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Quotes About Weigh

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
~ Plutarch
On the front porch where she had come to weigh them quietly with her eyes, her quietness a condemnation, the woman stood motionless.
~ Ray Bradbury
I hesitated, pretending to weigh it up. "What's the deal in the bar?" "Ha ha ha." Someone had programmed a laugh into the robot. It sounded like a fat man drowning in syrup.
~ Richard K. Morgan
O ye powers that search The heart of man, and weigh his inmost thoughts, If I have done amiss, impute it not! The best may err, but you are good.
~ Joseph Addison
...in certain moods, no man can weigh this world without throwing in something, somehow like Original Sin, to strike the uneven balance.
~ Herman Melville
To weigh and evaluate a vast grid of information, much of it meaningless, and to arrive at sensible, if erroneous, conclusions, is a skill not to be sneezed at.
~ Richard Russo, The Risk Pool
There's an old press-agents' slogan that's good advice: Don't read your publicity - weigh it.
~ Kathleen Winsor
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~ Rena Kornreich Gelissen
To weigh and evaluate a vast grid of information, much of it meaningless, and to arrive at sensible, if erroneous, conclusions, is a skill not to be sneezed at.
~ Richard Russo
My mother sees things but from the distance; she does not weigh them in regard to my position, and she judges me too harshly. But she is my mother, who loves me dearly; and when she speaks, I can only bow my head.
~ Marie Antoinette
Anytime you're trying to set a course, there's gonna be decisions made, and you have to weigh all options, and then in the end you come up with the best course.
~ Mike Leach
Many, whose hearts are conquered by acute spite, roll out balanced tales from their own heart, which do not balance when you weigh words against deeds.
~ Lucius Accius
I love that Amazon has this incredibly unique, diplomatic process where people's voices are heard, and we're using this great interconnectedness we have, via the Internet, to weigh in and to have a say in what we want to see and what we don't.
~ Matt Bomer
I think it's best if there's an amendment that goes on the ballot where the people can weigh in. Every time this issue has gone on the ballot, the people have voted to retain the traditional definition of marriage as recently as California in 2008.
~ Michele Bachmann
There is a lot of things to weigh up when a transfer happens, and money is a big factor.
~ Richard Gough
I will say, nothing in my time in the Senate has more surprised me than senators and House members want to weigh in on everything under the sun, but they do not want to weigh in on a clearly defined constitutional duty to declare war. It just stuns me.
~ Tim Kaine
In life, you have to weigh everything up, even when they are just decisions about your career.
~ Dani Alves
Shareholders, of course, have every right to weigh in on whether (or how) they want a company to exercise political influence.
~ Ari Melber
All I am saying is that if you want to answer a question, then we need to examine and weigh up the evidence. To me, that's not dogmatic that's just... what else would you do?
~ Simon Singh
There is value in education, but, as we do with anything else, we should start being careful to weigh that value with the price tag that's attached to it.
~ Kat Timpf
Cornerstone No. 1 is the Theory of Relativity, which states: In order to settle on a rational course of action (or inaction), one must first weigh all pertinent facts in a relative light and carefully define his terms.
~ Robert J. Ringer
In the main we deal in this life, he says, chiefly with probabilities, with difficult choices often having to do with lesser evils, with situations where one must weigh the pros and cons and often act without anything approaching certainty, but act one must, for it is better even to make a mistake than to hobble oneself permanently in indecision.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind.
~ John Lyly
I am the prosecutor. I represent the state. I am here to present to you the evidence of a crime. Together you will weigh this evidence. You will deliberate upon it. You will decide if it proves the defendant's guilt.
~ Scott Turow