“I do not suffer from ignorance where exercise is related. I suffer from inertia.” — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
The natural law of inertia: Matter will remain at rest or continue in uniform motion in the same straight line unless acted… — W. Clement Stone 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
What I think we fear is rapid, pronounced, and uncontrollable changes to ourselves, and because of this we have a form of… — Simon Travaglia Copy Share Image
Democracy is threatened by the inertia of good people, by the selfishness of most people, and by the evil designs of a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It requires courage to face and to conquer the immense weight of inertia and the dead and dying traditions and sophistications that… — Lawren Harris Copy Share Image
Just like those other black holes from outer space, Hollywood is postmodern to this extent: it has no center, only a spreading… — Arthur Kroker Copy Share Image
“ INERTIA: Unless an object is acted on by friction from an outside force, it will spiral through space, in the same… — Karen Russell 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
Whatever blocks you encounter, you have learned that there is a way over, around or through them. It is not those obstacles… — Douglas Smith 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
“His world had assumed the attribute of pure mass. He perceived himself in one mode only: that of an object subjected to… — Philip K. Dick 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
Adroit geo-strategists take new realities into account as they try to imagine how global politics will unfold. In the foreign policy business,… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
Galileo had already made a significant beginning toward a knowledge of the law of motion. He discovered the law of inertia and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Like Disneyland, luxury retailers have long had to figure out how to overcome customers' natural inertia. Unlike less pricey stores, they tend… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
We must renew democracy itself. We have to fight cynicism and inertia and restore faith in the advancement of our country. — Paul Wellstone Copy Share Image
The inertia of the mind urges it to slide down the easy slope of imagination, rather than to climb the steep slope… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The longer you're stuck in a position that doesn't truly challenge you, the less likely you'll be able to leave it. Inertia,… — Ryan Holmes Copy Share Image
We'll look for almost any reason not to change our attitudes; the inertia of the established order is powerful. If we can… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
To end slavery, you must overcome the mental and physical inertia of the masses and quicken their intelligence and creative faculty. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
One curious result of this inertia, which deserves to rank among the fundamental 'laws' of nature, is that when a discovery has… — F. C. S. Schiller Copy Share Image
Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The essence of religion is inertia; the essence of science is change. It is the function of the one to preserve, it… — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
Progress is slow partly from mere intellectual inertia. In a subject where there is no agreed procedure for knocking out errors, doctrines… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
It is the nature of the Kali Yuga that most human beings are now held back from spiritual liberation due to the… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
Men are naturally lazy, and require some great stimulus to goad their flagging ambitions and enable them to overcome the inertia which… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
The different policies reduce damages by only a modest amount. Indeed, one of the surprises is how little the policies affect the… — Henry Sylvester Jacoby Copy Share Image
How many have gone? How many more to go? The Admiralty is fast asleep and lethargy & inertia are the order of… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Definition of inertia: 'The vis insita, or innate force of matter, is a power of resisting by which every body, as much… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
An unchangeable colour rules over the melancholic: his dwelling is a space the colour of mourning. Nothing happens in it. No one… — Alejandra Pizarnik Copy Share Image
Under a socialist mode of production all personal incentives which selfishness provides under capitalism are removed, and a premium is put upon… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
We're used to institutional-maintenance Catholicism, in which the institution ticks along by its own inertia and people are "born" into the Church.… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
I have thought of a pulley to raise me gradually; but that would give me pain, as it would counteract my natural… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
