Weighing Quotes

• In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine.

  Benjamin Graham

  Running, Business, Intelligent

  Benjamin Graham (1965). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”, p.179, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Each man must reach his own verdict, by weighing all the relevant evidence.

  Leonard Peikoff

  Men, Relevant, Evidence

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• If you are trying to take a difficult decision and you're weighing up the pros and cons, you have frank conversations. Everybody knows this in their walk of life.

  Tony Blair

  Decision, Trying, Pros And Cons

  Interview with Martin Kettle, www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2010.

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• Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.

  William Ralph Inge

  Government, Democracy, Vote

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• Any doctor will admit that any drug can have side effects, and that writing a prescription involves weighing the potential benefits against the risks.

  Mark Udall

  Writing, Doctors, Drug

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• I don't really like to talk about other people. I think people who have things going on in their lives, I think they have enough to deal with, they don't need, you know, Abigail Breslin weighing in on their lives.

  Abigail Breslin

  Thinking, People, Needs

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• I am actually 7 foot and and one-half inches tall. I say Seven two because it's easier. Unlike some tall skinny guys I am really "big" weighing around 350 pounds.

  Richard Kiel

  Two, Feet, Guy

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• The burden of regret can weigh us down heavily on our spiritual journey. The best way to release regret is to forgive ourselves.

  James Van Praagh

  Forgiveness, Spiritual, Regret

  FaceBook post by James Van Praagh from Aug 03, 2014

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• Having no room of my own to "take care of things" had begun to weigh on me. I wondered if storing up semen would have a health impact on me, positive or negative, like shinier hair or weight gain.

  Bill Konigsberg

  Positive, Caring, Impact

  Bill Konigsberg (2013). “Openly Straight”, p.145, Scholastic Inc.

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• We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.

  Sean Covey

  Motivational, Positive, Inspiring

  Sean Covey (2011). “The 6 Most Important Decisions You'll Ever Make: A Guide for Teens”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it ... The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understand the minds of other men and women; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which weighs their interests alongside its own without bias.

  Learned Hand

  Freedom, Lying, Heart

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Under your shoulders. Dear young people of the entire world, weigh the responsibility to transform tomorrow's world into a society where peace, harmony, and fraternity reign.

  Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo

  Change, Peace, Responsibility

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• In life, the first thing you must do is decide what you really want. Weigh the costs and the results. Are the results worthy of the costs? Then make up your mind completely and go after your goal with all your might

  Alfred Armand Montapert

  Life, Goal, Mind

  Alfred Armand Montapert (1982). “Inspiration & motivation”, Prentice Hall Direct

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• You try to get rid of the things that are weighing you down.

  Sally Field

  Trying

  "Sally Field Talks Unrequited Love, Wild Wardrobe in "Doris". Interview with Angela Dawson, frontrowfeatures.com. March 8, 2016.

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• Burns' Hog-Weighing Method: (1) Get a perfectly symmetrical plank and balance it across a sawhorse. (2) Put the hog on one end of the plank. (3) Pile rocks on the other end until the plank is again perfectly balanced. (4) Carefully guess the weight of the rocks.

  Robert Burns

  Rocks, Balance, Weight

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• Weighing too much on someone's talent and not someone's personality. I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Heart, Thinking

  "How Elon Musk Hires: 'It Matters Whether Someone Has A Good Heart'" by Alyson Shontell, www.businessinsider.com. March 9, 2013.

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• It's the centuries, Scarlett darling. All the life lived there, all the joy and all the sorrow, all the feasts and battles, they're in the air around and the land beneath you. It's time, years beyond our counting weighing without weight on the earth. You cannot see it or smell it or hear it or touch it, but you feel it brushing your skin and speaking without sound. Time. And mystery.

  Alexandra Ripley

  Air, Years, Land

  Alexandra Ripley (1992). “Scarlett: the sequel to Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the wind”, G K Hall & Co

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• You may think I'm doing this without taking the time to really think it through, and you're absolutely right. It would take me the rest of my life to think this thing through. But it's while you're thinking, while you're weighing the pros and cons, that life goes on. It passes by you while you're doing nothing. - Arthur

  Marc Levy

  Thinking, Goes On, May

  Marc Levy (2005). “If Only It Were True”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

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• I’ll be real discreet,” Tank said. As discreet as a six-foot-six, no-neck guy weighing three hundred and fifty pounds, all dressed in black SWAT clothes, with a Glock holstered at his side could be.

  Janet Evanovich

  Real, Feet, Clothes

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• On balance, after weighing the arguments, I believe that the time has come for Australia to create a new sovereign wealth fund.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Believe, Australia, Balance

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Just looking at them I grow greedy, as if they were freshly baked loaves waiting on their shelves to be broken open--that one and that--and I make my choice in a mood of exalted luck, browsing among them like a cow in sweetest pasture. For life is continuous as long as they wait to be read--these inked paths opening into the future, page after page, every book its own receding horizon. And I hold them, one in each hand, a curious ballast weighing me here to earth.

  Linda Pastan

  Book, Hands, Long

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• Next thing you know she'll be on the bus and selling T-shirts in the parking lot, showing off her boobs to get in the stage door." "At least she has boobs to show," Jess said. "I have boobs," Chloe said, pointing to her chest. "Just because they're not weighing me down doesn't mean they're not substantial." "Okay, B cup," Jess said, taking a sip of her drink. "I have boobs!" Chloe said again, a bit too loudly--she'd already had a couple of minibottles at the Spot. "My boobs are great, goddammit. You know that? They're fantastic! My boobs are amazing.

  Sarah Dessen

  Couple, Mean, Doors

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.100, Penguin

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• This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe resting place for our most complicated feelings of joy or trauma, so that we don't have to haul those feelings around with us forever, weighing us down.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Spiritual, Order, Joy

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.178, A&C Black

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• I hope you liked them, Reader; that they did for you what any good story should do--make you forget the real stuff weighing on your mind for a little while and take you away to a place you've never been. It's the most amiable sort of magic I know.

  Stephen King

  Real, Magic, Mind

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• but it is also true, if this brings her any consolation, that if, before every action, we were to begin weighing up the consequences, thinking about them in earnest, first the immediate consequences, then the probably, then the possible, then the imaginable ones, we should never move beyond the point where our first thought brought us to a halt.

  Jose Saramago

  Moving, Thinking, Firsts

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