Weight famous quotes

A tree full of ripened fruits bows down naturally, because of the weight of the fruits and its willingness to make its fruits accessible to others.
-- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

#Humility #Tree #Weight

The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.
-- A. J. P. Taylor

#War #Army #Weight

I'd like to set things straight, a few more people should be pulling their weight.
-- Aaron Tippin

#Reality #People #Weight

It was like losing an important weight-bearing bone, and I knew I would spend the rest of my life trying to figure out how to walk the streets without it.
-- Adam Rapp

#Important #Trying #Weight

...Almost everything inside was filled with sugar, cheese, and weight-loss tips.
-- Adam Rex

#Loss #Weight #Sugar

The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson

#Political #Weight #Politics

The longer we live the more weight we carry in our hearts.
-- Ai Yazawa

#Heart #Weight

Well-established theories collapse under the weight of new facts and observations which cannot be explained, and then accumulate to the point where the once useful theory is clearly obsolete.
-- Al Gore

#Weight #Facts #Obsolete

Velvet Elvis never puts on weight.
-- Al Yankovic

#Velvet #Weight

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.
-- Alain de Botton

#Mind #Culture #Weight

Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
-- Alan Kay

#Gold #Weight #Silver

It's hard to lose weight when you're dining on the company's money.
-- Alan Kotok

#Dining #Weight #Company

I hear you're losing weight again, Mary Jane. Do you ever wonder who you're losing it for?
-- Alanis Morissette

#Art #Media #Weight

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
-- Albert Camus

#Solitude #Religion #Weight

My ideal weight is moobless.
-- Albie Sachs

#Dieting #Weight

Better to be a spirit with the earth beneath you than a corpse pinned tight by the weight of the world.
-- Alexander Gordon Smith

#World #Weight #Earth

The heart bowed down by weight of woe To weakest hope will cling.
-- Alfred Bunn

#Hope #Heart #Weight

As a gymnast, you always wear spandex. Being a teenager wearing spandex? It was tough accepting how my body looked, especially if there was any weight gain.
-- Alicia Sacramone

#Teenager #Weight #Body

I battled with my weight as a teenager, partly because there wasn't the information or conversation about how to live a healthy lifestyle.
-- Alison Sweeney

#Teenager #Healthy #Weight

I've got to make sure I'm keeping weight on.
-- Allyson Felix

#Weight

Being in the dark, there's a real weight to it. It's heavy.
-- Amanda Lindhout

#Real #Dark #Weight

It’s very easy for me to gain weight. Even though I tried not eating for a week when I was really young, I couldn’t do it any longer because I liked my food too much.
-- Amanda Seyfried

#Gains #Weight #Too Much

Sometimes I worry more about losing weight than gaining weight, because this is how people know and accept me.
-- America Ferrera

#People #Worry #Weight

I am not who I sleep with. I am not my weight. I am not my mother. I am myself. And I am all of you, and I thank you.
-- Amy Schumer

#Mother #Sleep #Weight

To reason with poorly chosen words is like using a pair of scales with inaccurate weights.
-- Andre Maurois

#Pairs #Weight #Reason

When I'm training in December, I have to eat like 6,000 calories a day to maintain my weight. It's a bit tiring.
-- Andy Murray

#Training #Weight #December

Weight-bearing exercise builds bone density, builds your muscular strength so that you can hold your body up where those bones have a tendency to get weak.
-- Ann Richards

#Exercise #Density #Weight

I know I looked skinnier in The House Bunny, but thanks to my diet of beer and doughnuts, I'm back to my fightin' weight!'
-- Anna Faris

#Beer #House #Weight

Already she could feel the stunning weight of a lifetime of regret for letting him go, and she knew that it was enought to bury her alive.
-- Anna Godbersen

#Regret #Alive #Weight

Obsessing about weight is a big old waste of time
-- Anne Hathaway

#Weight #Waste #Wasting Time

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

#Mind #Weight #Earth

It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life.
-- Anne Lamott

#Cheer #Training #Weight

Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.
-- Anne Stevenson

#Poetry #Weight #Bears

It's a heavy weight, the camera. Now we have modern and lightweight, small plastic cameras, but in the '70s they were heavy metal.
-- Annie Leibovitz

#Artist #Weight #Cameras

It is proper that we acknowledge the overwhelming weight of international opinion against the juvenile death penalty.
-- Anthony Kennedy

#Weight #Death Penalty #Opinion

Indifference is the dead weight of history.
-- Antonio Gramsci

#Weight #Indifference

With speed skating, it's like doing one-legged squats over and over again, with that one leg absorbing more than 80 percent of your weight. It takes an enormous amount of strength, and you're in such a weird position.
-- Apolo Ohno

#Skating #Weight #Legs

If no one saw - it didn't count. It's only when you eat in front of strangers or people that make you feel guilty that food is really fattening.
-- Arabella Weir

