Quotes About Weight

In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert?

Duty is heavier than mountains, death is lighter than a feather.

Rose Marie, wrapped in a wool shawl, was sitting on a lounge chair, smoking a cigarette; nicotine gum, she said, was for pussies. She was a short woman, going to weight, with an ever-changing hair color.

I carry a gun cause a cop is too heavy.

He was an arithmetician rather than a mathematician. None of the humor, the music, or the mysticism of higher mathematics ever entered his head. Men might vary in height or weight or color, just as 6 is different from 8, but there was little other difference.

A skyscraper is a tall building whose weight is supported by a frame of steel or poured-in-place concrete with steel reinforcements. Unlike the load-bearing walls of a masonry structure, walls do not help support the average skyscraper.

There are 10 million bricks in the building, 27 miles of main and counterweight rails used for the tracks of the elevators, about 200,000 cubic feet of Indiana limestone, and 6,400 windows. The completed building contains 37 million cubic feet. The 210 columns at the base support the entire weight of the building.

The step from using steel for strengthening masonry to using steel to carry the masonry might not seem enormous, but, as Harvey Wiley Corbett pointed out in The New York Times, Buffington's step was the single most momentous discovery in the history of building since the days of Rome. Architecture was freed from the shackles of stone weight and was made flexible. Buildings

Tall as he is, there is no carrying the slope under his shirt as anything other than a loose gut, a paunch that in itself must weigh as much as a starving Ethiopian child.

Her face, seen so close, is built of great flats of skin pressed clean of color except for a burnish of yellow that adds to their size mineral weight, the weight of some pure porous stone carted straight from quarries to temples. Words come from this monumental Ruth in the same scale, as massive wheels rolling to the porches of his ears, as mute coins spinning in the light. "You have it pretty good.

I stand there sipping and savoring for over ten minutes, thinking of the man I read about who weighed six hundred pounds from drinking vast amounts of tap water.

In the middle of nowhere, a trunk heavy with gold is a burden, not treasure.

When you gain 50 pounds during pregnancy like I did, you fear that you'll never get back in shape

While we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness the weight of that silence will choke us.

Running away doesn't help you with your problems, unless you're fat. Then yeah, run.

I had eight magazines of 5.56mm bullets and ChemLights. As team lead, I carried flares, an extra radio, and an extra antenna stuffed in a cargo pocket. I had a computer and a medical pack containing QuikClot, bandages, needles, and tourniquets. I had water and food, too. I weighed about 250 pounds without my gear, and more than 325 with it. With every step I took, I could feel my spine compressing like a shock absorber.

The first thing you lose on a diet is brain mass.

she had always struggled with being motivated to eat well, which in her case meant that she also struggled with her weight. Now, for the first time, she understood why it is essential to eat well. She finally felt motivated by a desire to achieve a high level of vibrancy, which in turn would allow her to establish a clear channel for her Divine source to guide her.

Since having the babies, I realize that 90 percent of losing weight is my diet.

hoping that the rest of the staff lived up to the Inn's reputation of "gracious and accommodating" better than the bellhop. When was the last time she'd had a bellhop comment on the weight of her luggage?

Pondus meum amor meus": mi amor es mi peso, decía san Agustín, refiriéndose, no al hecho evidente de que a veces amar sea costoso, sino a que el amor que llevamos en el corazón es lo que nos mueve, lo que nos lleva a todas partes. "Eo feror, quocumque feror", allí donde voy, es él que me lleva. Pensemos, cada una y cada uno, ¿cuál es el amor que me lleva a todas partes?»[5]. Poco

I marked the extraordinary lightness of the thing. It was necessary; the weight of an ordinary bone would never have allowed something so large as a dragon to fly.

I've been fit and I've been fat, and fit is better.

The bathroom scale knows nothing of extenuating circumstances.