Heavy Quotes - Page 24

• .. the Grand Ole Opry used to come on, and I used to watch that. They used to have some pretty heavy cats, heavy guitar players

  Jimi Hendrix

  Music, Cat, Player

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• ... I think the idea of crossing over is the ultimate expression of being ... Maybe it's time to play rock and roll on disco ... maybe it's time to play heavy metal on R & B, things like that. Certainly culminating on things like Aerosmith doing the rap thing with Run DMC, which if they hadn't done that, or if Eddie hadn't played with Michael Jackson, or if I hadn't done "Hot Stuff", people would have said "You can't do that"

  Jeff Baxter

  Music, Running, Rap

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• A long past vividly remembered is like a heavy garment that clings to your limbs when you would run.

  Mary Antin

  Running, Past, Long

  Mary Antin (2013). “The Promised Land”, p.13, Courier Corporation

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• It is painful to be consciously of two worlds. The Wandering Jew in me seeks forgetfulness. I am not afraid to live on and on, if only I do not have to remember too much. A long past vividly remembered is like a heavy garment that clings to your limbs when you would run.

  Mary Antin

  Running, Past, Two

  Mary Antin (1912). “The Promised Land”, Houghton Mifflin company

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• Then about 12 years ago it dawned on me that folk music - the music of Woody Guthrie and Phil Ochs, early Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Pete Seeger - could be as heavy as anything that comes through a Marshall stack. The combination of three chords and the right lyrical couplet can be as heavy as anything in the Metallica catalogue.

  Tom Morello

  Years, Three, Cash

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• Your mind now, moldering like wedding-cake, heavy with useless experience, rich with suspicion, rumour, fantasy, crumbling to pieces under the knife-edge of mere fact. In the prime of your life.

  Adrienne Rich

  Knives, Cake, Mind

  1963 Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law,'Snapshots of a Daughterin- Law,1'.

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• Dull witted brooding people love to stuff themselves with quantities of heavy food, just like animals for fattening. Bubbly intellectual people love foods which stimulate the taste buds without overloading the belly. Profound, meditative people prefer neutral foods which do not have an assertive flavor and are not difficult to digest, and therefore do not demand too much attention.

  Carl Friedrich von Rumohr

  Animal, People, Profound

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• Eleanor hadn't written him a letter. It was a postcard. GREETINGS FROM THE LAND OF 10,000 LAKES it said on the front. Park turned it over and recognized her scratchy handwriting. It filled his head with song lyrics. He sat up. He smiled. Something heavy and winged took off from his chest. Eleanor hadn't written him a letter, it was a postcard. Just three words long.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Song, Lakes, Land

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.291, St. Martin's Griffin

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• The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Courage, Yoga

  Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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• Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.

  Seneca the Younger

  Anger, Blow, Thinking

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• There is continual spring, and harvest there Continual, both meeting at one time: For both the boughs do laughing blossoms bear, And with fresh colours deck the wanton prime, And eke attonce the heavy trees they climb, Which seem to labour under their fruits load: The whiles the joyous birds make their pastime Amongst the shady leaves, their sweet above, And their true loves without suspicion tell abroad.

  Edmund Spenser

  Sweet, Time, Spring

  1590 Of the Garden of Adonis. The Faerie Queen, bk.3, canto 6, stanza 42.

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• Have you any old grudges you would like to pay,
  Any wrongs laid up from a bygone day?
  -Gather them now and lay them away
  When Christmas comes.
  Hard thoughts are heavy to carry, my friend,
  And life is short from beginning to end;
  Be kind to yourself, leave nothing to mend
  When Christmas comes.

  William Haines Lytle

  Christmas, Life Is Short, One Day

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• We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure-all your life.

  John W. Gardner

  Courage, Powerful, Fear

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• The proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs our gifts...Thus a heavy task is laid upon Gift-love. It must work toward its own abdication. We must aim at making ourselves superfluous. The hour when we can say 'They need me no longer' should be our reward. But the instinct, simply in its own nature, has no power to fulfill this law.

  C. S. Lewis

  Law, Giving, Tasks

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• High horns, low horns, silence, and finally a pandemonium of trumpets, rattles, croaks, and cries that almost shakes the bog with its nearness ... A new day has begun on the crane marsh. A sense of time lies thick and heavy on such a place ... Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language.

  Aldo Leopold

  Beautiful, Art, Nature

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• Man is the only Patriot. He sets himself apart in his own country, under his own flag, and sneers at the other nations, and keeps multitudinous uniformed assassins on hand at heavy expense to grab slices of other people's countries, and keep them from grabbing slices of his. And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for the universal brotherhood of man - with his mouth.

  Mark Twain

  Country, Patriotic, Men

  Mark Twain (2009). “Mark Twain’s Book of Animals”, p.121, Univ of California Press

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• We are paying a heavy political price for 20 years in which, as a party, we have played down our criticism of capitalism and soft-peddled our advocacy of socialism

  Tony Benn

  Party, Years, Political

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• When it seems that our sorrow is too great to be borne, let us think of the great family of the heavy-hearted into which our grief has given us entrance. And inevitably, we will feel about us their arms, their sympathy and their understanding.

  Helen Keller

  Family, Sympathy, Grief

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• They say the chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. The chains you put around yourself now have enormous consequences as you go through life.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Light, Broken

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• Oh, 'tis jesting, dancing, drinking
  Spins the heavy world around.

  A. E. Housman

  Dance, Drinking, Dancing

  A. E. Housman (2012). “A Shropshire Lad”, p.34, Courier Corporation

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• Christians, who have given themselves into the care and keeping of the Lord Jesus, still continue to bend beneath the weight of their burden, and often go weary and heavy-laden throughout the whole length of their journey.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Christian, Jesus, Journey

  Hannah Whitall Smith (2009). “The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life”, p.44, Moody Publishers

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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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• 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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