#exhaust

I don't have muscle tone. I'm just flab. I'm not a daredevil. I don't like pain, I don't like cold, I don't want to feel exhausted. But the sense of accomplishment is something I've never felt before, in a physical sense. ↗

— Charlene Tilton

#before #cold #daredevil #exhausted #feel

If we were driving pure hydrogen automobiles, that automobile would actually help clean up the air because the air coming out of the exhaust would be cleaner than the air going into the engine intake. ↗

— Dennis Weaver

#air #automobile #automobiles #because #clean

I feel like I've exhausted guys and male friendships. ↗

— Irvine Welsh

#feel #friendships #guys #i #i feel

When leaders take back power, when they act as heroes and saviors, they end up exhausted, overwhelmed, and deeply stressed. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#back #deeply #end #exhausted #heroes

The challenge lies in knowing how to bring this sort of day to a close. His mind has been wound to a pitch of concentration by the interactions of the office. Now there are only silence and the flashing of the unset clock on the microwave. He feels as if he had been playing a computer game which remorselessly tested his reflexes, only to have its plug suddenly pulled from the wall. He is impatient and restless, but simultaneously exhausted and fragile. He is in no state to engage with anything significant. It is of course impossible to read, for a sincere book would demand not only time, but also a clear emotional lawn around the text in which associations and anxieties could emerge and be disentangled. He will perhaps only ever do one thing well in his life. For this particular combination of tiredness and nervous energy, the sole workable solution is wine. Office civilisation could not be feasible without the hard take-offs and landings effected by coffee and alcohol. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#coffee #exhaustion #nervous-energy #relaxation #work

If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect. ↗

— Maimonides

#alike #apprehend #apprehension #been #body

Closest to the truth are those who deal lightly with it because they know it is inexhaustible. ↗

— Golo Mann

#closest #deal #inexhaustible #know #lightly

In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted. ↗

— Michael Musto

#been #bribery #deception #exhausted #few

Exhaustion and exasperation are frequently the handmaidens of legislative decision. ↗

— Barber Conable

#exhaustion #frequently #legislative

Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever. ↗

— George Orwell

#books #constantly #exceptionally #exhausting #feeling