Quotes About Weight

Brevity did not mean inconsequence...

I libri pesano tanto: eppure, chi se ne ciba e se li mette in corpo, vive tra le nuvole.

The rape and dismemberment of my immortal soul-though I deserved all that and more, I found that I could no longer bear the weight.

Hurt me? he asked. How would you do that? By taking away everything I love? Everything I honour? You're too late, Hannah. Far too late. Fallon already did that. Claire's terrible feeling suddenly condensed into a heavy, sickening weight. He took Jesse, she said. Fallon took Jesse.

Duty is a good thing, a calling without which no civilization can survive, but it is also a weight and chain that sometimes seems sure to sink you to the airless bottom of a dark pool

Although experience has taught me to trust my feelings, I did not go inside to stand guard near her. She had asked me to wait on the bench. I had no intention of crossing her. Like most men, I find it mortifying to be ass-kicked by a woman who doesn't even weigh 110 pounds after Thanksgiving dinner.

left hand on the handrail, from step to ascending step, she carries the burden of her flesh and also her humiliation, which is by far the heavier weight. She has been shocked by her vulnerability, although

A pretty face had been damaged by acne scars and she wore and extra forty pounds on her frame like a threat. Her eyes were dull with anger disguised as apathy. If she kept on her current path, she'd grow into the type of person who fed her kids Doritos for breakfast and purchased angry bumper stickers with lots of exclamation points. But right now, she was just another in a long line of pissed-off small-town girls with a shitty outlook.

He taught us that everyone has a story and the more you understand, the better your grasp of human nature, a gift given great weight in my family (73) - Bill Clinton Paying Attention

He shook his head slowly from side to side, as though it were very heavy. I could almost hear the contents sloshing.

his weight pinning me to the bed.

No," I said. The grief of the night before had softened, but the weight of it was still there. My voice was low and husky, because my throat was halfway closed, where the hand of sorrow clutched me unawares.

I'm done fighting at welterweight. Unless they open up a 175-pound division, I'm moving up to middleweight.

The 147-pound division is where I feel best. I didn't feel that way at 140. Now I'm free and I can eat more.

If you're going to be dominant in this sport, you're cutting weight.

I've trained with Douglas Lima, he's a tough kid, but I could feel the weight difference.

I really want to fight Ronda. The problem is, I can't drop to 135.

I put on weight easily and lose it equally fast.

I have also known of weight estimates by ultrasound to be off by as much as five pounds.

Here in my solitude, I have the feeling that I contain too much humanity. It oozes out of me like a broken tube of toothpaste; it doesn't want to stay within the confines of my body. A strange feeling of weight and volume. Soul volume perhaps, which rises like clouds of smoke and envelops my body.

Going meat-free can make a huge difference. Studies show that vegetarians are, on average, 10 to 20 pounds lighter than meat-eaters and that a vegetarian diet reduces our risk of heart disease by 40 percent and adds seven or more years to our lifespan.

Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.

I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to remove weight from the structure of stories and from language.

My working method has more often than not involved the subtraction of weight. I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to remove weight from the structure of stories and from language. . . . Maybe I was only then becoming aware of the weight, the inertia, the opacity of the world--qualities that stick to the writing from the start, unless one finds some way of evading them.