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Quotes About Weight

Here's how I see your weight—it is your smoke detector. And we're all burning up the best part of our lives." I'd never thought of it that way before, but it was a true aha moment. My weight was an indicator warning, a flashing light blaring my disconnection from the center of myself.
~ Oprah Winfrey
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~ Orhan Pamuk
At night, he could sense the weight of the concrete, the hardness, and the horrors of the city around him.
~ Orhan Pamuk
His whole life was sitting there in front of him. Day after day from dawn till dark until he was dead. All of it cooked down into forty pounds of paper in a satchel.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Mathematics is not physics. The physical sciences can be weighed against each other. And against what we suppose to be the world. Mathematics cant be weighed against anything.
~ Cormac McCarthy
In his hand he held a longbarreled sixshot Colt's patent revolver. It was a huge sidearm meant for dragoons and it carried in its long cylinders a rifle's charge and weighed close to five pounds loaded.
~ Cormac McCarthy
What on earth have you packed in here? Bricks? asked Mo as he carried Meggie's book-box out of the house. You're the one who says books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them, said Meggie.
~ Cornelia Funke
Words weighed light, light as a feather, even the most important of them.
~ Cornelia Funke
Ma scusa, lo dici sempre anche tu: i libri devono essere pesanti perché dentro hanno il mondo intero.
~ Cornelia Funke
It occurred to Liz one day, as she waited on hold for an estimate from a yard service, that her parents' home was like an extremely obese person who could no longer see, touch, or maintain jurisdiction over all of his body; there was simply too much of it, and he—they—had grown weary and inflexible. During
~ Curtis Sittenfeld
Night's darkness cloaked Elske, covering her as the winter snows cover mountains, from peak to foot. Elske moved with the weight of darkness on her shoulders, on her head; and she tasted it in her mouth like the flavorless rills that ran so fast in spring melts.
~ Cynthia Voigt
She was old; millions of years old, she felt. And at last, she could bear the burden of herself no more.
~ D.H. Lawrence
Looks to me like you've been making garbage for a while and dragging it with you. Now you need to get out of here, and that garbage is weighing you down.
~ Walter Dean Myers
Look to me like you've been making garbage for a while and dragging it with you. Now you need to get out of ere, and that garbage is weighing you down.
~ Walter Dean Myers
Look to me like you've been making garbage for a while and dragging it with you. Now you need to get out of here, and that garbage is weighing you down.
~ Walter Dean Myers
was sitting in a chair in the patent office at Bern when all of a sudden a thought occurred to me," he recalled. "If a person falls freely, he will not feel his own weight." That realization, which "startled" him, launched him on an arduous eight-year effort to generalize his special theory of relativity and "impelled me toward a theory of gravitation."16 Later, he would grandly call it "the happiest* thought in my life.
~ Walter Isaacson
Adam's entire life felt like lead in his bones right now.
~ Warren Ellis
You're skinny." "It's this crash weight loss diet I've been trying out.
~ Charles Martin
It was in America that Santa put on weight.
~ Charles Panati
You cannot carry water on both shoulders.
~ Charles Portis
Her love for him is not something that can be changed— it's physics, not emotion: It's the exact weight of radium. It is vast and it is exact. It is tender and finite and inexhaustible. Her love for him is a fact. Her love for him is a brutal fact about the world.
~ Charles Yu
Forgiveness doesn't sit there like a pretty boy in a bar. Forgiveness is the old fat guy you have to haul up a hill.
~ Cheryl Strayed
Dónde estaba mi madre?, me pregunté. Había cargado con ella durante mucho tiempo, tambaleándome bajo su peso. «Al otro lado del río», me permití pensar. Y algo dentro de mí se liberó. En
~ Cheryl Strayed
Where was my mother? I wondered. I'd carried her so long, staggering beneath her weight. On the other side of the river, I let myself think. And something inside of me released.
~ Cheryl Strayed