Best Sluggish Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Edmund Spenser's Knight of the red cross; or Holiness [The faerie queene, book 1]. The antique spelling is modernized, obsolete words are displaced [&c., by W. Horton].

“Ford Motor Company's sluggish and piecemeal approach to its automotive responsibilities betrays motorists' safety.”

Responsibility Company Approach Safety Betrayal Betray Motor Sluggish Ford Motor

Author:Ralph Nader

“The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.”

Age Institutions Tension Aspiration Hallmark Sluggish

Author:John W. Gardner

“I'm a sluggish character; I'm a bit slow. For some reason I find it hard to work quickly.”

Hard Reason Character Bits Sluggish

Author:Jarvis Cocker

“Lifeless in appearance, sluggish dazed spring approaches They enter the new world naked, cold, uncertain of all save that they enter.”

World Cold Approach Spring Appearance Naked New World Uncertain Lifeless Sluggish Dazed

Author:William Carlos Williams

“All the inducements of early society tend to foster immediate action; all its penalties fall on the man who pauses; the traditional wisdom of those times was never weary of inculcating that "delays are dangerous," and that the sluggish man the man "who roasteth not that which he took in hunting" will not prosper on the earth, and indeed will very soon perish out of it. And in consequence an inability to stay quiet, an irritable desire to act directly, is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.”

Source: Physics and Politics: Or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of

“The sluggish economy is creating a situation where the young people in Japan cannot cherish their desires or have prospects for their future. Also, the decline in Japan's economic capability is resulting in a declining presence for Japan's foreign policy as well. Accordingly, the duties and mission that I must fulfill are pretty clear: namely, to regain a strong and robust economy, and also to restore Japan's strong foreign policy capability.”

People Wells Young Desire Strong Situation Economy Clear Economic Policy Duty Creating Missions Japan Cherish Capability Foreign Policy Decline Prospects Robust Sluggish

Author:Shinzo Abe

“When you were a tadpole and I was a fish, in the Palæozoic time And side by side in the sluggish tide, we sprawled in the ooze and slime.”

Sides Fishes Tides Pals Sluggish Slime Tadpoles

Author:Langdon Smith

“Alcohol and drugs are not the problems; they are what people are using to help themselves cope with the problems. Those problems always have both physical and psychological components- anything from anemia, hypoglycemia, or a sluggish thyroid to attention deficient disorder, brain-wave pattern imbalances, or deep emotional pain.”

Source: The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery

“(I)t is highly questionable whether when 'Europe speaks with one voice', as we are so often told it is doing, anyone is really listening. Europe's reputation as a serious player in international affairs is unenviable. It is a feeble giant who desperate attempts to be taken seriously are largely risible. It has a weak currency and a sluggish inflexible economy, still much reliant on hidden protectionism. It has a shrinking, ageing, population and, with the exception of Britain, rather unimpressive armed forces and, not excepting Britain, muddled diplomacy.”

“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity.”

Source: Churchill: The Power of Words

“Eternal life does not violate the laws of physics. After all, we only die because of one word: "error." The longer we live, the more errors there are that are made by our bodies when they read our genes. That means cells get sluggish. The body doesn't function as well as it could, which is why the skin ages. Then organs eventually fail, so that's why we die.”

Wells Mean Doe Made Body Age Law Dies Failing Eternal Skins Function Errors Physics Cells Genes Organs One Word Eternal Life Laws Of Physics Sluggish

Author:Michio Kaku

“A sluggish, dawdling, and dilatory man may have spasms of activity, but he never acts continuously and consecutively with energetic quickness.”

Men May Activity Energetic Sloth Sluggish Quickness

Book:Life and Campaigns of George B. McClellan, Major-general U. S. Army

Source: Life and Campaigns of George B. McClellan, Major-general U. S. Army

“Dawn crept over the Downs like a sinister white animal, followed by the snarling cries of a wind eating its way between the black boughs of the thorns. The wind was the furious voice of this sluggish animal light that was baring the dormers and mullions and scullions of Cold Comfort Farm.”

Way Light Black Voice White Animal Cry Wind Cold Comfort Eating Dawn Farms Thorns Furious Sinister Sluggish Snarling Cold Comfort Farm

Book:Cold comfort farm

Source: Cold comfort farm

“I rarely use the internet for research, as I find the process cumbersome and detestable. The information gained is often untrustworthy and couched in execrable prose. It is unpleasant to sit in front of a twitching screen suffering assault by virus, power outage, sluggish searches, system crashes and the lack of direct human discourse.”

Humans Use Suffering Process Fronts Information Internet Research Direct Screens Atmosphere Prose Crash Discourse Assault Viruses Hustle Scams Sluggish Untrustworthy Twitching

Author:Annie Proulx

“I wish the air were pure oxygen, and then as it says in our chemistry book, our life would sweep through its fevered burning course in a few hours and we would live in a perfect delirium of excitement and would die vibrating with passion, for anything would be better than this lazy sluggish life.”

Book Would Be Dies Passion Courses Wish Hours Perfect Our Lives Air Pure Burning Excitement Lazy Chemistry Oxygen Delirium Sluggish

Author:M. Carey Thomas

“If I eat junk food and have a workout the next day, I feel a significant difference in the way my body responds to exercise. Im sluggish, tired and run out of energy very quickly.”

Ifs Way Feels Body Running Next Energy Differences Exercise Tired Significant Next Day Workout Junk Junk Food Sluggish

Author:Josie Loren

“In a time of serious budget deficits, immense war costs and a sluggish economy, we cannot afford to grant such outlandish subsidies to some of our Nations largest corporations.”

