Weighted Quotes

36 quotes by 34 authors

What if in my waking hours a sound should ring through the silent halls of hearing? ... Would the bow and string tension of life… — Helen Keller
Most, probably, of our decisions to do something positive, the full consequences of which will be drawn out over many days to come, can only… — John Maynard Keynes
For in this world, marked by sin, the gravitational pull of our lives is weighted by the chains of the "I" and the "self." These… — Pope Benedict XVI
Time constricts and flattens, you know. It's not evenly weighted. Certain moments linger in the mind and others disappear. — Christina Baker Kline
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
I do abs every day: regular, weighted crunches and sit-ups every other day, then my obliques and my sides on the alternating day. So Iâ€™m… — Christopher Gorham
A ranch hand, equivalent of the old gaucho, rides after an ostrich, swinging three-thonged and weighted baleadoras. Note how only the toe of the boot… — Luis Marden
I always carry lots of stuff with me wherever I roam, always weighted down with books, with cassettes, with pens and paper, just in case… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
A subject to which few intellectuals ever give a thought is the right to be a vagrant, the freedom to wander. Yet vagrancy is a… — Isabelle Eberhardt
But then in April of 1985 the dollar began a sharp decline. The dollar's trade weighted value fell 23 percent in just 12 months and… — Martin Feldstein
I'm obsessed with hula-hooping. I do it for 20 minutes a day. I don't use the old-fashioned hollow plastic kind we had when we were… — Catherine Zeta-Jones
When everything is added up, the frequent blows weighted against the sporadic triumphs, this is I have to say not just a vocation, it's a… — Martin Scorsese
SEINE, n. A kind of net for effecting an involuntary change of environment. For fish it is made strong and coarse, but women are more… — Ambrose Bierce
Like a weighted diver sinking in an oceanof mediocrity, under the pressure of men withgelatin eyes, rubber voices, spiral-shapedconvictions, non-committal souls and non-committinghands ... — Ayn Rand
You are talking to a man who can only play a plastic keyboard. Give me anything weighted and I've had it. I haven't got the… — Midge Ure
I don't like your miserable lonely single front name. It is so limited, so meager; it has no versatility; it is weighted down with the… — D. H. Lawrence
Squandering our gifts brings distress to our lives. As it turns out, it's not merely benign or 'too bad' if we don't use the gifts… — BrenÃ© Brown
Why are empirical questions about how the mind works so weighted down with political and moral and emotional baggage? — Steven Pinker
I become one of those people who walks alone in the dark at night while others sleep or watch Mary Tyler Moore reruns or pull… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
Love, in the universal sense, is unconditional acceptance. In the individual sense, the one-on-one sense, try this: we can say we love each other if… — Chris Crutcher

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