Ballast Quotes
20 quotes by 19 authors
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Enthusiasms, like stimulants, are often affected by people with small mental ballast
— Minna Antrim
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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
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Hatred is the ballast of the rock which lies upon our necks and underfoot.
— Maya Angelou
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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…
— Félix J. Palma
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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
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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
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Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
— Samuel Beckett
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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
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Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.
— William Penn
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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
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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
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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
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Her purse was a weight, ballast; it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away.
— Anne Lamott
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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
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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: