Heavy Shoulders Quotes

#1. Wasn't he the one who said you shouldn't trust anybody who calls himself an ordinar man? - Naoko

Haruki Murakami

#2. I've worked with a lot of real heavy hitters, and Quentin is maybe heads and shoulders, at least a forehead, above just about anybody I've ever worked with.

David Carradine

#3. Fear, born of the stern matron Responsibility, sits on one's shoulders like some heavy imp of darkness, and one is preoccupied and, possibly, cantankerous.

William McFee

#4. At the present time he was a man of perhaps forty-five years of age, short and heavy-set, with a bullet-shaped head that rested on broad, ape-like shoulders. His thick torso and bulging paunch were supported by a pair of spindly legs that contrasted oddly with the upper portions of his beefy body.

H.P. Lovecraft

#5. Will you have any regrets once she's dead?
Brooklyn's question and her voice echoed in my head as I watched her walking to her house, her hips swaying tantalizingly at every step. A heavy weight fell on my shoulders because I didn't have to ponder that question to find the answer.

Stephanie Witter

#6. It is very grand to die in harness, but it is very pleasant to have the tight straps unbuckled and the heavy collar lifted from the neck and shoulders.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

#7. Xavier stares past her with watery eyes. 'Why does the world feel the need to drop its weight upon my shoulders?' he barely whispers. His mother strokes his hair.

'Maybe it believes you can handle it,' she tells him. 'That though it is heavy, you are strong enough to carry it.

Damiana

#8. Life weighs heavy upon my shoulders and patience starts wearing thin, it is divine hope and dreams which sustain me, pushing me forth against the wind.

Terry A. O'Neal

#9. Whenever there is a cross to be carried by any of Christ's followers, He always bears the heavy end on His own shoulders.

Charles Spurgeon

#10. As one of the motorbikes came towards me, I let a big heavy right go, and knocked the rider's head clean off his shoulders! Fucking hell, the guy's head was still in his helmet and it was clattering all the way down the road.

Stephen Richards

#11. You weren't heavy at all ... the only weight you carry is on your shoulders. I wish I could carry it for you.

Augusten Burroughs

#12. Feel pity for those with insecurities that rest heavy on their shoulders. They'll take every opportunity to negativity judge others. They speak with a sadness in their voice searching for something, anything to make their life feel just a little bit better.

Ron Baratono

#13. Do you know what hate feels like? Ten thousand pounds upon our shoulders. Every time that we are judged or we judge others, another pound is added, until our bodies are so heavy that we cannot move.

Brian L. Weiss

#14. Do me the one favor, Sassenach," he said, draping the heavy velvet over my shoulders. "Take a larger fan.

Diana Gabaldon

#15. How many weak shoulders have craved heavy burdens!

Joseph Joubert

#16. The day Love was illumined,
Lovers learned from You how to burn, Beloved.
The flame was set by the Friend
to give the moth a gate to enter.
Love is a gift from the Beloved to the Lover.

Shaikh Abu-Saeed Abil-Kheir

#17. We come by aurora,
with a heavy and sovereign tread,
with the might of matriarchs to furnish our shoulders,
with the apricity of light to crown our heads

Michelle Franklin

#18. I am not perfect and I don't pretend to be. My brand is about dealing with life after it happens and not sugar coating the fact that I'm a human who makes mistakes.

Isha Johnson

#19. The Christianity of America is a Christianity, of whose votaries it may be as truly said, as it was of the ancient scribes and Pharisees, 'They bind heavy burdens, and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders, but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.

Frederick Douglass

#20. God can even affect the mind of a heathen ruler, and this he can do in answer to prayer without in the least overturning his free agency or forcing his will.

E. M. Bounds

#21. Dress yourself in heavy fishing waders, put on an overcoat and boxing gloves and a bucket over your head, then have somebody strap two sacks of cement across your shoulders and you will know what a space suit feels like under one gravity.

Robert A. Heinlein

#22. She licked cinnamon sugar off her fingers, sun-heavy and happy, the type of happiness that before might have felt ordinary, but now seemed fragile, like if she stood too quickly, it might slide off her shoulders and break.

Brit Bennett

#23. He had a hundred arms that broke into a hundred thousand fingers, and all of his fingers reached up into the sky. The weight of the sky was heavy on his shoulders.

Neil Gaiman

#24. she soon found herself shouting in Twi, "I'm from Ghana, stupid. Can't you see?" The boy didn't stop his English. "But you come from America?" Angry, she kept walking. Her backpack straps were heavy against her shoulders, and she knew they would leave marks.

Yaa Gyasi

#25. That much life is heavy for the strongest shoulders.

N.D. Wilson

#26. Teeth of winter, sinking into my flesh, my own clacking against each other like knitting needles, and I wish they'd knit a heavy shawl around my shoulders before widening into a yawn. Why do I always yawn when I'm cold?

Karen Elizabeth Gordon

#27. You did not abandon them in the wilderness because of Your great compassion. Nehemiah 9:19

Beth Moore

#28. People love talking about when they were young and heard Honky Tonk Women for the first time. It's quite a heavy load to carry on your shoulders, the memories of so many people.

Mick Jagger

#29. Fate drives cruel bargains. We must always release one thing before we can grasp something else.

Kim Wright

#30. Let's stop judging others, and relieve them of the heavy burden they are carrying on their shoulders because of us.

Saurabh Sharma

#31. The heavy sensual shoulders, the thighs, the blood-born flesh
and earth turning into color, rocks into their crystals,
water to sound, fire to form: life flickers
uncounted into the supple arms of love.

Muriel Rukeyser

#32. I played Iris Murdoch, who had not long died, and I felt the responsibility very heavy on my shoulders.

Judi Dench

#33. Freedom is heavy. You got to put your shoulder to freedom. Put your shoulder to it and hope your back holds up.

August Wilson

#34. Don't ask God to give you a light burden. Ask Him to give you strong shoulders to carry a heavy burden.

Bob Jones, Sr.

#35. Welcome to Chicago. This town stinks like a whorehouse at low tide.

David Mamet