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Quotes About Weight

21 And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.
~ William Smith
No' had settled down for ever on our councils, crushing with its deadening weight what I shall ever believe was the hope of the world.
~ Winston S. Churchill
But in the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a single cloud above it.
~ Wis?awa Szymborska
in daily speech, where we don't stop to consider every word, we all use phrases like the ordinary world, ordinary life, the ordinary course of events ... But in the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a single cloud above it. Not a single day and not a single night after it. And above all, not a single existence, not anyone's existence in this world.
~ Wislawa Szymborska
It's a joke in the zoo business, a weary joke, that the paperwork involved in trading a shrew weighs more than an elephant, that the paperwork involved in trading an elephant weighs more than a whale, and that you must never try to trade a whale, never.
~ Yann Martel
It's a joke in the zoo business, a weary joke, that the paperwork involved in trading a shrew weighs more than an elephant, that the paperwork involved in trading an elephant weighs more than a whale, and that you must never try to trade a whale, never.
~ Yann Martel
You get leafy greens in your body first thing in the morning and you'll lose a lot of weight.
~ Christopher McDougall
Diets, he believes, are a joke. They're based on a stupid, shame-based notion that losing weight is a matter of willpower and sacrifice, that you're heavy only because you're too lazy to starve yourself down to size.
~ Christopher McDougall
What's the difference between a boyfriend and a husband About 30 pounds.
~ Unknown
Just because you know it [my past]... doesn't mean that my wounds are a weight you have to carry. ~Kurogane-san
~ CLAMP
Everything struck her at times as too precious, impossible to touch. And, at times, what people used as air to breathe, was weight and death for her.
~ Clarice Lispector
Twelve years weigh on a person like pounds of lead. The days melt into one another, merge to form one whole block, a big anchor. And the person is lost.
~ Clarice Lispector
Que não se acorde quem está todo ausente, quem está absorto está sentindo o pesos das coisas.
~ Clarice Lispector
Yes, and the body has memory. The physical carriage hauls more than its weight. The body is the threshold across which each objectionable call passes into consciousness—all the unintimidated, unblinking, and unflappable resilience does not erase the moments lived through, even as we are eternally stupid or everlastingly optimistic, so ready to be inside, among, a part of the games.
~ Claudia Rankine
Yes, and the body has a memory. The physical carriage hauls more than its weight. The body is the threshold across which each objectionable call passes into consciousness—all the unintimidated, unblinking, and unflappable resilience does not erase the moments lived through, even as we are eternally stupid or everlastingly optimistic, so ready to be inside, among, a part of the games.
~ Claudia Rankine
Neutronium is so dense that a chunk the size of a thimble would weigh about 100 million tons.
~ Unknown
The law of gravity is like any human problem or any testing situation. You can defy it, but the longer you hold on to it, the heavier it gets.
~ Unknown
Obviously, I'm attracted to heavier movies.
~ Clive Owen
I feel restless, and something seems to weigh me down.
~ Henryk Sienkiewicz
Freedom means choosing your burden.
~ Hephzibah Menuhin
A diet is a plan, generally hopeless, for reducing your weight, which tests your will power but does little for your waistline.
~ Herbert B. Prochnow
T]he heart is like any other organ, you can weigh it on a scale.
~ Hilary Mantel
The weight of the old world is stifling, and trying to shovel its weight off your life is tiring just to think about. The constant shuttling of opinions is tiring, and the shuffling of papers across desks, the chopping of logic and the trimming of attitudes. There must, somewhere, be a simpler, more violent world.
~ Hilary Mantel
He saw how, as she received the bundle, the woman shuddered from the nape of her neck to her feet. She held it fast though, and a head is heavier than you expect. Having been on a battlefield, he knows this from experience too.
~ Hilary Mantel