Quotes with heavy-handed

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  • Bob Dylan Someone handed me Mexico City Blues in St. Paul in 1959 and it blew my mind. It was the first poetry that spoke my own language.
    On the influence of Jack Kerouac, as quoted in Jack Kerouac (2007)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Robert Burns Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
    Robert Burns
    Scottish Poet (1759 - 1796)
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  • Lord George Byron Suspicion is a heavy armour, and I with its own weight impedes more than protects.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • William Wordsworth That blessed mood in which the burthen of the mystery, in which the heavy and the weary weight of all this unintelligible world is lightened.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Ernest Hemingway The age demanded that we dance and jammed us into iron pants. And in the end the age was handed the sort of shit that it demanded.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Aristotle The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Alexandre Dumas père The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and sometimes three.
    Alexandre Dumas père
    French writer (1802 - 1870)
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  • Gore Vidal The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The god of victory is said to be one-handed, but peace gives victory on both sides.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bayard Taylor The hollows are heavy and dank
    With the steam of the Goldenrods.
    The Guests of Night
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Baba Kalyani The Indian business has largely grown on the back of exports. The domestic markets, as far as our Indian business is concerned, actually have contracted because of the contraction in the medium and heavy commercial vehicle space.
    Baba Kalyani
    Indian businessman (1949 - )
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  • Carl von Clausewitz The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Bram Stoker The mouth, so far as I could see it under the heavy moustache, was fixed and rather cruel-looking, with peculiarly sharp white teeth; these protruded over the lips, whose remarkable ruddiness showed astonishing vitality in a man of his years.
    Dracula (1897)
    Bram Stoker
    Irish author (1847 - 1912)
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  • Ben E. King 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
    American soul and R&B singer (1938 - 2015)
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  • Ariel Sharon The ongoing conflict between us has caused heavy suffering to both peoples. The future can and must be different. Both our peoples are destined to live together side by side, on this small piece of land. This reality we cannot change.
    Ariel Sharon
    Israeli general and politician (1928 - 2014)
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  • Erma Bombeck The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.
    Erma Bombeck
    American writer (1927 - 1996)
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  • Bernard Williams The people I really do dislike are the morally unimaginative kind of evolutionary reductionists who, in the name of science, think they can explain everything in terms of our early hominid ancestors or our genes, with their combination of high-handed tone and disregard for history. Such reductive speculation encourages a really empty scientism.
    Bernard Williams
    English philosopher (1929 - 2003)
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  • Bill Medley The Righteous Brothers got so heavy because of the dramatic hit records like 'Lovin' Feelin.' Bobby and I just felt like we were a couple of Orange County guys who were just having a great time singing rock n' roll, and then, boy, it became something else.
    Bill Medley
    American singer and songwriter (1940 - )
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  • Donald H. Mcgannon The world has more winnable people than ever before… but it is possible to come out of a ripe field empty-handed.
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  • Bob Newhart There are some actresses that can't do comedy; it's too heavy-handed.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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