#People #Saws #Weight

Statistically, if you have ever dieted you are extremely likely not only to regain any weight you lose, but to go on to gain even more. Dieting makes you fat.
-- Arabella Weir

#Dieting #Goes On #Weight

See, the poor dream all their lives of getting enough to eat and looking like the rich. And what do the rich dream of?? Losing weight and looking like the poor.
-- Aravind Adiga

#Dream #Weight #Losing

I loved eating and I did put on weight. I never actually felt fat until I started going for castings, for auditions.
-- Archie Panjabi

#Weight #Casting #Auditions

Falling out of love is like losing weight. It's a lot easier putting it on than taking it off.
-- Aretha Franklin

#Falling In Love #Love Is #Weight

I think the hardest thing is losing weight. That's the hardest thing more than anything else.
-- Aretha Franklin

#Thinking #Weight #Losing

I know what it is to put on weight. But when I got back to my routine, my body knew how to react. That's muscle memory, and you'll be amazed at what it can do.
-- Arjun Rampal

#Memories #Routine #Weight

Nobody gets muscles by watching ME lift weights.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger

#Teamwork #Weight #Muscles

The only weight I ever lifted weighed 24 ounces. It was a Schlitz. I always replaced my fluids.
-- Art Donovan

#Weight #Fluid #Replaced

To her friends said the Bright one in chatter, "I have learned something new about matter: My speed was so great, Much increased was my weight, Yet I failed to become any fatter!"
-- Arthur Henry Reginald Buller

#Science #Weight #Matter

Does the weight of consequence drag you down until it pulls you under?
-- Ashlee Simpson

#Doe #Unanswered Questions #Weight

I am always being asked to gain or lose weight, but I am at a point now where I don't care anymore. I love my body, I love my super-hourglass shape and I love showing it off,
-- Ashley Graham

#Weight #Body #Care

Things fit only to give weight to smoke.
-- Aulus Persius Flaccus

#Giving #Weight #Fit

Share weight and woe, for misfortune falls with double force on him that stands alone.
-- Baltasar Gracian

#Fall #Giving #Weight

it's perfectly possible to hate one's fat and to love one's body at the same time.
-- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

#Hate #Weight #Body

How do you think it would feel to be obliged to ask for a seat-belt extender on an airplane? For the unfashionably bulgy, life is a series of small humiliations.
-- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

#Airplane #Thinking #Weight

It may be that what you could be haunts you. It is real. It is a weight you have to carry around. Each failure to become, to be, is a weight. Each state you could inhabit is a burden as heavy as any physical weight, but more so, because it weighs on your soul. It is the ghost of your possibilities hanging around your neck, an invisible albatros, potentials unknowingly murdered.
-- Ben Okri

#Real #Soul #Weight

The writing of histories - as Goethe once noted - is one way of getting rid of the weight of the past.... The writing of history liberates us from history.
-- Benedetto Croce

#Writing #Past #Weight

As in roulette, same is true of the stock trader, who will find that the expense of trading weights the dice heavily against him.
-- Benjamin Graham

#Intelligent #Investing #Weight

The specific weight of the soul is equal to the sum of what has been dared.
-- Bert Hellinger

#Soul #Risk #Weight

I really worshipped Mama Cass a lot. Mama Cass, who was really fat and she didn't lose weight. Yeah, she went on diets but for the most part of her life and the better part of her career she was a big person.
-- Beth Ditto

#Careers #Weight #Mama

Depriving yourself will, ironically enough, lead to rebelling and weight gain.
-- Bethenny Frankel

#Weight #Gains #Enough

My books have helped a lot of men to lose weight.
-- Bethenny Frankel

#Book #Men #Weight

Weight doesn't matter as long as you're happy with yourself.
-- Billie Piper

#Long #Weight #Matter

I have been a big guy all my life, I am not going to lose a bunch of weight, because then you're like that weird fat person that got skinny but still has a big head. I don't want to do that. So I'm just trying.
-- Billy Gardell

#Guy #Trying #Weight

I mean, yeah, I want to lose some weight! I'm doing the best I can.
-- Billy Gardell

#Mean #Weight #Want

I never could guess your weight, baby.
-- Bob Dylan

#Baby #Honesty #Weight

I ride a bike and use aerobic equipment twice a week, and work out with a trainer, lifting weights.
-- Bob Iger

#Work Out #Use #Weight

My strength did not come from lifting weights. My strength came from lifting myself up when i was knocked down.
-- Bob Moore

#Inspirational #Motivational #Weight

If you move something 10 pounds through space and then stop suddenly, there's a little overshoot. When you transfer weight from one leg to another, there's a certain way that it happens
-- Brad Bird

#Moving #Space #Weight

You wanna be big, you lift big weights. You wanna be little, you lift little weights.
-- Branch Warren

#Littles #Weight #Bigs

I think that strength levels go hand in hand with building a great physique. You've got to lift heavy weight to get big - period.
-- Branch Warren

