Sweat Quotes - Page 27

• All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears.

  Alfred Douglas

  Blood, Tears, Links

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• On hearing the news [of being awarded a Nobel Prize], a friend who knows me only too well, sent me this laconic message: 'Blood, toil, sweat and tears always were a good mixture'.

  Max Perutz

  Blood, Tears, Toil

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• Mama took me in her arms and held me tight. Her embrace was hot and she smelled like sweat, dust, and grease, but I wanted her. I wanted to crawl inside her mind to find that place that let her smile and sing through the worst dust storms. If I had to be crazy, I wanted my mama's kind of crazy, because she was never afraid.

  Sarah Zettel

  Daughter, Crazy, Dust

  Sarah Zettel (2012). “Dust Girl: The American Fairy Trilogy”, p.9, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• The strong do not hesitate. They settle down, they sweat, they go on to the end. They exhaust the ink, they use up the paper.

  Jules Renard

  Strength, Strong, Ink

  Jules Renard, Louise Bogan, Elizabeth Roget (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.17, Tin House Books

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• The oven became hotter and hotter, and Hansel began to sweat. Then a delicious smell wafted to his nostrils. Oh no! he thought. I'm cooking! He sniffed at the air. And I smell delicious!

  Adam Gidwitz

  Air, Smell, Cooking

  Adam Gidwitz (2010). “A Tale Dark and Grimm”, p.26, Penguin

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• I love wearing flat shoes, but I am not one of those girls who walks around in sweat pants and sneakers.

  Claudia Schiffer

  Girl, Shoes, Sneakers

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In my mind, I gave the woman gifts. I gave her a candle stub. I gave her a box of wooden kitchen matches. I gave her a cake of Lifebuoy soap. I gave her a ceilingful of glow-in-the-dark planets. I gave her a bald baby doll. I gave her a ripe fig, sweet as new wood, and a milkdrop from its stem. I gave her a peppermint puff. I gave her a bouquet of four roses. I gave her fat earthworms for her grave. I gave her a fish from Roebuck Lake, a vial of my sweat for it to swim in.

  Lewis Nordan

  Baby, Sweet, Dark

  Lewis Nordan (1992). “Music of the Swamp”, Algonquin Books

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• I don't play to sweat, I play to win.

  Kevin Garnett

  Winning, Play, Play To Win

  FaceBook post by Kevin Garnett from Dec 12, 2011

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• To be a fighter, you have to be passionate. I have so much passion, it's hard to hold it all in. That passion escapes as tears from my eyes, sweat from my pores, blood from my veins.

  Ronda Rousey

  Eye, Passion, Blood

  Ronda Rousey, Maria Burns Ortiz (2015). “My Fight / Your Fight”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• There are congregations on nearly every corner. I'm not sure we need more churches. What we need is a church. I say one church is better than fifty. I have tried to remove the plural form churches from my vocabulary, training myself to think of the church as Christ did, and as the early Christians did. The metaphors for her are always singular - a body, a bride. I heard one gospel preacher say it like this, as he really wound up and broke a sweat: "We've got to unite ourselves as one body. Because Jesus is coming back, and he's coming back for a bride not a harem.

  Shane Claiborne

  Christian, Jesus, Thinking

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• I'm into all types of stuff. I might have on Pumas one day, Givenchy the next. I'd wear this John Elliott sweat suit to the club.

  Meek Mill

  One Day, Clubs, Might

  "The GQ+A: Meek Mill on Kendrick Lamar, Twitter Hashtags, and Being Rich Forever". Interview with Nate Erickson, www.gq.com. December 20, 2013.

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• I don't want to participate in traditional Indian religious ceremonies - dance in a sun dance or pray in a sweat lodge or go on a vision quest with the help of a medicine man. The power of these ceremonies has an appeal, but I'm content with what little religion I already have.

  Ian Frazier

  Religious, Men, Medicine

  Ian Frazier (2000). “On the Rez”, p.4, Macmillan

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• things that have cost more than they're worth leave a bitter taste. A taste of salt and sweat.

  Josephine Winslow Johnson

  Cost, Taste, Salt

  Josephine Winslow Johnson (1934). “Now in November”, p.37, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• Many sweat to reconcile St Paul and St James, but in vain. 'Faith justifies' and 'faith does not justify' contradict each other flatly. If any one can harmonize them I will give him my doctor's hood and let him call me a fool.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, Humor, Doctors

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• When any man accumulates more than he can earn with his own hands, he begins to enrich himself at the expense of the youth, the sweat, the blood, the joy of his fellow men.

  Gene Stratton-Porter

  Men, Blood, Hands

  Gene Stratton-Porter (2015). “Wonder, Hope, Love, and Loss: The Selected Novels of Gene Stratton-Porter”, p.775, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting... Thus a man of knowledge sweats and puffs and if one looks at him he is just like an ordinary man, except that the folly of his life is under his control.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Knowledge, Men, Thinking

  "Separate Reality: Conversations With Don Juan". Book by Carlos Castaneda, p. 85, 1971.

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• I put the sweat of my life into this project, and if it's a failure, I'll leave the country and never come back.

  Howard Hughes

  Country, Aviation, Flight

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• Health is a precious thing, and the only one, in truth, meriting that a man should lay out not only his time, sweat, labor and goods, but also life itself to obtain it.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Health, Men, Should

  Michel de Montaigne (1759). “The Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne: Translated Into English”, p.580

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• I want to do it all. I want to climb mountains, go through jungles, fight wars in space, get the girl, shoot the bad-guy full of lead, have all the zippy one liners, bulge muscles out of a singlet, drip sweat and blood on screen, all of that.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Girl, War, Fighting

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• ...I loved to dance in studios, but not necessarily on stage. What I loved was to sweat and to feel every single pore open up

  Peter Martins

  Dance, Stage, Feels

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• Unemployed writers have muses. Employed writers just sweat.

  Lucille Kallen

  Muse, Unemployed, Employed

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• At last I came to college. I rushed for it with the outstretched arms of youth's aching hunger to give and take of life's deepest, and highest, and I came against the solid wall of the well-fed, well-dressed world - the frigid whitewashed wall of cleanliness. ... How I pinched, and scraped, and starved myself, to save enough to come to college! Every cent of the tuition fee I paid was drops of sweat and blood from underpaid laundry work. And what did I get for it? A crushed spirit, a broken heart, a stinging sense of poverty that I never felt before.

  Anzia Yezierska

  Education, Disappointment, Wall

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• Every lord's mansion stands on the foundation of your bones, soldier, every field has been saturated with your sweat, and you, peasant, even if you worked your arms down to the stub, if you won a hundred battles, and faithfully gave the last drop of your blood for your country, you would always be a slave. There is no land for you, no heaven, no shelter, not even a doghouse where you could rest your poor head. You are the last before God and before people, the last one.

  Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont

  Country, Blood, Land

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• Eat your vegetables. Brush your teeth. Sweat once in a while. Get plenty of rest. Don't smoke. Laugh more. There are certain tenets to health that are pretty commonsensical and that we all know we should practice routinely.

  David Perlmutter

  Loss, Vegetables, Practice

  David Perlmutter (2014). “Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth about Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar - Your Brain's Silent Killers”, p.12, Hachette UK

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• Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors. If those taxes are excessive, they are reflected in idle factories, in tax-sold farms, and in hordes of hungry people, tramping the streets and seeking jobs in vain. Our workers may never see a tax bill, but they pay. They pay in deductions from wages, in increased cost of what they buy, or - as now - in broad unemployment throughout the land.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Jobs, Men, Land

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1937, Volume 6".

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