Sluggish Quotes

65 Sluggish quotes by 65 unique authors

Man is a luxury loving animal. Take away play, fancies, and luxuries, and you will turn man into a dull, sluggish creature, barely energetic enough… — Eric Hoffer
The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity, sluggish and indomitable as a glacier, will mitigate the most violent, and depress the most exalted revolution. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Plasticity loves new moulds because it can fill them, but for a man of sluggish mind and bad manners there is decidedly no place like… — George Santayana
All this piling up of one technology on top of another-railroad on steamboat, interstate highway on railroad, hydroelectric dam on watermill-had reduced the Mississippi from… — Jonathan Raban
If I'm playing in the morning, I'll get some carbs early: porridge with chopped banana. If I'm playing in the afternoon, I'll start with less… — Rory McIlroy
The lessons of great men and women are lost unless they reinforce upon our minds the highest demands which we make upon ourselves; they are… — Jane Addams
Sluggish idleness--the nurse of sin. — Edmund Spenser
Ford Motor Company's sluggish and piecemeal approach to its automotive responsibilities betrays motorists' safety. — Ralph Nader
I'm a sluggish character; I'm a bit slow. For some reason I find it hard to work quickly. — Jarvis Cocker
The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions. — John W. Gardner
I was never particularly wild, just very busy and often didn't think about what I was putting into my body. Today things are very different.… — Britt Ekland
There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten. — Samuel Johnson
I don't surf the net in general. I have someone do it for me instead, because I find it sluggish. — Brian May
The difficulty for Mr. Obama will be when the public sees where his decisions lead - higher inflation, higher interest rates, higher taxes, sluggish growth,… — Karl Rove
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of… — Walter Scott
If I eat something a little crazy or if I feel sluggish, I know I have to eat better the next day and work out.… — Jordin Sparks
Nothing is really lost or can be lost, No birth, identity, form--no object of the world, Nor life, nor force, nor any visible thing... The… — Nicholas Sparks
It was a splendid population - for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home - you never find that sort of people among… — Mark Twain
I don't want to see anyone. I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and nothingness washing over me like a sluggish wave. Whatever… — Margaret Atwood
Athens is like a sluggish horse, and I am the gadfly trying to sting it into life. — Jostein Gaarder
So the hours are pretty good then?' he resumed. The Vogon stared down at him as sluggish thoughts moiled around in the murky depths. Yeah,'… — Douglas Adams
There is an anaesthetic of familiarity, a sedative of ordinariness which dulls the senses and hides the wonder of existence. For those of us not… — Richard Dawkins
I avoid that bleak first hour of the working day during which my still sluggish senses and body make every chore a penance. I find… — John Kennedy Toole
But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot.… — Oscar Wilde
I run because if I didn’t, I’d be sluggish and glum and spend too much time on the couch. I run to breathe the fresh… — Dean Karnazes

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