Weighty Quotes

But aesthetics is not religion, and the origins of religion lie somewhere completely different. They lie anyway, these roses smell too sweet and the deep roar of the breaking waves is too splendid, to do justice to such weighty matters now.

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

When I became prime minister last September, I promised the Japanese people that I would not tolerate the politics of indecision. A propensity to delay difficult and weighty decisions has been hurting our country. It is detrimental to our economy, society and future, and it cannot be allowed to continue.

What Must I Do to Be Saved? It is impossible to ask a more weighty Question! It is deplorable that we hear it asked with no more Frequency, with nor more Agony.

Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.

Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light.

I wanted to write a battle song for the Judeans but so far I can think of nothing noble and weighty enough.

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.

Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel.