Weigh Quotes
308 quotes by 275 authors
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Footnote: 79) The anchor is gigantic and must weigh a hundred tons, and -- delightfully -- it really is anchor-shaped, i.e. the same shape as…
— David Foster Wallace
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There are some with whom we may study in common, but we shall find them unable to go along with us to principles. Perhaps we…
— Confucius
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The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to…
— H. L. Mencken
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We’re bound by chains of love, but they don’t weigh us down. Instead, they allow us to be bigger and better than we are.
— Ann Aguirre
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O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frightened thee, 1710. That thou no more will weigh my eyelids down, And steep…
— William Shakespeare
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Get off me. You weigh more than the doors to your home.
— Julie Garwood
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... I see the green earth covered with the works of man or with the ruins of men’s work. The pyramids weigh down the earth,…
— Selma Lagerlöf
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Do not bring people in your life who weigh you down. And trust your instincts ... good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don't…
— Michelle Obama
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A world where a majority had imbibed the lessons implicit within tragic art would be one in which the consequences of our failures would necessarily…
— Alain de Botton
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Nowadays he doesn't think of his wife, though he knows he can turn around and evoke every move of her, describe any aspect of her,…
— Michael Ondaatje
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All children are heartless. They have not grown a heart yet, which is why they can climb tall trees and say shocking things and leap…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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Grown-ups love figures... When you tell them you've made a new friend they never ask you any questions about essential matters. They never say to…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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In conclusion, the arms of others either fall from your back, or they weigh you down, or they bind you fast.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Because pieces of your heart clearly weigh more when they're sitting shattered at the bottom of your stomach.
— Heather Brewer
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If it weren't for my imagination, I would weigh ten thousand pounds. This is because the only way I am able to exercise anymore is…
— Mindy Kaling
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In a world without love, this is what people are to each other: values, benefits, and liabilities, numbers and data. We weigh, we quantify, we…
— Lauren Oliver
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[She] was made up of skin and bones and hate and crazy, and hate and crazy don't weigh anything.
— Barry Lyga
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Whatever one of us asked the other to do - it was assumed the asker would weigh all the consequences - the other would do.…
— Sheldon Vanauken
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You wear your honor like a suit of armor... You think it keeps you safe, but all it does is weigh you down and make…
— George R. R. Martin
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Existence is not something which lets itself be thought of form a distance; it must invade you suddenly, master you, weigh heavily on your heart…
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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