The more modest its intellectual ballast, the more exclusively it takes into consideration the emotions of the masses, the more effective [propaganda]… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Praise a fool, and slay him; for the canvas of his vanity is spread; His bark is shallow in the water, and… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
The mind must have for ballast the clear conception of duty, if it is not to fluctuate between levity and despair. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Hatred is the ballast of the rock which lies upon our necks and underfoot. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
A hot air balloon requires a great deal of fuel to keep it aloft, so that you can't fly it even for… — Steve Fossett Copy Share Image
My remembrance of the past is a novel I am constantly recomposing; and it would not be a historical novel, but sheer… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Somehow this literary genre, which most people condemned, acted as a sort of counterbalance to Charles's soul; it was the ballast that… — Félix J. Palma Copy Share Image
Her purse was a weight, ballast; it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
It becomes necessary to learn how to clear the mind of all clouds, to free it of all useless ballast and debris… — Indra Devi Copy Share Image
Ignorance and prejudice are the ballast of our ship of state - however, ships without ballast are not seaworthy and cannot sail… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Beauty Queen' is the weirdest, strangest, and most perfect play to do before 'Hedda Gabler', because there are so many similar issues… — Kate Burton Copy Share Image
Help, then, is the ballast that keeps us steady, that recognizes where along the path are the dangers and pitfalls that can… — Jerome Groopman Copy Share Image
You need as much ballast as possible to stop you from floating away; you need people around you, things going on, otherwise… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Just looking at them I grow greedy, as if they were freshly baked loaves waiting on their shelves to be broken open--that… — Linda Pastan Copy Share Image
Time and tide wait for no man. A pompous and self-satisfied proverb, and was true for a billion years; but in our… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast. Yet it must be confessed that wit given an edge to sense, and… — William Penn Copy Share Image
Seamen three! what men be ye? Gotham's three Wise Men we be. Whither in your bowl so free? To rake the moon… — Thomas Love Peacock Copy Share Image
When you cut it up, put the pieces in your mouth and swallowed them, the British hamburger shaped itself to the bottom… — Clive James Copy Share Image
If the lives of men were relieved of all need, hardship and adversity; if everything they took in hand were successful, they… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
My ties and ballasts leave me - I travel - I sail - My elbows rest in the sea-gaps. I skirt the… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
When, in 1913, in a desperate attempt to rid art of the ballast of objectivity, I took refuge in the form of… — Kazimir Malevich Copy Share Image
