Quotes About Effort

Love and sex are twin arts, requiring effort and knowledge. Only in fairy tales do people live happily ever after without working at it ...

It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.

You intend to kiss me and yet you are going to all this damn trouble about it.

One of the saddest things is that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours—all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

I reckon that being good is about the easiest thing in the world for a lazy man.

But I can try it. I can try to do it.

People will pay any price for motion. They will even work for it. Look at bicycles.

He puts his shoes on, stomping into them, like he does everything, like he is hoping all the time he really cant do it and can quit trying to.

So you see how much effort a man will make and trouble he will invent to guard and defend himself from the boredom of peace of mind. Or rather perhaps the pervert who deliberately infests himself with lice, not just for the simple pleasure of being rid of them again, since even in the folly of youth we know that nothing lasts; but because even in that folly we are afraid that maybe Nothing will last, that maybe Nothing will last forever, and anything is better than Nothing, even lice.

In my opinion it's a shame that there is so much work in the world. One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours — all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

O dia corria célere sobre suas cabeças, e as janelas esquálidas brilhavam e escurecia numa retrocessão espectral. Passou um carro, pela pista de areia lá fora, rosnando de esforço, e o som foi morrendo. Dilsey estava empertigada em seu banco, a mão pousada no joelho de Ben. Duas lágrimas desciam-lhe as faces murchas, entrando e saindo dasmil coruscações da imolação e da abnegação do tempo.

People will pay any price for motion. They will even work for it. Look at bicycles. Look at Boon. We dont know why.

a dream long lost in the compulsive effort to fill space, to replicate some family image of self.

era como si Dios revocara la ley de gravedad cuando tienes que cargar una maleta pesada por un corredor de aeropuerto de diez manzanas de largo.

Interface evolves toward transparency. The one you have to devote the least conscious effort to, survives, prospers.

No human endeavour can ever be wholly good... it must always have a cost.

Ahora que tenían algo que hacer, trabajaron con entusiasmo.

Lavoravano dunque con grande energia ed allegria, benché col passar del tempo ci fosse un tantino di panico nell'energia, e d'isterismo nell'allegria.

The easiest thing to do on earth is not write…But this is life on earth, you can't have everything.

The easiest thing to do on earth is not write.

Has it occurred to you that I have gone to great effort and expense, as well as personal sacrifice, to reach this point, the man in black replied. And that if I fail now, I might get very angry. And if she stops breathing in the very near future, it is entirely possible that you will catch the same fatal illness?

Non hai pensato che ho sostenuto grandi sforzi e molte spese, e sono incorso in disagi personali, per arrivare fin qui» osservò l'uomo in nero «e se fallisco ora, potrei arrabbiarmi molto? E se lei dovesse smettere di respirare, tu potresti ammalarti della stessa fatale malattia?»

President Franklin Roosevelt failed in his effort to pack the Court in 1937, but in the midst of that battle the Court significantly altered its constitutional doctrine in a way that served to placate its opponents.

Or have I passed my time in pouring words like water into empty sieves, rolling a stone up a hill and then down again, trying to prove an argument in the teeth of facts, and looking for causes in the dark, and not finding them?