Quotes About Weight

Most of the talk of human beings was silly talk, talk that was of less weight than a man's breath.

Oh, ma petite, you are growing gargantuan. I looked at him and it was not a friendly look. Never tease a woman about her weight, Jean-Claude. At least not an American twentieth-century one. He Spread his hands wide. My deepest apologies. When you apologize, try not to smile at the same time. It ruins the effect.

There are some stories, some memories, that if you tell them after dark, they seem to gain weight, substance, as if there are things listening, waiting to hear themselves spoken of again. Words have power. But even thinking about them is sometimes enough to make the air in a room heavy.

You enjoying your rabbit food?" I asked. "That was low, Anita," he said, and he stirred his salad with his fork, not really eating it. Maybe that was how you lost weight on salads; you just didn't want to eat them, so you didn't eat, and voilà, you lost weight.

Naturally I thought she was lying, but I soon came to realize that Hope—along with every other anorexically skinny girl in the office, and most of the guys—was able to accurately evaluate other people's weight. It was just when it came time to look in the mirror that everyone genuinely saw a wildebeest staring back.

Honours, like impressions upon coin, may give an ideal and local value to a bit of base metal; but Gold and Silver will pass all the world over without any other recommendation than their own weight.

Sure, I'd like to lose some weight, but a tapeworm is the last way I'd like to do it, except becoming a prisoner of war.

Expert Tip: "The day will come when you fervently wish that you are only as fat as you were the FIRST time you thought you were fat."—Michelle Loyet, MAW, whom I've been on vacation with numerous times

Every single fat comic uses his weight as a punchline. There is something sad about that.

It was going to be a long, dark night but not quite as dark as it was in the abyss of his heart where there was nothing but hollowness, yet it felt heavy, almost as if someone still resided there.

It was very sad, he thought. The things men carried inside. The things men did or felt they had to do.

Science is not about what's true or what might be true, science is about what people with originally diverse viewpoints can be forced to believe by the weight of public evidence.

I see they found out the universe is 80 million years older than we thought. It's also been lying about its weight.

He was following the Earth through its days, drifting with the rhythms of its myriad pulses, seeping through the webs of its life, swelling with its tides, turning with its weight.

If the weight comes from bacon you can so deduct it off the scale total to get your true weight. #science

Her weight settled on her back foot as she crossed her arms over her chest and stared at him, now legitimately baffled."How delusional are you, aliens in your head notwithstanding?

Is it not a thing divine to have a smile which, none know how, has the power to lighten the weight of that enormous chain which all the living in common drag behind them?

Tears of joy are lighter than smiles of sorrow.

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Daily calorie consumption was more than halved, which meant that, on average, German adults lost 20 percent of their body weight during the war.

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A great ox stands on my tongue.

We are continuously challenged to discover new works of culture—and, in the process, we don't allow any one of them to assume a weight in our minds.

A world where a majority had imbibed the lessons implicit within tragic art would be one in which the consequences of our failures would necessarily cease to weigh upon us so heavily.