Quotes About Weight

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.

Debes creerme Paula: la intemporalidad es una carga mayor que la del tiempo terrenal. No sabes qué abrumador es cargar con algo que no tiene peso.

Cuando se ha tenido peso cuesta ser un soplo.

You are a spirit, bearing the weight of a dead body, as Epictetus used to say.

49. It doesn't bother you that you weigh only x or y pounds and not three hundred. Why should it bother you that you have only x or y years to live and not more? You accept the limits placed on your body. Accept those placed on your time.

It doesn't bother you that you weigh only x or y pounds and not three hundred. Why should it bother you that you have only x or y years to live and not more? You accept the limits placed on your body. Accept those placed on your time.

It was on old joke among underfed, angry sailors that should mutiny fail, the weight of their bodies would not be enough to hang them.

Kill what you can't save what you can't eat throw out what you can't throw out bury What you can't bury give away what you can't give away you must carry with you, it is always heavier than you thought.

Gain ten pounds and they put you in Solitary.

Maybe night falls because it's heavy, a thick curtain pulled up over the eyes.

but as I am a scholar I feel obliged to document what it is like here, most of the time, between the dramatic climaxes. In truth it is like this: You cannot imagine how time can be so still. It hangs. It weighs, and yet there is so little of it. It goes so slowly and it is so scarce. If I was writing this scene it would last a full 15 minutes. I would lie here and you would sit there.

You cannot imagine how time Ã¢â'¬Â¦ can be Ã¢â'¬Â¦ so still.             It hangs. It weighs. And yet there is so little of it.             It goes so slowly, and yet it is so scarce.

You cannot imagine how time … can be … so still. It hangs. It weighs. And yet there is so little of it. It goes so slowly, and yet it is so scarce. — Margaret Edson (Wit: A Play)

Hasta que uno no ha perdido la reputación, no comprende que era un peso enorme y que la libertad es algo formidable.

Not all bits have equal value.

How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed.

I've been watching what I eat. When I was putting on all the weight, I was drinking Guinness and not eating. I didn't have room to because I was drinking all the time.

During my first pregnancy, I spent a lot of time worrying about how big I was getting and how I would lose it afterwards.

Time is like the wind, it lifts the light and leaves the heavy.

I consider anybody who weighs over 200 pounds fat, and time was when I could not refrain from telling such people so.

You know it's time for a New Year's resolution to lose weight when you step on a talking scale and it says, "One at a time, please.

There was a weight to the emptiness of rooms in which you had once lived that was more fearsome than anything she had ever encountered in life, not because they were haunted, as she had joked with Skip Cuddy, but because they were not. The conversations, the quarrels, the long fraught silences, the tears: they had disappeared utterly and completely. A cemetery was a place intended to be still. It was here, where once there had been life

Her purse was a weight, ballast; it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away.

I was frozen like in a dream when your feet weigh fifty pounds each and the danger is almost upon you.