Quotes About Load

I drag a lot of stuff round with me that I don't need.

I had been for some hours extremely pressed by the necessities of nature; which was no wonder, it being almost two days since I had last disburdened myself. I was under great difficulties between urgency and shame. The best expedient I could think of, was to creep into my house, which I accordingly did; and shutting the gate after me, I went as far as the length of my chain would suffer, and discharged my body of that uneasy load.

Lie heavy on him earth, hor he laid many a heavy load on thee (suggested epitaph)

And the men with the cigarettes in their straight-lined mouths, the men with the eyes of puff-adders, took up their load of machine and tube, their case of liquid melancholy and the slow dark sludge of nameless stuff, and strolled out the door.

My experience is that I can think while strolling but cannot engage in mental work that imposes a heavy load on short-term memory.

My dad's got a brilliant eye for scripts 'cos he's a literary agent. He and my agent read a load of scripts and filter them.

Wildcats could carry a light bomb load too. Their pilots, however, found to their dismay that the bombs could be difficult to drop: a pilot had not only to pull the bomb release but also to jerk the plane's rudder back and forth, shaking the plane in midflight to dislodge the bombs from their notoriously sticky mountings.

It was like hauling around a big midget in your pack.

The king of the jailhouse and the queen of the road think sharing the burden will lighten the load.

It is manifestly pregnant and has a bulging white belly heavy with its load of kittens.

I spent my whole life helping my mother carry around her psychic trunks like a bitter bellhop. So a great load was lifted when she died, and my life was much easier.

It is nature's kindness that we do not remember past births. Life would be a burden if we carried such a tremendous load of memories.

Prose may carry a load of ill-defined matters like a ship. But poetry is the machine which drives it, pruned to a perfect economy.

Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.

A load would sink a navy.

Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it.

I've said it before, every day in the cage, I'm trying to be consistent and keep my load and keep my body right and my mind right.

Films cannot change anybody's life. That's a load of crap.

I said, "What is this place?" "Old date farm. This building here is where they used to box up the shit and load it onto trucks." Rows

Leisure is pain; takes off our chariot wheels; how heavily we drag the load of life!

Despite habit and numbness, a person can find the beginning of the road, and if one has courage, the whole enormous load of fear -- the dead weight of the past -- can be shed.

He'd discovered the tables now and was staring at the pile. It looked like the work of a miniaturist beaver: a heap of objects that was illegible yet clearly not random. To Sasha's eye, it almost shook under its load of embarrassments and close shaves and little triumphs and moments of pure exhilaration. It contained years of her life compressed. The screwdriver was at the outer edge. Sasha moved closer to Alex, drawn to the sight of him taking everything in.

Responsibilities have weighed on me my whole life.

increasing cognitive loadfn8 should make people more conservative. This is precisely the case. The time pressure of snap judgments is a version of increased cognitive load. Likewise, people become more conservative when tired, in pain or distracted with a cognitive task, or when blood alcohol levels rise.