Sweat Quotes

705 Sweat quotes by 576 unique authors

On Harry dug, deeper and deeper into the hard, cold earth, subsuming his grief in sweat, denying the pain in his scar. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
It took a lot of work to be perfect. If you didn’t want to break a sweat, there was no point in even bothering. — Sarah Dessen
Reading goes faster if you don't sweat comprehension. — Bill Watterson
Then I smell the sweat on him, a clean musky scent that I'd bottle and wear as perfume if I could. — Gayle Forman
I was certain t find the familiar sting of salt, but what I needed to know was what kind: kitchen, sweat, tears or the sea. — Monique Truong
For a moment he felt a wild hope: perhaps this really was a nightmare. Perhaps he would awake in his own bed, bathed in sweat,… — Stephen King
they ran in the sunlight, creating their own breeze which pressed their dresses into their damp skin. Reaching a kind of square of four locked… — Toni Morrison
I don’t know nothing about birthing puppies, Miss Scarlett, but I can cleave the head off a Daimon without breaking a sweat. (Valerius) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
[All the ancient wisdom] tells us that work is necessary to us, as much a part of our condition as mortality; that good work is… — Wendell Berry
It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast… — Ernest Hemingway
Remember: Life is short, break the rules (they were made to be broken) Forgive quickly, kiss slowly Love truly, laugh uncontrollably And never regret anything… — James Dean
Panic. You open your mouth. Open it so wide your jaws creak. You order your lungs to draw air, NOW, you need air, need it… — Khaled Hosseini
I wasn't sent here to find angels! I wasn't sent here to dream of them. I wasn't sent here to hear them sing! I was… — Anne Rice
There was something about a man with a shovel, and the sweat on his neck might as well have been chocolate sauce. It wasn't fair.… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips
There are things which cannot be taught in ten easy lessons, nor popularized for the masses; they take years of skull sweat. — Robert A. Heinlein
Even little Herley, who couldn't have been more than eight, looked like he could go six rounds with Chuck Norris without breaking a sweat. — Rick Riordan
My sweat smells like peanut-butter. — Wendy Mass
Don't be upset. Don't listen to me. I only meant that I am jealous of a dark, unconscious element, something irrational, unfathomable. I am jealous… — Boris Pasternak
Daily dawns another day; I must up, to make my way. Though I dress and drink and eat, Move my fingers and my feet, Learn… — Dorothy Parker
How can I wear the harness of toil And sweat at the daily round, While in my soul forever The drums of Pictdom sound? — Robert E. Howard
The pile of guts was a black blob of flies that buzzed like a saw. After a while these flies found Simon. Gorged, they alighted… — William Golding
With my eyes closed, I ask if she knows how this will all turn out. "Long-term or short-term?" she asks. Both. "Long-term," she says, "we're… — Chuck Palahniuk
First, she wanted to taste the sweat that shone on his throat and fragile clavicle; then he chose to undo the tails of her shirt,… — John Crowley
I’m your worst nightmare come to walk this side of the lines. I’m an elf, Trent something you’re forgotten how to be. You’re scared of… — Kim Harrison
Briar: "They never tell you some things. They tell you mages have wonderful power and they learn all kinds of secrets. Nobody ever mentions that… — Tamora Pierce

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