Heavy Quotes

• The invisible hand of the market always moves faster and better than the heavy hand of government.

  Mitt Romney

  Business, Moving, Government

  "Commentary: Stimulate the economy, not government" by Mitt Romney, www.cnn.com. February 6, 2009.

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• In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

  John Steinbeck

  Anger, Wrath, Vintage

  John Steinbeck (1990). “Working Days: The Journals of The Grapes of Wrath”, p.22, Penguin

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• I was 15, and the years of hard swimming had packed muscle on my frame and made me very strong. Not as strong as a football player, but strong enough to inflict heavy damage.

  Esther Williams

  Football, Strong, Swimming

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• Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy and vain. To be a warrior one needs to be light and fluid.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Attitude, Warrior, Reality

  Carlos Castaneda (2009). “The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is.

  Harold Bloom

  Encouragement, Giving, Inheritance

  Harold Bloom (2003). “A Map of Misreading”, p.10, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Elvis couldn't leave the hotel except under heavy guard. It was incredible how they went wild over him.

  Minnie Pearl

  Redneck, Hospitality, Incredibles

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• We belabour, I think, under a very heavy crust of consumerism really

  Emma Thompson

  Thinking, Consumerism, Hairstyles

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• I was always the second heavy.

  Broderick Crawford

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• There are atheists and Christians, and there are people in both groups who are a little too heavy-handed.

  Andy Dick

  Christian, Atheist, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.

  Franz Kafka

  Inspirational, Light, Belief

  Franz Kafka, Malcolm Pasley (1973). “Shorter works [of] Franz Kafka”, Harvill Secker

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• You can't enjoy light verse with a heavy heart.

  Russell Baker

  Heart, Light, Enjoy

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• The Beginning of Survival is my best album. I am very proud of it, and I am surprised at it, too. I thought some of Travelogue was a little heavy, but I don't think this is heavy.

  Joni Mitchell

  Thinking, Survival, Albums

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• Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?

  Gale Norton

  Government, Environmental, Regulation

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• You went up to be examined with the other Jewish children, your heart heavy about that matter of your nose.

  Mary Antin

  Children, Heart, Noses

  Mary Antin (2013). “The Promised Land”, p.16, Courier Corporation

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• I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as King as I would wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love.

  King Edward VIII

  Love, Kings, Women

  Radio broadcast following his abdication, 11 December 1936, in 'The Times' 12 December 1936

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• To me, Sabbath was always just a really heavy blues band. That s all we were. We just took those blues roots and made them heavier.

  Geezer Butler

  Roots, Band, Made

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• If you listen to a lot of old funk records, the drums are really small. But you don't perceive it like that because the groove is so heavy.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Records, Groove, Funk

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• What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow. What are brief? today and tomorrow. What are frail? spring blossoms and youth. What are deep? the ocean and truth.

  Christina Rossetti

  Spring, Ocean, Sea

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.319, Delphi Classics

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• Fairest and dearest, your wrath and anger are more heavy than I can bear; but learn that I cannot tell what you wish me to say without sinning against my honour too grievously.

  Marie de France

  Anger, Wrath, Wish

  Marie de France (2014). “French Medieval Romances from the Lais of Marie de France”, p.218, The Floating Press

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• God will protect us, but to make sure, carry a heavy club

  Gypsy Rose Lee

  Clubs, Protect, Gods Will

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• I was assigned to the heavy cruiser Chicago.

  Jack Adams

  Chicago, Hairstyles

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• I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.

  Saint Augustine

  Beautiful, Wise, Wisdom

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• They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should be an immediate abortion.

  Ginger Baker

  Abortion, Birth, Heavy Metal

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• The natural movement of one's soul is upwards. But just as any object is dragged down when a heavy weight is tied to it, the burden of the body drags down the soul.

  Vinoba Bhave

  Soul, Movement, Weight

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• You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him to a heavy load.

  Bear Bryant

  Horse, Adversity, Hook

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