Too Heavy Quotes

#1. For 'The Trip To Bountiful,' I was worried about being too heavy, because I supposedly had just gotten out of the hospital.

John Heard

#2. I name you Elentiya." She kissed the assassin's brow. "I give you this name to use with honour, to use when other names grow too heavy. I name you Elentiya, 'Spirit That Could Not Be Broken.

Sarah J. Maas

#3. I don't cry in real life. I'm just pretty light and I don't get too heavy.

Mike Binder

#4. We cry in our own rooms, remembering a man who will never be here again.The house creaks. Maybe it feels the weight of our grief, maybe the floorboards are buckling because the burden is too heavy.

Rochelle Maya Callen

#5. Being in public with May and the children was too heavy. I was irreversibly tuned in to everyone around us.

Sammy Davis Jr.

#6. I'm a really smiley person, so I've just learned when I'm doing my own makeup, I have to make sure it's smile ready and not too heavy. As amazing as the Victoria Beckham pout is for photos, I just can't do it!

Rosario Dawson

#7. When should you show more than tell? Great writing is balanced! You do not want to be a show-all, or a tell-all. And remember we are storytellers. Balance is the key! And let your ear be the guide. Is it too heavy, or too light? Or is it just right?

Mark Donnelly

#8. She did have regrets. Thousands of them, and the weight was too heavy for her to keep moving. She was a ship that could not sail, for its anchor - its thousands of anchors - locked it to the sea floor.

Susan Dennard

#9. My mood settles around me, a wool coat that seems to grow heavier with the months in which I accomplish very little--and then, since the coat is too heavy to allow movement, accomplish nothing at all.

Mark Doty

#10. I wasn't strong when I was young. The puck was maybe too heavy. I guess I tried to move the puck from side to side to keep from getting hit.

Pavel Datsyuk

#11. Brooks too wide for our leaping, hedges far to high. Loads too heavy for our moving, burdens too cumbersome for us to bear. Distances far beyond our journeying. The horse gave us mastery.

Pam Brown

#12. You're damned if you're too thin and you're damned if you're too heavy. According to the press I've been both. Its impossible to satisfy everyone and I suggest we stop trying.

Jennifer Aniston

#13. Gimme hate, Lord," he whimpered. "I'll take hate any day. But don't give me love. I can't take no more love, Lord. I can't carry it ... It's too heavy. Jesus, you know, you know all about it. Ain't it heavy? Jesus? Ain't love heavy?

Toni Morrison

#14. Let us not envy some men their accumulated riches; their burden would be too heavy for us; we could not sacrifice, as they do, health, quiet, honor and conscience, to obtain them: It is to pay so dear from them that the bargain is a loss.

Jean De La Bruyere

#15. I carry a gun cause a cop is too heavy.

John Steinbeck

#16. When things get too heavy, just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man.

Jimi Hendrix

#17. It is not worth the paper it is written on unless it is backed by the kind of force that will make the other side consider the penalties too heavy to break the agreement.

Yitzhak Rabin

#18. For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.

Franz Kafka

#19. Tragic phrases comfort the heart ... Without them, sorrow would be too heavy for men to bear.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#20. If I'm going to be a pessimist, then I should just stop writing for young people because that's too heavy a burden to put on young readers. But also, I get to meet with people who have waded through horrible things, and they get up every morning, and they try to do their best.

Deborah Ellis

#21. In the 1970s, I used to buy opals and moonstones at the Queen Victoria Market, which were seen as old-fashioned and too heavy at the time.

Kerry Greenwood

#22. Diplomats operate through deadlock, which is the way by which two sides can test each other's determination. Even if they have egos for it few heads of government have the time to resolve stalemates, their meetings are too short and the demands of protocol too heavy.

Henry A. Kissinger

#23. I was not offended, my love. An insult is like a drink; it affects one only if accepted. And pride is too heavy baggage for my journey ...

Robert A. Heinlein

#24. I paid too heavy a price for perestroika.

Mikhail Gorbachev

#25. An hour ago, I would have sworn that a man's body wouldn't fit in a standard trash bag, and that even if it did, it'd be too heavy to lift."
"Pieces always fit better than the whole," he said. "And a corpse weighs less after you drain the blood."
"Spoken like a true psychopath.

