Weight Quotes - Page 26

• A lot of people don't realize that when you're trying to lose weight, or just trying to stay fit, 85 percent of it is what you eat, and 15 percent of it is how you work out.

  Ciara

  People, Work Out, Trying

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• Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear.

  Helen Dunmore

  Writing, Sound, Ears

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• You get to the point in life where you realize you have to roll up your sleeves, deal with the consequences of what happens, and carry your own weight.

  Ernie Isley

  Realizing, Sleeves, Deals

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• Regardless of your metabolism, if you stop consuming so many calories, you will lose weight.

  Rob McElhenney

  Metabolism, Calories, Consuming

  "Fat Mac: Rob McElhenney Goes Into Graphic Detail About ‘Sunny’ Weight Gain". Interview with Tim Molloy, www.thewrap.com. December 18, 2017.

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• I am the only actor who ever had to lose weight to play Orson Welles.

  Christian McKay

  Play, Actors, Loses

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The acting part is easy; it's the preparing - lifting weights and getting your body in tip-top shape - that's the hard part.

  Chaske Spencer

  Lifting Weights, Acting, Body

  "New Moon Werewolf Chaske Spencer Visits Seventeen!!". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. November 3, 2009.

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• I often find myself worrying about celebrities. It's an entirely caring thing; it's not like the people who commission those photographs with cruel arrows to go on the covers of the celebrity magazines. The photographs show botched plastic surgery, raging eczema, weight gain and horrible clothes for maximum schadenfreude.

  Peter York

  Caring, Clothes, Arrows

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• If you put on weight it's not by chance. You put on weight because you eat compulsively.

  Pierre Dukan

  Chance, Ifs

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• True as this is, it is also true that for one who won through there were many who gained nothing, and it was, and is, the sheer weight of numbers of those who failed of this that has made their influence on the modern life as pervasive and controlling as it is.

  Ralph Adams Cram

  Numbers, Modern Life, Influence

  RALPH ADAMS CRAM (1922). “TOWARDS THE GREAT PEACE”

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• Now that I'm more mature, in a funny way, I can even appreciate that I've bad to become more aware of my body. Since I've chosen acting as my career, I have to keep my weight down anyway-I've been used to it for years, so it's no problem. And there's nothing I can't do.

  Dana Hill

  Years, Careers, Appreciate

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• I may not be in the weight room as much as some guys, but I get my work done.

  Cory Lidle

  Guy, Done, May

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• I like the weight, look, and feel of a book. I enjoy turning the pages, and frequently scan the spines of my many books on the wall, each title a reminder of the stored information and creative thoughts contained therein.

  Al Seckel

  Wall, Book, Creative

  "Kindle or Kindling?" by Al Seckel, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 17, 2009.

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• If any of you would bring judgment the unfaithful wife, let him also weight the heart of her husband in scales, and measure his soul with measurements.

  Khalil Gibran

  Husband, Heart, Wife

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Thus can the demigod Authority Make us pay down for our offense by weight The words of heaven; on whom it will, it will, On whom it will not, so: yet still 'tis just.

  William Shakespeare

  Heaven, Pay, Authority

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Measure for Measure”, p.42, Penguin

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• The Cross will not crush you; if its weight makes you stagger, its power will also sustain you.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Crush, Suffering, Crosses

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• If you cheat, if your weights and measures are inaccurate, if your financial dealings are shoddy, if you take things that do not belong to you, you won't be able to hide it forever. People will find out. Then your reputation and your business will suffer, because people don't want to deal with someone who can't be trusted.

  Wayne D. Dosick

  Honesty, People, Forever

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• If all the elements are arranged in the order of their atomic weights, a periodic repetition of properties is obtained. This is expressed by the law of periodicity.

  Dmitri Mendeleev

  Science, Order, Law

  Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev (2013). “Mendeleev on the Periodic Law: Selected Writings, 1869 - 1905”, p.271, Courier Corporation

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• LEAD, n. A heavy blue-gray metal much used ... as a counterpoise to an argument of such weight that it turns the scale of debate the wrong way. An interesting fact in the chemistry of international controversy is that at the point of contact of two patriotisms lead is precipitated in great quantities.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Science, Blue, Two

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2446, Delphi Classics

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• I'm just a small guy so if I'd dropped any more weight it would have been a bit ridiculous.

  Jamie Bell

  Guy, Ridiculous, Has Beens

  "The Eagle - Jamie Bell interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• The word "prodigy" was thrown around a lot, but I didn't understand what that meant, or the weight of it. It didn't really mean anything to me, until I was older and could look back on it.

  Misty Copeland

  Mean, Looks, Prodigies

  Source: collider.com

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• As the husband is the wife is; thou art mated with a clown, As the grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Art, Husband, Wife

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.115, Cambridge University Press

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• Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance. In this great balance of utility, the spiritual service of art has no weight, and, deprived of all encouragement, it vanishes from the noisy Vanity Fair of our time.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Spiritual, Encouragement, Art

  "Literary and philosophical essays: French, German, and Italian", Collier, Volume 32, sourcebooks.fordham.edu. 1910.

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• A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry. But were we burd'ned with like weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain: So thou, that hast no unkind mate to grieve thee, With urging helpless patience wouldst relieve me; But if thou live to see like right bereft, This fool-begged patience in thee will be left.

  William Shakespeare

  Pain, Adversity, Grieving

  William Shakespeare, Alfred Harbage (1977). “The complete works”

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• I know I'm a person who's been bugged for years about the up and down weight thing.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Years, Bugs, Persons

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• Guilt has always its horrors and solicitudes; and, to make it yet more shameful and detestable, it is doomed often to stand in awe of those to whom nothing could give influence or weight but their power of betraying.

  Samuel Johnson

  Giving, Guilt, Horror

  Samuel Johnson (1827). “The Rambler”, p.90

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