Weighing Quotes - Page 5

• My kingdom is as wide as the universe and my wants have no limits. I go forward always, freeing spirits and weighing words, without fear, without compassion, without love, without God. I am called science.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Compassion, Want, Kingdoms

  1874 The Temptation of St Antony.

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• When consumers do not take full advantage of efficiency gains, it is because they are weighing other factors that influence their decision making. When the federal government arbitrarily places one of those factors over others, it makes consumers worse off.

  Gina McCarthy

  Government, Decision, Gains

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• In the firm expectation that when London shall be a habitation of bitterns, when St. Paul and Westminster Abbey shall stand shapeless and nameless ruins in the midst of an unpeopled marsh, when the piers of Waterloo Bridge shall become the nuclei of islets of reeds and osiers, and cast the jagged shadows of their broken arches on the solitary stream, some Transatlantic commentator will be weighing in the scales of some new and now unimagined system of criticism the respective merits of the Bells and the Fudges and their historians.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Bridges, Broken, Expectations

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2008). “The Narrative Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.136, Wildside Press LLC

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• Psychohistory, like psychoanalysis, is a science in which the researcher's feelings are as much or even more a part of his research equipment than his eyes or his hands. Weighing of complex motives can only be accomplished by identification with human actors, the usual suppression of all feeling preached and followed by most "science" simply cripples a psychohistorian as badly as it would cripple a biologist to be forbidden the use of a microscope. The emotional development of a psychohistorian is therefore as much a topic for discussion as his or her intellectual development.

  Lloyd deMause

  Eye, Emotional, Hands

  "Foundations of Psychohistory". Book by Lloyd deMause, 1982.

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• I wondered how many times in my life I had done something just because I wanted to without weighing the consequences.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Done, Wanted, Consequence

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.534, St. Martin's Press

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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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• Suddenly, I was just sure he was going to kiss me. He was there, I could feel his breath, the ground solid beneath us. But then something crossed his face, a thought, a hesitation, and he shifted slightly. Not now. Not yet. It was something I'd done so often - weighing what I could afford to risk, right at that moment - that I recognized it instantly. It was like looking in a mirror.

  Sarah Dessen

  Kissing, Mirrors, Risk

  Sarah Dessen (2011). “What Happened to Goodbye”, p.155, Penguin

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• He is next to the gods whom reason, and not passion, impels; and who, after weighing the facts, can measure the punishment with discretion.

  Claudius Claudianus

  Passion, Punishment, Next

  "De Consulatu Malii Theodori Panegyris". CCXXVII,

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• But the majority of mothers work - and are responsible for taking care of the kids and home. And more fathers are spending more time doing child care and housework, and still working long hours. That work-life conflict is weighing on everybody.

  Brigid Schulte

  Mother, Children, Father

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• International affairs must be completely permeated with scientific methodology and a democratic spirit, with a fearless weighing of all facts, views, and theories, with maximum publicity of ultimate and intermediate goals, and with a consistency of principles.

  Andrei Sakharov

  Views, Goal, Fearless

  Andrei D. Sakharov (1968). “Progress, coexistence, and intellectual freedom”

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• Even the White House is weighing in on the deflate-gate scandal. Yesterday they encouraged Tom Brady to 'be mindful of the way he serves as a role model.' And then President Obama stuffed out his cigarette and went golfing at noon on a weekday.

  Jimmy Fallon

  White, Yesterday, Role Models

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• When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental - men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand. So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack or be lost... All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Thinking, Ideas

  The Baltimore Sun, July 26, 1920.

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• The crisis in Europe has affected the US economy by acting as a drag on our exports, weighing on business and consumer confidence and pressuring US financial markets and institutions.

  Ben Bernanke

  Europe, Acting, Financial

  "China digs its heels in as Europe crisis deepens". "The World Today" with Emily Bourke, www.abc.net.au. June 8, 2012.

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• You face challenges and you have to make choices. You're weighing the necessary responsibility toward reality and authenticity and of course the need to create a compressed drama over two hours.

  Paul Greengrass

  Drama, Responsibility, Reality

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• You're always weighing whether you should be that accessible or not, but my personality is naturally just to throw it all out there, so I'm much more comfortable with doing thatmy personality is naturally just to throw it all out there, so I'm much more comfortable with doing that.

  Donald Miller

  Personality, Should, Comfortable

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• I have never been shy about listening to the input of others and weighing it seriously.

  Alice Sebold

  Listening, Shy, Input

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• I didn't get excited by weight loss, and since I was already happy being fat, I couldn't see the point of it all. I'm 6 ft. and weigh about 18 st. or 19 st., but weighing myself is not something I do with much pleasure.

  Maeve Binchy

  Loss, Weight, Excited

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• Baking makes me focus. On weighing the sugar. On sieving the flour. I find it calming and rewarding because, in fairness, it is sort of magic - you start off with all this disparate stuff, such as butter and eggs, and what you end up with is so totally different. And also delicious.

  Marian Keyes

  Eggs, Focus, Magic

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• On days where I feel the karma is in balance I'm not afraid of death. And when I feel it's weighing heavily on the negative side, then I get very scared and just think about eternal damnation and how unpleasant that would be.

  Will Oldham

  Karma, Thinking, Balance

  Interview with Ryan Schreiber, pitchfork.com. September 1, 2001.

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• Twenty-five years ago, Christmas was not the burden that it is now; there was less haggling and weighing, less quid pro quo, less fatigue of body, less weariness of soul; and, most of all, there was less loading up with trash.

  Margaret Deland

  Christmas, Years, Soul

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• If one is the kind of creature I am and wants to do the kind of writing I want to do, an undisturbed bourgeois existence with no distractions seems in order. A single meeting outside the family upsets one's whole inner web, makes one start off on two-days' thinking and weighing, destroys a delicate balance etc. etc. ... I now have enough friends to last me a lifetime and that is enough. I am going to close the doors and hibernate at least for a couple of years. I am frightfully depressed about my work. It seems to me perfectly mediocre.

  May Sarton

  Couple, Writing, Thinking

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• I've tried to get better about weighing what I think the accessibility of an idea is against the cost of executing it. I've tried to be smarter about that, because if you're not smart about that, you're going to be unemployed. But I'm still mystified about what works for people. And I'm not talking about my movies, I'm talking in general. I'm mystified by the stuff that doesn't work. I'm mystified by what's going on in the critical side, too.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Smart, Thinking, Talking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Life is constantly weighing us in very sensitive scales, and telling every one of us precisely what his real weight is to the last grain of dust.

  James Russell Lowell

  Life, Real, Dust

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “My Study Windows”, p.48

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• When the family has been brought into its natural order, the individual can leave it behind him while still feeling the strength of his family supporting him. Only when the connection to his family is acknowledged, and the person's responsibility seen clearly and then distributed, can the individual feel unburdened and go about his personal affairs without anything from the past weighing him down or holding him back.

  Bert Hellinger

  Responsibility, Past, Order

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• It's got to be the best intellectual exercise out there. You're seeing through new situations every ten minutes. In the stock market you don't base your decisions on what the market is doing, but on what you think is rational. Bridge is about weighing gain/loss ratios. You're doing calculations all the time.

  Warren Buffett

  Loss, Exercise, Thinking

  "The Warren Buffett Portfolio: Mastering the Power of the Focus Investment Strategy". Book by Robert G. Hagstrom (p. 112), 2000.

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