Rachel Vincent

#26. Nicholas Adams drove on through the town along the empty, brick-paved street ... on under the heavy trees of the small town that are a part of your heart if it is your town and you have walked under them, but that are only too heavy, that shut out the sun and that dampen the houses for a stranger.

Ernest Hemingway,

#27. If we empty our hearts every night, they won't get too heavy or cluttered. Our hearts will stay light and open with lots of room for good new things to come.

Glennon Doyle Melton

#28. Some secrets are like fossils and the stone has become too heavy to turn over.

Delphine De Vigan

#29. The movie is actually from a book by Stephen King called The Body. When they were gonna put it to a motion picture, they found the story was a bit too strong for the title The Body, based on a young kid's movie. It would be too heavy.

Ben E. King

#30. You too heavy a man for me to carry ... I done carried heavy men and I know how they can break your back. I ain't got but this one back and I don't want it broke again ...

Edward P. Jones

#31. Herondales." Zachariah's voice was a breath, half laughter, half pain. "I had almost forgotten. No other family does so much for love, or feels so much guilt for it. Don't carry the weight of the world on you, Jace. It's too heavy for even a Herondale to bear.

Cassandra Clare

#32. It felt like too much. Not too much to have, just too much to contemplate. Commitments like boulders that were too heavy to carry.

Rainbow Rowell

#33. Hillary Clinton flew with President Bush to New York City on Tuesday. She was amazed at the changes aboard Air Force One. For eight years she believed that flight attendants couldn't wear clothes because it made the plane too heavy.

Argus Hamilton

#34. If it
Were lighter touch
Than petal of flower resting
On grass, oh still too heavy it were,
Too heavy!

Adelaide Crapsey

#35. I used to hate old-timers who didn't praise the younger wrestlers, but you've got to pass the torch sometime. If you're old, that torch gets too heavy for you and you can't carry it, so it won't do you any good.

Randy Savage

#36. It was only after time had passed that a person was able to see whether she might have been able to bear the load she was sure had been too heavy.

Susan Meissner

#37. There are too many heavy songs out nowadays. music has been getting too heavy, almost to the state of unbearable.

Jimi Hendrix

#38. Sometimes love didn't spring up on you in a moment of blinding clarity. Sometimes it crept up on you on a Tuesday night while you were standing at the sink doing dishes, the feeling settling into your soul in a way that made it too heavy to ignore anymore.

Jessica Gadziala

#39. There are some actresses that can't do comedy; it's too heavy-handed.

Bob Newhart

#40. The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and influence their actions. A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life.

John Hannah

#41. What uniform can I wear to hide my heavy heart?
It is too heavy. It will always show.
Jacques felt himself growing gloomy again. He was well aware that to live on earth a man must follow its fashions, and hearts were no longer worn.

Jean Cocteau

#42. A good, solid, beefy lie is too heavy to stand on its own. It needs smaller, quicker, more complicated lies to hold it up.

Catherynne M Valente

#43. If I fall in, I'm going to drown. The weights upon me are too heavy to stay afloat. My only option is to sink.

Katie McGarry

#44. In the past, I was working out too heavy.

Jean-Claude Van Damme

#45. I'm not classically pretty; I've always been too heavy; I've had thyroid disease and it's very hard for me to lose weight - but I've always had men pursue me. I've always had that 'it' thing. God knows why. Maybe it's pheromones, I don't know.

Erica Jong

#46. When the burden is too heavy on your heart. Cast the weight upon the Lord, for he cares that, you call out to his holy Name.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#47. Since a camera is something too heavy for women and initially made for men, you need a good cameraman.

Mitra Farahani

#48. Leave each one his touch of folly; it helps to lighten life's burden which, if he could see himself as he is, might be too heavy to carry.

John Lancaster Spalding

#49. I cried a river of tears but he was too heavy to float on them. So I dragged him with me these years across an ocean.

August Wilson

#50. I had a dream about you last night. I could fly. I was going to use this power to impress you, but you were too heavy to carry, so I won you over with my personality instead

Michael Summers

#51. I am not one of the people who believe that the main reason why a chap becomes a bookmaker is because he is too scared to steal and too heavy to become a jockey.

Noel Whitcomb

#52. (W)hen a load is too heavy for one horse to pull, what do we do? Hitch another to it, don't we? That's just common sense. Well, son, things that sort of weigh on a man's mind and heart may be too heavy for him to make much headway with alone.

