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  • Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast. -- William Penn
  • A hot air balloon requires a great deal of fuel to keep it aloft, so that you can't fly it even for one day. A gas balloon, which usually uses helium, has the problem that the helium cools at night when the sun is not on it, and you have to throw ballast overboard to keep it from going to the surface. -- Steve Fossett
  • A vow imparts stability, ballast and firmness to one's character. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit. -- Samuel Beckett
  • Enthusiasms, like stimulants, are often affected by people with small mental ballast -- Minna Antrim
  • Hatred is the ballast of the rock which lies upon our necks and underfoot. -- Maya Angelou
  • Her purse was a weight, ballast; it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away. -- Anne Lamott
  • The mind must have for ballast the clear conception of duty, if it is not to fluctuate between levity and despair. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
  • There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business. -- James Russell Lowell
  • The more modest its intellectual ballast, the more exclusively it takes into consideration the emotions of the masses, the more effective [propaganda] will be. -- Adolf Hitler
  • Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast. Yet it must be confessed that wit given an edge to sense, and recommends it extremely. -- William Penn
  • Ignorance and prejudice are the ballast of our ship of state - however, ships without ballast are not seaworthy and cannot sail in the tempests, nor reach a safe harbor. -- George Orwell
  • My ties and ballasts leave me - I travel - I sail - My elbows rest in the sea-gaps. I skirt the sierras. My palms cover continents - I am afoot with my vision. -- Walt Whitman
  • Time and tide wait for no man. A pompous and self-satisfied proverb, and was true for a billion years; but in our day of electric wires and water-ballast we turn it around: Man waits not for time nor tide. -- Mark Twain
  • Help, then, is the ballast that keeps us steady, that recognizes where along the path are the dangers and pitfalls that can throw us off; hope tempers fear so we can recognize dangers and then bypass or endure them. -- Jerome Groopman
  • Seamen three! what men be ye? Gotham's three Wise Men we be. Whither in your bowl so free? To rake the moon from out the sea. The bowl goes trim. The moon doth shine, And our ballast is old wine. -- Thomas Love Peacock
  • My remembrance of the past is a novel I am constantly recomposing; and it would not be a historical novel, but sheer fiction, if the material events which mark and ballast my career had not their public dates and characters scientifically discoverable. -- George Santayana
  • When, in 1913, in a desperate attempt to rid art of the ballast of objectivity, I took refuge in the form of the square... the critics... sighed, "All that we loved has been lost. We are in a desert"... But the desert is filled with the spirit of non-objective feeling... -- Kazimir Malevich
  • Praise a fool, and slay him; for the canvas of his vanity is spread; His bark is shallow in the water, and a sudden gust shall sink it: Praise a wise man, and speed him on his way; for he carrieth the ballast of humility, And is glad when his course is cheered by the sympathy of brethren ashore. -- Martin Farquhar Tupper
  • Enthusiasms, like stimulants, are often affected by people with small mental ballast. -- Minna Antrim
  • For him to have understood me would have meant reorganizing his thinking... giving up his intellectual ballast, and few people are willing to risk such a radical move. -- Edward T. Hall
  • Beauty Queen' is the weirdest, strangest, and most perfect play to do before 'Hedda Gabler', because there are so many similar issues for Maureen and Hedda. I had played leading ladies before but couldn't really hook into them. After 'An American Daughter' and 'Beauty Queen', I had all the ballast. -- Kate Burton
  • She is the swelling sail, trim rigging and bust sunlit deck of our matrimonial yacht. I am the low hull, with the invisible ballast and keel. -- Alasdair Gray
  • Here we are in the century of information, that is to say the unformed. Every kind of literature will be journalistic, with a science for ballast. -- Julien Torma
  • It becomes necessary to learn how to clear the mind of all clouds, to free it of all useless ballast and debris by dismissing the burden of too much concern with material things. -- Indra Devi
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