Sluggishness Quotes

#1. The body responds to a calorie deficit by slowing down the metabolism and burning muscle tissue. That leads to weakness, sluggishness, slow times. In girls, it can also result in cessation of menstrual periods, which in turn leads to loss of bone density and frequent stress fractures.

Don Kardong

#2. Life's fulfillment finds constant obstacles in its path; but those are necessary for the sake of its advance. The stream is saved from the sluggishness of its current by the perpetual opposition of the soil through which it must cut its way. The spirit of fight belongs to the genius of life.

Rabindranath Tagore

#3. Many complain of a chronic weariness that sleep will not banish. Their trouble is that too little blood is pumped through the body per minute; this sluggishness, permitting poisonous waste matter to accumulate in every cell, clogs the channels of energy.

Gene Tunney

#4. The most dangerous temptations are not due to the active, sudden flames of desire, 'the lusts of the flesh,' but to the disinclinations of the flesh, its indolence and sluggishness, our tendency to become creatures of habit.

Sigrid Undset

#5. I'd had nearly four years of experience looking at these clocks, but their sluggishness never ceased to surprise. If I am ever told that I have one day to live, I will head straight to the hallowed halls of Winter Park High School, where a day has been known to last a thousand years.

John Green

#6. Sloth is sluggishness of the mind which neglects to begin good ... it is evil in its effect, if it so oppresses man as to draw him away entirely from good deeds.

Thomas Aquinas

#7. The acid of fury ran through him, eating away the brute patience and sluggishness that had made a cipher of Gully Foyle, precipitating a chain of reactions that would make an infernal machine of Gully Foyle. He was dedicated.

Alfred Bester

#8. The midday heat sapped her strength, and the sluggishness reached through to her thoughts

Steven Erikson

#9. I may be accused or rashness, but not sluggishness.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#10. As iron cast into fire loses its rust and becomes glowing white, so he who turns completely to God is stripped of his sluggishness and changed into a new man.

Thomas A Kempis

#11. I guess once you've been acting for a long time, you glean the great bits of good directors and the bad bits from other directors, and you know the way that you would like to be directed.

Luke Evans

#12. Social isolation. Some people lack the feeling of belonging to others. They feel isolated, as if they were cut off from the rest of the world. The

Gitta Jacob

#13. The bonsai is not you working on the tree; you have to have the tree work on you

John Naka

#14. I meditate, which I really like. Just 20 minutes twice a day and that really helps.

Jordana Brewster

#15. Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.

Samantha Power

#16. The truth is, you can never really know a man until you've loaned him money. And you can never know a woman until you've slept in her bed.

Lisa Kleypas

#17. Start out identifying what you know are delicacies of being within, tiny little touches of knowledge that has beingness in it, special soft spots of heart. As soon as you identify them, you need to believe them.

John De Ruiter

#18. The saddest moment in a child's life is not when he learns that Santa Claus isn't real, it's when he learns that Vince Russo is.

Jim Cornette

#19. Scattergories is second base for Christians.

Daniel Tosh

#20. Some men carry torches for old loves, and then some guys - not many, but some - get completely consumed by the torch's flames. It makes them nothing but long-term trouble for the follow-ups.

Harlan Coben