Weighty Quotes

44 quotes by 41 authors

Worry is a weighty monster with poisoned tentacles. It clutches at us, grabs at our minds, steals our breath, our will. It lurks. It pounces.… — Mary E. DeMuth
Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel. — Vita Sackville-West
When an argument is over, how many weighty reasons does a man recollect which his heat and violence made him utterly forget? — Eustace Budgell
I'm drawn to dark characters, and to things that are really weighty. — Tony Vincent
I can remember picking up weighty tomes on the history of science and the history of philosophy and reading those when I was small. — Peter Ackroyd
There is no reason why humanity cannot be served equally by weighty and trivial motives. — Eric Hoffer
One of my rigid goals is to keep each book under 300 pages because I think so much nonfiction is literally weighty that people don't… — Thomas Cahill
Order marches with weighty and measured strides. Disorder is always in a hurry. — Napoleon Bonaparte
The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own. — Virginia Woolf
A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both. — Frank Herbert
Love was also an easy word, used carelessly. Felons and creeps could offer it coated in sugar, and users could dangle it so enticingly that… — Deb Caletti
There was a feeling, not sudden, but complete, as though I had been given a small object to hold unseen in my hands. Precious as… — Diana Gabaldon
As coal pressured into pearls by our weighty existence. Beauty that arose out of pain. — Suzanne Collins
when all of life becomes crowded with profound and weighty matters, making time to engage in trivial things becomes an even greater priority. — Galen Beckett
Fate," Blue replied, glowering at her mother, "is a very weighty word to throw around before breakfast. — Maggie Stiefvater
Hey, look at this!" He holds up a glistening, perfect pearl about the size of a pea. "You know, if you put enough pressure on… — Suzanne Collins
Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light. — Wislawa Szymborska
But aesthetics is not religion, and the origins of religion lie somewhere completely different. They lie anyway, these roses smell too sweet and the deep… — Rudolf Otto
When I became prime minister last September, I promised the Japanese people that I would not tolerate the politics of indecision. A propensity to delay… — Yoshihiko Noda
Each of you, for himself, by himself and on his own responsibility, must speak. And it is a solemn and weighty responsibility, and not lightly… — Mark Twain

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