Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
... once you get up steam, you are carried helplessly along. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“Every thing was to take its natural course, however, neither impelled nor assisted.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The inertia of humans is so huge that you can't really do anything meaningful. — James Lovelock 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
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
“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
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
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
Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given. — Todd Gitlin 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
“The mind that puts everything in question reaches, after a thousand interrogations, an almost total inertia, a situation which the inert, in… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Unbreakable Productions (my company) provides fun, uplifting and inspirational content (and products soon!) on a regular basis to help viewers discover their… — Rachele Brooke Smith Copy Share Image
Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies … and… — William James Copy Share Image
Business leaders must not cling to old ways of doing business, or allow inertia or complacency to prevent them from making the… — Patricia Hewitt 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
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
“Inertia. Guy’s law of enchantment: “People at rest will remain at rest, and people in motion will keep moving in the same… — Guy Kawasaki 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
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
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
“She leaned forward and placed her chin on her fist. 'So. Can you tell me in a sentence or two how I… — Nury Vittachi Copy Share Image
Moreover, I would like to say that the sort of polar inertia we witnessed in the Kosovo War, the polar inertia involving… — Paul Virilio 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
“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
But my belief is growing that our political and social evils are remediable, if only all of us who want a change… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
The thing about physicists is that they tend to think that everything is physics. I don't. That's not what music is to… — Vijay Iyer 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
Ideals survive through change. They die through inertia in the face of challenge. — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
Inertia accounts for two-thirds of marriages. But love accounts for the other third. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“Size matters not. Inertia, however, is a pain in the butt." -Mander Zuma” — Jeff Grubb Copy Share Image
“I do not suffer from ignorance where exercise is related. I suffer from inertia.” — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Punk is the voice that shouts the loudest from the silence of inertia. — Toyah Willcox Copy Share Image