#exhaustion

More things in politics happen by accident or exhaustion than happen by conspiracy. ↗

— Jeff Greenfield

#conspiracy #exhaustion #happen #more #politics

It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity. ↗

— George MacDonald

#best work #dregs #exhaustion #god #i

The worst manifestations of exhaustion were successfully cured by a long period of rest but it was immediately apparent to me that I had lost once and for all my former capacity for carrying out experimental work until physically tired. ↗

— Wilhelm Ostwald

#capacity #carrying #cured #exhaustion #experimental

It's believing you can push through the exhaustion just to be able to sing after you do a cartwheel or a split. ↗

— Naima Adedapo

#after #believing #exhaustion #just #push

Was Mrs. Wilcox one of the unsatisfactory people- there are many of them- who dangle intimacy and then withdraw it? They evoke our interests and affections, and keep the life of the spirit dawdling around them. Then they withdraw. When physical passion is involved, there is a definite name for such behaviour- flirting- and if carried far enough, it is punishable by law. But no law- not public opinion, even- punishes those who coquette with friendship, though the dull ache that they inflict, the sense of misdirected effort and exhaustion, may be as intolerable. Was she one of these? ↗

— E.M. Forster

#exhaustion #flirtation #friendship #intimacy #friendship

The natural consequence of our submission, even in part, to the system that looks to compelling the export of raw products, the exhaustion of the land, the cheapening of labour, and the export of the labourer. ↗

— Henry Charles Carey

#consequence #even #exhaustion #export #labour

Human nerves quickly get accustomed to the most unusual conditions and circumstances and I noticed that quite a number of men actually fell asleep from sheer exhaustion in the trenches, in spite of the roaring of the cannon about us and the whizzing of shrapnel over our heads. ↗

— Fritz Kreisler

#accustomed #actually #asleep #cannon #circumstances

Signs of fatigue soon manifested themselves more and more strongly, and slowly the men dropped out one by one, from sheer exhaustion. No murmur of complaint, however, would be heard. ↗

— Fritz Kreisler

#dropped #exhaustion #fatigue #heard #however