#physic

Does the work get easier once you know what you are doing?" "Your lungs grow thick with stone dust and your eyes bleary from the sun and fragments thrown up by the chisel. You pour your lifeblood out into works of stone for Romans who will take your money in taxes to feed soldiers who will nail your people to crosses for wanting to be free. Your back breaks, your bones creak, your wife screeches at you, and your children torment you with open begging mouths, like greedy baby birds in the nest. You go to bed every night so tired and beaten that you pray to the Lord to send the angel of death to take you in your sleep so you don't have to face another morning. It also has its downside. ↗

— Christopher Moore

#humorous #physical-labor #work #death

Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility. ↗

— Terri Apter

#combining #irresponsibility #maturity #permission #physical

Well, I would never do a study because I'm a practicing physician. I mean, all I do is treat people. ↗

— Robert Atkins

#i #i do #mean #never #people

The difficulty lay with the mind accommodating itself to the notion of the plane, with all its weight, defying gravity, staying aloft. She understood the aerodynamics of flight, could comprehend the laws of physics that made flight possible, but her heart, at the moment, would have none of it. Her heart knew the plane could fall out of the sky. ↗

— Anita Shreve

#flight #gravity #heart #life #physics

And as I looked at the star, I realised what millions of other people have realised when looking at stars. We’re tiny. We don’t matter. We’re here for a second and then gone the next. We’re a sneeze in the life of the universe. ↗

— Danny Wallace

#humans #people #perspective #scale #space

I have always adhered to two principles. The first one is to train hard and get in the best possible physical condition. The second is to forget all about the other fellow until you face him in the ring and the bell sounds for the fight. ↗

— Rocky Marciano

#adhered #always #bell #best #condition

The photographs of Iraqi prisoners being subjected to degrading and humiliating treatment by their captors, and the reports of acts of sexual abuse, physical abuse, and other acts of maltreatment shock the conscience. ↗

— Ed Markey

#acts #being #captors #conscience #degrading

A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties. ↗

— Karl Marx

#appears #brings #commodity #extremely #first

Nevertheless, if I have at times been able to make original contributions in the accelerator field, I cannot help feeling that to a certain extent my slightly amateur approach in physics, combined with much practical experience, was an asset. ↗

— Simon van der Meer

#accelerator #amateur #approach #asset #been

I feel a lot healthier when I'm having sex. Physically. I feel all these jitters when I wake up in the morning. Just energy jitters. I take vitamins, I work out every day. When I'm having sex, I don't have that. ↗

— Alyssa Milano

#energy #every #every day #feel #having