Heavily Quotes
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My spirit is too weak mortality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, And each imagin'd pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship tells me I must die Like a sick Eagle looking at the sky.
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More Heavily Quotes
The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day, The great, the important day, big with the fate Of Cato, and of Rome.
joseph addison— Joseph Addison, Cato, A Tragedy (1713), Act I, scene 1.
There is only one proved method of assisting the advancement of pure sciencethat of picking men of genius, backing them heavily, and leaving them to direct themselves.
James Bryant Conant— 1945 Letter to the NewYork Times,13 Aug.
Under each arm he carries an umbrella; one of them, with pictures on the inside, he spreads over the good children, and then they dream the most beautiful stories the whole night. But the other umbrella has no pictures, and this he holds over the naughty children so that they sleep heavily, and wake in the morning without having dreamed at all.
hans christian andersen— Ole-Lukøie
We must express the view, based on our empirical observations, that a substantial number of journalists are ignorant, lazy, opinionated, and intellectually dishonest. The profession is heavily cluttered with aged hacks toiling through a miasma of mounting decrepitude and often alcoholism, and even more so with arrogant and abrasive youngsters who substitute 'commitment' for insight.
conrad black— Black, Conrad et al, "A Brief to the Special Senate Committee on the Mass Media from the Sherbrooke Record...", 1969 : Despite Black's involvement in press ownership, he heaped scorn on journalism
The seventh rule of the ethics of means and ends is that generally success or failure is a mighty determinant of ethics. The judgment of history leans heavily on the outcome of success or failure; it spells the difference between the traitor and the patriotic hero. There can be no such thing as a successful traitor, for if one succeeds he becomes a founding father.
saul alinsky— p. 34 (Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals (1971))
While this America settles in the mould of its vulgarity, heavily thickening to empire.
(John) Robinson Jeffers— 1924 Tamar and Other Poems,'Shine, Perishing Republic'.
Morality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep.
john keats— 1817 'On Seeing the Elgin Marbles'.
The best machines and to be chosen aboveall others are those which consist of the fewest parts or which are the simplest, which produce the least friction; which are not too heavily loaded, and where the power can be convenientlyapplied without any waste.
Jakob Leupold— 1724 Theatrum machinarum.
Quality is free, but only to those who are willing to pay heavily for it.
tom demarco— p. 23 (Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (1987))
I would like to thank a world that never understood or accepted me, family and friends that never believed in me, and a God with one hell of a sense of humor. You have all made me what I am today. Let that weigh heavily on your consciences.
— sleeve notes, The Sickness (2000)
The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall.
helen garner— Cosmo Cosmolino (1992, p. 150)
Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as chaos.
joyce grenfell— Stately as a Galleon (1978), "English Lit."
There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.
ernest hemingway— Ch. 16 (Death in the Afternoon (1932))
In spite of intense efforts, the moment has drawn near when this front, already so heavily strained, will break. I consider it my duty to bring these conclusions to your notice...my Fuhrer.
günther von kluge— July 1944. Quoted in "Why the Allies Won" - Page 170 - by R. J. Overy - History - 1995
There is a huge body of evidence to support the notion that me and the police were put on this earth to do extremely different things and never to mingle professionally with each other, except at official functions, when we all wear ties and drink heavily and whoop it up like the natural, good-humored wild boys that we know in our hearts that we are..These occasions are rare, but they happen — despite the forked tongue of fate that has put us forever on different paths...
hunter s. thompson— "Fear and Loathing in Elko" Rolling Stone (23 January 1992)
We lean on our church heavily, and they have helped us a lot, particularly in recent years... I have fame on the level of Marilyn Monroe, John Belushi, or Elvis Presley, but part of the reason I didn't go the way they did was because of my beliefs. People make judgments about Scientology, but often they don't know what they're talking about.
john travolta— "Stayin' Alive" Rosebud. Vol. 2 Issue 15.
It is easier to hide behind philosophical arguments, heavily footnoted for effect, than it is to admit our hurts, our confusions, our loves, and our passions in the marketplace of life's heartfelt transactions.
ravi zacharias— Can Man Live Without God. 1994. p. 6. ISBN 9780849939433.
The American dream that has lured tens of millions of all nations to our shores in the past century has not been a dream of material plenty, though that has doubtlessly counted heavily. It has been a dream of being able to grow to fullest development as a man and woman, unhampered by the barriers which had slowly been erected in the older civilizations, unrepressed by social orders which had developed for the benefit of classes rather than for the simple human being of any and every class.
james truslow adams— The Epic of America (2nd ed., Greenwood Press, 1931), p. 405
[I] grew up in this city [Miami], and my music is a blend of two cultures. In the beginning it was heavily Cuban. At this point it's [from] all over . . .
gloria estefan— The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (February 4, 2007)
This accessible production [of Don Giovanni - ed.] concentrates on the comic delights of the piece and rests heavily on the roguish charms of Vytautas Juozapaitis in the title role. Indeed, he's so delightfully decadent, and so charismatic a performer, that the righteous indignation of those he has harmed makes them seem priggish in comparison.
vytautas juozapaitis— Nigel Powlson, "Womaniser's charms are hard to resist". Derby Evening Telegraph (July 23, 2004)
We were too light, Electra. Now our feet press down in the earth like the wheels of a cart in its groove. Come with me, and we will walk heavily, bending under the weight of our heavy load.
jean-paul sartre— Orestes, Act 3
I know I won't be justified as long as I live, since I myself stand in my own way. Don't bear me ill will, speech, that I borrow weighty words, then labor heavily so that they may seem light.
wisława szymborska— "Under One Small Star"
It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.
larry wall— Usenet article <199801141725.JAA07555@wall.org> (1998)
Mutual funds are an overrated investment heavily promoted by Wall Street.
— Peter Schiff (2006) Crash Proof
Mutual funds are an overrated investment heavily promoted by Wall Street.
— Peter Schiff (2006) Crash Proof
Truly the souls of men are full of dread: Ye cannot reason almost with a man That looks not heavily and full of fear.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Richard III (c. 1591), Act II, scene 3, line 39.
The more heavily the process of self-preservation is based on the bourgeois division of labor, the more it enforces the self-alienation of individuals, who must mold themselves to the technical apparatus body and soul.
— Horkheimer and Adorno (1948), Dialectic of Enlightenment, E. Jephcott, trans. 1972, p. 23
The more heavily the process of self-preservation is based on the bourgeois division of labor, the more it enforces the self-alienation of individuals, who must mold themselves to the technical apparatus body and soul.
— Horkheimer and Adorno (1948), Dialectic of Enlightenment, E. Jephcott, trans. 1972, p. 23
