People naturally tend toward inertia. That's why self improvement is such a struggle. But that's also why adversity lies at the heart… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
There is a great inertia about all military operations of any size. But once this inertia has been overcome and underway they… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Spiritual movements are revolts of thought against inertia, of the few against the many; of those who because they are strong in… — Ludwig von Mises 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
Inertia is comforting, and Americans will be extremely reluctant to make any change that might affect their high standard of living. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
In North America, the greatest threat to the Jewish people is not the external force of antisemitism, but the internal forces of… — Michael Steinhardt Copy Share Image
“People love each other for many reasons, not all of them good [...]. They love each other because it's easy. Or because… — Nathan Hill Copy Share Image
In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium, of custom, of inertia; it is by no means a representative of reason. — George Santayana 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
My working method has more often than not involved the subtraction of weight. I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people,… — Italo Calvino 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
Just do right. Right may not be expedient, it may not be profitable, but it will satisfy your soul. It brings you… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
You must be prepared for further efforts of mind and body and further sacrifices to great causes, if you are not to… — Winston Churchill 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
The content and forms of American communications-the myths and the means of transmitting them-are devoted to manipulation. When successfully employed, as they… — Herbert Schiller Copy Share Image
My point is, however, that churches do promote beliefs that would more appropriately find a place in a context of intellectual debate.… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
Technology has made it easier for different firms to coordinate their activities with one another, and they don't have to be part… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than… — Walter Benjamin 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
A man who is doing his True Will has the inertia of the Universe to assist him. — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
