Encumbered Quotes

#1. And the west, encumbered by crippling alliances, and hardened with a morality too rigid to accommodate itself to the swing of events, must ... eventually ... fall.

Edward Albee

#2. Our everyday language has become encumbered, Germanic, artificial, bureaucratic, inorganic. It may not be exaggerated to say that by now American writers face but two alternatives: write English, or write gobbledygook.

John Lukacs

#3. Don't be encumbered by history, just go out and do something wonderful.

Robert Noyce

#4. When one reads hurriedly and nervously, having in mind written tests and examinations, one's brain becomes encumbered with a lot of bric-a-brac for which there seems to be little use.

Helen Keller

#5. The GOP of old has grown stale and moss-covered. I don't think we need to name any names, do we? Our party is encumbered by an inconsistent approach to freedom. The new GOP will need to embrace liberty in both the economic and the personal sphere.

Rand Paul

#6. When Zeno received news of a shipwreck and heard that all his luggage had been sunk he said, Fortune bids me to be a less encumbered philosopher.

Seneca.

#7. The wise man then followed a simple way of life-which is hardly surprising when you consider how even in this modern age he seeks to be as little encumbered as he possibly can.

Seneca The Younger

#8. Airplanes have dulled and desensitized us; we are encumbered, like lovers in a suit of armor.

Paul Theroux

#9. Things are best that way, Deoga. Forgetting, not remembering. You Farangs become encumbered with your past. The past drives you mad. It keeps you from acting sensibly.

John Speed

#10. Better to sail alone, and let the battered vessel wander where it will. The only honest course. Assume nothing, trust no one, encumber not and be not encumbered, make your own way, steer your own ship and none other, exactly so.

Brian Doyle

#11. My being a psycho is actually good news for you in some ways. It means I am 100% practical and not encumbered by other considerations.
In fact maybe that is the simplest definition of a psycho; someone who is 100% practical. Yes, I like that.

Jake Remington

#12. I didnt want to be encumbered by what anyone elses abilities were, their equipment or environment or their ability to get certain products.

Thomas Keller

#13. The senses do not enable us to cognize any entity in its Being; they merely serve to announce the ways in which 'external' Things within-the-world are useful or harmful for human creatures encumbered with bodies ... they tell us nothing about entities in their Being.

Martin Heidegger

#14. The biggest handicap in research is an ability to think outside the box. The handicap is being encumbered by all the conventional wisdom in a given field.

Aubrey De Grey

#15. The problem is the following, black music is increasing encumbered by white elements, often pleasant but always superfluous, easily and advantageously replaced with black elements.

Boris Vian

#16. No god worthy of worship would be associated with such character flaws as vanity, jealousy, vengeance, or wrath. God should be above such deadly sins and would not be encumbered by them.

Aron Ra

#17. I really feel stateless, which is not bad, because I always felt a man without a country was not encumbered by narrow loyalties.

Morley Safer

#18. Oh! It is dreadful...that one is almost always separated from those ones loves dearly and is encumbered with those one dislikes. -Queen Victoria

Cecil Woodham-Smith

#19. All the crap that we've encumbered our lives with, it's really meaningless.

Emilio Estevez

#20. No one is born without vices, and he is the best man who is encumbered with the least.

Horace

#21. Dr. John, throughout his whole life, was a man of luck - a man of success. And why? Because he had the eye to see his opportunity, the heart to prompt to well-timed action, the nerve to consummate a perfect work. And no tyrant-passion dragged him back; no enthusiasms, no foibles encumbered his way.

Charlotte Bronte

#22. We visit bookshops not so often to buy any one special book, but rather to rediscover, in the happier and more expressive words of others, our own encumbered soul.

Christopher Morley

#23. It rasped her, though, to have stirring about in her this brutal monster! to hear twigs cracking and feel hooves planted down in the depths of that leaf-encumbered forest, the soul; never to be content quite, or quite secure, for at any moment the brute would be stirring, this hatred ...

Virginia Woolf

#24. Americans also seem to believe that the monarchy is a kind of mediaeval hangover, encumbered by premodern notions of decorum; the reality is that the British monarchy, for good or ill, is a modern political institution perhaps the first modern political institution.

Adam Gopnik

#25. It is the truth of grace and not of the law that brings you true freedom. The truth of the law only binds you. In fact, religious bondage is one of the most crippling bondages with which a person can be encumbered. Religious bondage keeps one in constant fear, guilt, and anxiety.

Joseph Prince

#26. One of the things that I love about voiceover is that it's a situation where - because you're not encumbered by being seen - it's liberating. You're able to make broad choices that you would never make if you were on camera.

Mark Hamill

#27. Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#28. Careful the morning lest it wake from slumber the city half-encumbered by the morning mist ...

John Geddes

#29. In my view the tablet and the PC are different. You can do things with the tablet if you are not encumbered by the legacy of the PC.

Tim Cook

#30. There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk to much.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#31. Only two kinds of people can attain self-knowledge: those who are not encumbered at all with learning, that is to say, whose minds are not over-crowded with thoughts borrowed from others; and those who, after studying all the scriptures and sciences, have come to realise that they know nothing.

Ramakrishna