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Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. -- Albert Camus
I expend far too much of my maternal energies on guilt and regret. -- Ayelet Waldman
I expend a lot of energy in my 50-60 minutes of cardio and strength training every day. -- David H. Murdock
Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself. -- Bryant H. McGill
A great deal of energy is wasted in hating people, and I can honestly say I've no wish to expend such a precious resource on being outraged about anyone. -- Kevin McCloud
I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future. -- Van Jones
He who must expend his life to prolong life cannot enjoy it, and he who is still seeking for his life does not have it and can as little enjoy it. -- Max Stirner
Studies have shown that people who are physically active sleep better than those who are sedentary. The more energy you expend during the day, the sleepier you will feel at bedtime. -- Andrew Weil
Introverts prefer introversion; we tend to gain energy by reflecting and expend energy when interacting. Extroverts have the opposite preference; they tend to gain energy by interacting and expend energy while reflecting. -- Laurie Helgoe
It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui. -- Helen Keller
There's enormous energy required to carry grudges - enormous energy! And I'm getting too old to expend my energy that way, cause I think every person has a limited amount of energy. So I have given up all grudges. -- Ed Koch
I've often said that while gaining muscle can be very difficult, it's also pretty simple - at the heart of it, you just need to take in more energy than you expend, and use an intelligent program. This is especially true for beginners. -- John Romaniello
I've become more introverted as I've got older. I used to be an outgoing person who joked around a lot, but as the amount of energy I expend by sharing my music has increased, I like to balance it by spending time by myself and recuperating. -- Aloe Blacc
Does it make sense for the U.S. to expend hundreds of billions of dollars to mount a new Apollo-style program to return to the moon? Or have we blazed that trail? Shouldn't we help other nations achieve this goal with their own resources but with our help? -- Buzz Aldrin
Dickens was born in 1812 and died in 1870, having produced fifteen novels, many of which can confidently be called great, as well as having accomplished outstanding work in activities into which his insatiable need to expend his vast energies - to achieve, to prevail - carried him: journalism, editing, acting, social reform. -- Robert Gottlieb
Did you know there's a difference between being busy and being fruitful? Did you ever stop to think that just being busy - running around in circles all day but not accomplishing anything - is the same as wasting your time? It's frustrating to expend so much energy and time and not have any fruit from your effort! -- Joyce Meyer
I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque. -- Said Sayrafiezadeh
Capital simply allows us to expend labour in advance. -- William Stanley Jevons
There is no greater sensation of consciousness than to expend yourself completely through the quickening fires of passion. -- Bryant McGill
The amount of stress in your life is determined by how much energy you expend resisting your life. -- Gary Zukav
Living in a constant chase after gain compels people to expend their spirit to the point of exhaustion. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
It is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave, than to expend it, like a gentleman. -- Charles Caleb Colton
The generality of men expend the early part of their lives in contributing to render the latter part miserable. -- Jean de la Bruyere
The energy you'll expend focusing on someone else's life is better spent working on your own. Just be your own idol. -- Sophia Amoruso
Nihilists expend everything and everyone except themselves. They are the indispensable men, without whom the world might try to live almost happily. -- Helen Clark MacInnes
You can beat the drum so hard that people stop listening. I wanted to use my voice wisely and not expend it wastefully. -- Bruce Springsteen
My God, I could raise a family of six children and hold down a full-time job with all the energy I expend on depression! -- Elizabeth Wurtzel
She who has the excellence of home virtues, and can expend within the means of her husband, is a help in the domestic state -- Thiruvalluvar
We spend so much time and expend so much energy trying to gain a sense of worth from othersultimately, only God's opinion of us matters. -- Stanley J. Grenz
The forgiveness of God is one thing, but the proof that we want that forgiveness is the energy we expend to make amends for the wrong. -- Fulton J. Sheen
By choosing not to allow parts of ourselves to exist, we are forced to expend huge amounts of psychic energy to keep them beneath the surface. -- Debbie Ford
Anybody who'd expend energy preventing people from hearing music seems not to understand the basic principal of making music in the first place. It's so antithetical to being a musician. -- Jeff Tweedy
All human beings are born with the same creative potential. Most people squander theirs away on a million superfluous things. I expend mine on one thing and one thing only: my art. -- Pablo Picasso
We buy books, we go to gyms, we expend a lot of brain power on trying to hold back time, when we should be celebrating the miracle of being here in this world. -- Paulo Coelho
Some parents expend great efforts to get their kids into the right nursery school or the right preschool, with the thought that that will set them on the path to success, to competitive success especially. -- Michael Sandel
How much time, creative energy, and emotion do we expend resisting change because we assume growth must always be painful? Much personal growth is uncomfortable, but it's worse to thwart the ascent of your authenticity. -- Sarah Ban Breathnach

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