War Nations Economy Serious Cost Budgets Corporations Grants Immense Deficit Subsidies Sluggish Outlandish Budget Deficit

Author:Ron Kind

“In doing good, we are generally cold, and languid, and sluggish; and of all things afraid of being too much in the right. But theworks of malice and injustice are quite in another style. They are finished with a bold, masterly hand; touched as they are with the spirit of those vehement passions that call forth all our energies, whenever we oppress and persecute.”

Hands Spirit Passion Energy Too Much Style Cold All Things Injustice Finished Touched Malice Doing Good Sluggish Vehement

Book:The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke

Source: The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke

“The written word still enjoyed a certain prestige here. It was a sluggish country.”

Stills Country Certain Written Enjoyed Prestige Written Word Sluggish Automation

Book:Neuromancer

Source: Neuromancer

“Ah! soul of mine! Ah! soul of mine! Thy sluggish senses are but bars That stand between thee and the stars, And shut thee from the world divine.”

World Soul Stars Mines Divine Senses Bars Thee Sluggish

Book:THE MARBLE PROPHECY AND OTHER POEMS.

Source: THE MARBLE PROPHECY AND OTHER POEMS.

“In fact man's career has been less like a mountain torrent hurtling from rock to rock, than a great sluggish river, broken very seldom by rapids.”

Men Has Beens Facts Careers Rocks Broken Mountain Rivers Rapids Sluggish

Book:Last and First Men, & Star Maker: Two Science-fiction Novels

Source: Last and First Men, & Star Maker: Two Science-fiction Novels

“In a sluggish system, aggressiveness produces instability. Either be patient or make the system more responsive.”

Produce Patient Be Patient Instability Sluggish Aggressiveness

Book:The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization: First edition

Source: The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization: First edition

“I must be allowed to add some explanatory remarks to bring the subject home to reason-to that sluggish reason, which supinely takes opinions on trust, and obstinately supports them to spare itself the labour of thinking.”

Thinking Reason Home Opinion Support Subjects Add Labour Spares Remarks Sluggish

Book:A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Source: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

“We are too feeble and sluggish to make our way out to the upper limit of the air. If someone could reach the summit, or put on wings and fly aloft, when he put up his head he would see the world above, just as fishes see our world when they put up their heads out of the sea; and if his nature were able to bear the sight, he would recognize that that is the true heaven.”

Ifs World Way Able Heaven Air Sea Bears Limits Sight Wings Fishes Our World Summit Sluggish

Author:Plato

“Neither in thy actions be sluggish nor in thy conversation without method, nor wandering in thy thoughts, nor let there be in thy soul inward contention nor external effusion, nor in life be so busy as to have no leisure.”

Soul Action Life Is Conversation Method Busy Wander Leisure Inward Contention Sluggish

Book:Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion

Source: Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion

“I exercise as much as I can. If I don't exercise, I feel sluggish. i try to do 30 minutes a day.”

Ifs Feels Trying I Can Minutes Exercise Sluggish

Author:Kim Cattrall

“I also admit, that there are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits which are not good till they are rotten.”

Men Drinking Fruit Alcohol Alcoholism Rotten Sluggish

Author:Samuel Johnson

“I don't surf the net in general. I have someone do it for me instead, because I find it sluggish.”

Surfing Surf Sluggish

Author:Brian May

“The difficulty for Mr. Obama will be when the public sees where his decisions lead - higher inflation, higher interest rates, higher taxes, sluggish growth, and a jobless recovery.”

Growth Interest Decision Higher Taxes Difficulty Rate Recovery Usa Jobless Inflation Interest Rate Sluggish

Author:Karl Rove

“One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.”

Men Years Mean Whole Action Water Hours Existence Risk Honor Filled Noble Stealing Observation Glorious Participation Crowded One Hour Observance Marshes Sluggish Decorum Whole Year

Book:the bride of Lammermoor

Source: the bride of Lammermoor

“If I eat something a little crazy or if I feel sluggish, I know I have to eat better the next day and work out. I work out, I do circuit training so I try to keep my heart rate up whether I'm doing cardio, lifting weights or jumping rope. I like to mix it up. I also take Zumba classes - I love those, those are a blast.”

“Nothing is really lost or can be lost, No birth, identity, form--no object of the world, Nor life, nor force, nor any visible thing... The body, sluggish, aged , cold--the embers left from early fires, ...shall duly flame again”

World Body Form Lost Left Force Fire Identity Objects Cold Birth Flames Visible Embers Sluggish

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“It was a splendid population - for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home - you never find that sort of people among pioneers - you cannot build pioneers out of that sort of material. It was that population that gave to California a name for getting up astounding enterprises and rushing them through with a magnificent dash and daring and a recklessness of cost or consequences, which she bears unto this day - and when she projects a new surprise the grave world smiles as usual and says, "Well, that is California all over.”

Source: Mark Twain, the Globetrotter: Complete Travel Books, Memoirs & Anecdotes (Illustrated Edition): A Tramp Abroad, The Innocents Abroad, Roughing It, Old Times on the Mississippi, Life on the Mississippi, Following the Equator & Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion, With Author’s Biography

“I don't want to see anyone. I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and nothingness washing over me like a sluggish wave. Whatever is happening to me is my own fault. I have done something wrong, something so huge I can't even see it, something that's drowning me. I am inadequate and stupid, without worth. I might as well be dead.”