Sweat Quotes - Page 13

• Natural, hell! What was it Chaucer Said once about the long toil that goes like blood to the poems making? Leave it to nature and the verse sprawls, Limp as bindweed, if it break at all Life's iron crust Man, you must sweat And rhyme your guts taut, if you'd build Your verse a ladder.

  R. S. Thomas

  Men, Blood, Iron

  R.S. Thomas (2012). “Collected Poems: 1945-1990 R.S.Thomas: Collected Poems : R S Thomas”, p.85, Hachette UK

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• The American College of Sports Medicine found that the productivity of people after exercise was an average of 65 percent higher than those who did not exercise. If I have something that's really bothering me, so much that it almost hurts my head to try to sort it out, I always find the solution in a puddle of sweat! Intense exercise is like taking a magic pill that gives you the ability to solve problems like a superhero.

  Chalene Johnson

  Sports, Hurt, Exercise

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• I'm just very, very slow. I would not make it as a journalist, I've got to tell you. I sweat bullets over every sentence, and sometimes, you know, a day will pass and I've written one paragraph, and I've been at the computer for four hours.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Four, Bullets, Computer

  Source: content.time.com

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• Personally I like to imagine something the size of a baby hippo, the color of a week-old boiled potato, that lives by itself, in the dark, in a double-wide on the outskirts of Topeka. It's covered with eyes and it sweats constantly. The sweat runs into those eyes and makes them sting. It has no mouth, no genitals, and can only express its mute extremes of murderous rage and infantile desire by changing the channels on a universal remote. Or by voting in presidential elections.

  William Gibson

  Running, Baby, Eye

  William Gibson (2003). “Idoru”, p.32, Penguin

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• Lawyers earn their bread in the sweat of their browbeating.

  James Huneker

  Bread, Lawyer, Anti Semitic

  James Huneker (1920). “Painted Veils”

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• There was a beauty here bigger than the hurtling beauty of basketball, a beauty refined from country pastures, a game of solitariness, of waiting, waiting for the pitcher to complete his gaze toward first base and throw his lightning, a game whose very taste, of spit and dust and grass and sweat and leather and sun, was America.

  John Updike

  Basketball, Baseball, Country

  John Updike (2006). “Rabbit Redux”, p.81, Penguin UK

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• Happy people learn that happiness, like sweat, is a by-product of activity.

  Frank Pittman

  People, Activity, Products

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• Theres so many fish in the sea That only rise up in the sweat and smoke like mercury

  Elvis Costello

  Sea, Mercury, Fishes

  Song: Accidents Will Happen, Album: Armed Forces, 1979

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• Sweat has the power to end a pity party in such a way that even the hostess is happy.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Party, Way, Pity

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• As I write, Johnny Rotten's first moments in "Anarchy in the U.K." - a rolling earthquake of a laugh, a buried shout, then hoary words somehow stripped of all claptrap and set down in the city streets - I AM AN ANTICHRIST - Remain as powerful as anything I know. Listening to the record today - listening to the way Johnny Rotten tears at his lines, and then hurls the pieces at the world; recalling the all-consuming smile he produced as he sang - my back stiffens; I pull away even as my scalp begins to sweat.

  Greil Marcus

  Powerful, Writing, Earthquakes

  "Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century". Book by Greil Marcus, 1989.

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• He made the earth first and peopled it with dumb creatures, and then He created man to be His overseer on the earth and to hold suzerainty over the earth and the animals on it in His name, not to hold for himself and his descendants inviolable title forever, generation after generation, to the oblongs and squares of the earth, but to hold the earth mutual and intact in the communal anonymity of brotherhood, and all the fee He asked was pity and humility and sufferance and endurance and the sweat of has face for bread.

  William Faulkner

  Humility, Men, Animal

  Francis Lee Utley, William Faulkner, Lynn Z. Bloom, Arthur F. Kinney (1971). “Bear, man, and God: eight approaches to William Faulkner's The bear”, Random House Inc

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• The sea is the sweat of the earth.

  Empedocles

  Sea, Earth

  Empedocles (1992). “The Poem of Empedocles: A Text and Translation with an Introduction”

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• An ethic gone wrong is an essential preliminary to the sweat shop or the concentration camp and the death march.

  Simon Blackburn

  Essentials, Gone, Ethics

  Simon Blackburn (2003). “Ethics: A Very Short Introduction”, p.22, OUP Oxford

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• As for the common men apart, Who sweat to keep their common breath, And have no hour for books or art-- What dreams have these to hide from death!

  Lola Ridge

  Dream, Art, Book

  Lola Ridge, Daniel Tobin (2007). “Light in Hand: Selected Early Poems”, p.28, Quale Press

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• This great republic is a mockery of freedom as long as you are doomed to dig and sweat to earn a miserable living while the masters enjoy the fruit of your toil.

  Helen Keller

  Long, Fruit, Toil

  Helen Keller (1967). “Helen Keller, her Socialist years: writings and speeches”

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• I feel my sinews slackened with the fright, and a cold sweat trills down all over my limbs, as if I were dissolving into water.

  John Dryden

  Fear, Water, Cold

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• Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.

  Ben Jonson

  Writing, Lines, Casts

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1859). “The works of Ben Jonson”, p.693

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• We have scarcely gotten home ... when our children's sneezes greet us, skinned knees bleed after waiting all day to do so. There is the bellyache and the burned-out basement bulb, the stalled car and the incontinent cat. The windows frost, the toilets sweat, the body of our spouse is one cold shoulder and the darkness of our bedroom is soon full of the fallen shadows of our failures.

  William H. Gass

  Patience, Time, Children

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• In America most orthodox Christians become defensive or testy when they are asked even to break into a sweat. Most of our efforts up until now have been more symbolic than anything else. We are great at holding conventions, gathering for strategy meetings and seminars, holding congresses on evangelism. But where are the people to run our own antidefamation league?

  Cal Thomas

  Christian, Running, Religious

  Cal Thomas (1983). “Book burning”, Good News Pub

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• And, indeed, is there not something holy about a great kitchen?... The scoured gleam of row upon row of metal vessels dangling from hooks or reposing on their shelves till needed with the air of so many chalices waiting for the celebration of the sacrament of food. And the range like an altar, yes, before which my mother bowed in perpetual homage, a fringe of sweat upon her upper lip and the fire glowing in her cheeks.

  Angela Carter

  Mother, Air, Glowing

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• I know not whether it would be too bold an assertion to say that candor makes capacity.... But in order to try the truth of any observation relating to the mind, the easiest method is to illustrate it by outward objects. If, for instance, a man was to sweat and labor all the days of his life to fill a chest which was already full, the absurdity of his vain endeavor would be glaring. In the same manner, when the human mind is filled and stuffed with notions brought thither by fallacious inclinations, there is no room for truth to enter: candor being banished, passions alone bear the sway.

  Sarah Fielding

  Education, Passion, Men

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• We live in a world that needs entertainment. And that entertainment has to be provided by men who sweat and bleed.

  Pete Carroll

  Men, Needs, World

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• Writing was like digging coal. I sweat blood. The spell is on me.

  Zane Grey

  Writing, Blood, Digging

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• When I'm taking my last breath, I want to look at how I used up the best of myself. How much did I sweat, push, pull, rip, fall, hit, crash, explode?...My dream is to be so well-used that in my last-half second, I just burst into dust.

  Elizabeth Streb

  Life, Dance, Dream

  Elizabeth Streb (2010). “Streb: How to Become an Extreme Action Hero”, p.51, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• Are you in want of amusement nowadays? Then play a little at the game of getting a living. There was never anything equal to it. Do it temperately, though, and don't sweat.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Games, Play, Amusement

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.248, Jazzybee Verlag

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