Sweat Quotes - Page 4

• You just realize at the end of the day, everyone is going to have their opinion on your life, more and more so as you go along. As long as you're getting to work and be a part of it - still having fun, learn to just not sweat it so much and keep doing the things you love.

  Dianna Agron

  Fun, Long, The End Of The Day

  "Dianna Agron on Life, Glee, and the Paparazzi". Interview with Sam Bellikoff, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 18, 2011.

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• To expel hunger and thirst there is no necessity of sitting in a palace and submitting to the supercilious brow and contumelious favour of the rich and great there is no necessity of sailing upon the deep or of following the camp What nature wants is every where to be found and attainable without much difficulty whereas require the sweat of the brow for these we are obliged to dress anew j compelled to grow old in the field and driven to foreign mores A sufficiency is always at hand

  Seneca the Younger

  Hands, Sailing, Dresses

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• Music has to breathe and sweat. You have to play it live.

  James Brown

  Music, Play, Breathe

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• A political convention is after all not a meeting of a corporation's board of directors; it is a fiesta, a carnival, a pig-rooting, horse-snorting, band-playing, voice-screaming medieval get-together of greed, practical lust, compromised idealism, career-advancement, meeting, feud, vendetta, conciliation, of rabble-rousers, fist fights (as it used to be), embraces, drunks (again as it used to be) and collective rivers of animal sweat.

  Norman Mailer

  Horse, Fear, Fighting

  Norman Mailer (1968). “The idol and the octopus: political writings, on the Kennedy and Johnson administrations”

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• First, she wanted to taste the sweat that shone on his throat and fragile clavicle; then he chose to undo the tails of her shirt, that she had tied up beneath her breasts; then, but then impatient they forgot about taking turns and quarreled silently, eagerly over each other, like pirates dividing treasure long sought, long imagined, long withheld.

  John Crowley

  Long, Pirate, Tails

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• I’m your worst nightmare come to walk this side of the lines. I’m an elf, Trent something you’re forgotten how to be. You’re scared of black magic. I can see fear shimmering under your aura like sweat. I live and breathe black magic. I’m so tainted with it that I will use it without thought, without guilt and without hesitation.

  Kim Harrison

  Worst Nightmares, Black, Magic

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• There is nothing wrong with God's plan that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Men, Bread, God's Plan

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (2010). “Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls Wilder - Volume One: On Wisdom and Virtues”, p.61, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Now every mortal has pain and sweat is constant, but if there is anything dearer than being alive, it's dark to me. We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth-- we call it life. We know no other. The underworld's a blank and all the rest just fantasy.

  Anne Carson

  Pain, Dark, Alive

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• You know you're smarter than all of them, right?" Hale said flatly. "In fact, if you wanted to PROVE it..." He glanced at the blackjack tables. Simon shook his head. "I don't count cards, Hale." "Don't?" Hale smiled. "Or won't? You know, technically, it's not illegal." "But it's frowned upon." Sweat beaded at Simon's brow. He sounded like someone had just suggested he swim after eating... run with scissors... "It is SERIOUSLY frowned upon.

  Ally Carter

  Running, Swim, Tables

  Ally Carter (2011). “Heist Society”, p.42, Hachette UK

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• I wanted the heat and the sweat and the passion of a man that I could love and trust. And I wanted to give myself to him: not for advantage, but for desire.

  Philippa Gregory

  Passion, Men, Giving

  Philippa Gregory (2008). “The Other Boleyn Girl (Movie Tie-In)”, p.443, Simon and Schuster

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• How can you smell this good after the kind of crappy day we've had?" "I sweat perfume. Like all girls.

  Rachel Caine

  Girl, Smell, Kind

  Rachel Caine (2010). “Kiss of Death: The Morganville Vampires”, p.154, Penguin

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• I am all about comfort and whatever comes along with comfort. I wear a lot of sweats. But Im also very preppy naturally.

  Yara

  Comfort, Preppy

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• It is for the superfluous things of life that men sweat.

  Seneca the Elder

  Motivational, Men, Superfluous

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• You dont know me, you just met me, well if i couldnt have it..silly rabbit, why ya sweat me

  Tupac Shakur

  Silly, Rapper, Rabbits

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• You can sweat by not practicing or you can pick up your clarinet. There's good sweat and there's bad sweat.

  Eric Maisel

  Worry, Clarinet, Picks

  Eric Maisel (2000). “The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance”, p.231, Penguin

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• When you dance, you don't sweat. You glow.

  Didi

  Dance, Dancing, Just Dance

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• Sir, I am not a brave man...The truth is, I am an utter craven coward. I have never been within the sound of gunshot or in sight of battle in my whole life that I wasn't so scared that I had sweat in the palms of my hands.

  George S. Patton

  Courage, Men, Sight

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• He (Michael) was gone in a whisper of air, hardly making any sound at all, and Claire shivered and leaned against Shane’s solid, very human warmth. His arms went around her, and he touched his lips lightly to the back of her neck. “How can you smell this good after the kind of crappy day we’ve had?” “I sweat perfume. Like all girls.

  Rachel Caine

  Girl, Air, Smell

  Rachel Caine (2010). “Kiss of Death: The Morganville Vampires”, p.154, Penguin

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• Why is it every other person you meet says they're an artist? A real artist doesn't need to gas on about it, he doesn't have time. He does his work and sweats it out in silence, and no one can help him at all.

  Paula McLain

  Real, Artist, Silence

  Paula McLain (2011). “The Paris Wife: A Novel”, p.89, Ballantine Books

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• It is brought home to you...that it is only because miners sweat their guts out that superior persons can remain superior.

  George Orwell

  Home, Justice, Diversity

  The Road to Wigan Pier (1937) ch. 2

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• The reason so many people do not pray is because of its cost. The cost is not so much in the sweat of agonizing supplication as in the daily fidelity to the life of prayer.

  Samuel Chadwick

  Prayer, People, Cost

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• The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.

  Oliver Stone

  Worst Nightmares, Vietnam, Terrorism

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• You're going to die soon enough anyway; even if it's a hundred years from now, that's still the blink of a cosmic eye. In the meantime, live like a scientist - even a controversial one with only an ally or two in all the world - and treat life as a grand experiment, blood, sweat, tears and all. Bear in mind that there's no such thing as a failed experiment - only data.

  Jesse Bering

  Life, Eye, Soon Enough

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• It's a Little Leaguers game that major leaguers play extraordinarily well, a game that excites us throughout adulthood. The crack of the bat and the scent of the horsehide on leather bring back our own memories that have been washed away with the sweat and tears of summers long gone...even as the setting sun pushes the shadows past home plate.

  Mario Cuomo

  Summer, Baseball, Memories

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• Briar: "They never tell you some things. They tell you mages have wonderful power and they learn all kinds of secrets. Nobody ever mentions that some secrets you don't ever want to learn." Rosethorn: "All you can do is learn good to balance the bad. Learn and do all the good within your reach. Then, if you wake in a sweat, you have something to set against the dream.

  Tamora Pierce

  Dream, Secret, Balance

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