Kate Seredy

#53. Smile upon those that are downhearted and sad; lift the load from those that find theirs too heavy to bear, in gentleness, in kindness, in long-suffering, in patience, in mercy, in brotherly love. And as ye show forth these to thy fellow man, the ways and the gates of glory open before thee.

Edgar Cayce

#54. Football and me have never got on. My instinct and love for the harder end of contact had always meant I was perhaps a little too heavy-handed for football. Somehow it left me feeling unfulfilled.

Nick Frost

#55. People misunderstood death, they died not of too little life but of too much life, that as the skin withered and the future grew short it was the past that took on flesh, until ultimately the sheer accumulation of experience and memory became too heavy to carry.

Dorothy Gilman

#56. Is, then, the crown too heavy that I wear? This Iron Crown of Lombardy. Yet it is bright with many a gem; I, the wearer, see not its far flashings; but darkly feel that I wear that, that dazzling confounds. 'Tis Iron - that I know - not gold.

Herman Melville

#57. Sometimes I wish I could step outside of myself for a while. I want to leave this worn body behind, but my chains are too many, my weights too heavy.

Tahereh Mafi

#58. A marriage is a delicate thing, Maggie, a balance of two hearts and two hopes. Sometimes the weight's just too heavy on the one side, and the other can't lift to it.

Nora Roberts

#59. Selecting the paper for your letterhead has more variables than you might think. Normal writing or computer printing paper is too light and poor quality to be used for letterhead. Using too heavy of a paper comes off as being ridged and over spending on a basic supply.

Mitch Stephen

#60. That thing was too big to be called a sword.
Too big, too thick, too heavy, and too rough, it was more like a large hunk of iron.

Kentaro Miura

#61. For food to be romantic, it should be light. Too many times people plan a romantic meal, and the food is too heavy.

Jose Andres

#62. Any car which holds together for a whole race is too heavy.

Colin Chapman

#63. Those who understand the eternal blessings which come from the temple know that no sacrifice is too great, no price too heavy, no struggle too difficult in order to receive those blessings.

Thomas S. Monson

#64. Freedom is a terrible burden, much too heavy for the weak man to bear.

Robert Ferrigno

#65. Our present tax system ... exerts too heavy a drag on growth ... It reduces the financial incentives for personal effort, investment, and risk-taking ... The present tax load ... distorts economic judgments and channels an undue amount of energy into efforts to avoidtaxliabilities.

John F. Kennedy

#66. There is a crack opening up in the middle of the kitchen table. The typewriter and the secrets box are too heavy for it. They're pulling the table down. They're opening up a hole in the floor. The whole room rips apart. There it is, large as life. Our lives are being blown wide open.

Moira Fowley-Doyle

#67. What are you doing here, Simi? (Astrid)
Feeling peckish. Is there any food? Something not too heavy. Maybe a cow or two? (Simi)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#68. Know this, child. You must always choose life. Even when the burden of heartache seems too heavy a load you must seek the forward path.

Ellen Malphrus

#69. I probably always will be. But I've been mad all my life, and I finally figured out that I couldn't keep carrying that with me. It's too heavy and I'm too tired. Time will take care of it, like it does everything else.

Ayana Mathis

#70. Who is my brother now? When did he transform from the boy who made me too-sweet tea to a man with secrets too heavy to share with his little sister?

Sabaa Tahir

#71. Your tail, is becoming too heavy to wag.

Empress Dowager Cixi

#72. I was muscular - I was never overweight. But tell a girl that she has to lose 15 pounds when she's not fat, and that has destroyed a lot of who I am over the years, even still. In my mind I'm thinking, 'I'm always too heavy. I should be a skinny thing.'

Kim Alexis

#73. That many-faceted thing called love succeeds in building bridges from the loneliness on this shore to the loneliness on the other one. These bridges can be of great beauty, but they are rarely built for eternity, and frequently they cannot tolerate too heavy a burden without collapsing.

Karen Horney

#74. I wrote 'Science For Her!' because I found normal, manly science textbooks to be too intense for my small size-0 brain, and I found normal science textbooks to have covers too heavy for my dainty size-0/size-2-with-bloat hands.

Megan Amram

#75. They say the chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. The chains you put around yourself now have enormous consequences as you go through life.

