Quotes About Encumbrance

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

At times, I feel like I got the world on my shoulders.

In the desert I had found a freedom unattainable in civilization; a life unhampered by possessions, since everything that was not a necessity was an encumbrance. I had found too, a comradeship inherent in the circumstances, and the belief that tranquility was to be found there.

In the desert I had found a freedom unattainable in civilization; a life unhampered by possessions, since everything that was not a necessity was an encumbrance.

There were few neighbors outside one's own small family or clan to pose threats. Because foragers tended to roam in search of food, personal possessions beyond a bare minimum became an encumbrance.

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

What is armor after all but a cage that moves with you?

A load would sink a navy.

What is a permanent loan but a mortgage upon the wealth and industry of the country? It is the only form of indebtedness, as experience has shown, by which heavy and durable encumbrance can be laid upon the community.

Sometimes our arms are so full with the burdens we carry that it hinders our view of the load those around us are staggering beneath.

Dress yourself in heavy fishing waders, put on an overcoat and boxing gloves and a bucket over your head, then have somebody strap two sacks of cement across your shoulders and you will know what a space suit feels like under one gravity.

The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.

There's some that constantly put monkeys on your back. It' their monkey, but somehow you end up carrying it. Often there are people who really care, but they constantly have problems and they want to share it with you and you're constantly trying to fix things for them. In truth, you're worried more about their problems than you do your own. Be weary of the monkeys.

There's some that constantly put monkeys on your back. It's their monkey, but somehow you end up carrying it. Often there are people who really care, but they constantly have problems and they want to share it with you and you're constantly trying to fix things for them. In truth, you're worried more about their problems than you do your own. Be weary of the monkeys.

The wise man then followed a simple way of life-which is hardly surprising when you consider how even in this modern age he seeks to be as little encumbered as he possibly can.

Burdens accrue in isolation.

There is a difference between a challenge and a burden. One is something you can carry on your shoulders easily enough—the other is something, a big sack, that bends you double.

Every radish I ever pulled up seemed to have a mortgage attached to it.

No, but I feel as if a big stone is pressing me here.

If it isn't the sheriff, it's the finance company I've got more attachments on me than a vacuum cleaner.

Everyone has a burden to bear, and no one else can carry it for us. It's our very own chimidunchik." "That

Things are best that way, Deoga. Forgetting, not remembering. You Farangs become encumbered with your past. The past drives you mad. It keeps you from acting sensibly.

have a ball and chain strapped around his ankle.

We weigh ourselves down with so many obstacles we can't even buy a goldfish bowl.