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"exhaustion and exasperation are frequently the handmaidens of legislative decision." »Barber B. Conable, Jr
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"Of course we can keep this going, in principle, forever. In practice we will keel over from exhaustion, boredom, or death." »David Adger, Core Syntax: A Minimalist Approach
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"The vision of a champion is someone who is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion when no one else is looking." »Annson Dorrance
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"The vision of a champion is someone who is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion when no one else is watching." »Anson Dorrance, Go for the Goal by Mia Hamm
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"Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion... I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward." »Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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"Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward." »Kurt Vonnegut
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"The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous." »Shana Alexander
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"so convincing were those dreams of being awake that he woke from them in a state of complete exhaustion, and had to go straight back to sleep again." »Joseph Heller, Catch 22
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"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important." »Bertrand Russell
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"The first sign of a nervous breakdown is when you start thinking your work is terribly important." »Milo Bloom
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"If you ever feel like you're on the verge of a nervous breakdown, just follow these simple rules First, calm down second, come over and wash my car third, shine all my shoes. There, isn't that better" »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness." »Carl Rogers
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"When the Special Theory of Relativity began to germinate in me, I was visited by all sorts of nervous conflicts... I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion." »Albert Einstein
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"Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters." »M. F. K. Fisher
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"Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul." »Alice James
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"Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system. I have never known a man who died from overwork, but many who died from doubt." »Charles H. Mayo
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"In light of knowledge attained, the happy achievement seems almost a matter of course, and any intelligent student can grasp it without too much trouble. But the years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alterations of confidence and exhaustion and the final emergence into the light -- only those who have experienced it can understand it." »Albert Einstein
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"I see great things in baseball. It's our game--the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us." »Walt Whitman
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"One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: "Have no anxiety about the morrow"; or the words of Sir William Osler; "Live in day-tight compartments." »Dale Carnegie
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"I was always puzzled by the fact that people have a great deal of trouble and pain when and if they are forced or feel forced to change a belief or circumstance which they hold dear. I found what I believe is the answer when I read that a Canadian neurosurgeon discovered some truths about the human mind which revealed the intensity of this problem. He conducted some experiments which proved that when a person is forced to change a basic belief or viewpoint, the brain undergoes a series of nervous sensations equivalent to the most agonizing torture." »Sidney Madwed
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