Quotes About Inertia

Curious how people can go on doing the same thing day after day!

But as I peeked at my brother's inert body....I was aware only of what a strange thing it was to be male. Society discriminated against women, no question. But what about the discrimination of being sent war? Which sex was really thought to be expendable.

Inertes exceto quando removidos, batiam as asas com fúria entre nossos dedos e então voavam para se agarrar novamente a qualquer coisa, inertes outra vez

Maybe it was inertia -or worse, fear- that was keeping me in the same place.

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

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

The longer you're stuck in a position that doesn't truly challenge you, the less likely you'll be able to leave it. Inertia, in fact, is one of my worst fears.

I've encountered a lot of people who sound like critics but very few who have substantive criticisms. There is a lot of skepticism, but it seems to be more a matter of inertia than it is of people having some real reason for thinking something else.

Escucha con atención lo que han dado por llamar titulares y que él bien sabe que todos los días es la misma cosa. Los muertos de hoy sustituyen a los de ayer, los políticos con sus necedades perpetuas y los futbolistas adormeciendo voluntades.

Inertia is depression's best friend. There's always a hump to get over before you can actually change. So pushing yourself over the hump is like opening a door to a new brain pattern.

The assertion that "somebody else will not let me do anything" should always be suspected as a cover-up for inertia.

We divide the evolving system into two parts. One is the inertial part-the processes that tend to keep the population the same from one time period to the next.

Aristotle had discovered only half the principle of inertia—that a body at rest remains at rest unless moved by another—but not the other half—that a body in motion remains in motion unless acted on by another.

Her voice had become sharp with overtones of bleakness as her soul congealed and she ceased to move, as the instinctive, omnipresent film of great weight, of an almost absolute inertia, settled over her.

His world had assumed the attribute of pure mass. He perceived himself in one mode only: that of an object subjected to the pressure of weight. One quality, one attribute. And one experience. Inertia.

In the spineless perversity of your inertia, I detect indifference, even a whiff of condescension.

It was the same now. Always the fear of consequences. Always this terrible inertia.

Always the fear of consequences. Always this terrible inertia. What he was about to do to his father was so huge, so colossal, that the consequences were inconceivable - he couldn't imagine a moment occurring after that act. Only blankness. Nothingness. Something like the end of the world. And facing the end of the world, or even just the end of the year, had always given Josh a strangely detached feeling.

If history is a guide, a victory for Obama means he faces the prospect of a second term dogged by scandal or inertia.

Paradox is an overrated threat. There is...a quality similar to inertia at work. Once an event has occurred, there is an extremely strong tendency for that event to occur. The larger, more significant, or more energetic the event, the more it tends to remain as it originally happened, despite any interference. I frowned. There's...a law of conservation of history?

Vadderung grinned. "I've never heard it phrased quite like that, but it's accurate enough. In any event, overcoming that inertia requires tremendous energy, will, and a measure of simple luck. If one wishes to alter the course of history, it's a far simpler matter to attempt to shape the future.

So much of his life seemed to be like this now, a blur of days without anything to define them from each other, like episodes of a soap he watched out of habit, even though none of the characters interested him.

An alarm clock is a device to wake a man up who has no plans or intentions for the future that could make him wake up himself.

The natural law of inertia: Matter will remain at rest or continue in uniform motion in the same straight line unless acted upon by some external force.