Able Quote by Mary Wollstonecraft

“They say that, if we manage to live without too great an effort, it is entirely owing to the automatism which makes us unconscious…

— Alberto Moravia

It's a strange thing to think of a man as can lift a chair with his teeth, and walk fifty mile on end, trembling…

— George Eliot

...till we are uneasy in Rest, we can have no Desire to move, and without Desire of moving there can be no voluntary Motion.

— Benjamin Franklin

“I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love. I felt…

— Leo Tolstoy

“I guessed that one day the restrictions I imposed on myself would end. But first, it seemed that my range of possible activities would…

— Steve Martin

The pursuit of the difficult makes men strong

— George W. Romney

There was scarcely a woman alive, it seemed, who could resist the urge to haul men down onto beds, car seats, kitchen floors, dining-room…

— Russell Baker

“The thought of being able to [move my arms] made me want to give up my legs [instead] since I was accustomed to using…

— Sarah Todd Hammer

“I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.…

— Jon Krakauer

“The man was of fine figure, swarthy, and stern in aspect; and he showed in profile a facial angle so slightly inclined as to…

— Thomas Hardy

“If a man acts in a purely mechanical way, reacting to external demands or instruction rather than in ways determined by his own interests…

— Noam Chomsky

“Walking is the only form of transportation in which a man proceeds erect - like a man - on his own legs, under his…

— Edward Abbey