Strenuousness Quotes

#1. Perhaps the Party was rotten under the surface, its cult of strenuousness and self-denial simply a sham concealing iniquity.

George Orwell

#2. It is customary to complain of the bustle and strenuousness of our epoch. But in truth the chief mark of our epoch is a profound laziness and fatigue; and the fact is that the real laziness is the cause of the apparent bustle.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#3. Thus strength is afforded by good and thorough customs, thus is learnt the subjection of the individual, and strenuousness of character becomes a birth gift and afterwards is fostered as a habit.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#4. The child trying not to appear as a child, of the strenuousness with which she tried to present the face of a convincing adult.

Joan Didion

#5. The strenuousness is when,you have to be with and to bear those people who give more importance to the credence over reality.

M.H. Rakib

#6. I always loved Little Anthony and the Imperials. They were like the precursors of the Temptations. I loved their music.

Bobby Keys

#7. Why would I worry about getting older - what's to moan about?

Dawn French

#8. Top managers love people and they want to be loved - it turns out being loved is good for your career, especially if you are the boss.

Chade-Meng Tan

#9. The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.

Sigmund Freud

#10. You may not be able to read a doctor's handwriting and prescription, but you'll notice his bills are neatly typewritten.

Earl Wilson

#11. Children's authors don't talk down or patronise their younger readers.

John Boyne

#12. There's something that goes on in a new-business meeting that's wonderful to watch. It's like showtime. There are people who are nervous, and there are people who are jittery, and there's so much drama and so much at stake.

Jerry Della Femina

#13. It is seldom that we find out how great are our resources until we are thrown upon them.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#14. Marriage is an exclusive union between one man and one woman, publicly acknowledged, permanently sealed, and physically consummated.

Selwyn Hughes

#15. I don't want the public to see the world they live in while they're in the Park (Disneyland). I want to feel they're in another world.

Walt Disney

#16. I do not believe in God because I do not believe in Mother Goose.

Clarence Darrow

#17. Harry took the wand. He felt a sudden warmth in his fingers. He raised the wand above his head, brought it swishing down through the dusty air and a stream of red and gold sparks shot from the end like a firework, throwing dancing spots of light on to the walls.

J.K. Rowling

#18. BE GRATEFUL, FORGIVE PEOPLE, LOVE MORE, BLAME LESS AND BELIEVE THINGS WILL WORK OUT!

Andrew Matthews

#19. What's a wingding? Why, a wingding is, uh ... it's just like a shindig but without all the hullabaloo.

Cuthbert Soup