Heavy Quotes - Page 23

• Early in my school career, I turned out to be an incorrigible disciplinary problem. I could understand what the teacher was saying as fast as she could say it, I found time hanging heavy, so I would occasionally talk to my neighbor. That was my great crime, I talked in school.

  Isaac Asimov

  Teacher, School, Science

  Isaac Asimov (2002). “It's Been a Good Life”, Pyr Books

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• The Princess Elizabeth, of England, was found dead with her head resting on her Bible, open at these words, "Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." So may we all fall asleep at last when the day's work for Jesus is over, and wake up in heaven to find ourselves in the delicious rest that remaineth for the people of God.

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Jesus, Princess, Fall

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 516), 1895.

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• If some nuclear properties of the heavy elements had been a little different from what they turned out to be, it might have been impossible to build a bomb.

  Emilio G. Segre

  Might, Different, Nuclear

  "Enrico Fermi: Physicist". Book by Emilio G. Segre (p. 149), 1970.

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• Forget the times of trouble, but not the truths they taught. Forget the days of sorrow, but not the strength they brought. Forget the storms you battled through beneath a heavy load - but not the light that led you safely down the unknown road.

  Patience Strong

  Adversity, Light, Sorrow

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• I couldn't do the heavy rock thing anymore. Noddy Holder was around kicking every singer in the ***. I never wanted to be a pop singer. Christ, how I hated Noddy!

  Tom Jones

  Rocks, Kicking, Singers

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• The heavy armor becomes the light dress of childhood; the pain is brief, the joy unending.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Pain, Light, Childhood

  "Parerga und Paralipomena II". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer, Chapter XXIV, 1851.

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• Sweetness eliminates gravity and thus a man with a heavy burden of life starts feeling like floating in the air before sweetness.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Men, Air

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• When you are caught in the heavy rains of anger, open the umbrella of mind, take refuge under the roof of reason!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Rain, Anger, Mind

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• One needs to redistribute and restructure expenditures in favour of infrastructure, education and so on. Such military expenditures are heavy to carry.

  Anton Siluanov

  Education, Military, Needs

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• Everybody needs to understand that policies are going to change to make it unprofitable if you wreck the planet, those companies that continue exploring and developing fossil fuel resources for which there is no safe use are going to pay a very heavy cost for that.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Change, Needs, Cost

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• The unbosoming oneself to another is a kind of release to the soul, which strives to lighten its burden and find ease by throwing off the weight that lay heavy upon it.

  Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

  Soul, Ease, Weight

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• Now there are heavy houses everywhere and more of them are being built. In fact, it is only when more houses are being constructed that some countries consider their economics healthy. Yet each house is a heavy footprint on the Earth. Just as all our possessions represent-if we cannot learn ways of sharing them-a weight and clutter that often means the faces of future generations will look up into darkness and the pressure on the Earth of "things."

  Alice Walker

  Country, Mean, House

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• Do not fret over your heavy troubles, for they are the heralds of weighty mercies.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Over You, Trouble, Mercy

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.175, Discovery House

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• A hundred thousand welcomes: I could weep,
  And I could laugh; I am light and heavy:
  Welcome.

  William Shakespeare

  Light, Laughing, Welcome

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.632

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• The merit of the cross does not consist in its heaviness, but in the manner in which we carry it. I would even say that it is sometimes more virtuous to carry a cross of straw than a heavy cross because we have to be more attentive for fear of losing it.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Doe, Merit, Losing

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• The Germans made just about every bad investment you could have made in the last 10 years. They invested in Icelandic banks. They invested in Greek government bonds. They were heavy into Irish banks, big into Irish banks, and they bought U.S. subprime mortgage bonds.

  Michael Lewis

  Government, Greek, Mortgage

  "Michael Lewis’ 'Boomerang': 'Money Thrown Out in Hope, Coming Back in Anger'". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 21, 2011.

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• I'd always thought that heavy metal - what I knew of it, anyway - was for tragic losers with acne and inch-thick glasses who fantasised about slaying dragons and riding Harleys, failing to realise at the time that the only loser was me. Fortunately, a good friend of mine played me 'Battery' from Metallica's Master Of Puppets album and the scales fell instantly from my eyes. It was a total revelation.

  Joel McIver

  Eye, Good Friend, Glasses

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• I'm still talking about some heavy issues, but it feels a lot happier to me.

  Shaun Fleming

  Talking, Issues, Feels

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I really connect with music that has a point, that's not just a heavy riff and cool sounds. I always like it to have a purpose.

  Piggy D.

  Sound, Purpose

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• It is a very heavy responsibility [to be a prime-minister] to make, but someone has to make it for our country and I am thrilled and honoured to have that opportunity and that responsibility.

  Tony Abbott

  Country, Responsibility, Opportunity

  Interview with Michelle Grattan, www.sbs.com.au. March 28, 2014.

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• Science is history arranged according to the superstition and taste of the moment. The vocabulary of scholars has no wit, no salt. These heavy tomes have no soul, they are filled with distress.

  Blaise Cendrars

  Vocabulary, Soul, Superstitions

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• Life is singing also in the sand crunching under the slow and heavy steps of the guards, when we know how to listen to it.

  Rosa Luxemburg

  Singing, Steps, Life Is

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• Heavy thoughts bring on physical maladies; when the soul is oppressed so is the body.

  Martin Luther

  Worry, Soul, Body

  Table-Talk 'Of Temptation and Tribulation'

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• "In life you can never be too kind or too fair; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with."

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I went on a diet, swore off drinking and heavy eating, and in fourteen days I had lost exactly two weeks.

  Joe E. Lewis

  Funny, Drinking, Humor

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