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Quotes About Weight

It's always a battle to maintain my weight.
~ Joey Chestnut
Some of the centre-backs are 90 kg. I'm only 70-something kilos - so I need to be strong.
~ Danny Welbeck
The second time is the one we remember, where memory begins. Putting the moments in order is only half the story. What matters is the weight of the moments as they accumulate.
~ Stacey D'Erasmo
And yet the feeling of injustice itself turned out to be strangely physical. Even realer, in a way, than a her hurting, smelling, sweating body. Injustice had a shape, an a weight, and a temperature, and a texture, and a very bad taste.
~ Jonathan Franzen
Love turned out to be soul-crippling, stomach-turning, weirdly claustrophobic: a sense of endlessness bottled up inside him, endless weight, endless potential, with only the small outlet of a shivering pale girl in a bad rain jacket to escape through. Touching her was the farthest thing from his mind. The impulse was to throw himself at her feet.
~ Jonathan Franzen
people with nothing to declare carry the most.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
I thought for a minute, and then I got heavy, heavy boots.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
From where she is, the page- her paper-thin future-is infinitely heavy.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
She let the dust accumulate on her shoulders.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Of so little weight are the greatest services to princes, when put into the balance with a refusal to gratify their passions.
~ Jonathan Swift
No sabemos lo larga que es nuestra historia pero sentimos su peso.
~ Jorge Franco
Solitude weighs me down. Company does too.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.
~ A.A. Milne
And Teddy worried lots about The fact that he was rather stout. He thought: "If only I were thin! But how does anyone begin?
~ A.A. Milne
Oh on my breast in days hereafter Light the earth should lie, Such weight to bear is now the air, So heavy hangs the sky. (Additional Poems, X)
~ A.E. Housman
I have always had an interest in furniture. At the very least, it weighs us down and keeps us on the ground, and prevents us from clambering up trees and howling naked as the terror of our useless lives overcomes us. It keeps us from wandering aimlessly in pathless wildernesses, plotting cannibalism in forest clearings and dripping caves.
~ Abdulrazak Gurnah
Lie heavy on him earth, for he laid many a heavy load on thee (suggested epitaph)
~ Abel Evans
The word 'survivor' carries a weight of remembrance that has broken the minds and bodies of more than a few men and women. It also contains a humbling light of recognition that compels many to do whatever they can to help reinforce the efforts of those who might be 'at risk' of not just giving up on their dreams, but of giving up on their continued existence.
~ Aberjhani
vision, making his father's face seem to fade from sight. The heavy weight of his father's head grew lighter. Tom tried
~ Adam Blade
All it took was the officer's own silence and weight.
~ Adam Rutherford
Not that I was morbidly obese or anything. But I guess I was hanging on the hope that one day I might accidentally whittle down to my inner toothpick.
~ Adele Griffen
My weight fluctuates between 205 and 220, depending on how much I pay attention to it.
~ Brad Feld
It gets a little tough when you're cutting weight to travel all over the place, when you want to focus on really getting yourself ready to peak for your fight.
~ Colby Covington
While the Pentagon ultimately awards military contracts, there is a reason for the review process. The Senate's subcommittee on Military Construction's approval carries weight.
~ Tom Fitton