Overweighting Quotes

#1. They were not spontaneous people. They were born with too great a love of words, a passion for drama at the expense of truth, and a habit of overweighting common life with romance.

Stella Benson

#2. A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments.

Aristotle.

#3. You don't get results by focusing on results. You get results by focusing on the actions that produce results.

Mike Hawkins

#4. We kept each other's stare a long time, for we had each done a startling thing, dodged time for an instant - which is the only definition of happiness I know.

Andrew Sean Greer

#5. It is intolerable that in our country citizens should feel so upset and under assault because of their religious choice that they would conclude that they have to hide.

Francois Hollande

#6. There was a worried little smile on her face. But my heart felt nothing, and I couldn't even return her smile.

Albert Camus

#7. I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.

H.L. Mencken

#8. There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of pursuit.

William S. Burroughs

#9. We simply cannot afford to allow our government to go unscrutinised, most of all in amid the bleak seeming imperatives of the 'war on terror'.

Nick Harkaway

#10. Pakistan is not a unified country.

Noam Chomsky

#11. Real power does not consist in the ability to inflict capital punishment upon the subjects, but in the will and the ability to protect the subjects against the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

#12. God is the One who is with us when we have to do something we don't think we are capable of doing.

Harold S. Kushner

#13. For me, it is always important that I go through all the possible options for a decision.

Angela Merkel

#14. The very first television ad targeted to women was produced by the Eisenhower-Nixon campaign in 1956. It includes footage of a woman supervising her children doing their homework at the kitchen table.

Jill Lepore