Ballasted Quotes & Sayings

Resistance to team play seemed to pour like wet cement through my bones, displacing supple marrow, until I was ballasted with my own contempt. — Florence King

Be brave, be strong, read your sacred texts, and practice death. — Suzanne Morrison

It is extraordinary how many emotional storms one may weather in safety if one is ballasted with ever so little gold. — William McFee

But now I really don't want to work unless I really, really care about a project. — Jodie Foster

The drug or cult has major if not exclusive sources of brain rewards. — Keith Henson

We've been criticizing these superficial aspects, like whether we are all more distracted. We really need to articulate a defense, a critique, that merges awareness of the technology with a more traditional, progressive, left-wing critique of the market. — Astra Taylor

Not advisable is spread thickly over this entire situation. — C.J. Cherryh

These are attitudes masquerading as ideas, emotional commitments disguised as intellectual honesty. However sincere the current evangelists of unbelief may be, they are doing nothing more than producing rationales
ballasted by a formidable collection of conceptual and historical errors
for convictions that are rooted not in reason but in a greater cultural will, of which their arguments are only reflexes. — David Bentley Hart

Speak, thou vast and venerable head," muttered Ahab, "which, though ungarnished with a beard, yet here and there lookest hoary with mosses; speak, mighty head, and tell us the secret thing that is in thee. Of all divers, thou hast dived the deepest. That head upon which the upper sun now gleams, has moved amid this world's foundations. Where unrecorded names and navies rust, and untold hopes and anchors rot; where in her murderous hold this frigate earth is ballasted with bones of millions of the drowned; there, in that awful water-land, there was thy most familiar home. — Herman Melville