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Quotes About Sweat

Spiritually sick men cannot sweat out their distemper with working. But this is the way of men who deceive their own souls; as we shall see afterward.
~ John Owen
My body was prickly with fear sweat as I lay in the gathering morning light and listened to the slender spindles of malice whining away in the distance. i thought how that shudder was under the skin of everybody in the world, not in the mind, deep under the skin. It's not the jets so much as what their purpose is.
~ John Steinbeck
Ran to the hallway, screaming for help. The girls and a few Sunday customers crowded into the room. Kate was writhing on the floor. Two of the regulars lifted her onto Faye's bed and tried to straighten her out, but she screamed and doubled up again. The sweat poured from her body and wet her clothes.
~ John Steinbeck
Fear is sweat, but terror is addictive.
~ Unknown
The room smelled of children, that sunlight smell over socks and sweat.
~ Marcus Sakey
Elbow grease" is not a metaphor.
~ Margo Jefferson
The sword sweated red; the swordsman regretted nothing.
~ Unknown
I had vowed it before, but vows are but a paper study for a monument in stone, to be carved out with much sweat, perhaps not without injury, before the thing stands to be admired.
~ Maria McCann
It's Getting Hot in Here
~ Unknown
Change doesn't come in nickels and dimes. It comes in dedication and sweat.
~ Toni Sorenson
Sweat equity is the most valuable equity there is.
~ Mark Cuban
Though there's something more tender, beneath our vanity, our will to become objects of desire: we sweat the mark of our presence onto the cloth.
~ Mark Doty
80 percent humidity,
~ Unknown
Then coffin, black with silver handles with the dead boy in a black velvet suit. If you're never gonna sweat why not go out in winter style?
~ Marlon James
The eerie, still, darkness was flickered and slivered by small receding flames, and was wrapped in the brown smell of burned beans and tobacco smoke and human sweat, and Kit had the sense that he was somehow simply a spectator to another side of reality – observing, listening.
~ Unknown
Research is the name given the crystal formed when the night's worry is added to the day's sweat.
~ Martin H. Fischer
Rash, boils, profuse sweating, and lack of sweat are usually good indications of clogging in the lymphatic glands.)
~ Unknown
Relaxation describes tissue that is atonic, flaccid, saggy, or collapsed. In addition to sagging and losing its tone, it does not hold fluids, so there is a continuous loss of fluid, called "free secretion" in the old authors. The tendency to discharge is so strong that running ulcers may form. Discharges of saliva, mucus, urine, sweat, and diarrhea are thin, clear, watery, and copious.
~ Unknown
o ar é uma pele, feita de poros por onde escoa a luz, gota por gota, como um suor solar.
~ Mia Couto
Anson Dorrance ... left me a short, encouraging note: "The vision of a champion is someone who is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion when nobody else is watching.
~ Mia Hamm
Or dozing and waking under mosquito netting in a mess of slick sweat, gagging for air that wasn't 99 percent moisture, one clean breath to dry-sluice your anxiety and the backwater smell of your own body. But all you got and all there was were misty clots of air that corroded your appetite and burned your eyes and made your cigarettes taste like swollen insects rolled up and smoked alive, crackling and wet.
~ Michael Herr
Look, I come from vaudeville, I come from burlesque, I come from heartaches, I come from sadness, I come from gladness, I come from work and sweat and respect for the craft.
~ Mickey Rooney
It was a hot, moist armpit of a night...
~ Mike Carey
The air conditioner hadn't worked all summer. Naturally, jokes had been made about how this must be a foretaste of hell.
~ Min Jin Lee