Heavy Quotes
1533 Heavy quotes by 1180 unique authors
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Sometimes ideas hold us down; they become heavy anchors that hold the bark of identity fixated in shallow, dead water.
— John O'Donohue
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Somewhere, out at the edges, the night / Is turning and the waves of darkness / Begin to brighten the shore of dawn... The heavy…
— John O'Donohue
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Perform your long and heavy task with energy, treading the path to which Fate has been pleased to call you.
— Alfred de Vigny
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Love makes everything that is heavy light.
— Thomas a Kempis
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Sufficient for the day is all that we can enjoy. We cannot eat or drink or wear more than the day's supply of food and…
— Charles Spurgeon
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The economy is still substantially that of the fur trade, still based on the same general kinds of commercial items: technology, weapons, ornaments, novelties, and…
— Wendell Berry
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The dreams of human beings are dark, heavy and morbid and simplistic and boring. The dreams of immortality are endless and shining, they shimmer, they…
— Frederick Lenz
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LEAD, n. A heavy blue-gray metal much used ... as a counterpoise to an argument of such weight that it turns the scale of debate…
— Ambrose Bierce
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As you get more global warming, you should see an increase in the extremes of the hydrological cycle - droughts and floods and heavy precipitation.
— James Hansen
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I guess the worst snow was the Kennedy inauguration in 1960. Heavy snow.
— Bob Schieffer
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There are a few artists that I'm really into. I mean, I'm a big Nick Cave fan. And there's a band from Australia called Big…
— J. Robbins
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This is called "spiritual lifting." It's not heavy lifting. The governor of Texas should not be confused with Arnold Schwarzenegger. That's a powerful position. The…
— Kinky Friedman
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Even when I was doing theater it was more comedic. Don't get me wrong, I love doing the dramatic and heavy stuff, but I just…
— Megan Hilty
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Tis not my talent to conceal my thoughts, Or carry smiles and sunshine in my face, When discontent sits heavy at my heart.
— Joseph Addison
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Eternal rest sounds comforting in the pulpit; well, you try it once, and see how heavy time will hang on your hands.
— Mark Twain
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I can't bear to finish things, beyond a certain point they get heavy. There's something so dead about a finished painting.
— John Updike
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A heavy guilt rests upon us for what the whites of all nations have done to the colored peoples. When we do good to them,…
— Albert Schweitzer
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With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread.
— Thomas Hood
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My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
— Charles de Gaulle
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See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep.
— Alexander Pope
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Gauguin says that when sailors have to move a heavy load or raise an anchor, they all sing together to keep them up and give…
— Vincent Van Gogh
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My greatest affliction... is perhaps the major theme of my writings, the affliction of loneliness that follows me like a shadow, a very ponderous shadow…
— Tennessee Williams
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The crime of a mother is a heavy burden.
— Jean Racine
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A heartfelt sense of aspiring cuts through negativity about yourself; it cuts through the heavy trips you lay on yourself.
— Pema Chodron
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People get into a heavy-duty sin and guilt trip, feeling that if things are going wrong, that means that they did something bad and they…
— Pema Chodron
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