Weighs Quotes

134 Weighs quotes by 117 unique authors

The most powerful prayer, one well-nigh omnipotent, and the worthiest work of all is the outcome of a quiet mind. The quieter it is the… — Meister Eckhart
Nothing weighs more than a secret. — Jean de La Fontaine
Order always weighs on the individual. Disorder makes him wish for the police or for death. These are two extreme circumstances in which human nature… — Paul Valery
Let us be wary of ready-made ideas about cowardice and courage: the same burden weighs infinitely more heavily on some shoulders than on others. — Francois Mauriac
One cannot balance tragedy in the scales Unless one weighs it with the tragic heart. — Stephen Vincent Benet
I know that there is an eye that watches all of us. There is a judgment that weighs everything we do. And before this great… — Leonard Cohen
But just one gram of suspicion weighs heavier than a kilo of truth! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
I have skinny genes. My mother weighs 90 pounds. — Ellen Barkin
I used to think that if I had a choice between writing well and living well, I would choose the former. But now I think… — Nicole Krauss
This is, i think, very much the Age of Anxiety, the age of the neurosis, because along with so much that weighs on our minds… — Louis Kronenberger
There's no one I trust in show business more than Sabrina Wind. She's my eyes and ears when I can't be there. She weighs in… — Marc Cherry
What the intellectual craves above all else is to be taken seriously, to be treated as a decisive force in shaping history. He is far… — Eric Hoffer
Talking about things that are understandable only weighs down the mind. — Alfred Jarry
Once efficiency is universally accepted as a rule, it becomes an inner compulsion and weighs like a sense of sin, simply because no one can… — Clement Greenberg
Nothing weighs more heavily on age than time. Nothing has more meaning Â… Now time becomes, with a kind of ruthless honesty, what it has… — Joan D. Chittister
I measure every grief I meet with narrow, probing eyes - I wonder if it weighs like mine - or has an easier size. — Emily Dickinson
I like that Sarah Palin. She looks like the flight attendant who won't give you a second can of Pepsi ... She looks like the… — David Letterman
My spirit is too weak--mortality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, And each imagin'd pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship tells me I must… — John Keats
Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on… — Graham Greene
To a billion people around the world surviving on just a dollar a day, the question of what to eat tonight is more about life… — Giada De Laurentiis
There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified… — Milan Kundera
The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were. — Francis Quarles
Time weighs down on you like an old, ambiguous dream. You keep on moving, trying to sleep through it. But even if you go to… — Haruki Murakami
He insists on a version of you that is funnier, stranger, more eccentric and prfound thatn you suspect yourself to be--capable of doing more good… — Michael Cunningham
Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual. — Terry Pratchett

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