Ballast Quote by Samuel Beckett Download Open image “Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.” — Samuel Beckett ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ballast Chains Dog Habit
Habit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectfully and unhappy men to live calmly — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“It was December, I had never felt so cold, the eel soup lay heavy on my stomach, I was afraid I'd die, I turned… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
“You may say it is all in my head, and indeed sometimes it seems to me I am in a head and that these… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
“Here he stood. Here he sat. Here he knelt. Here he lay. Here he moved, to and fro, from the door to the window,… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
What are we doing here, that is the question. And we are blessed in this, that we happen to know the answer. Yes, in… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo. — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
It is useless not to seek, not to want, for when you cease to seek you start to find, and when you cease to… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much? — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
The new light above my table is a great improvement. With all this darkness around me I feel less alone. (Pause.) In a way.… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
I lay down across her with my face in her breasts and my hand on her. We lay there without moving. But under us… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
The more modest its intellectual ballast, the more exclusively it takes into consideration the emotions of the masses, the more effective [propaganda] will be. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Praise a fool, and slay him; for the canvas of his vanity is spread; His bark is shallow in the water, and a sudden… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
The mind must have for ballast the clear conception of duty, if it is not to fluctuate between levity and despair. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Hatred is the ballast of the rock which lies upon our necks and underfoot. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
A hot air balloon requires a great deal of fuel to keep it aloft, so that you can't fly it even for one day.… — Steve Fossett Copy Share Image
My remembrance of the past is a novel I am constantly recomposing; and it would not be a historical novel, but sheer fiction, if… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Somehow this literary genre, which most people condemned, acted as a sort of counterbalance to Charles's soul; it was the ballast that prevented him… — Félix J. Palma Copy Share Image
Her purse was a weight, ballast; it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
It becomes necessary to learn how to clear the mind of all clouds, to free it of all useless ballast and debris by dismissing… — Indra Devi Copy Share Image
Ignorance and prejudice are the ballast of our ship of state - however, ships without ballast are not seaworthy and cannot sail in the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image