Quotes About Encumber

#1. Christ did not come to earth simply to be our moral teacher. If that were His only mission, He could have come as He did in former times, as the Angel of the Lord, without our flesh and blood to encumber Him. Instead, He had to become like us so that He could raise us up to be like Him.

Joel R. Beeke

#2. As an exercise of the reasoning faculties, pure mathematics is an admirable exercise, because it consists of reasoning alone and does not encumber the student with any exercise of judgment.

Richard Whately

#3. Do not encumber your mind with useless thoughts. What good does it do to brood on the past or anticipate the future? Remain in the simplicity of the present moment.

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

#4. And above all, I am not interested enough in politics to let them encumber my last days. - DRIEU LA ROCHELLE,

Clive James

#5. Don't drag anchors of unforgiveness into your relationships. Forgive who you need to forgive. Reach out to someone who may be able to help you work this through. Don't drag around those things that "encumber" you.

Lee Ezell

#6. Pythagoras
Did stagger us
And our reason encumber
With irrational number

Steven Cushing

#7. Science and art, ... they seek the truth and the meaning of life, they seek God, [and] the soul, and when they are harnessed to passing needs and activities, ... then they only complicate and encumber life.

Anton Chekhov

#8. 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

#9. Do not be tempted to invest in a sample of each golfing invention as soon as it makes its appearance. If you do, you will only complicate and spoil your game - and encumber your locker with useless rubbish.

Harry Vardon

#10. The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.

A.S. Byatt

#11. Great is the art,
Great be the manners, of the bard.
He shall not his brain encumber
With the coil of rhythm and number;
But, leaving rule and pale forethought,
He shall aye climb
For his rhyme.
"Pass in, pass in," the angels say

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#12. Hosts of merchants encumber the cities, and the streets are cluttered with solicitors who swarm without limit or purpose.

Charles Fourier

#13. The two records are very different. I guess, on the second record, that's more where I was at. Its not that I'm more well-adjusted or anything, it's just that what I wanted to sing about maybe was more the way I wanted to feel.

Jon Crosby

#14. There is much of economic theory which is pursued for no better reason than its intellectual attraction; it is a good game. We have no reason to be ashamed of that, since the same would hold for many branches of mathematics.

Sir John Richard Hicks

#15. To become as perfect as a mortal being can become, we need to bring the mind, body, and spirit into total harmony ... We must add to that harmony Christ like love and righteousness.

Betty Eadie

#16. Our ignorance, and it is based on the egos we have. It is the unwillingness to go beyond ego.

Edgar Mitchell

#17. Sometimes I forget that I am even watching myself, realizing that's me. It's like you almost become a fan yourself: You are just this normal person watching this show, and then you realize that it's your show. It's weird sometimes.

Evan Rachel Wood

#18. Every flight begins with a fall.

George R R Martin

#19. Doing whats right is never easy ... You think you're right, but you lose track of what you were trying to do all along and then there's blood and screaming and death.Doing a bad thing for a good end just sours the good.

Janice Hardy

#20. You can sum up the game of baseball in one word: 'You never know.'

Joaquin Andujar

#21. Their families helped them realize that there was more out there for them. These students came to Delaware State because of its inexpensive tuition, closeness to home, and solid reputation.

Michael N. Castle

#22. We didn't exist. Ronald Reagan didn't say the word 'AIDS' until 1987. I've tried desperately to get a meeting in the White House; Gay Men's Health Crisis is already an established organization. I have a certain presence.

Larry Kramer

#23. All our efforts to attain immortality-by statesmanship, by conquest, by science or the arts-are equally vain in the long run, because the long run is longer than any of us can imagine.

Sydney J. Harris

#24. A gentleman's choice of timepiece says as much about him as does his Saville Row suit.

Ian Fleming

#25. We can never have enough of Nature.

Henry David Thoreau

#26. There will never be a generation of great men until there has been a generation of free women - of free mothers.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#27. Not only are you what you eat, but you also can be what's eating you. Don't become your problems or let them overtake you.

Anthony Liccione