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Quotes About Weight

Law of gravity,' Reacher said. 'If you tip it up
~ Lee Child
Moving a guy as big as Keever wasn't easy. It was like trying to wrestle a king-size mattress off a waterbed. So they buried him close to the house.
~ Lee Child
She said the classroom was uncomfortable, because of the desks, which was true, especially for Reacher. He was six feet five and two hundred fifty pounds. He
~ Lee Child
Moving a guy as big as Keever wasn't easy. It was like trying to wrestle a king-size mattress off a waterbed.
~ Lee Child
The guy didn't move. He was five inches down in height, maybe thirty pounds in weight, maybe a whole foot in reach. Evidently unarmed, because otherwise his weapon would have been out and in his hand already. Evidently unsettled, too, by Reacher's gaze, which was steady, and calm, and slightly amused, but also undeniably predatory, and even a little unhinged. Not a good situation for the guy to be in.
~ Lee Child
The guy didn't move. He was five inches down in height, maybe thirty pounds in weight, maybe a whole foot in reach. Evidently unarmed, because otherwise his weapon would have been out and in his hand already. Evidently unsettled, too, by Reacher's gaze, which was steady, and calm, and slightly amused, but also undeniably predatory, and even a little unhinged.
~ Lee Child
I felt laden. Air itself has weight and mass, and Kansas had the most air of anywhere I'd ever been.
~ Leif Enger
Burdens accrue in isolation.
~ Leif Enger
The dull pain of truth weights my soul, pulling it under. I am left hopelessly awake.
~ Libba Bray
Ohmigosh. No food at all." Tiara sank down on the sand as if the full weight of their predicament had finally hit her. She blinked back tears. And then that megawatt smile that belonged on cereal boxes across the nation reappeared. "I am going to be so superskinny by pageant time!
~ Libba Bray
Luce su dolor como un abrigo de plumas demasiado pesadas para volar.
~ Libba Bray
Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.
~ Malcolm X
I don't have a strict diet. It's all about cramming in as many calories into my system as I possibly can. To be honest with you, I have a tough time keeping weight on.
~ Michael Phelps
Generally, the more weight you put on, the less effective you are.
~ Sugar Ray Leonard
The weight of absence is as much a feature of any library as the constriction of order and space.
~ Alberto Manguel
The old self seemed unprecedentedly heavier than the surrounding atmosphere.
~ Aldous Huxley
It seemed to her as if her body were altogether too heavy for her; she had the feeling so well known to opium- smokers, which they call clou'e 'a terre. It is as if the body clung desperately to the earth, by its own weight, and yet in the same way as a tired child nestles to its mother's breast. In this sensation there is a perfect lassitude mingled with a perfect longing. It may be that it is the counterpart of the freedom of the soul of which it is the herald and companion.
~ Aleister Crowley
A rock is heavy and sand is weighty too, but the anger of a fool is heavier than both.
~ Aleksandr Kuprin
Closing in on three hundred pounds, the woman with her in lockup looked like a Sumo wrestler squeezed into a bright, lime-green spandex outfit. She might have been a jogger, but her garish makeup suggested otherwise.
~ Alex Archer
There is a difference between a challenge and a burden. One is something you can carry on your shoulders easily enough—the other is something, a big sack, that bends you double.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
Undisclosed failings, she thought; that great weight we all carry around with us, some of us for all our lives, unable to speak about them, unable -- involuntary Atlases all -- to share the burden.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
The first indication of menopause is a broken thermostat. It's either that or your weight. In any case, if you don't do something, you could be dead by August. God, middle age is an unending insult.
~ Dorothea Benton Frank
Nearly all weight problems are resolvable through the adoption of a diet derived from fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains, legumes, nuts and seeds. If you are currently overweight, it is not necessary to utilize restraint on portion size, only on portion content.
~ Douglas J. Lisle
Is a fat white person equal to a skinny person of colour? Or are there different scales of oppression which everyone should know even if no one has explained the rules because the rules are made not by rational people but by mob stampedes.
~ Douglas Murray