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If history is a guide, a victory for Obama means he faces the prospect of a second term dogged by scandal or inertia. — Ron Fournier
Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but… — John Kenneth Galbraith
The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia. — Elbert Hubbard
I don't think we're yet evolved to the point where we're clever enough to handle a complex a situation as climate change. The inertia of… — James Lovelock
It is not inertia alone that is responsible for human relationships repeating themselves from case to case, indescribably monotonous and unrenewed: it is shyness before… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Nothing happens until something moves. — Albert Einstein
My working method has more often than not involved the subtraction of weight. I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly… — Italo Calvino
This fall I think you're riding for—it's a special kind of fall, a horrible kind. The man falling isn't permitted to feel or hear himself… — J D Salinger
An unchangeable colour rules over the melancholic: his dwelling is a space the colour of mourning. Nothing happens in it. No one intrudes. It is… — Alejandra Pizarnik
He thought with a kind of astonishment of the biological uselessness of pain and fear, the treachery of the human body which always freezes into… — George Orwell
By dawn he had surrendered, gratefully, to the old inertia, the product of always seeing both sides of every question. — Robert Harris
The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world. — John Green
Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies … and yet they leave… — William James
Throughout his life, Albert Einstein would retain the intuition and the awe of a child. He never lost his sense of wonder at the magic… — Walter Isaacson
Maybe it was inertia -or worse, fear- that was keeping me in the same place. — Jennifer Weiner
The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it — Mark Twain
Our self discoveries make us each a microcosm of the larger pattern of history. The inertia of introspection leads toward recollection, for only through memory… — Terence McKenna
The stillness and stasis of bed are the perfect opposite of travel: inertia is what I've come to consider the default mode, existentially and electronically… — Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Triviality is evil - triviality, that is, in the form of consciousness and mind that adapts itself to the world as it is, that obeys… — Theodor Adorno
Sometimes you make up your mind about something without knowing why, and your decision persists by the power of inertia. Every year it gets harder… — Milan Kundera
Years passed; and he endured the idleness of his intelligence and the inertia of his heart. — Gustave Flaubert
There are two kinds of discontented in this world, the discontented that works and the discontented that wrings its hands. The first gets what it… — Og Mandino
There is always an inertia to be overcome in striking out a new line of conduct – not more in ourselves, it seems, than in… — Thomas Hardy
In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has… — George Eliot

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