Exhausted Quotes - Page 6

• After my husband died, I could not write much - I could not concentrate. I was too exhausted most of the time even to contemplate writing. But I did take notes - not for fiction, but for a journal, or diary, of this terrible time. I did not think that I would ever survive this interlude.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Husband, Writing, Thinking

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• Wherever moral ambition exists, there right exists. And moral ambition itself must be presumed present in subconsciousness, even when the conscious self seems to reject it, so long as society has resources for bringing it into action; in much the same way that the life-saver presumes life to exist in the drowned man until he has exhausted his resources for recovering respiration.

  William Ernest Hocking

  Ambition, Men, Self

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• it's a rare day when she speaks in anything but platitudes--all those exhausted phrases and hand-me-down ideas that cram the dump sites of contemporary wisdom

  Paul Auster

  Life, Hands, Ideas

  Paul Auster (2008). “The Brooklyn Follies”, p.5, Faber & Faber

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• When I see some of the people who are glorified in magazines these days - who are so thin it's bordering on sickness - I just feel exhausted.

  Katherine Heigl

  People, Magazines, Sickness

  "The Girl of Summer '07". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. May 31, 2007.

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• Here I am in the garden laughing an old woman with heavy breasts and a nicely mapped face how did this happen well that's who I wanted to be at last a woman in the old style sitting stout thighs apart under a big skirt grandchild sliding on off my lap a pleasant summer perspiration that's my old man across the yard he's talking to the meter reader he's telling him the world's sad story how electricity is oil or uranium and so forth I tell my grandson run over to your grandpa ask him to sit beside me for a minute I am suddenly exhausted by my desire to kiss his sweet explaining lips.

  Grace Paley

  Summer, Running, Sweet

  Grace Paley (2016). “Begin Again: Poems by Gracey Paley”, p.199, Hachette UK

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• I'm tired," she uttered complainingly. "I know you are." "You don't know anything about it. Why should you know? I never was so exhausted in my life. But it isn't unpleasant. A thousand emotions have swept through me to-night. I don't comprehend half on them. Don't mind what I'm saying; I am just thinking aloud.

  Kate Chopin

  Tired, Night, Thinking

  Kate Chopin (2013). “The Awakening: And Selected Short Stories - Beyond the Bayou, Ma'ame Pelagie, Desiree's Baby, Respectable Woman, Kiss, Pair of Silk Stockings, Locket, Reflection (Beloved Books Edition)”, p.41, Lulu Press, Inc

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• As far as cookbooks go, I think Joy of Cooking is a classic. I've used it over and over again. Julia Child frustrates me. By the time you get all her herbs together, you're exhausted

  Paul Lynde

  Children, Thinking, Joy

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• The detective story itself is in a dilemma. It is a vein which is in danger of being worked out, the demand is constant, the powers of supply variable, and the reader, with each one he absorbs, grows a little more sophisticated and harder to please, while the novelist, after each one he writes, becomes a little more exhausted.

  Cyril Connolly

  Writing, Novelists, Stories

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• Having reached a point in which I was so bitter and exhausted from being a quote unquote public figure, I wanted to return to a more childlike relationship to writing.

  David Leavitt

  Writing, Return, Bitter

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• I want girls to feel that they can be sassy and full and weird and geeky and smart and independent, and not so withered and shriveled. (The American Apparel ads) I'm over this weird, exhausted girl. I'm over the girl that's tired and freezing and hungry. I like bossy girls. I like people filled with life. I'm over this weird media thing with all this, like, hollow-eyed, empty, party crap.

  Amy Poehler

  Girl, Smart, Party

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• People get exhausted trying to figure me out. And I just let them.

  Kenya Moore

  People, Trying, Figures

  FaceBook post by Kenya Moore from Mar 04, 2015

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• Being here all day, I was quite exhausted - I had to drink coffee before the match to stay awake

  Jelena Jankovic

  Coffee, Drink, Awake

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• People are always asking, 'Is everything ok?' Look, I was not depressed, ok? I was just freaking exhausted.

  Mariah Carey

  People, Looks, Asking

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• it ultimately doesn't matter which disease gnaws away at the body - it looks the same. The flesh surrenders, grows exhausted, and the eyes ask why.

  Patti Davis

  Eye, Dying, Age

  Patti Davis (2011). “The Long Goodbye”, p.30, Knopf

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• After having exhausted all the arguments on behalf of evil, one utters the creed's dictums with nostalgia rather than with fervor.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Evil, Nostalgia, Argument

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• Our sports are totally different, if Lance Armstrong himself were to come and train with us he'd be completely exhausted after half and hour.

  Joachim Low

  Sports, Half, Different

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• Pentecost came with the sound of a mighty rushing wind, a violent blast from heaven! Heaven has not exhausted its blasts, but our danger is we are getting frightened of them.

  Smith Wigglesworth

  Wind, Rushing, Heaven

  Smith Wigglesworth (2006). “Smith Wigglesworth on Prayer”, p.213, Destiny Image Publishers

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• I am exhausted if I don't work.

  Pablo Picasso

  Work, Ifs

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• There are certain topicks which are never exhausted. Of some images and sentiments the mind of man may be said to be enamoured; it meets them, however often they occur, with the same ardour which a lover feels at the sight of his mistress, and parts from them with the same regret when they can no longer be enjoyed.

  Samuel Johnson

  Regret, Writing, Men

  Samuel Johnson (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.”, p.100

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• Do a strong work meditation all day. You won't be as exhausted as everyone else because you have been gaining a kind of internal power from your work.

  Frederick Lenz

  Success, Strong, Buddhism

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• I quite like convincing the person the broom is their favourite actress. They are talking to a broom and they think it's Julia Roberts and they snog it. In Reading one guy took the broom into the wings and was getting amorous with it. I had a struggle to get it back. He was exhausted when he came out.

  Paul McKenna

  Reading, Struggle, Thinking

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• My personal favorite remains Tiger Stadium, Baton Rouge, first home game after Katrina vs. Tennessee on a Monday night. Getting goose bumps typing about it. It was so loud and emotional that I think everyone was exhausted by the second half.

  Pat Forde

  Monday, Home, Emotional

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• One of the best feelings I had growing up was being completely exhausted at the end of the day after playing outside all day.

  Jennifer Pharr Davis

  Growing Up, Playing Outside, Feelings

  "Pharr Davis thrives on trail". Interview with Anna Katherine Clemmons, www.espn.com. July 2, 2013.

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• There is no Christian Gospel if history simply unwinds into a meaningless puddle, if the cosmos simply escapes into a cataclysmic black hole, or if the universe finally dies of exhausted energy. Without belief in a biblical eschatology, there is no Christian hope. Without a sense of perfect moral judgment in the end, the human heart is homeless.

  Albert Mohler

  Christian, Heart, Biblical

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• Money spent on vegetative patients is money not spent on preventive care, such as flu shots and mammograms. Each night in an ICU bed for such patients is a night that another patient with a genuine prognosis for recovery is denied such high-end care. Every dollar exhausted on patients who will never wake up again is a dollar not devoted to finding a cure for cancer.

  Jacob M. Appel

  Cancer, Recovery, Night

  "Rational Rationing vs. Irrational Rationing: The Struggle for the Legacy of Ruben Betancourt". www.huffingtonpost.com. June 23, 2010.

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