Warren Buffett

#76. The death of Mrs. Lincoln was a serious loss to her husband and children. Abraham's sister Sarah was only eleven years old, and the tasks and cares of the little household were altogether too heavy for her years and experience.

John George Nicolay

#77. We are always making more and more stuff in the world. You know; big buildings, big planes, big boats and that. Will we ever get to a point where all this is too heavy for the world to handle?

Karl Pilkington

#78. The lazy man claims he is too heavy for light work and too light for heavy work.

Evan Esar

#79. And then, in the night, he'd go to the Empire again. The things that he'd felt the night before, he wanted to feel again. He wanted to understand. All at once, Dr. Carter's hand felt too heavy,

Anonymous

#80. Similarly, too rich a soil makes the grain fall flat, branches break down under too heavy a load, excessive productiveness does not bring fruit to ripeness.

Seneca.

#81. Win's phone rang. He picked it up and said, "Articulate. Okay, put it through." Two seconds later he handed the phone to Myron. "For me?" Myron asked. Win gave him flat eyes. "No," he said. "I'm handing you the phone because it's too heavy for me." Everyone's a wiseass.

Harlan Coben

#82. The more I was treated as a woman, the more woman I became. A adapted willy-nilly. If I was assumed to be incompetent at reversing cars, or opening bottles, oddly incompetent I found myself becoming. If a case was thought too heavy for me, inexplicably I found it so myself.

Jan Morris

#83. This time you've dug yourself an anchor too heavy to move ahead with.

Al Kaline

#84. English has a better way with colloquialisms. It has colloquialisms that are colorful and expressive but not too heavy or distracting. In German, if you use colloquialisms, it quickly descends into some kind of dialect literature.

Daniel Kehlmann

#85. I was too heavy to be a jockey and too honest to be a producer, so I became a writer.

Leon Uris

#86. My body, still too heavy with sleep to move...

Marcel Proust

#87. Clara didn't carry a grudge. They were too heavy and she had too far to go.

Louise Penny

#88. I actually had a bunch of songs that I worked on with Jamey Jasta from Hatebreed, but they were too heavy for me because my voice sounds good when I sing clean. It sounds good dirty too, but when I hear my voice sing really clean, that's a special sound.

Sebastian Bach

#89. You understand. It's too far. I can't take this body when me. It's too heavy"
I said nothing.
"But it will be like an abandoned shell. There's nothing sad about an old shell ...

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#90. Everything we seek so enthusiastically before we reach adulthood - love, work, faith - turns into a burden too heavy to bear. There is only one way to escape this: love. To love is to transform slavery into freedom. But right now, I can't love. I just feel hate.

Paulo Coelho

#91. What hasty preperations we make for our future. Think of it: it seems almost tragic, the things we're sure we ought to bring along. We pack too heavy with what we hope we'll use, and too light of what we must. We thus go forth misladen, ill equipped for the dawn.

Chang-rae Lee

#92. She struggled with all her might, but he was much too heavy and strong.
With a sigh, Amelia finally said, "You win. How can I defend myself in a situation like this?"
"That's a good question."
With a satisfied grin, he got to his feet and said, "I'll show you.

Linda Weaver Clarke

#93. When the wings are too heavy, the bird can't fly.

Marty Rubin

#94. I don't do facials or any of that stuff, but my workout regime does tend to depend on whether I have to take my top off in my next film because otherwise I know I'm too heavy.

Clive Owen

#95. The grief doesn't go away, ... But you ... get used to it, you know? It's like carrying a heavy stone, one that's really too heavy for you: you learn to settle the weight properly, and then you get used to it, and then sometimes you can forget you're carrying it.

Rachel Neumeier

#96. My opinion of a good zombie walk is to loll your head as if it's a little too heavy and the muscles have begun to atrophy.

George A. Romero

#97. A public debt is a kind of anchor in the storm; but if the anchor be too heavy for the vessel, she will be sunk by that very weight which was intended for her preservation.

Charles Caleb Colton

#98. Only fools insist upon life at any cost ... Others would say that life may be laid down when it becomes too heavy. Where does it go, after all, but into the keeping of the Powers who gave it and will give it once again?

Sheri S. Tepper

#99. No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life into which I have entered in loving you.

George Eliot

#100. When it rain, think of me. I'll be your umbrella, Kate. I'll be your barrier from the storm, when life gets too heavy. Don't let the storm wash you away. Allow it to nourish new life.

Lisa De Jong