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Quotes About Sweat

Es extraño: mi sudor es caliente y el sudor de Rosario es frío, reptiliano, y tiene un sabor agridulce (el mío es claramente salado).
~ Roberto Bolano
That mother of men was made to wander in the wilderness and earn her bread by the sweat of her brow, not by filling her mouth with the sweet juicy fruits that bend the branches low.
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
On the other side was another woman with a garden and a tree. But for tasting its fruit, she was banished from the garden and the gates clanged shut behind her. That mother of men was made to wander in the wilderness and earn her bread by the sweat of her brow, not by filling her mouth with the sweet juicy fruits that bend the branches low. In order to eat, she was instructed to subdue the wilderness into which she was cast.
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
Waves of heat shimmy off the tarmac, and the air is stiflingly hot, with humidity that's even worse
~ Lisa See
There are things a man learns about the cold, and the first one is never to work up a sweat, for when a sweating man slows down or stops the sweat freezes inside his clothing, forming a thin coating of ice near the skin. After that, unless one finds shelter quickly, it is only a matter of time.
~ Louis L'Amour
Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Success is 90% perspiration and 10% inspiration!
~ Thomas A. Edison
The Night-Apple Last night I dreamed of one I loved for seven long years, but I saw no face, only the familiar presence of the body: sweat skin eyes feces urine sperm saliva all one odor and mortal taste.
~ Allen Ginsberg
The place smelled of smoke and sweat, of spilled drinks and sprayed vomit, of desperation and wasted chances
~ Joe Abercrombie
armpits and private regions
~ Joe Schwarcz
eccrine glands
~ Joe Schwarcz
Deodorants contain fragrances that mask the sweat smell as well as antibacterial agents that control the growth of bacteria on the skin. Antiperspirants, however, contain aluminum compounds that form insoluble gels on the skin and plug up pores, reducing the amount of sweat that makes it to the surface.
~ Joe Schwarcz
The body eliminates toxins via the liver and kidneys, not through sweat.
~ Joe Schwarcz
Penetration of our mind is our goal, but in the beginning to set things in motion, there is no substitute for sweat.
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
The studying, the books, exams, arguments, theories. The jokes and pints, laughter, kisses and songs. Life was like running, ninety percent sweat and toil, ten per cent joy.
~ Siobhan Dowd
Especially riches pulled from the ground. Two-thirds of all American workers labored on farms, with sweat and muscle the only fuels. "There was no quittin' time and no startin' time," a folk proverb declared. "It was all the time.
~ Edward Dolnick
You know you live in Phoenix when you've experienced condensation on your butt cheeks from the hot water evaporating in the toilet bowl.
~ Anonymous
I trade sweat for strength. I trade doubt for belief. I trade cheerleading for nothing.
~ Anonymous
Aerobics: a series of strenuous exercises which help convert fats, sugars, and starches into aches, pains, and cramps.
~ Anonymous
In my opinion, a horse is the animal to have. Eleven-hundred pounds of raw muscle, power, grace, and sweat between your legs - it's something you just can't get from a pet hamster.
~ Anonymous
When I have supped too heavily of an evening, I drink in the morning a large number of cups of coffee, and that as hot as I can drink it, so that the sweat breaks out on me, and if by so doing I can't restore my body, a whole apothecary's shop couldn't do much, and that is the only thing I have done for years when I have felt a fever.
~ Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
SAUL: 'We made love outdoors, my favorite place to make love, assuming the weather be fair and balmy, and the earth beneath be clean. Our souls intertwined and dripping with sweat.
~ Roman Payne
The struggle is never easy to finding what is lost and to gain the best of what is to come without sweat.
~ Auliq Ice
Successful companies are built by investing large amount of money and hundreds of litres of sweat.
~ Amit Kalantri