Sweat Quotes - Page 16

• When people's ill, they come to I, I Physics, bleeds, and sweats 'em; Sometimes they live, sometimes they die. What's that to I? I lets 'em.

  John C. Lettsome

  People, Ems, Physics

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• Lovers are not at their best when it matters. Mouths dry up, palms sweat, conversation flags and all the time the heart is threatening to fly from the body once and for all. Lovers have been known to have heart attacks. Lovers drink too much from nervousness and cannot perform. They eat too little and faint during their fervently wished consummation. They do not stroke the favoured cat and their face-paint comes loose. This is not all. Whatever you have set store by, your dress, your dinner, your poetry, will go wrong.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Cat, Heart, Dry Up

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “The Passion”, p.66, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• You don't sweat much for a fat girl.

  Colin Mochrie

  Girl, Fat Girl, Fats

  "You Don't Sweat Much for a Fat Girl". Book by Celia Rivenbark, www.usatoday.com. August 16, 2011.

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• Taro came into the room, strands of hair flying free of the tie at the back of his skull, sweat plastering his cream-colored shirt against his chest and back. I wished I had an artist's skill, that I could make renderings of him in all his states of beauty. He would never want to look at them, or even know about them. I would just like them for myself. Maybe he would want to see them when he was much older, and beautiful in a different way.

  Moira J. Moore

  Beautiful, Artist, Hair

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• I think I've just lost five pounds in fear sweat." Peabody mopped at her face. "Now I want a cannoli. I don't know why." With a laugh, Roarke shifted to grin at her. "I'll buy you a dozen, precious." "Cannolis, for God's sake.

  Nora Roberts

  Thinking, Laughing, Dozen

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• In the dark beside me, she smelled of sweat and sunshine and vanilla.

  John Green

  Sunshine, Dark, Vanilla

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.23, Penguin

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• I have learned that real angels don't have gossamer white robes and Cherubic skin, they have calloused hands and smell of the days' sweat.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Real, Angel, Hands

  FaceBook post by Richard Paul Evans from Dec 05, 2011

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• Man has no moral instinct. He is not born with moral sense. You were not born with it, I was not - and a puppy has none. We acquire moral sense, when we do, through training, experience, and hard sweat of the mind.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Men, Training, Mind

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.94, Penguin

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• I have this recurring nightmare where I'm lost in a strange forest, and my only hope is your sense of direction. Enough to give a fellow the sweats, it is.

  Gerald Morris

  Giving, Forests, Strange

  Gerald Morris (2008). “The Savage Damsel and the Dwarf”, p.190, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Spring, if it lingers more than a week beyond its span, starts to hunger for summer to end the days of perpetual promise. Summer in its turn soon begins to sweat for something to quench its heat, and the mellowest of autumns will tire of gentility at last, and ache for a quick sharp frost to kill its fruitfulness. Even winter — the hardest season, the most implacable — dreams, as February creeps on, of the flame that will presently melt it away. Everything tires with time, and starts to seek some opposition, to save it from itself.

  Clive Barker

  Summer, Dream, Spring

  Clive Barker (1991). “The Hellbound Heart”, Voyager

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• I felt the little beads of sweat pooling on my temple. Sit here and look nice...I could do that. But answer questions? I knew I wasn't going to win this little game; that wasn't the issue. I just really, really didn't want to look like a moron in front of the entire country.

  Kiera Cass

  Country, Nice, Winning

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• She felt dirty all over and looking over Sebastian, sweat on his brow and his naked torso barely covered by the sheets, she had to swallow back bile at what she'd just done.

  Cassandra Clare

  Dirty, Naked, Done

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• There comes a point when you have to realize that the sum of all your blood, sweat, and tears will ultimately amount to zero.

  Max Brooks

  Zero, Blood, Tears

  Max Brooks (2010). “World War Z”, p.43, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• Relaxing your hair is like being in prison. You're caged in. Your hair rules you. You didn't go running with Curt today because you don't want to sweat out this straightness. You're always battling to make your hair do what it wasn't meant to do.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Running, Hair, Want

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• He was struck by the details of the moment. This was something he needed to remember, when he dreamt. This feeling right here: heart thudding, pollen sticky on his fingertips, July pricking sweat at his breastbone, the smell of gasoline and someone else's charcoal grill.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Heart, July, Smell

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.212, Scholastic Inc.

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• If you find your life of prayer to be always so short, and so easy, and so spiritual, as to be without cost and strain and sweat to you, you may depend upon it, you have not yet begun to pray.

  Alexander Whyte

  Spiritual, Prayer, Cost

  Alexander Whyte (1903). “The apostle Paul”

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• This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Children, War, Military

  Speech to American Society of Newspaper Editors, Washington, D.C., 16 Apr. 1953

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• I yield to no man in sympathy for the gallant men under my command; but I am obliged to sweat them tonight, so that I may save their blood tomorrow.

  Stonewall Jackson

  Military, Men, Yield

  Stonewall Jackson's address to Colonel Sam Fulkerson (May 24, 1862) as quoted in Frank E. Vandiver "Mighty Stonewall" (p. 250), 1957.

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• If you grow a garden you are going to shed some sweat, and you are going to spend some time bent over; you will experience some aches and pains. But it is in the willingness to accept this discomfort that we strike the most telling blow against the power plants and what they represent.

  Wendell Berry

  Time, Pain, Acceptance

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• My God, this novel makes me break out in a cold sweat! Do you know how much I've written in five months, since the end of August? Sixty-five pages! Each paragraph is good in itself and there are some pages that are perfect. I feel certain. But just because of this, it isn't getting on. It's a series of well-turned, ordered paragraphs which do not flow on from each other. I shall have to unscrew them, loosen the joints, as one does with the masts of a ship when one wants the sail to take more wind.

  Gustave Flaubert

  August, Wind, Perfect

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• i Believe In The Fire Of Love And The Sweat Of Truth

  Assata Shakur

  Believe, Fire, Fire Of Love

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• Rule number one of the wizarding business. Never let them see you sweat. People expect us to know things. It can be a big advantage. Don’t screw it up by looking like you’re as confused as everyone else. Bad for the image.

  Jim Butcher

  Confused, Numbers, People

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.1270, Penguin

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• On Harry dug, deeper and deeper into the hard, cold earth, subsuming his grief in sweat, denying the pain in his scar.

  J. K. Rowling

  Pain, Grief, Earth

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• 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

  Perfect, Want, Break

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.7, Penguin

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• Reading goes faster if you don't sweat comprehension.

  Bill Watterson

  Reading, Faster, Comprehension

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