Exhausting Quotations | Page 2

Caring for others is accomplished by a dazzling array of skills in an endless variety of circumstances. As well as cooking, shopping, cleaning, laundering, planting, tending, harvesting for others, women comfort and guide, nurse and teach, arrange and advise, discipline and encourage, fight for and pacify. Taxing and exhausting under any circumstances, this service work, this emotional housework, is done both outside and inside the home.

It's been an exhausting series of events to get to this point.

It's been a mentally and physically exhausting week.

It's exhausting, the energy it takes to unknow a truth.

It feels so exhausting to be so bad at something I loved so much.

Not writing is probably the most exhausting profession I've ever encountered.

A lot of times, fighters get not only physically tired but mentally exhausted. It's like a chess match - you're thinking of offense and defense at the same time. It's almost exhausting to think about it. After a while, you just go, 'I'll move my pawn.' A lot of times in fights, people get exhausted, and they're just sick of trying to focus on it.

It is certainly true that as we grow older, our need for healthcare also grows. It is also true that those who have lived their lives in the most difficult circumstances and experienced the most exhausting and challenging work places need healthcare the most.

We are exhausting the pool of the unemployed and of otherwise available workers.

I guess it was fitting; it was incredible. After last night's exhausting game, to play as well defensively as we did today was hugely important.