Dead Weight Quotes
23 quotes by 21 authors
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As our economy faces up to potential labour shortages due to our ageing population and as it moves to a new level of sophistication to…
— Julia Gillard
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Spirituality is not a question of morality, it is a question of vision. Spirituality is not the practising of virtues - because if you practise…
— Rajneesh
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The secret of meditation is the art of unlearning. Mind is learning; meditation is unlearning: that is - die constantly to your experience; let it…
— Rajneesh
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If you're unlucky enough not to have alcoholic parents, it takes you a whole lifetime of intoxication to overcome the dead weight of their virtues.
— Emile M. Cioran
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Of my fifty-seven years I have applied at least thirty to forgetting most of what I have learned or read. Since then, I have acquired…
— Emanuel Lasker
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If we change in different directions, then we don't have any future anyway, do we? I think it's possible for two people to change together,…
— Richard Bach
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Paris is a place in which we can forget ourselves, reinvent, expunge the dead weight of our past.
— Michael Simkins
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When you're dead weight, in the right position, you win. And in reality, you wouldn't see someone my size kicking seven martial arts experts and…
— Joan Severance
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But even now, with the crates piled high in the hall, what I see most plainly about the books is that they are beautiful. They…
— Leon Wieseltier
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Indifference is the dead weight of history.
— Antonio Gramsci
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There is an intense but simple thrill in setting off in the morning on a mountain trail, knowing that everything you need is on your…
— Paul Theroux
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History is full of the dead weight of things which have escaped the control of the mind, yet drive man on with a blind force.
— F. M. Powicke
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Libraries can be of indispensable service in lifting the dead weight of poverty and ignorance.
— Francis Keppel
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Fear of death is form of stasis horrors. The dead weight of time.
— William S. Burroughs
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So now I have sworn to bury All this dead body of hate I feel so free and so clear By the loss of that…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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The past is a distraction, a source of envy, enmity, bitterness. Only the present matters, for only in the present can we shape the future.…
— Stephen Baxter
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I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.
— Howard Mumford Jones
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Can you feel it ? the dead weight of your legs from the sleeping pills, the dizziness from the alcohol, the soft throbbing of your…
— Ream
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We are failing to segregate morons who are increasing and multiplying . . . a dead weight of human waste . . .an ever-increasing spawning…
— Margaret Sanger
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DON'T BE AFRAID TO LET GO...someone told me that...LETTING GO IS THE BEST THING YOU CAN DO BECAUSE IF YOU DON'T LET GO THEN IT…
— Shar-rae
Who Wrote These Dead Weight Quotes
21 authors contributed a total of 23 Dead Weight Quotes as follows: