Sweat Quotes - Page 17

• Then I smell the sweat on him, a clean musky scent that I'd bottle and wear as perfume if I could.

  Gayle Forman

  Smell, Bottles, Scent

  Gayle Forman (2009). “If I Stay”, p.109, Penguin

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• I was certain t find the familiar sting of salt, but what I needed to know was what kind: kitchen, sweat, tears or the sea.

  Monique Truong

  Sea, Kitchen, Tears

  "The Book of Salt" by Monique Truong, www.nytimes.com. April 6, 2003.

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• For a moment he felt a wild hope: perhaps this really was a nightmare. Perhaps he would awake in his own bed, bathed in sweat, shaking, maybe even crying . . . but alive. Safe. Then he pushed the thought away. Its charm was deadly, its comfort fatal.

  Stephen King

  Bed, Comfort, Alive

  Stephen King (2016). “It”, p.335, Simon and Schuster

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• they ran in the sunlight, creating their own breeze which pressed their dresses into their damp skin. Reaching a kind of square of four locked trees which promised cooling; they flung themselves into the shade to taste their lip sweat and contemplate the wildness that had come upon them so suddenly

  Toni Morrison

  Squares, Creating, Tree

  Toni Morrison (2014). “Sula”, p.57, Random House

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• I don’t know nothing about birthing puppies, Miss Scarlett, but I can cleave the head off a Daimon without breaking a sweat. (Valerius)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Missing, Puppy, Birthing

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• I've never been able to feel that there is anything undignified about making your living by the sweat of your brow.

  Ethel Waters

  Able, Brows, Feels

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• [All the ancient wisdom] tells us that work is necessary to us, as much a part of our condition as mortality; that good work is our salvation and our joy; that shoddy or dishonest or self-serving work is our curse and our doom. We have tried to escape the sweat and sorrow promised in Genesis - only to find that, in order to do so, we must forswear love and excellence, health and joy. (pg. 44, "The Unsettling of America")

  Wendell Berry

  Order, America, Self

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• Been meddling, have you?” Royce asked, looking around at the hive of activity. “You must admit they didn’t have much in the way of a defense plan,” Hadrian said, pausing to wipe the sweat from his forehead. Royce smiled at him. “You just can’t help yourself, can you?

  Michael J. Sullivan

  Hadrian, Defense, Wipe

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• The string slices into the skin of his fingers and no matter how tough the calluses, it tears. But this beat is fast and even though his joints are aching, his arm's out of control like it has a mind of its own and the sweat tat drenches his hair and face seems to smother him, but nothing's going to stop Tom. He;s aiming for oblivion.

  Melina Marchetta

  Hair, Mind, Tears

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• I look at my cancer journey as a gift: It made me slow down and realisethe important things in life and taught me to not sweat the small stuff.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Cancer, Journey, Things In Life

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• It's one of my biggest memories of my father reading. I had pneumonia, remember, but I was a little better now, and madly caught up in the book, and one thing you know when you're ten is that, no matter what, there's gonna be a happy ending. They can sweat all they want to scare you, the authors, but back of it all you know, you just have no doubt, that in the long run justice is going to win out.

  William Goldman

  Running, Memories, Father

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.149, A&C Black

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  BLOOD, SWEAT & RESPECT. First two you GIVE. Last one you EARN.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Motivational, Sports, Blood

  Twitter post from Jul 9, 2012

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• Getting to places like Bangkok or Singapore was a hell of a sweat. But when you got there it was the back of beyond. It was just a series of small tin sheds.

  David Attenborough

  Tin, Hell, Bangkok

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• Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.

  Peter Benchley

  Writing, Order, Discipline

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• Let us go forth and resolutely dare with sweat of brow to toil our little day.

  John Milton

  Work, Toil, Littles

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• I sweat real sweat and I shake real shakes.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Real, Reality, Shakes

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• There's something incredibly sexy about sand and sweat and dunes photographed like women's backs.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Sexy, Sand

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• You have a choice. You can throw in the towel, or you can use it to wipe the sweat off of your face. Gatorade ad The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare.

  Juma Ikangaa

  Running, Mean, Winning

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• It's very important to have the right clothing to exercise in. If you throw on an old T-shirt or sweats, it's not inspiring for your workout.

  Cheryl Tiegs

  Inspiring, Fitness, Workout

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• What happens: events interiors, snatch them from the cradle, from the source. I want to watch watching arrive. I want to watch arrivances. I want to find the root of needing to eat. And taste it: work of sweat / sleep.

  Helene Cixous

  Sleep, Roots, Events

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• The mother condemned for a witch and burnt with dry
  wood, and her children gazing on;
  The hounded slave that flags in the race and leans by the
  fence, blowing and covered with sweat,
  The twinges that sting like needles his legs and neck,
  The murderous buckshot and the bullets,
  All these I feel or am.

  Walt Whitman

  Mother, Children, Race

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892”, p.46, St. Martin's Press

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• This means a lot. I'm being recognized for all the blood, sweat and tears I put into a 17-year career.

  Patrick Ewing

  Mean, Blood, Years

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• It is a magic book. Words mean things. When you put them together they speak. Yes, sometimes they flatten out and nothing they say is real, and that is one kind of magic. But sometimes a vision will rip up from them and shriek and clank wings clear as the sweat smudge on the paper under your thumb. And that is another kind.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Real, Rip, Book

  FaceBook post by Samuel R. Delany from May 20, 2012

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• The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning.

  Ian Fleming

  Morning, Three, Scent

  Ian Fleming (1953). “Casino Royale”, Cape. J.

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• I believe in love and lust and sex and romance. I don't want everything to add up to some perfect equation. I want mess and chaos. I want someone to go crazy out of his mind for me. I want to feel passion and heat and sweat and madness. I want valenties and cupids and all of that crap. I want it all.

  Barbra Streisand

  Sex, Crazy, Believe

  "Fictional character: Rose Morgan". "The Mirror Has Two Faces", November 1, 1996.

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