Ballast Quotes

20 quotes by 19 authors

Enthusiasms, like stimulants, are often affected by people with small mental ballast — Minna Antrim
There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business. — James Russell Lowell
Hatred is the ballast of the rock which lies upon our necks and underfoot. — Maya Angelou
Beauty Queen' is the weirdest, strangest, and most perfect play to do before 'Hedda Gabler', because there are so many similar issues for Maureen and… — Kate Burton
Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life. — Henry David Thoreau
Here we are in the century of information, that is to say the unformed. Every kind of literature will be journalistic, with a science for… — Julien Torma
If the lives of men were relieved of all need, hardship and adversity; if everything they took in hand were successful, they would be so… — Arthur Schopenhauer
It becomes necessary to learn how to clear the mind of all clouds, to free it of all useless ballast and debris by dismissing the… — Indra Devi
Somehow this literary genre, which most people condemned, acted as a sort of counterbalance to Charles's soul; it was the ballast that prevented him from… — FÃ©lix J. Palma
The more modest its intellectual ballast, the more exclusively it takes into consideration the emotions of the masses, the more effective [propaganda] will be. — Adolf Hitler
A hot air balloon requires a great deal of fuel to keep it aloft, so that you can't fly it even for one day. A… — Steve Fossett
Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit. — Samuel Beckett
When, in 1913, in a desperate attempt to rid art of the ballast of objectivity, I took refuge in the form of the square... the… — Kazimir Malevich
Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast. — William Penn
And yet, just as our body would burst asunder if the pressure of the atmosphere were removed from it, so would the arrogance of men… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Just looking at them I grow greedy, as if they were freshly baked loaves waiting on their shelves to be broken open--that one and that--and… — Linda Pastan
You need as much ballast as possible to stop you from floating away; you need people around you, things going on, otherwise life is like… — Nick Hornby
Her purse was a weight, ballast; it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away. — Anne Lamott
Time and tide wait for no man. A pompous and self-satisfied proverb, and was true for a billion years; but in our day of electric… — Mark Twain
For him to have understood me would have meant reorganizing his thinking... giving up his intellectual ballast, and few people are willing to risk such… — Edward T. Hall

Who Wrote These Ballast Quotes

19 authors contributed a total of 20 Ballast Quotes as follows: