Quotes About Energy

the diagnostic feature of life is that it captures energy to create order. This is also a hallmark of civilisation.

If you can store the labour of others for future use, then you can spare yourself the time and the energy of working for your own immediate needs

Whether the oil will last long enough is a different subject and one I tackle later in the book: briefly my answer is that substitutes will be adopted if the price rises high enough.)

The sin of acedia is cutting ourselves off from the rest of the universe, cutting ourselves off from... really, the music of the universe... We cut ourselves off from that and we ourselves are listless and without music.

caffeine-infused tsunami of words.

Till America has learned to love literature not as an amusement, not as mere doggerel to memorize in a college room, but for its humanizing and ennobling energy, my dear reverend president, she will not have succeeded in that high sense which alone makes a nation out of a people. That which raises it from a dead name to a living power.

Funny how the world shifts when you're in the same space with your friends. The air is energized, the light is warmer.

I am out of ideas and need to conserve my energy so I can freak out more efficiently.

she was color and glitter and chaos

Campers screamed when they swam and played and sometimes simply for the sake of screaming.

But there was some life in the thing

These wires run a current through it. When we press the one and the nine at the same time, the current runs through the diamond and it emits a pulse that we can't hear or feel, but it... Explodes ghosts. I prefer to think that it disperses the vestigial energy that an individual leaves behind after death. Or that, I said.

joy is one's fuel.

with a voice like a machine gun spitting smiles…

Those pieces of paper, which should have been gold, are a token of honor—your claim upon the energy of the men who produce. Your wallet is your statement of hope that somewhere in the world around you there are men who will not default on that moral principle which is the root of money. Is this what you consider evil?

No matter what night preceded it, she had never known a morning when she did not feel the rose of a quiet excitement that became a tightening energy on her body and a hunger for action in her mind - because this was the beginning of a day and it was a day of HER life.

with the gay exuberance that made him irresistible at times

He saw the tension of the face, the speed of the walk, the drunken exhilaration of the body, drunk on the energy of sleepless nights, the proud lift of the head, the clear, steady, ruthless eyes, the eyes of a man who drove himself without pity toward that which he wanted.

Walks swiftly, easily, too easily, slouching a little, a loose kind of ease in motion, as if movement requires no effort whatever, a body to which movement is as natural as immobility, without a definite line to divide them, a light, flowing, lazy ease of motion, an energy so complete that it assumes the ease of laziness. Large

they saw him moving among his guests. He walked briskly, in a Morse code pattern of short dashes and brief stops

For every living species, growth is a necessity of survival. Life is motion, a process of self-sustaining action that an organism must carry on in order to remain in existence. This principle is equally evident in the simple energy-conversions of a plant and in the long-range, complex activities of man. Biologically, inactivity is death.

The creators were not selfless. It is the whole secret of their power—that it was self-sufficient, self-motivated, self-generated. A first cause, a fount of energy, a life force, a Prime Mover. The creator served nothing and no one. He lived for himself.

There was a time, she thought, when his mind, his energy, his inexhaustible resourcefulness had been given to the task of a producer devising better ways to deal with nature; now, they were switched to the task of a criminal outwitting men. She wondered how long a man could endure a change of that kind.

As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.