Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

As pessimistic as I am about the nature of human beings and our capacity for atrocity and malevolence and betrayal and laziness and inertia, and all those things, I think we can transcend all that and set things straight.

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

My books are inert as cordwood till a reader's imagination ignites one and an old flame jumps to life.

The joys of friendship inert the heart and fizzy home bouncing jubilantly with laughter-buttered love.

You can break through old limits, past inertia and fear, to... richness of choice, freedom, human closeness.

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success.

Places are never just places in a piece of writing. If they are, the author has failed. Setting is not inert. It is activated by point of view.

The Law of Inertia states that a body in motion will remain in motion, and a body at rest will remain at rest. In life, nothing will happen when no one will make a move

It is not inertia alone that is responsible for human relationships repeating themselves from case to case, indescribably monotonous and unrenewed: it is shyness before any sort of new, unforeseeable experience with which one does not think oneself able to cope. But only someone who is ready for everything, who excludes nothing, not even the most enigmatical will live the relation to another as something alive.

A Man who is doing his True Will has the inertia of the Universe to assist him.

But no: he was empty, he was confronted by a vast anger, a desperate anger, he saw it and could almost have touched it. But it was inert - if it were to live and find expression and suffer, he must lend it his own body. It was other people's anger. "Swine!" He clenched his fists, he strode along, but nothing came, the anger remained external to himself.

Now there is one thing I can tell you: you will enjoy certain pleasures you would not fathom now. When you still had your mother you often thought of the days when you would have her no longer. Now you will often think of days past when you had her. When you are used to this horrible thing that they will forever be cast into the past, then you will gently feel her revive, returning to take her place, her entire place, beside you. At the present time, this is not yet possible. Let yourself be inert, wait till the incomprehensible power ... that has broken you restores you a little, I say a little, for henceforth you will always keep something broken about you. Tell yourself this, too, for it is a kind of pleasure to know that you will never love less, that you will never be consoled, that you will constantly remember more and more.

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society as the blazing meteor when it descends to earth is only a stone.

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress but that they love inertia.

If history is a guide a victory for Obama means he faces the prospect of a second term dogged by scandal or inertia.

The joys of friendship inert the heart and fizzy home bouncing jubilantly with laughter-buttered love.

What I think we fear is rapid pronounced and uncontrollable changes to ourselves and because of this we have a form of personality inertia - something that resists rapid change.

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman the formula the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

I don't think we're yet evolved to the point where we're clever enough to handle a complex a situation as climate change. The inertia of humans is so huge that you can't really do anything meaningful.