… — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share Image
The real key is to live in an environment where the mind feels free to choose the right thing instead of being… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
The human mind is scattered. We have become negligent about our distractions, inertia, confusion, doubt, fear, and anger. — Rajmani Tigunait Copy Share Image
The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Leaders must wake people out of inertia. They must get people excited about something they've never seen before, something that does not… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
You see often it's not ideas, it's inertia, it's bureaucratism, it's all the other things that sometimes come in the way of… — Vijay Prashad Copy Share Image
Healing is movement. Disease is inertia. If you put the body in motion, you will change. — Gabrielle Roth Copy Share Image
“The laws of physics that deal with inertia also apply to humans, such that situations tend to remain the same over time.” — Del Suggs Copy Share Image
As the week wore on, Ivan contemplated the merits of inertia as a problem-solving technique with growing favor — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
Christ and his teachings are the embodiment of submission, of inertia, of the denial of life; hence responsible for the things done… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
