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The distance to your departure gate is directly proportional to the weight of your carry on luggage and inversely proportional to the time remaining before your flight.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about flight, time

The chances the elevator isn't work is inversely...

The chances the elevator isn't work is inversely proportional to the weight you are carrying multiplied by the number of stairs you'll have to climb.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about chance, numbers, work, contentment

Writing is like carrying a fetus.

Writing is like carrying a fetus.

Quote by Edna O'Brien about writing

I hadn't done just a straight-out comedy in a long time, just letting an ensemble do really good character acting, having them carry the movie as in my earlier pictures.

Quote by Brian De Palma about time, comedy, character, good, good luck

These are the people who do studies that your carry-out Chinese meals are saturated in fat. I'd just like to meet them! I mean, what do they do for pleasure.

Quote by Robert M. Parker, Jr. about people, pleasure

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on...

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.

Quote by Norman Vincent Peale about idea, world, contentment

Vulgar and common persons, as they carry nothing out of this world, so they leave nothing in it: they receive no eminency in their birth, they acquire none in their life, they have none when they die, they leave none at their death.

Quote by John Pearson about death, people, vulgarity, nothing, common sense, world, life

I am very proud to be British. I'm very conscious of...

I am very proud to be British. I'm very conscious of carrying my country with me wherever I go. I feel and I need to represent it well.

Quote by Julie Andrews about country, proudness, need

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away...

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

Quote by William Faulkner about people, man

Should I understand that love is the reverse of out life, that it is death? That we live in this life in which we hope to have the chance to love, so to die? Let me drink from the glass of your voluptuousness down to the depths of my being so...

Quote by Sorin Cerin about love, death, angels, proudness, vanity, drinking, life, contentment, destiny, world

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our...

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

Quote by Charles Haddon Spurgeon about enemies, man

We are the true architects of our lives. Only we as individuals and individuals alone, carry within us, the inner ability to make any changes to it's blue prints.

Quote by Robert M. Hensel about life, ability

Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence...

Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings.

Quote by Levi Strauss about objects, human imperfections

Everything can change, but not the language that we carry...

Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother's womb.

Quote by Italo Calvino about opinion, language, mother, change, world

A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not.

Quote by Dalton Trumbo about marriage, earth, good, good luck

In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence... in time every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties... Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their...

Quote by Laurence J. Peter about work, hierarchy, time

Harvest I will lose myself: and I carry in mouth the bitter language: an infinite of white bodies I have remembered on whose womb I hoped to sit my tone belonging to an ideal of perfection! RightWords Translation

Quote by Cezar Ivanescu about poetry, bitter, perfection, language, infinite, ideal

How much weight can carry a thought which does not...

How much weight can carry a thought which does not acknowledge that it is an illusion?

Quote by Sorin Cerin about delusion, wisdom, thinking

Having will does not mean to say what you want, it means...

Having will does not mean to say what you want, it means to carry on the work.

Quote by André Maurois about will, work, contentment

We carry the truth everyday with us, but rarely we...

We carry the truth everyday with us, but rarely we recongnize it.

Quote by Marius Torok about truth

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