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Quotes About Weight

And burdened Gentile o'er the main, Must bear the weight of Israel's hate Because he is not brought again In triumph to Jerusalem.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Osmium is the heaviest matter in the world, and now that I think about it, that's what my dad needed. He needed superheavy shoes made with osmium soles to hold him down to earth. You know how he said that whole thing about how music was space, and he didn't need to fly off to some other place because everything was so beautiful right here
~ Ruth Ozeki
Was it possible people were heavier dead than alive?
~ Ruth Rendell
figure. She was with her more than the other occupants of the house. "You're beginning to get stout, Bertha," she said, using
~ Ruth Rendell
My soul is so heavy that no longer can any thought sustain it, no wingbeat lift it up into the ether. If it moves, it only sweeps along the ground like the low flight of birds when a thunderstorm is brewing.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Her support warmed his heart. He loved his wife. He wondered if it would upset her if he asked her to lose a little weight.
~ Salman Rushdie
My weight is not enough and strength is not enough either, so I have to take the fight by mastery.
~ Fedor Emelianenko
Strength without judgment falls by its own weight.
~ Horace
There are six components of wellness: proper weight and diet, proper exercise, breaking the smoking habit, control of alcohol, stress management and periodic exams.
~ Kenneth H. Cooper
You don't need to worry any more or punish yourself about food. It is totally counterproducti ve to stress yourself out about weight loss because that same stress causes you to put weight on.
~ Marc David
Even the loveliest shoulders can bear but so much.
~ Jill Alexander Essbaum
As a king can wear a crown, a crown can also weary a king.
~ Anthony Liccione
Success goes thus invariably with a certain plus or positive power: an ounce of power must balance an ounce of weight.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
She did this in order to distract her mind, that she might forget; and she only filled her head thus in order to alleviate the weight on her heart.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Quanto a Bonaparte, mais uma vez impelido pelo destino para Paris, centro dos grandes acontecimentos, retomou a vida obscura e oculta que tanto lhe pesava.
~ Alexandre Dumas
The personal opinions of the editors have no kind of weight in the eyes of the public: the only use of a journal is, that it imparts the knowledge of certain facts, and it is only by altering or distorting those facts that a journalist can contribute to the support of his own views.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
Truth felt light and green, but a lie sunk to the floor, heavy as metal, a substance she always avoided for it made her feel as though she was trapped behind bars.
~ Alice Hoffman
To carry such vengeful thoughts was a heavy burden
~ Alice Hoffman
The dream was in fact a lot like the Vancouver weather—a dismal sort of longing, a rainy dreamy sadness, a weight that shifted round the heart.
~ Alice Munro
Pa dobro. Bilo bi isto da se opet sretnemo. Ili ?ak i da se ne sretnemo. Ljubav koja se ne može iskoristiti, ljubav koja zna svoje mesto. (Neki bi rekli, ljubav koja nije realna, jer se nikada ne bi izložila opasnosti da joj zavrnu šiju, da o njoj pri?aju neslane viceve, niti da se tužno istroši). Ljubav koja ništa ne rizikuje, a ipak živi, kap po kap, kao podzemna žila. S težinom ove nove tišine, s takvim pe?atom.
~ Alice Munro
The weight of the world       is love. Under the burden       of solitude, under the burde       of dissatisfaction    the weight, the weight we carry       is love.
~ Allen Ginsberg
the weight we carry is love. Who can deny? In dreams it touches the body, in thought constructs a miracle, in imagination anguishes till born inhuman
~ Allen Ginsberg
But the heaviest things, I think, are the secrets. They can drown you if you let them.
~ Ally Carter
REASON, v.i. To weight probabilities in the scales of desire.
~ Ambrose Bierce