Quotes About Inertia

Boredom is the deadliest poison.

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of inertia.

We remained in our seats as everyone around us stood with the personal items they had rushed to retrieve. Why do people always do that? It's not like they can go anywhere.

God and the devil lose to a common enemy: inertia.

Democracy is threatened by the inertia of good people, by the selfishness of most people, and by the evil designs of a few people.

The great quality of Dulness is to be unalterably contented with itself.

It is far easier to be entertained by a reality TV than to participate in our own reality.

In my experience, telling someone to switch Unix shells for ease of use is like telling him to switch cigarette brands for his health.

History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all.

Never in the history of boredom has anyone been more bored than I am right now.

Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.

The inertia of the mind urges it to slide down the easy slope of imagination, rather than to climb the steep slope of introspection.

We live in an age of 'urge'. We do nothing till somebody shoves us.

To be reborned many times over, you must unleash the power of inertia. But must you go out every time and reach for your highest potential?

nos detiene a veces lo que no nos importa—

inner factors such as fear, guilt, or inertia prevented you from taking action, they will dissolve in the light of your conscious presence.

Que apestosa esta huevada. Es como si nada avanzara, las imágenes se repiten.

E ora cosa farò?" si domandava il ragazzo; ogni volta che osservava la mobilità e la continua agitazione della vita, la propria inerzia gli incuteva spavento.

The True Self quietly observes the playground where thoughts take form, where games are played, and the gunas obeyed. These are the laws of light, activity, and inertia … of inspiration, action, and obstacles. The gunas are those things that can be known. Your mind ponders all their qualities, mistaking these for reality, for they gave birth to the mind. But the Self remains unmoved by the noise in the playground.

An unchangeable colour rules over the melancholic: his dwelling is a space the colour of mourning. Nothing happens in it. No one intrudes. It is a bare stage where the inert I is assisted by the I suffering from that inertia. The latter wishes to free the former, but all efforts fail, as Theseus would have failed had he been not only himself but also the Minotaur; to kill him then, he would have had to kill himself

Un color invariable rige al melancólico: su interior es un espacio de color de luto; nada pasa allí, nadie pasa. Es una escena sin decorados donde el yo inerte es asistido por el yo que sufre por esa inercia. Este quisiera liberar al prisionero, pero cualquier tentativa fracasa como hubiera fracasado Teseo si, además de ser él mismo, hubiese sido, también, el Minotauro; matarlo, entonces, habría exigido matarse.

A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time.

For me, habit is just a synonym for death.

nature has arranged that when you overcome a given inertia the resulting momentum is proportionate. If I were to begin borrowing money I would end by devising means of persuading the Secretary of the Treasury to lend me the gold reserve.