(1563 quotes found)
“Farewell -- farewell,For I am weary of the weight of time.”
William Butler Yeats
“Over and over, these men cry out against the weight of so many losses-not just a lover dead, but friends and friends of friends, dozens of them, until it seems that AIDS is all there is and all there ever will be.”
Jane Gross
“Religion is not a burden, not a weight, it is wings”
Harry Emerson Fosdick
“What kind of scale compares the weight of two beauties, the gravity of duties, or the ground speed of joy? Tell me, what kind of gage can quantify elation? What kind of equation could I possibly employ?”
Ani Difranco
“A mind that questions everything, unless strong enough to bear the weight of its ignorance, risks questioning itself and being engulfed in doubt. If it cannot discover the claims to existence of the objects of its questioning -- and it would be miraculous if it so soon succeeded in solving so many mysteries -- it will deny them all reality, the mere formulation of the problem already implying an inclination to negative solutions. But in so doing it will become void of all positive content and, finding nothing which offers it resistance, will launch itself perforce into the emptiness of inner revere.”
Emile Durkheim
“I have no use for people who throw there weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.”
Walt Disney
“A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.”
John Updike
“I was told I had to gain a lot of weight because Hobbits are very portly. Peter [Jackson] is forever suggesting I have more food. 'A little more food for Mr. Astin.”
Sean Astin
“It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.”
Isaac Newton
“The first pressure of sorrow crushes out from our hearts the best wine; afterwards the constant weight of it brings forth bitterness, the taste and strain from the lees of the vat.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
