Quotes About Inertia

The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.

Strange enough how creatures of the human-kind shut their eyes to plainest facts; and by the mere inertia of Oblivion and Stupidity, live at ease in the midst of Wonders and Terrors. But indeed man is, and was always, a blockhead and dullard; much readier to feel and digest, than to think and consider.

I think there's nothing worse than inertia. You can be inert and study your navel, and gradually fall off the chair. I think the key is to keep flying.

I don't desire anything right now. My desires have frozen in my breast. A lethargy is killing my heart.

People accepted the worst from each other, screaming and slapping. Divorce and abortion were never a plot option. If this was love or just inertia, Misty couldn't tell.

He learned from Novalis that every man is potentially hero and genius; that only inertia keeps men mediocre.

It was all he'd felt for too long to change now. Maybe it was too late for any other kind of life. This was all he knew. It was safe, insulated. Familiar. An absense of emotion kept him sane. Or what passed for it.

We are all swept on by the torrent of things grown so familiar that they cast no shade...

Inertia is always a little bit of a challenge," one person wrote. "It's easier to not do things than to do them." Another person dispatched with potentially conflicting work obligations, but then succumbed to the temptation to do "nothing" once the moment arrived: "I'm such a creature of habit it was hard to deviate from the norm.

My ambition is handicapped by laziness

To separate the effects of gravity on a given mass from the effects of air resistance was a brilliant intellectual achievement. It allowed Galileo to close in on the essence of inertia and momentum. Still, in the real world, pendulums eventually do exactly what Aristotle's quaint paradigm predicted. They stop.

What has changed is that nothing has changed... that's what has made me more unhappy than everything else.

The same thing is to be understood of all bodies, revolved in any orbits. They all endeavour to recede from the centres of their orbits, and were it not for the opposition of a contrary force which restrains them to and detains them in their orbits, which I therefore call Centripetal, would fly off in right lines with a uniform motion.

Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't.

An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.

The status quo is the only solution that cannot be vetoed.

Instagram, Swiffer, and Nest had to compete with consumer habits and perceptions. Breakout products face competition from the formidable inertia powering the status quo.

Laziness always wins.

The Doldrums, my young friend, are where nothing ever happens and nothing ever changes.

She did not know why she could not move. It was as in a dream when the heart strains and the body cannot stir.

immobility is to the human body what rust is to the classic car.

The force of inertia acts in the domain of psychics as well as physics; any idea pushed into the popular mind with considerable force will keep on going until some opposing force--or the slow resistance of friction--stops it at last.

Se stie insa ca sursa tuturor greutatilor moderne este ceea ce numesc eu inertia masculina. Problemele in casnicie au aparut numai dupa ce barbatii nu au mai plecat pe mare si au inceput in schimb sa bocaneasca pe langa casa in weekenduri. Barbatii au inteles si ei in sfarsit chestia asta si incearca sa umple tot acest timp liber care le ramane cu treburi urgente imaginare.