Quotes About Inertia

which didn't do much of anything

The screw wasn't budging.

Mostly they had no place to go. Berberova's description of the face of the continent at the time goes some way toward explaining their inertia: "On the map of Europe were England, France, Germany, and Russia. In the first, imbeciles reigned, in the second living corpses, in the third villains, and in the fourth villains and bureaucrats.

Mass: The quantity of matter in a body; its inertia, or resistance to acceleration.

It also meant that whenever a body is not acted on by any force, it will keep on moving in a straight line at the same speed.

The nonexistence of absolute rest therefore meant that one could not give an event an absolute position in space, as Aristotle had believed. The positions of events and the distances between them would be different for a person on the train and one on the track, and there would be no reason to prefer one person's position to the other's.

The lack of an absolute standard of rest meant that one could not determine whether two events that took place at different times occurred in the same position in space. For example, suppose our Ping-Pong ball on the train bounces straight up and down, hitting the table twice on the same spot one second apart. To someone on the track, the two bounces would seem to take place about thirteen meters apart, because the tram would have traveled that far down the track between the bounces.

Speed has never killed anyone. Suddenly becoming stationary, that's what gets you.

I couldn't think. I couldn't feel. I just existed—me,

Alex, you can break your ass trying to achieve Nirvana Through Inertia, but it won't work. It's like that Woody Allen line—you mellow too much, you ripen and rot.

once a week and doesn't do much when he is there.

Time crawled on as if its legs were broken.

At last, he was being decisive once again. Playing for the highest stakes, shrugging off the inertia of the last few years. He felt almost as he had done as a child, thrilling in the audacity of his actions. That was how it had often been before politics and the stultifying role of John Mandrake had closed in on him. And he no longer wished to play that part.

The easier it is to do, the harder it is to change.

Any content that functions through its emotional dynamisms, such as the paralyzing grip of inertia or an invasion by instinct, belongs to the sphere of the mother, to nature. But all contents capable of conscious realization, a value, an idea, a moral canon, or some other spiritual force, are related to the father-, never to the mother-system.

A civilizáció és bürokrácia egy másik kulcsfontosságú jellemz?je a tehetetlenség.

All mankind is divided into three classes: those who are immovable, those who are movable and those who move.

All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.

He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than anything they may say. He is impelled by inertia, rather than curiosity, and nothing is more unlike the submissive apathy with which he hears his fate revealed than the alert dexterity with which the man of courage lays hands on the future.

The inertia of the governed cannot be disentangled from the indifference of the government. American leaders have both a circular and a deliberate relationship to public opinion.

They were women not strong enough or smart enough to leave. Women without imagination. So they stayed in Wind Gap and played their teenage lives on an endless loop.

Key amongst these is the Newton's Cradle, which we

it's not love that makes the world go round, it's inertia

Look, it's not love that makes the world go round, it's inertia