Weight Quotes - Page 7

• How one walks through the world, the endless small adjustments of balance, is affected by the shifting weights of beautiful things.

  Elaine Scarry

  Beautiful, Balance, World

  Elaine Scarry (2013). “On Beauty and Being Just”, p.15, Princeton University Press

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• The wonderful thing about age is that your knees don't work as well, you can't run down steps quite as easily and obviously you can't lift heavy weights. But your mind doesn't feel any different.

  Roger Moore

  Birthday, Running, Mind

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Sports, Football, Wisdom

  Archibald MacLeish (1978). “Riders on the Earth: essays and recollections”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• The imagined memories had to have as much weight as the real, or we had to at least pretend they did to such a degree that they just very well might have. And so I never questioned Angela about that particular story, or about all the troubling things that it pointed to, content to believe that at least in this version things worked for her better than they did in the one I never heard.

  Dinaw Mengestu

  Memories, Real, Believe

  Dinaw Mengestu (2010). “How to Read the Air”, p.119, Penguin

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• It is almost never when a state of things is the most detestable that it is smashed, but when, beginning to improve, it permits men to breathe, to reflect, to communicate their thoughts with each other, and to gauge by what they already have the extent of their rights and their grievances. The weight, although less heavy, seems then all the more unbearable.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Men, Rights, Gauges

  Alexis de Tocqueville, Roger Boesche, James Toupin (1986). “Selected Letters on Politics and Society”, p.296, Univ of California Press

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• Tears at times have the weight of speech.

  Ovid

  Tears, Speech

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• I'm 5 feet 10 inches, and whatever my whatever my weight is, that's fine. As long as I am able to move and I feel good, it doesn't matter.

  Monica Seles

  Moving, Feet, Long

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• The earth is moved from its position by the weight of a tiny bird resting upon it.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Bird, Earth, Tiny

  Leonardo Da Vinci (1938). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”

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• I am writing this during my lunch period, because I need to reach towards the outside world of sanity, because I am overwhelmed by the sheer weight of the clerical work still to be done, and because at this hour of the morning normal ladies are still sleeping.

  Bel Kaufman

  Morning, Sleep, Writing

  Bel Kaufman (2012). “Up the Down Staircase”, p.72, Open Road Media

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• Of my fifty-seven years I have applied at least thirty to forgetting most of what I have learned or read. Since then, I have acquired a certain ease and cheer which I should never again like to be without. (...) I have stored little in my memory, but I can apply that little, and it is of use in many and varied emergencies. I keep it in order, but resist every attempt to increase its dead weight.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Memories, Cheer, Order

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• Anywhere in life, for girls there's pressure to keep your weight and to keep yourself feeling and looking good.

  Kate Upton

  Girl, Feelings, Pressure

  "Kate Upton Won’t Do Juice Fasts, Walk Runways" By Charlotte Cowles, www.thecut.com. February 1, 2013.

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• The coolest thing for me is the experience of floating and not feeling my weight. And hanging by a window just after sunset and watching the stars in the big black dome of the sky as the earth moves underneath.

  Kalpana Chawla

  Stars, Moving, Sunset

  AsianWeek, February 7-13, 2003.

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• There's a tiredness of abstract inteligence, and it's the most horrible of tirednesses. It doesn't weight on you like the tiredness of the body, nor does it worry you like the tiredness of knowledge and emotion. It's a weightiness of the conscience of the world, an inability of the soul to breathe.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Worry, Soul, Inability

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• Success is found balanced between optimism and realism, where it is unhindered by the weight of pessimism.

  Wes Fesler

  Optimism, Pessimism, Realism

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• If we change in different directions, then we don't have any future anyway, do we? I think it's possible for two people to change together, to grow together and enrich instead of diminish each other. The sum of one and one, if they're the right ones, can be infinity! But so often one person drags the other down; one person wants to go up like a balloon and the other's a dead weight. I've always wondered what it would be like if both people, if a woman and a man both wanted to go up like balloons!

  Richard Bach

  Change, Future, Men

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• It's all about mechanics; all the weight-lifting in the world can't help you if you're not running correctly.

  Ron Bramlett

  Running, Track, Weight Lifting

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• The record company really pissed me off when they told me to lose weight. I couldn't be bothered with looking a certain way. So I left the business. I don't regret it.

  Kim Wilde

  Regret, Business, Records

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• Paris is a place in which we can forget ourselves, reinvent, expunge the dead weight of our past.

  Michael Simkins

  Past, Paris, Forget

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• Even when I ran my bar I followed the same policy. A lot of customers came to the bar. If one in ten enjoyed the place and said he'd come again, that was enough. If one out of ten was a repeat customer, then the business would survive. To put it another way, it didn't matter if nine out of ten didn't like my bar. This realization lifted a weight off my shoulders. Still, I had to make sure that the one person who did like the place.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Matter, Nine

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• There's gonna be a time when I'm way curvier, and that'll be sexy too. What defines sexy is not someone's weight. Personally I like curves. I wanna look good for me. I wanna feel good.

  Ashlee Simpson

  Sexy, Curves, Feel Good

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• I had a lot of challenges losing the weight. I still haven't lost the weight yet and I don't plan on going back to the body I used to be at. I love my sexy curves!

  Kendra Wilkinson

  Sexy, Curves, Challenges

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• I still think I'm fat. Right now I'm worrying about how I'm going to lose weight after the pregnancy. I feel like an elephant, but I do get the occasional sexy pregnant day where I think I look great.

  Lily Allen

  Sexy, Pregnancy, Thinking

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• I think I know I've been working very hard for the family business, sometimes those days are long days and I think if I know I'm working hard and pulling my weight, both working and playing hard at the same time, I think everyone who I work with can see I am there pulling my weight.

  Kate Middleton

  Work, Thinking, Long

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• I would eat 300 calories a day - a lot of Jell-O and no-sugar everything, of course. I was doing Pilates, weight-training, circuit training; over lunch I would run on a treadmill in my dressing room with a fan on my face so I wouldn't sweat my makeup off.

  Portia de Rossi

  Running, Makeup, Sweat

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• I had been on this insane diet for almost 17 years to maintain the weight that was demanded of me when I was modeling. My diet was really starvation. I am not naturally that thin.

  Carre Otis

  Years, Anorexia, Insane

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