Encumbrance Quotes

#1. Each had treated the girl as an encumbrance he was to undertake, - at a very great price. But

Anthony Trollope

#2. Properly understood, the marital sacrament is an encumbrance that paradoxically yields freedom. The wife is free to grow old and wrinkled without fear of divorce, while the husband is likewise free to become bald and potbellied without fear of his wife's abandonment. Covenants

Scott Hahn

#3. It would add much to human happiness, if an art could be taught of forgetting all of which the remembrance is at once useless and afflictive, that the mind might perform its functions without encumbrance, and the past might no longer encroach upon the present.

Samuel Johnson

#4. Thoughts take up no room. When they are right, they afford a portable pleasure, which one may travel with, without any trouble or encumbrance.

Jeremy Collier

#5. Most old people ... are disheartened to be living in the ailing house of their bodies, to be limited physically and economically, to feel an encumbrance to others - guests who didn't have the good manners to leave when the party was over.

Barbara Walters

#6. What is a permanent loan but a mortgage upon the wealth and industry of the country? It is the only form of indebtedness, as experience has shown, by which heavy and durable encumbrance can be laid upon the community.

John C. Calhoun

#7. In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.

Thomas De Quincey

#8. My body seems a mere encumbrance to me; an imbecillic wagon, hitched to the horse of desire, which is the soul.

Robert E. Howard

#9. This was still the era - it would end later in that famous decade - when to be young was a social encumbrance, a mark of irrelevance, a faintly embarrassing condition for which marriage was the beginning of a cure.

Ian McEwan

#10. In the desert I had found a freedom unattainable in civilization; a life unhampered by possessions, since everything that was not a necessity was an encumbrance. I had found too, a comradeship inherent in the circumstances, and the belief that tranquility was to be found there.

Wilfred Thesiger

#11. Was it? I said cautiously, it having been my occasional habit to watch television in the drawing room without the encumbrance of trousers.

Paul Murray

#12. Any woman who has moved from the playing fields of male discourse into the realm where women are developing our own descriptions of the world knows the extraordinary sense of shedding, as it were, the encumbrance of someone else's baggage, of ceasing to translate.

Adrienne Rich

#13. Well, father, in the shipwreck of life, for life is an eternal shipwreck of our hopes, I cast into the sea my useless encumbrance, that is all, and I remain with my own will, disposed to live perfectly alone, and, consequently, perfectly free. (Eugenie to her father)

Alexandre Dumas

#14. I am never in a hurry to reach details. First and above all I am interested in the large masses and the general character of a picture; when these are well established, then I try for subtleties of form and color. I rework the painting constantly and freely, and without any systematic method.

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

#15. You can't come forward against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and be completely free from risk.

Edward Snowden

#16. I never considered disobeying an order or even a request from Daddy. I loved and admired him, and one of my preeminent goals in life was to earn his approbation. I learned to expect his criticisms, always constructive, but his accolades were rare. My

Jimmy Carter

#17. Honest to god, Clare, you act like the dress is more important than you being shot!"
Of course it is! It's a Versace, you idiot! Bring help! I'm going to save this dress at all costs." - Sam to Clare

Katie MacAlister

#18. There's more to good or bad than what's written in the Rulebook.

Jasper Fforde

#19. Nothing in our politics is any longer driven or designed by individual humans who have a name and a face; we have sunk from theism into impersonal and depersonalizing deism, a scheme of rule by alien and implacable abstract metaphysical forces.

Kenny Smith

#20. We could do it, you know.

Suzanne Collins

#21. For me the dream is the freedom to make all the crazy ideas I have in my head into movies. I truly love directing and I think it is a privilege to have this as an occupation.

Nicholas Ozeki

#22. I always make a distinction between nostalgia and sentimentality. Nostalgia is genuine - you mourn things that actually happened.

Pete Hamill

#23. Earth is a school of darkness and your purpose is to educate yourself of your light.

Nikki Rowe