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Tag Name "Inertia" (101)

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Democracy is threatened by the inertia of good people, by the selfishness of most people, and by the evil designs of a few people.
Stanley King
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Try to live your life in a way that you will not regret years of useless virtue and inertia and timidity.
Maya Angelou
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It is so hard to leave-until you leave.
John Green
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There is always an inertia to be overcome in striking out a new line of conduct – not more in ourselves, it seems, than in circumscribing events, which appear as if leagued together to allow no novelties in the way of amelioration.
Thomas Hardy
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The way upward from inertia to illumination passes through the sphere of action.
Swami Prabhavananda
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Sometimes you make up your mind about something without knowing why, and your decision persists by the power of inertia. Every year it gets harder to change.
Milan Kundera
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We stayed on at the Institute [Chicago called the School of Design] because that was - I don't know, you start at one place and you stay there, I guess. Inertia takes over.
Warren MacKenzie
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... once you get up steam, you are carried helplessly along.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Silence is the language of inertia.
Margaret Heffernan
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So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
W. Clement Stone
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Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot.
Alexander Pope
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Depression is inertia.
Wayne Dyer
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Inertia is a powerful force in human and political affairs.
Maurice Strong
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The stillness and stasis of bed are the perfect opposite of travel: inertia is what I've come to consider the default mode, existentially and electronically speaking. Bed, its utter inactivity, offers a glimpse of eternity, without the drawback of being dead.
Lynne Sharon Schwartz
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Galileo had already made a significant beginning toward a knowledge of the law of motion. He discovered the law of inertia and the law of bodies falling freely in the gravitational field of the earth.
Albert Einstein
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The great enemy of any attempt to change men's habits is inertia. Civilization is limited by intertia.
Edward Bernays
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To refuse everything, to say, even when there is something which really should be done, Ah, that's no longer feminist, is a pessimistic, even masochistic tendency in women, the result of having been habituated to inertia, to pessimism.
Simone de Beauvoir
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I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities above all I have tried to remove weight from the structure of stories and from language.
Italo Calvino
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There is an enormous inertia that prevents people from change. You must always remember that it is impossible to make something better if you don't make it different - the converse is not true, of course. You cannot make something better unless it is different. And different scares the life out of so many people.
Amar Bose
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I am adrenaline slammed into inertia: a fast car stuck in traffic.
Gayle Forman
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If we are to find our way across troubled waters, we are better served by the company of those who have built bridges, who have moved beyond despair and inertia.
Marilyn Ferguson
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To end slavery, you must overcome the mental and physical inertia of the masses and quicken their intelligence and creative faculty.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The eager and often inconsiderate appeals of reformers and revolutionists are indispensable to counterbalance the inertia and fossilism marking so large a part of human institutions.
Walt Whitman
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The more we study nature the grander does she appear. Science, by penetrating her secrets, often shows us the hidden and imposing forces exist where we only see inertia.
Felix Archimede Pouchet
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