Inertia Quote by Jane Austen Download Open image ““Every thing was to take its natural course, however, neither impelled nor assisted.”” — Jane Austen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Inertia Nature
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“Let nature take its course. By letting each thing act in accordance with its own nature, everything that needs to be done gets done.” — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
“When faced with everything sometimes the best course of action is nothing.” — Bill Callahan Copy Share Image
“but yet it appeared to her so natural, so inevitable to strive against an inclination of that sort unrequited, that she could not comprehend… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Then he realized it was the most natural thing in the world, which was precisely why he was incapable of it.” — Paolo Giordano Copy Share Image
“I explained, winefully, how we did not do the things we wanted to; we never did such things.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“There was no noise, no effort, no consciences in anything he did, but in everything an indescribable lightness, a seeming impossibility of doing nothing… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Without an unreserved surrender to His grace, complete mastery over thought is impossible.” — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“-that unsleeping care which must have known that it could permit itself but one mistake; that alertness for measuring and weighing event against eventuality,… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“How earnestly did she then wish that her former opinions had been more reasonable, more moderate!” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“it is very well worth-while to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Everybody is taken in at some period or another. [...] In marriage especially. [...] There is not one in a hundred of either sex,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to hope, and… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“…for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“It raises my spleen more than any thing, to have the pretence of being asked, of being given a choice, and at the same… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Change is not overcoming inertia as much as it is redirecting, guiding, tweaking what already is and what has already happened. We must believe… — Max McKeown Copy Share Image
Sometimes you make up your mind about something without knowing why, and your decision persists by the power of inertia. Every year it gets… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“We know how ninety-nine percent of the universe works," he told Carter shortly after they met, "and that's the clockworks, that's what we build… — Glen David Gold Copy Share Image
All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is… — Dorothea Brande Copy Share Image
“You know, the whole thing about perfectionism. The perfectionism is very dangerous. Because of course if your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
LAOCOON, n. A famous piece of antique scripture representing a priest of that name and his two sons in the folds of two enormous… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Inertia accounts for two-thirds of marriages. But love accounts for the other third. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I don't think America needs 28,000 men on Okinawa. I don't think we need an army in Germany. What's it for, to protect Germans… — Kevin Gutzman Copy Share Image
I know, that since life is our most precious gift, and as far as we can be absolutely certain, it's given to us to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The idea of salvation through some one or some thing outside of ourselves came from love of inertia. We want God or his Son… — Alice Moore Hubbard Copy Share Image
