Top 198 Inertia Quotes & Sayings

As the week wore on, Ivan contemplated the merits of inertia as a problem-solving technique with growing favor

I am adrenaline slammed into inertia: a fast car stuck in traffic.

Inertia is the first law of history, as it is of physics.

So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

It is always wiser, where there is a choice, to trust inertia. It is the greatest force in the world.

Triviality is evil - triviality, that is, in the form of consciousness and mind that adapts itself to the world as it is, that obeys the principle of inertia. And this principle of inertia truly is what is radically evil.

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

Living things have no inertia, and tend to no equilibrium.

The longer you're stuck in a position that doesn't truly challenge you, the less likely you'll be able to leave it. Inertia, in fact, is one of my worst fears.

The inertia of a jungle village is a dangerous thing. Before you know it your whole life has slipped by and you are still waiting there.

You see often it's not ideas, it's inertia, it's bureaucratism, it's all the other things that sometimes come in the way of a good idea.

It takes forever if you go by inertia.

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

Inertia, when first encountered, appears to be an immovable force. We are creatures who like comfort, patterns, and repetition... Yet change is life's only constant.

The human mind is scattered. We have become negligent about our distractions, inertia, confusion, doubt, fear, and anger.

Without conscious and deliberate effort, inertia always wins

By dawn he had surrendered, gratefully, to the old inertia, the product of always seeing both sides of every question.

Christ and his teachings are the embodiment of submission, of inertia, of the denial of life; hence responsible for the things done in their name.

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.

Punk is the voice that shouts the loudest from the silence of inertia.

Probably 90 percent of our life decisions are powered by the twin engines of inertia and laziness.

Inertia accounts for two-thirds of marriages. But love accounts for the other third.

Mental inertia is death.

The only menace is inertia.

Silence is the language of inertia.

Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.

The great enemy of any attempt to change men's habits is inertia. Civilization is limited by intertia.

The inertia of humans is so huge that you can't really do anything meaningful.

God and the devil lose to a common enemy: inertia.

Years passed; and he endured the idleness of his intelligence and the inertia of his heart.

Maybe it was inertia -or worse, fear- that was keeping me in the same place.

Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given.

One of the useful things about age is realizing conventional wisdom is often simply inertia with a candy coating of conformity.

Healing is movement. Disease is inertia. If you put the body in motion, you will change.

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

Well, I have also believed in empowering the individual and believe there is a degree of inertia in big government that hampers the ability to respond to a rapidly evolving crisis.

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

To end slavery, you must overcome the mental and physical inertia of the masses and quicken their intelligence and creative faculty.

Inertia is comforting, and Americans will be extremely reluctant to make any change that might affect their high standard of living.

We must renew democracy itself. We have to fight cynicism and inertia and restore faith in the advancement of our country.

We have to tackle the triple malady which holds our villages fast in its grip; want of corporate sanitation, deficient diet and inertia.

Ideals survive through change. They die through inertia in the face of challenge.

If we are to find our way across troubled waters, we are better served by the company of those who have built bridges, who have moved beyond despair and inertia.

Moreover, I would like to say that the sort of polar inertia we witnessed in the Kosovo War, the polar inertia involving 'automated war' and 'war-at-a-distance' is also terribly weak in the face of terrorism. For instance, in such situations, any individual who decides to place or throw a bomb can simply walk away. He or she has the freedom to move. This also applies to militant political groups and their actions.

Depression is inertia.

Inertia is the death of creativity

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

A nonviolent struggle necessarily involves construction on a small scale. It cannot therefore lead to tamas or darkness or inertia.

The inertia of the governed cannot be disentangled from the indifference of the government. American leaders have both a circular and a deliberate relationship to public opinion.

Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.

We stayed on at the Institute [Chicago called the School of Design] because that was - I don't know, you start at one place and you stay there, I guess. Inertia takes over.

Try to live your life in a way that you will not regret years of useless virtue and inertia and timidity.

Seek out habits that help you overcome fear or inertia. Destroy those that do the opposite.

Busy idleness urges us on. [Lat., Strenua nos exercet inertia.]

If you want a robot to maneuver aggressively, it has to be small. As you scale things down, the 'moment of inertia' - the resistance to angular motion - drops dramatically.

There is a great inertia about all military operations of any size. But once this inertia has been overcome and underway they are almost as hard to arrest as to initiate.

Inertia is a powerful force in human and political affairs.

The eager and often inconsiderate appeals of reformers and revolutionists are indispensable to counterbalance the inertia and fossilism marking so large a part of human institutions.

The way upward from inertia to illumination passes through the sphere of action.

A man descending is propelled by inertia; the only initiative left him is whether or not he decides to enjoy the passing scene.