Strenuousness Quotes & Sayings

But to secure freedom, entire and absolute freedom, she was ever ready to make any sacrifice: ties affected her with a discomfort that seemed really akin to physical pain, and she avoided them
ties of family or of affection, ties of habit or of thought
with all the strenuousness of which she was capable. — W. Somerset Maugham

The child trying not to appear as a child, of the strenuousness with which she tried to present the face of a convincing adult. — Joan Didion

I struggled for a long time to get anything published. — Jennifer Donnelly

It is customary to complain of the bustle and strenuousness of our epoch. But in truth the chief mark of our epoch is a profound laziness and fatigue; and the fact is that the real laziness is the cause of the apparent bustle. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

The strenuousness is when,you have to be with and to bear those people who give more importance to the credence over reality. — M.H. Rakib

To Lucy it was an admirable study, the contrast between the man who threw his whole soul into a certain aim, which he pursued with a savage intensity, knowing that the end was a dreadful, lonely death; and the man who was making up his mind deliberately to gather what was beautiful in life, and to cultivate its graces as though it were a flower garden.
"And the worst of it is that it will all be the same in a hundred years," said Dick. "We shall both be forgotten long before then, you with your strenuousness, and I with my folly."
"And what conclusion do you draw from that?" asked Mrs. Crowley.
"Only that the psychological moment has arrived for a whisky and soda. — W. Somerset Maugham

Sitting alone, listening to the sound of your breath, the beating of your heart is a reminder that you are sacred and blessed. — Iyanla Vanzant

In any case,' I added, 'I don't know that the great-niece is excluded under the Act - I only understand that she may be. In any case, there are still six months before the Act comes into force, and many things may happen before then.' " 'You mean that Auntie may die,' she said, 'but she's — Dorothy L. Sayers

That erasure was the gift I gave myself. — Alissa Nutting

The most important thing an artist
can discover is a love of process. — Kody Chamberlain

Thus strength is afforded by good and thorough customs, thus is learnt the subjection of the individual, and strenuousness of character becomes a birth gift and afterwards is fostered as a habit. — Friedrich Nietzsche

As a matter of fact, I was going to offer you something."
"What did you have in mind?"
"A field trip. You interested in doing something dangerous, and possibly illegal?"
"Does it involve underage girls, broken curfews and assorted fruit toppings? — Rachel Vincent

I kissed her salty tears and murmured, murmured I don't know what. I felt her body straining, straining to meet mine and I felt my own contracting and drawing away and I knew that I had begun the long fall down. — James Baldwin

The man of genius whether as artist or thinker requires a mass of accidental variations to select from and a rigidly selective process of attention. — Boris Sidis

Perhaps the Party was rotten under the surface, its cult of strenuousness and self-denial simply a sham concealing iniquity. — George Orwell