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.