Weighed Quotes
152 quotes by 145 authors
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We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this…
— Charles Baudelaire
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The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales.
— Aesop
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The EU must be able to act with the speed and flexibility of a network, not the cumbersome rigidity of a bloc. We must not…
— David Cameron
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Sometimes when we're feeling sad, it's important just to feel the sadness. Like a snake shedding its skin, old feelings of remorse and regret and…
— Marianne Williamson
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The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment. . . . We are told that by its aid the stars are weighed and…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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I recently had my annual physical examination, which I get once every seven years, and when the nurse weighed me, I was shocked to discover…
— Dave Barry
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Jealousy was plainly exhibited when I fondled a large doll, and when I weighed his infant sister, he being then 15? months old. Seeing how…
— Charles Darwin
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If only mortals would learn how great it is to possess divine grace, how beautiful, how noble, how precious. How many riches it hides within…
— Rose of Lima
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The framers of the constitution knew human nature as well as we do. They too had lived in dangerous days; they too knew the suffocating…
— William O. Douglas
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The brain, or cerebrum, is a material entity located inside the skull which may be inspected, touched, weighed, and measured. It is composed of chemicals,…
— Jose Manuel Rodriguez Delgado
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His [Henry Cavendish's] Theory of the Universe seems to have been, that it consisted solely of a multitude of objects which could be weighed, numbered,…
— George Wilson
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Rules serve no purpose; they can only do harm. Not only must the artist's mind be clear, it must also be free. His fancy should…
— Federico Zuccari
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Don't let yourself be weighed down by what other people think, because in a few years, in a few decades, or in a few centuries,…
— Paulo Coelho
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Investors should always keep in mind that the most important metric is not the returns achieved but the returns weighed against the risks incurred. Ultimately,…
— Seth Klarman
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The benefits of the accomplished journey cannot be weighed in terms of perfect moments, but in terms of how this journey affects and changes our…
— Ella Maillart
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I refused to worry about something I could not change, and I still refuse. Look, I'm like any other woman. All this evolved b.s. that…
— Kristen Bell
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I had to surrender to not worrying about the way I looked, how much I weighed...I am not a woman whose self-worth comes from her…
— Kristen Bell
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Democracy is a system where people are counted not weighed.
— Muhammad Iqbal
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If you bound the arms and legs of gold-medal swimmer Michael Phelps, weighed him down with chains, threw him in a pool and he sank,…
— Peter Boettke
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I'd just turned 50, weighed 285, and my doctor had read me the riot act about my health.
— Daniel Baldwin
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