Sweat Quotes - Page 5

• 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

  12 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• From time to time there will be some complaints that we are pushing our people too hard. I don't give a good Goddamn about such complaints. I believe in the old and sound rule that an ounce of sweat will save a gallon of blood. The harder we push, the more Germans we will kill. The more Germans we kill, the fewer of our men will be killed. Pushing means fewer casualties. I want you all to remember that.

  George S. Patton

  Believe, Mean, Army

  Speech to the Third Army on June 05, 1944. "The Unknown Patton". Book by Charles M. Province, p. 32, www.pattonhq.com. 1983.

  34 Copy quote

  Show source

• Sweat pants, hair tied, chillin wit no makeup on. That's when you're the prettiest, I hope that you don't take it wrong.

  Drake

  Humble, Makeup, Hair

  19 Copy quote

• it is clearly evident that our path travels through a valley of teas well known to all farm workers, because in all valleys the way of the farm worker has bene one of sacrifice for generations. Our sweat and our blood have fallen on this land to make other men rich. This Pilgrimage is a witness to the suffering we have seen for generations.

  Cesar Chavez

  Sacrifice, Men, Blood

  7 Copy quote

• To read in the Bible, as the word of God himself, that "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, ["] and to preach there-from that, "In the sweat of other mans faces shalt thou eat bread," to my mind can scarcely be reconciled with honest sincerity.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Religious, Mind, Bread

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.368, Wildside Press LLC

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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”

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  52 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The money pigs of capitalist democracy: Money has made slaves of us. Money is the curse of mankind. It smothers the seed of everything great and good. Every penny is sticky with sweat and blood.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Pigs, Blood, Democracy

  "The Nazi Party: A Complete History 1919-1945". Book by Dietrich Orlow, 2007.

  284 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Seneca the Elder

  Motivational, Men, Superfluous

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  8 Copy quote

• If everybody lives by the sweat of his brow, the earth will become a paradise.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Earth, Paradise, Brows

  8 Copy quote

• During the course of the year a number of ideas just come up automatically. I could be walking down the street. Or shaving. An idea will hit me and I'll write it down. Then, when I'm ready to write, I check my little matchbooks and napkins and find that it is good or it's pretty terrible. There are other times when I don't have any ideas and I'll go into a room and close the door and I sit and sweat it out for a day or a month and eventually I come up with [something].

  Woody Allen

  Writing, Doors, Years

  10 Copy quote

• Don't write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.

  Jack London

  Writing, Stories, Dozen

  Jack London (2015). “Jack London on Adventure: Words of Wisdom from an Expert Adventurer”, p.6, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

  29 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  James Brown

  Music, Play, Breathe

  10 Copy quote

• 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

  6 Copy quote

• For me, and I suspect a lot of socially awkward people, dealing with people face-to-face seems really traumatic. Particularly if you have massive sweating issues, and particularly if on top of that you have quite smelly sweat that smells like onion soup.

  Caitlin Moran

  Smell, Issues, People

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Writers block: when I get it, it's because my subconscious spotted that I'd make a huge structural mistake in constructing a novel before my conscious mind became aware of it, and threw on the brakes. So I've learned not to sweat it: take two days off, then back up a chapter, read through, and try to work out why I'm suddenly uneasy about continuing.

  Charles Stross

  Mistake, Block, Two

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 02, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We must know the difference between sweat and tears. Sweat is wet. Tears are wet. Sweat is salty. Tears are salty. But progress comes through sweat. Progress never came through tears.

  Jesse Jackson

  Differences, Progress, Tears

  Jesse Jackson, Roger D. Hatch, Frank E. Watkins (1987). “Straight from the heart”, Fortress Pr

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Daily dawns another day; I must up, to make my way. Though I dress and drink and eat, Move my fingers and my feet, Learn a little, here and there, Weep and laugh and sweat and swear, Hear a song, or watch a stage, Leave some words upon a page, Claim a foe, or hail a friend- Bed awaits me at the end.

  Dorothy Parker

  Song, Moving, Feet

  Dorothy Parker (1944). “Dorothy Parker”

  54 Copy quote

  Show source

• With my eyes closed, I ask if she knows how this will all turn out. "Long-term or short-term?" she asks. Both. "Long-term," she says, "we're all going to die. Then our bodies will rot. No surprise there. Short-term, we're going to live happily ever after." Really? "Really," she says. "So don't sweat it.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Eye, Long, Body

  Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• Kelly Link's prose is conveyed in details so startling and fine that you work up a sweat just waiting for the next sentence to land. This is why we read, crave, need, can't live without short stories.

  Tea Obreht

  Land, Waiting, Details

  5 Copy quote

• I like Kinko's, because they're open 24 hours. If it's 5 am and I decide I need two of something, I'm covered! Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat, and then I think, "Oh, yeah. Kinko's. No problem. That will not remain singular."

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Night

  6 Copy quote