Weight Quotes - Page 20

• The first pressure of sorrow crushes out from our hearts the best wine; afterwards the constant weight of it brings forth bitterness, the taste and stain from the lees of the vat.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Crush, Heart, Wine

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1873). “Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.455

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• A fundamental mistake to call vehemence and rigidity strength! A man is not strong who takes convulsion-fits; though six men cannot hold him then. He that can walk under the heaviest weight without staggering, he is the strong man . . . A man who cannot hold his peace, till the time come for speaking and acting, is no right man.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Strength, Strong, Mistake

  Thomas Carlyle (1993). “On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History”, p.158, Univ of California Press

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• I'm not a weight lifter. I'm a seeker. Weight lifting is so insignificant in my life.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Weight Lifting, Seekers, Insignificant

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• I try to work out with my personal trainer for an hour, four times a week - we mainly concentrate on weights and running. If I'm on the road I sometimes do DVD work-outs in my hotel room - P90X and Insanity are a couple of my favourites.

  Fergie

  Running, Couple, Dvds

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• If you want to lose weight, you have to be obsessed with it. You can't depend upon your dietician, your trainer or various health aids that you have. You have to be organised. And believe me, it isn't that difficult. The first 10 days are terrible because you have to break the lifelong habits that you have made.

  Kajol

  Believe, Want, Firsts

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• I love my body. And, I'm always working out. I'm an exercise freak, be it cardio, weights, t'ai chi or yoga.

  Kajol

  Yoga, Exercise, Work Out

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• Unfamiliarity lends weight to misfortune, and there was never a man whose grief was not heightened by surprise.

  Seneca the Younger

  Grief, Men, Surprise

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• How describe the delicate thing that happens when a brilliant insect alights on a flower? Words, with their weight, fall upon the picture like birds of prey.

  Jules Renard

  Flower, Fall, Delicate Things

  Jules Renard (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.62, Tin House Books

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• Life is cut to allow for growth ... one may vigorously put on weight before one fills it out entirely.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Cutting, Growth, May

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• All schools of philosophy, and almost all authors, are rather to be frequented for exercise than for weight.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Philosophy, School, Exercise

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• If I lost weight, I'd be two-dimensional!

  Paul Walker

  Two, Lost, Ifs

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• I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.

  Karl Lagerfeld

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• The famous carry about with them a great weight of patriarchal baggage-the footnotes of their lives.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Baggage, Footnotes, Human Relations

  Elizabeth Hardwick (1984). “Bartleby in Manhattan, and Other Essays”, Vintage

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• The biggest mistake people make is to try to lose too much weight too fast.

  Mehmet Oz

  Mistake, People, Trying

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• I never lifted a weight in my life. Why am I going to do steroids? That's not going to do me any good. We didn't have any weights in our clubhouse. We had one exercise bike and that was for the guy who tweaked his hamstring. And that thing didn't even work half the time.

  George Brett

  Exercise, Guy, Half

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• I feel that the English language will be able to carry the weight of my African experience. But it will have to be a new English, still in full communion with its ancestral home but altered to suit new African surroundings.

  Chinua Achebe

  Home, Able, Suits

  "Chinua Achebe: A life in writing" by Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2010.

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• Your body has enough weight for you to be in perfect condition just working against yourself.

  Jean-Claude Van Damme

  Perfect, Body, Enough

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• Real cars were made here in America: Fords, Chevys, Plymouths. These were large chunks of Detroit iron - cars that had the size, weight, and handling characteristics of aircraft carriers but worse fuel efficiency.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Real, Humorous

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Does Japan”, p.8, Ballantine Books

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• This country is so urbanized we think low-fat milk comes from cows on Nutri/System weight-loss plans.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Country, Humorous

  P. J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader”, p.252, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Probably our atomic weights merely represent a mean value around which the actual atomic weights of the atoms vary within certain narrow limits... when we say, the atomic weight of, for instance, calcium is 40, we really express the fact that, while the majority of calcium atoms have an actual atomic weight of 40, there are not but a few which are represented by 39 or 41, a less number by 38 or 42, and so on.

  William Crookes

  Mean, Science, Numbers

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• Most of us human beings tend to be parochial in our perceptions. What happens is that we have a very limited and narrow view of our self interest and do not adequately weight the price that has to be paid on the other side for any of these measures we are promoting.

  Alan Borovoy

  Self, Views, Perception

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• Libraries can be of indispensable service in lifting the dead weight of poverty and ignorance.

  Francis Keppel

  Ignorance, Library, Poverty

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• Aging happy and well, instead of sad and sick, is at least under some personal control. We have considerable control over our weight, our exercise, our education, and our abuse of cigarettes and alcohol. With hard work and/or therapy, our relationships with our spouses and our coping styles can be changed for the better. A successful old age may lie not so much in our stars and genes as in ourselves.

  George Vaillant

  Stars, Lying, Hard Work

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• And when I went to Houston, they had a conditioning coach by the name of Gene Coleman. And that was the first time I had gone to an organization that had a program with a weight room and designed specifically for pitchers.

  Nolan Ryan

  Sports, Names, Organization

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• I was this role model for heavy people. But the thing is, I never set out to be a role model at all, and I don't set out to be one now. I won't preach to anyone and tell them how to lose weight. I don't know any better than the next person.

  Ricki Lake

  People, Role Models, Roles

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