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Quotes About Weight

Force without reason falls of its own weight.
~ Horace
...the strands that connect us are frail, so don't hang great weights on slender wires...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
The weight of God's love for humanity cannot be determined. But felt with a grateful heart.
~ David Nii Sowah Kobbina Adjei
This was why men exhausted her so. It was a wonder the world didn't collapse daily from the weight of men's egos, she thought.
~ Jami Attenberg
But mostly we are made of a heavier stuff, the slow descent of breast, foot-arches flattening towards earth, the hundred ways the body longs for home.
~ Jane Hirshfield
It was true that she was still not a follow-through person, but rather one of those often befuddled souls who seem paralyzed by the exorbitant weight of their own good intentions.
~ Jane McCafferty
I have gained and lost the same ten pounds so many times over and over again my cellulite must have déjà vu.
~ Jane Wagner
What was being weighed on the scales of the night
~ Janet Finch
I want to lose weight by eating nothing but moon pies, which have significantly less gravity than earthier foods such as fruits and vegetables.
~ Jarod Kintz
long commutes make you fat
~ Jason Fried
Chocolate is an antidepressant, which is especially useful as you start to gain weight.
~ Jason Love
If you really want to be depressed, weigh yourself in grams.
~ Jason Love
I looked at the clock on the microwave. I was late for work. I find it difficult to move at that hour. Like there are ankle weights on my soul.
~ Jason Porter
You confuse what's important with what's impressive.
~ E.M. Forster
The more negative emotion there is in a story, the heavier and more impenetrable it becomes.
~ Eckhart Tolle
The one on whom all responsibility rests is apt to endure the most.
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity
~ Edith Wharton
Awww, 'tis the refuge we take when the unreality of the world weighs too heavy on our tiny heads.
~ Edward Albee
In any case, I was less unhappy than the teammate who wondered whether the purported tribute of being a well-rounded detective was a jibe around his weight.
~ Edward Conlon
I always thought it was a myth about electric eels having enough of a charge to kill someone." "It's no myth. I've studied up on it for this assignment. The electrophorus electricus grows to a length of eight or ten feet, and weighs perhaps as much as ninety pounds.
~ Edward D. Hoch
unhappy condition of men who endured the weight, without sharing the benefits, of society.
~ Edward Gibbon
This was it, the big moment: the corpse of his chief enemy, the ruins of his creator, the body of his dead father; the great weight of all that was unsaid and would never have been said; the pressure to say it now, when there was nobody to hear, and to speak also on his father's behalf, in an act of self-division that might fissure the world and turn his body into a jigsaw puzzle. This was it.
~ Edward St. Aubyn
Night doesn't fall for my eyes But my idea of the night is that it falls for my eyes. Beyond my thinking and having any thoughts The night falls concretely And the shining of stars exists like it had weight.
~ Alberto Caeiro
I don't always feel what I know I should feel. My thought crosses the river I swim very slowly Because the suit men made it wear weighs it down.
~ Alberto Caeiro