Exhausted Quotes - Page 3
Where the army is, prices are high; when prices rise the wealth of the people is exhausted.
"The Art of War" by Sun Tzu, translated by Chow-Hou Wee, (Chapter II), 2003.
Sogyal Rinpoche (2009). “The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying: The Spiritual Classic & International Bestseller: Revised and Updated Edition”, p.32, Harper Collins
Haruki Murakami (2011). “Norwegian Wood”, p.245, Random House
The bureaucratic method of building an integrated Europe has exhausted its potential.
"Can Europe Work? A Plan to Rescue the Union". Foreign Affairs, September/October 1996.
It is horrible, yet fascinating, this struggle between a set purpose and an utterly exhausted frame.
1908 Of the final moments of the 1908 Olympic marathon, in which the Italian runner Dorando Pietri had to be helped over the finishing line and was thus disqualified. Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).
Speech on the state of Ireland, at Leeds, 7 October 1881, in Henry W. Lucy (ed.) 'Speeches of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone' (1885) p. 57