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Quotes About Weight

What?' I said, and increased the speed of his treadmill to four kilometres per hour. 'Slower, bhai.' 'It's fine. Your heart rate should go up. You weighed yourself? How much was it?' 'Ninety-five point five.' 'That's too much, Saurabh.' 'I am working on it. One day I will have a six-pack like you. Actually, I do have one. It's just hidden under some tissue.
~ Chetan Bhagat
Diet is a four-letter word.
~ Siegmund H. May, 1968
Forget that second-ticking clock. Time is the seed Waiting to fly from the milkweed pod. Time is the speed Of a dragonfly. Time is the weight of the ripened nut Eager to fall. Time is the rabbit's desperate scut. Time's dimensions are hidden in rocks, In wind and rain, but never in clocks.
~ Hal Borland, 1971
I haven't cut my hair since the quarantine began. Today I stepped on the scale for the first time in a while. Who knew that hair weighs so much?!
~ Author unknown, summer 2020
Every radish I ever pulled up seemed to have a mortgage attached to it.
~ Ed Wynn (1886–1966)
Guilt is a blanket of stones.
~ Terri Guillemets
Good design for the home should be universal. A house should be like old shoes, comfortable, like a good friend… The Japanese aesthetic is important to me. Very organic. They have a sense of the weight of the thing: very balanced.
~ Elsa Peretti
If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner.
~ H. S. Leigh
from his legs like an untethered weight. In their thousands the parasites
~ Hampton Sides
Pearls around the neck - stones upon the heart.
~ Hanan J. Ayalti
Mother always said she was a size 7 woman she kept wrapped in fat to prevent bruising.
~ Haven Kimmel
Because pieces of your heart clearly weigh more when they're sitting shattered at the bottom of your stomach.
~ Heather Brewer
Death has an energy. It is thick as sludge, heavy as iron, and pulls you down into yourself like an imploding building.
~ laurie victoria
The brain consumes 20 percent of the body's energy, far more than any other organ, while making up only 2 percent of an adult's body weight.
~ Lawrence Freedman
I have an inability to consider a thing without imagining the story behind it as a needful force, a great petitioning weight.
~ Leah Hager Cohen
I know now what lies across the land, the slow and heavy weight. They call it faith, but it is not faith. It is fear. The people have clapped a shelter over their heads, a necessity of ignorance, a passion of retreat, and they have called it God, and worshiped it.
~ Leigh Brackett
You would run much slower if you were dragging something behind you, like a knapsack or a sheriff.
~ Lemony Snicket
Every new promise was like something heavy I had to carry, with no place to put anything down.
~ Lemony Snicket
This knowledge sits in my heart, heavy as a paperweight.
~ Lemony Snicket
I purchased some clothes for you," Theodora said..."I was given you measurements, so hopefully they fit. If they don't, you will have to either lose or gain weight or height.
~ Lemony Snicket
My weight fluctuates depending on my mood and my current devotion to my fitness routine.
~ Lena Dunham
There are now more obese people in the United States than there are overweight people. I think it's safe to say that after all these years, Diet Coke is a complete failure.
~ leno jay
Anne, with an elegance of mind and sweetness of character, which must have placed heer high with any people of real understanding, was nobody with either father or sister: her word had no weight; her convenience was always to give away - she was only Anne.
~ Jane Austen
Dana seemed to me to be sort of like a hot-air balloon. The more weight we could hang on her, in terms of children, houses, belongings, foodstuffs, office equipment, and debts, the harder it would be for her to gain altitude.
~ Jane Smiley