Exhausted Quotes - Page 2

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

  Honore de Balzac

  Abstract, Remains

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Each generation of humanity takes the earth as trustees... We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and consumed.

  Julius Sterling Morton

  Science, Tree, Humanity

  "Challenges in Implementing Corporate Governance: Whose Business is it Anyway". Book by John Zinkin (p. 183), November 8, 2011.

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• Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.

  Albert Pike

  Faith, Reason

  Albert Pike (1932). “Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry”, p.355, Lulu.com

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• When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Love, Experience, Reverence

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• The best time to listen to a politician is when he's on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when he's exhausted. Then he doesn't lie.

  Theodore White

  Lying, Rain, Night

  1969 In the New York Times, 5 Jan.

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• He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Taoism, Dozing

  Laozi (1959). “Tao Tê Ching: A New Translation”

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• The American male doesn't mature until he has exhausted all other possibilities.

  Wilfrid Sheed

  Maturity, Glowing, Males

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• The intellectually sophisticated person is indifferent to all genuine individuality, because relationships and reactions result from it which cannot be exhausted with logical operations.

  Georg Simmel

  Individuality, Individualism, Sophisticated

  Georg Simmel, Kurt H. Wolff (1950). “The Sociology of Georg Simmel”, p.411, Simon and Schuster

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• I was so exhausted after fighting for the project for five years, shooting it was like the Bataan Death March

  Tom Berenger

  Fighting, Years, Shooting

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• Two sittings a day of my models and I'm totally exhausted.

  Paul Cezanne

  Two, Sitting, Models

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• It would be wrong to assume that one must stay with a research programme until it has exhausted all its heuristic power, that one must not introduce a rival programme before everybody agrees that the point of degeneration has probably been reached.

  Imre Lakatos

  Would Be, Heuristics, Research

  Imre Lakatos, John Worrall, Gregory Currie (1980). “The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes: Volume 1: Philosophical Papers”, p.68, Cambridge University Press

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• In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted.

  Michael Musto

  Years, Ideas, Deception

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• When leaders take back power, when they act as heroes and saviors, they end up exhausted, overwhelmed, and deeply stressed.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Leadership, Hero, Stressed

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• John Foster Dulles had called on me in his capacity as Secretary of State, and he had exhausted every argument to persuade me to place Cambodia under the protection of the South East Asia Treaty Organization.

  Norodom Sihanouk

  Organization, Asia, East

  Prince Norodom Sihanouk, Wilfred G. Burchett (1973). “My war with the CIA: Cambodia's fight for survival”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• When you reach an obstacle, turn it into an opportunity. You have the choice. You can overcome and be a winner, or you can allow it to overcome you and be a loser. The choice is yours and yours alone. Refuse to throw in the towel. Go that extra mile that failures refuse to travel. It is far better to be exhausted from success than to be rested from failure.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Motivational, Inspiring, Success

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• In dealing with those who are undergoing great suffering, if you feel "burnout" setting in, if you feel demoralized and exhausted, it is best, for the sake of everyone, to withdraw and restore yourself. The point is to have a long-term perspective.

  Dalai Lama

  Caring, Long, Perspective

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• Burnout is nature's way of telling you, you've been going through the motions your soul has departed; you're a zombie, a member of the walking dead, a sleepwalker. False optimism is like administrating stimulants to an exhausted nervous system.

  Sam Keen

  Optimism, Walking Dead, Soul

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• An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted.

  Arthur Miller

  Dream, Eras, Illusion

  "The Year it Came Apart". New York magazine, Vol. 8, No. 1, p. 30, December 30, 1974 - January 6, 1975.

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• Don't Stop when you are Tired. Stop When You are Done.

  David Goggins

  Motivational, Tired, Done

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• Rage is exciting, but leaves me confused and exhausted.

  Mason Cooley

  Confused, Literature, Rage

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