"It is horrible, yet fascinating, this struggle between……" — Arthur Conan Doyle
"It is horrible, yet fascinating, this struggle between a set purpose and an utterly exhausted frame."
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383 Quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle
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One dumb-bell, Watson! Consider an athlete with one dumb-bell. Picture to yourself the unilateral development - the imminent danger of…
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Exactly. She does not shine as a wife even in her own account of what occurred. I am not a…
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I think you want a little unofficial help. Three undetected murders in one year won't do, Lestrade. But you handled…
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Well, sir, let us do what we can to curtail this visit, which can hardly be agreeable to you, and…
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Well, I'm a bacteriologist, you know. I live in a nine-hundred-diameter microscope. I can hardly claim to take serious notice…
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Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of…
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We had got as far as this, when who should walk in but the gentleman himself, who had been drinking…
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And yet the motives of women are so inscrutable. You remember the woman at Margate whom I suspected for the…
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His neighbor is a tooth-drawer. That bag at his girdle is full of the teeth that he drew at Winchester…
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I have my own views about Nature's methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his
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"I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always means…
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I am engaged in answering that Italian buffoon, Mazotti, whose views upon the larval development of the tropical termites have…
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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
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The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it…
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Two sittings a day of my models and I'm totally exhausted.
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I think I'm chronically exhausted.
— Hillary Clinton
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I believe in playing with your heart, with every fiber in your body-fairly, squarely, by the rules-to win. And I…
— Bela Karolyi
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Rivers are inherently interesting. They mold landscapes, create fertile deltas, provide trade routes, a source for food and water; a…
— Unknown Author
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In dealing with those who are undergoing great suffering, if you feel "burnout" setting in, if you feel demoralized and…
— Dalai Lama
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A population weakened and exhausted by battling against so many obstacles - whose needs are never satisfied and desires never…
— Ryszard Kapuscinski
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But every soil becomes finally exhausted, and the ploughshare of evil must always come once more.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Prayer is an all-efficient panoply, a treasure undiminished, a mine which is never exhausted, a sky unobscured by clouds, a…
— Saint John Chrysostom
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Rest in natural great peace, this exhausted mind, beaten helpless by karma and neurotic thought, like the relentless fury of…
— Unknown Author
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Suicidal thinking, if serious, can be a kind of death scare, comparable to suffering a heart attack or undergoing a…
— Edward Hoagland
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