Exhausted Quotes

• It is impossible to get exhausted in work for God. We get exhausted because we try to do God's work in our own way.

  Oswald Chambers

  Trying, Way, Impossible

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Run Today's Race: A Word from Oswald Chambers for Every Day of the Year”, p.59, Discovery House

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• History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

  Abba Eban

  Funny, Sarcastic, War

  Speech in London, 16 Dec. 1970, in The Times 17 Dec. 1970

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• When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Order, Darkness, Turns

  Letter to Farkas Bolyai, September 2, 1808.

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• I am really very, very tired of everything - more than tired.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Tired

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• The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

  George Orwell

  Truth, Real, Political Language

  "Politics and the English Language" (1946)

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• Life is one long process of getting tired.

  Samuel Butler

  Love, Life, Tired

  Notebooks (1912) ch. 1

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• A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man.

  Arthur Miller

  Men, Small Man, Salesman

  1949 Linda. Death of a Salesman, act1.

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• A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.

  William Styron

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  William Styron, James L. W. West (1985). “Conversations with William Styron”, p.12, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.

  Newt Gingrich

  Stay Strong, Perseverance, Determination

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• On an exhausted field, only weeds grow.

  Henryk Sienkiewicz

  Weed, Marijuana, Fields

  Henryk Sienkiewicz (1898). “Sielanka: A Forest Picture, and Other Stories”

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• I'm exhausted trying to stay healthy.

  Steve Yzerman

  Stay Strong, Stay Positive, Healthy

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• After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz.

  Robert Quine

  Jazz

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• I had sort of exhausted all the avenues playing in Detroit. So again, through the stewardship of my brother, I ended up in California and went to the Musicians Institute in L.A. I wanted to get better as a player.

  Chad Smith

  Brother, Player, California

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• Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Giving, Aristocracy

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• They were so exhausted and seasick and all they could do was crawl up those beaches. And thousands of them lay dead in no time at all. It's unthinkable.

  Barry Pepper

  Beach, Unthinkable, Lays

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• After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.

  Walt Whitman

  Nature, Business, Simplicity

  1876-77 Speciman Days, 'New Themes Entered Upon'.

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• Richard Schiff is a really good baseball player. It's surprising because he looks exhausted.

  Bradley Whitford

  Baseball, Player, Looks

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• The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.

  Samuel Smiles

  Work, Men, Suffering

  Samuel Smiles (1910). “Character. Repr”

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• There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element.

  Augustus Hare

  Wings, Mind, Atheism

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• We continued to move forward without loss of time, hoping to be able to reach the wood described by the Indians before all our horses should become exhausted.

  William Henry Ashley

  Horse, Moving, Loss

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• I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.

  Jose Saramago

  Positive, Hero, Writing

  "Interview with Jose Saramago, Author of Blindness". Political Affairs Magazine Interview, www.politicalaffairs.net. March 2006.

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• I've been dating since I was fifteen. I'm exhausted. Where is he?

  Kristin Davis

  Dating, Fifteen

  "Fictional character: Charlotte York". TV Series "Sex and the City" ("Where There's Smoke...", 2000), www.imdb.com. 1998–2004.

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• There was a time when I was 19 when I really, really, really thought I was going crazy. I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.

  Winona Ryder

  Depression, Crazy, Terrible

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• The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.

  Willa Cather

  Animal, Energy, World

  Willa Cather (2013). “One of Ours”, p.116, Courier Corporation

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• To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.

  Honore de Balzac

  Abstract, Remains

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