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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• Upon the death of my father, our family and myself were emotionally and financially exhausted.

  Sam Sheppard

  Father, Our Family

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• I took pain pills to get to sleep because I didn't want to go to work the next day exhausted.

  Dick York

  Pain, Work, Sleep

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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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• It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough.

  Quentin Crisp

  Relationship, Giving, Demand

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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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• Nature generally struggles against this treatment for a while, until her powers seem in a great measure exhausted, when she quietly yields to the power of the art.

  Robert Fortune

  Art, Struggle, Yield

  Robert Fortune (1863). “Yedo and Peking: A Narrative of a Journey to the Capitals of Japan and China ...”, p.113

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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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• 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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• 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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• But in its final creation it was not the part of the Father's power to fail as though exhausted. It was not the part of His wisdom to waver in a needful matter through poverty of counsel.

  Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

  Wisdom, Father, Finals

  Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1953). “Oratio de Hominis Dignitate: Oration on the Dignity of Man. English Translation by Elizabet Livermore Forbes”

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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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• I remember Terry being exhausted from his latest Super Bowl win and all the things that go with it.

  Dan Fouts

  Sports, Winning, Remember

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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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