Loaded Quotes - Page 9

• Eating disorders are like a gun that's formed by genetics, loaded by a culture and family ideals, and triggered by unbearable distress.

  Aimee Liu

  Gun, Anorexia, Eating Disorder

  Aimee Liu (2011). “Restoring Our Bodies, Reclaiming Our Lives: Guidance and Reflections on Recovery from Eating Disorders”, p.4, Shambhala Publications

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• I love looking at you, hundred-year-old tree, loaded with shoots and boughs as though you were a stripling. Teach me the secret of growing old like you, open to life, to youth, to dreams, as somebody aware that youth and age are merely steps towards eternity.

  Hélder Câmara

  Dream, Years, Tree

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• He thinks posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Horse, Thinking, Packs

  'Hansard' 3 June 1862

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• One would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could never have obtained credit; yet we have seen what priestcraft and fanaticism can do, and credulity believe.

  Thomas Paine

  Believe, Thinking, Scripture

  Thomas Paine (1861). “The Age of Reason, etc”, p.91

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• For the fee of $10,000, anyone could be escorted to a room, handed a loaded gun and offered another human to kill. The concept made me nauseous. But it also felt real, and rang bells with my more cynical side.

  Eli Roth

  Real, Gun, Cynical

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• Talent is so loaded a word, so full to the brim with meanings, that an artist might be wise to forget about it altogether and just keep on working.

  Eric Maisel

  Wise, Artist, Might

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• Maybe the given person, cup, or landscape is lost before one gets to painting. A figure exerts a continuing and unspecified influence on a painting as the canvas develops. The represented forms are loaded with psychological feeling. It can't ever just be painting.

  Richard Diebenkorn

  Feelings, Landscape, Cups

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• Painting is a visceral experience, one loaded with subtle information. Only Cezanne could get away with a system.

  Wolf Kahn

  Cezanne, Information, Painting

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• There are guys, the weekenders, who can go out and get loaded and they're having fun and partying - which is a term I deplore, partying - and it's all recreational and they're having a ball. I never had that. It was never about recreation. Not. Ever. That was never my motivation. Not once!

  Johnny Depp

  Fun, Motivation, Party

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• There is an elasticity in the human mind, capable of bearing much, but which will not show itself, until a certain weight of affliction be put upon it; its powers may be compared to those vehicles whose springs are so contrived that they get on smoothly enough when loaded, but jolt confoundedly when they have nothing to bear.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Spring, Adversity, Mind

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.199

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• I was always apologizing for yesterday's behavior and I got tired of it. I feel it's good being straight. As I did when I first got high. It's a high to be straight because I was getting loaded every day.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Tired, Yesterday, Firsts

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• When we turn the Bible into an adjective and stick it in front of another loaded word, we tend to ignore or downplay the parts of the Bible that don’t quite fit our preferences and presuppositions. In an attempt to simplify, we force the Bible’s cacophony of voices into a single tone and turn a complicated, beautiful, and diverse holy text into a list of bullet points we can put in a manifesto or creed. More often than not, we end up more committed to what we want the Bible to say than what it actually says.

  Rachel Held Evans

  Beautiful, Voice, Cacophony

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• Science robs men of wisdom and usually converts them into phantom beings loaded up with facts.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Men, Phantoms, Facts

  Collected in Essays and Soliloquies (translated by J E Crawford Flitch, 1925).

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• R.G. Belsky's thought-provoking thriller, The Kennedy Connection, introduces us to a smart, witty, and human hero whose quest to find answers about two crimes - one famous, one all but unnoticed - is loaded with tension and full of unexpected twists and turns. I loved The Kennedy Connection, and can't wait for the next Gil Malloy novel.

  Jan Burke

  Witty, Smart, Hero

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• Indeed, there is a moment on the first CD - the electrifying opening to "I Got Loaded," which sounds like an R&B standard but isn't - when you might find yourself asking whether anyone who has ever been smitten by pop music can fail to have his heart stopped by the chords, the swing, and, once again, Steve Berlin's wonderfully greasy sax.

  Nick Hornby

  Heart, Swings, Cds

  Nick Hornby (2003). “Songbook”, p.186, Penguin

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• What is or is not the jargon is determined by whether the word is written in an intonation which places it transcendently in opposition to its own meaning; by whether the individual words are loaded at the expense of the sentence, its propositional force, and the thought content.

  Theodor Adorno

  Jargon, Determined, Individual

  Theodor W. Adorno (2003). “Adorno”, p.5, Psychology Press

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• (Jean) Fautrier's exhibition (in Paris 1945,fh) made an extremely strong impression on me. Art had never before appeared so fully realised in its pure state. The word 'art' had never before been so loaded with meaning for me.

  Jean Dubuffet

  Art, Strong, Paris

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• Whenever I go and see the Führer, I've got a loaded pistol in my pocket.

  Franz Halder

  Pockets, Pistols

  "'Why My Friends Felt They Had to Kill Hitler'" by David Smith and Walter Harris, www.theguardian.com. July 11, 2004.

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• If liberals can seize our guns because they are dangerous, we have no chance of holding on to our cars and our homes. The total number of accidental fatalities (the majority of which are hunting accidents) of all types of firearms is infinitesimal compared to the number of fatalities from car and home accidents. More children die from playing with cigarette lighters than from playing with loaded guns.

  Paul Craig Roberts

  Children, Home, Gun

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• You don't consume craft beers in great quantities just to get loaded; you consume craft beers because you like the taste of the beer. People are asking for beer based on what they're eating, which is quite a change from the way it was.

  Bruce McDonald

  Beer, People, Asking

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• A work of art enters life very much like another human being - complicated, loaded with overtones and meaning, mysterious, enticing, obsessive, and beautiful. There's no way to control how it will be used, how it will be read, and that's part of the excitement of it.

  Budd Hopkins

  Beautiful, Art, Way

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• Loaded with note cards for research papers that I was hopelessly behind on, I'd enter the Public Library only to end up wandering around lost, wasting the day.

  Stuart Dybek

  Library, Cards, Research

  Stuart Dybek (1990). “The coast of Chicago”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• The faith in which I was brought up assured me that I was better than other people; I was saved, they were damned.... Our hymns were loaded with arrogance - self-congratulation on how cozy we were with the Almighty and what a high opinion he had of us, what hell everybody else would catch come Judgment Day.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Congratulations, Self, Hymns

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.227, Penguin

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• I don't care what the situation was, how high the stakes were - the bases could be loaded and the pennant riding on every pitch, it never bothered Whitey. He pitched his game. Cool. Craft. Nerves of steel.

  Mickey Mantle

  Yankees, Games, Riding

  Mickey Mantle (1986). “The Mick”, Jove Publications

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• I had felt the shot coming; I hadn't realized the bow was loaded with this very quarrel, perfectly calibrated to hit him hardest. What part of me had been studying him, stockpiling knowledge as ammunition?

  Rachel Hartman

  Bows, Study, Shots

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