Sluggishly Quotes

#1. The sky was dark and gloomy, the air was damp and raw, the streets were wet and sloppy. The smoke hung sluggishly above the chimney-tops as if it lacked the courage to rise, and the rain came slowly and doggedly down, as if it had not even the spirit to pour.

Charles Dickens

#2. Kes wasn't safe. He wasn't a sensible choice. He made my heart race, and swoop, and die a little. When I was near him, I burned. When he was far away, my blood moved sluggishly, reluctantly, cooling without his heat. Maybe we'd burn together. But maybe, just maybe, we'd fly.

Jane Harvey-Berrick

#3. It was foreordained that I should go alone to Umvelos', and in the promptings of my own infallible heart I believed I saw the workings of Omnipotence. Such is our moral arrogance, and yet without such a belief I think that mankind would have ever been content to bide sluggishly at home.

John Buchan

#4. Morphine is like a religious zealot on a mission; it searches for body parts to convert, offering milk-and-honeyed dreams to flow sluggishly through your veins.

Andrew Davidson

#5. The people moved sluggishly through the warmth, and he moved with them, conscious of his height among the seated figures, nodding to the faces he now recognized.

John Edward Williams

#6. For a while, as the spent sky sluggishly refilled its reservoir with laden clouds drawn off the ocean, Bibi

Dean Koontz

#7. The Brangwens had lived for generations on the Marsh Farm, in the meadows where the Erewash twisted sluggishly through alder trees, separating Derbyshire from Nottinghamshire.

D.H. Lawrence

#8. Clifford, except for Phoebe's more active instigation, would ordinarily have yielded to the torpor which had crept through all his modes of being, and which sluggishly counselled him to sit in his morning chair, till eventide.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#9. The white face of the winter day came sluggishly on, veiled in a frosty mist; and the shadowy ships in the river slowly changed to black substances; and the sun, blood-red on the eastern marshes behind dark masts and yards, seemed filled with the ruins of a forest it had set on fire.

Charles Dickens

#10. I would recommend to those persons who are inclined to stagnate, whose blood is beginning to thicken sluggishly in their veins, to try keeping four dogs, two of which are puppies.

Elizabeth Von Arnim

#11. The vigorous man industriously striving for the improvement of his condition acts neither more nor less than the lethargic man who sluggishly takes things as they come. For to do nothing and to be idle are also action, they too determine the course of events.

Ludwig Von Mises

#12. City Point is so beautiful, she says. In the night they cannot see the garbage that litters the beach, the seaweed and driftwood, the condoms that wallow sluggishly on the foam's edge, discarded on the shore like the minuscule loathsome animals of the sea. Yeah, it's something, he says slowly.

Norman Mailer

#13. In old grimy streets, in isolated and decaying houses, sometimes far from the Vieux Carre, in little used and secluded cemeteries, there still sluggishly circulates the ebbing blood of the past, of a vigorous and vividly hued past.

Clarence John Laughlin

#14. As I inched sluggishly along the treadmill of the Maycomb County School system, I could not help receiving the impression that I was being cheated out of something. Out of what I knew not, yet I did not believe that twelve years of unrelieved boredom was exactly what the state had in mind for me.

Harper Lee

#15. The day, like the previous days, dragged sluggishly by in a kind of insipid idleness, devoid even of that dreamy expectancy which can make idleness so enchanting.

Vladimir Nabokov

#16. John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student.

M.H. Abrams

#17. Ever notice how baby shampoo smells like spring?

Toni Sorenson

#18. The three worst places to have an idea are in an office, in a group and in a hurry.

Gordon Torr

#19. If we keep holding on to God, there is nothing to fear.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#20. Confederation is only yet in the gristle, and it will require five years more before it hardens into bone.

John A. Macdonald

#21. Just getting young kids excited about hockey, then they'll want to skate, they'll want to start joining junior leagues, they'll want to play in high school, etc., so we're trying to expand at all levels. That's good for the sport, and it's good for the Ducks long term.

Henry Samueli

#22. It's easy for you to speak of love when you've built walls high enough around your heart that you forget what true love is. Sacrifice. Shelter. Loyalty.

Randi Cooley Wilson

#23. If we want to have the biggest impact, the best way to do this is to make sure we always focus on solving the most important problems.

Mark Zuckerberg

#24. It is always a time of war.

Ogden W. Rogers

#25. The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.

J.M. Barrie

#26. For me, happiness is knowing that I am strong, capable, confident, secure, loving and compassionate; it is knowing that within me is everything I need to handle whatever life sends my way, and that not only will I be okay, I will thrive.

Barb Schmidt

#27. And her answer to it because she's driving the conversation. In

Tim Sanders

#28. My job is not to show my children that I'm the man, but to show them that Christ is the man.

Tullian Tchividjian

#29. Do whatever interests you the most. Passion breeds success.

Shane Smith