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The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
I firmly believe that any man's finest hour the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.
An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
Eating when you're not hungry and taking in that amount of food is exhausting.
Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.
So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse.
I'm a method writer. In order to write about the emotion I have to experience it. I get physically tired and exhausted devoting hours and hours and hours to it.
I want to be able to experience everything. I want to experience being a husband experience being a father experience maybe hopefully someday being a grandfather and all those things. I want that experience. When I die I want to be exhausted.
I think each movie-making process is a very exhausting and satisfying and fulfilling experience for me.
Few people even scratch the surface much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.
I've been dating since I was fifteen. I'm exhausted. Where is he?
But when you're a working actor - and that's what you keep saying in your head how blessed you are to have a job - and you are working with heavyweights working with the best guys in TV it's pretty cool. Exhausting but cool.
Interventions are really emotionally exhausting and I would never ever want to have one. In the same way I would never want to have a surprise birthday party. That would be horrible.
It is our best work that God wants not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.
It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster' every original inexhaustible beauty.
Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten and the more a picture has to give the greater it is.
Although you may spend your life killing You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger your real enemy will be slain.
I'm a workaholic. Before long I'm traveling on my nervous energy alone. This is incredibly exhausting.
At the root of the shy temperament is a deep fear of social judgment one so severe it can sometimes be crippling. Introverted people don't worry unduly about whether they'll be found wanting they just find too much socializing exhausting and would prefer either to be alone or in the company of a select few people.
So I was getting into my car and this bloke says to me 'Can you give me a lift?' I said 'Sure you look great the world's your oyster go for it.''
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