Inertly Quotes & Sayings

What's the use of falling in love if you both remain inertly as you were? — Mary McCarthy

We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers. — Martin Luther King Jr.

The only reason I got into movies was because I had no music talent. — John Hughes

I cannot believe that a republic could subsist if the influence of the lawyers in public business did not increase in proportion to the power of the people. — Alexis De Tocqueville

I lived the true American dream, because I was able to pursue what I set as my goals at a very young age. — Mario Andretti

It turns out umpires and judges are not robots or traffic cameras, inertly monitoring deviations from a fixed zone of the permissible. They are humans. — Eric Liu

To imitate nature involves the verb to do. To copy is merely to reflect something already there, inertly: Shakespeare's mirror is all that is needed for it. But by imitation we enlarge nature itself, we become nature or we discover in ourselves nature's active part. — William Carlos Williams

To change, you need to accept your past and deny to be challenged and overcome by your future. — Auliq Ice

You can't rush art." I crumpled another lost attempt and tossed it behind me. "Besides, patience is a virtue."

"It's a virtue until it's a waste of time," he pointed out.

The cello unleashed a few notes that sounded strangely bright for such an instrument, and Hal nodded in its direction. "See; even a musical instrument agrees with me. — Mirriam Neal

With the Russian Empire teetering on the brink of collapse, the tsarist regime responded to the crises with its usual incompetence and obstinacy. The basic problem was that Nicholas himself remained totally oblivious to the extremity of the situation. While the country sank deeper into chaos he continued to fill his diary with terse and trivial notes on the weather, the company at tea and the number of birds he had shot that day. When Bulygin suggested that political concessions might be needed to calm the country, Nicholas was taken aback and told the Minister: 'One would think you are afraid a revolution will break out.' 'Your majesty,' came the reply, 'the revolution has already begun. — Orlando Figes

Those that know me well tend to get scared at how well I know them behind their masks. They ignore the fact that they reveal themselves to me when I mirror their behaviors and despite their judgments or reasons. What a person says isn't as truthful about such person as what she does when you do the same to her. — Robin Sacredfire

It was not an act of treason, nor possibly even of defiance. But it was a calculated withdrawal, from the life of the Republic, from its machinery. Whatever else was being denied them out of hate, indifference to the power of their vote, loopholes, simple ignorance, this withdrawal was their own, unpublicized, private. Since they could not have withdrawn into a vacuum (could they?), there had to exist the separate, silent, unsuspected world. — Thomas Pynchon

Most days, I'm out there, I'm enjoying what I'm doing. I love my job, I love my life, some days I get up, I'm sore, I'm on the edge of getting sick, I'm like, just beat up, and I don't want to go out. I just kind of make myself go out there and do it. — Mirinda Carfrae

Ever notice how these European trains always smell of eau de cologne and hard boiled eggs? — Billy Wilder