Weighty Words Quotes

#1. Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light.

Wislawa Szymborska

#2. Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.

John Dryden

#3. And although like most black males raised in Los Angeles, I'm bilingual only to the extent that I can sexually harass women of all ethnicities in their native languages, I understood the gist of the message.

Paul Beatty

#4. The Harkonnens discouraged investigation of the spice, didn't they?

Frank Herbert

#5. My heartbeat keeps me alive. Your heartbeat lets me know I'm alive. Our heartbeats give me the reason to live.

Jessamine Verzosa

#6. Fame is a by-product which you have to deal with in a sensible way. To believe that it is anything more significant than that is deeply self-deceptive.

Jodhi May

#7. His heart hurt with the wanting of it, the hurt no less painful for being difficult to explain.

Maggie Stiefvater

#8. Though [Jesus'] words were profound, they were plain. His words were weighty, yet they shone with a luster and simplicity of statement that staggered His enemies.

Billy Graham

#9. In things that are tender and unpleasing, it is good to break the ice by some one whose words are of less weight, and to reserve the more weighty voice to come in as by chance.

Francis Bacon

#10. Oh my God, your dad's coming," I repeat. Without thinking, I stick my hands up the front of his shirt and use it to wipe my face. "Is that better?" I ask. "I can't believe you just did that," he says, sounding completely shocked.

Aurora Rose Reynolds

#11. Consider six or eight hours a day sacred to the Lord and His work, and let nothing hinder your giving this time (to language study and practice) till you can preach fluently and intelligibly.

Hudson Taylor

#12. I truly missed my parents. I wanted to miss them. It was the only way I could love them, a crazy cocktail of longing and pretending and absence and hope.

Heather Sellers

#13. Autumn in my garden is when trees give their tickertape welcome to winter.

Densey Clyne