Exhausts Quotes

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Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. — John Adams
A winner is somebody who goes out there every day and exhausts himself trying to get something accomplished. — Joe Torre
Some authors have conceptualized depression as a "depletion syndrome" because of the prominence of fatigability; they postulate that the patient exhausts his available energy during… — Aaron T. Beck
Freedom from obsession is not about something you do; it's about knowing who you are. It's about recognizing what sustains you and what exhausts you.… — Geneen Roth
I would define the baroque as that style that deliberately exhausts (or tries to exhaust) its own possibilities, and that borders on self-caricature. The baroque… — Jorge Luis Borges
Writing is to descend like a miner to the depths of the mine with a lamp on your forehead, a light whose dubious brightness falsifies… — Blaise Cendrars
Some people are trapped by the belief that love comes in finite quantities, and that our kind of love exhausts the supply upon which they… — Andrew Solomon
Material objectives consume too much of our attention. The struggle for what we need or for more than we need exhausts our time and energy.… — Marion D. Hanks
Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last; and perhaps always predominates in proportion to the strength of the contemplative… — Samuel Johnson
It is not, truly speaking, the labour that is divided; but the men: divided into mere segments of men - broken into small fragments and… — John Ruskin
Every failure is a step to success. Every detection of what is false directs us towards what is true: every trial exhausts some tempting form… — William Whewell
Night after night, through years of performing and directing, I've stood in awe of the audience, of its capacity for response. As if by magic,… — Robert McKee
If you think you are working hard, you can work harder. If you think you are doing enough, there is more that you can do.… — Pete Carril
An aphorism is a single sentence that totally exhausts its subject. — Robert Breault
The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts. — Gustave Flaubert
The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters. — Salvatore Quasimodo
The patient endurance of the saints exhausts the evil power that attacks them, since it makes them glory in sufferings undergone for the sake of… — Maximus the Confessor
[T]he habit of scientific analysis ... exhausts the material offered to it... — Henri Frederic Amiel
Evidence exhausts the truth. — Georges Braque
Though folly, robed in purple, shines, Though vice exhausts Peruvian mines, Yet shall they tremble and turn pale When satire wields her mighty flail. — Charles Churchill

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