#Thinking #Hands #Weight

When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.
-- Brian Eno

#Country #Years #Weight

Since weight training involves repetitions, a great deal of energy must be exerted. Therefore, weight training should be practiced only every other day.
-- Bruce Lee

#Training #Energy #Weight

I used to be a fighter and I'm used to taking weight off.
-- Burt Young

#Weight #Fighter #Used

I am fully aware of what the word 'fat' means ... It's a swear word. It's a weapon. It's a sociological subspecies. It's an accusation, dismissal, and rejection.
-- Caitlin Moran

#Mean #Rejection #Weight

The words of the President have an enormous weight and ought not to be used indiscriminately.
-- Calvin Coolidge

#President #Weight #Used

Running is what keeps my weight down. I have to stay active or I could easily gain weight.
-- Camilla Luddington

#Running #Weight #Gains

There have been periods of my life when I was heavier, like right after high school I definitely gained that freshman 15. It was tough to lose. Ever since then, I know that I can gain weight, so I try to be careful.
-- Camilla Luddington

#School #Trying #Weight

My parents have always been offended by my weight, embarrassed maybe. It didn't fit with their sensibilities
-- Camryn Manheim

#Parent #Weight #Fit

I hate overweight, because it implies that there's a weight standard i should be adhering to
-- Camryn Manheim

#Hate #Loss #Weight

I think, when men tell women to lose weight, it's a diversion from their own lack of size in certain areas.
-- Candace Bushnell

#Men #Thinking #Weight

It wasn't about me trying to lose weight. It was all about emotions.
-- Candace Cameron

#Trying #Weight #Emotion

If you are thinking every day, 'I have to get to the gym' and 'I have to lose this weight,' and that's all you think about and you obsess over it, it's not healthy.
-- Carmen Electra

#Thinking #Healthy #Weight

It's normal to gain weight during pregnancy. It's something that has to happen to your body.
-- Carnie Wilson

#Pregnancy #Weight #Body

The surgery will always be a huge part of my life. I'm going to need to help people with weight problems for the rest of my life so that I can maintain my weight.
-- Carnie Wilson

#People #Needs #Weight

When someone has a weight problem when they're pregnant, they will struggle before, during and after to lose weight.
-- Carnie Wilson

#Struggle #Weight #Problem

I started to put on weight when I was about four and a half and it got really bad when I was around nine. I ballooned. I was about 110 pounds.
-- Carnie Wilson

#Half #Weight #Four

I felt like I had proof that not all days are the same length, not all time has the same weight. Proof that there are worlds and worlds and worlds on top of worlds, if you want them to be there.
-- Carol Rifka Brunt

#Life #World #Weight

It's so easy to judge everybody and for some reason extra weight is the one thing everything feels OK to joke about.
-- Caroline Rhea

#Judging #Weight #Reason

The Fat Girl Code of Conduct: 1. Any sexual activity is a secret. No public displays of affection. 2. Don’t discuss your weight with him. 3. Go further than skinny girls. If you can’t sell him on your body, you’d better overcompensate with sexual perks. 4. Never, ever, ever, ever, ever push the relationship thing.
-- Carolyn Mackler

#Girl #Secret #Weight

My weight fluctuated when I was 30, and I did the unthinkable - I stepped out as a plus-sized model.
-- Carre Otis

#Weight #Plus #Unthinkable

I don't feel any pressure to lose weight - and in any case, if I didn't have my food I'd be a nasty piece of work and wouldn't be able to function.
-- Cat Deeley

#Pieces #Weight #Able

I watch people sometimes, wonder how they can walk around with the weight of what they know.
-- Cate Kennedy

#People #Watches #Weight

This is a business meal. The calories do not count. I am mentally labeling these as 'business calories' so my body will know they were eaten in the line of duty and will process them differently.
-- Cathy Guisewite

#Meals #Weight #Body

Wake me up when I'm a size 5.
-- Cathy Guisewite

#Weight #Size

PiYo gives you hardcore definition, intense calorie burn, and allover strength—without weights, without jumps, and without destroying your body.
-- Chalene Johnson

#Giving #Weight #Body

Most of the time I meet my trainer at the gym and we do a lot of everything: weights circuit with cardio, football drills, sprinting with weights on the treadmill.
-- Charisma Carpenter

#Football #Weight #Cardio

Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.
-- Charles Babbage

#Fall #Weight #Arise

Any one whose disposition leads him to attach more weight to unexplained difficulties than to the explanation of facts will certainly reject my theory.
-- Charles Darwin

#Weight #Facts #Disposition

An illustration is a visual editorial - its just as nuanced. Everything that goes into it is a call you make: every color, every line weight, every angle.
-- Charles M. Blow

#Illustration #Color #Weight

The awful thing about being fat is you can't get away from it. Everywhere you go, there it is; all round you; hanging and swinging, yards and yards of it, under your arms, everywhere. And everyone else is so thin.
-- Charlotte Bingham

#Yards #Weight #Arms

When I try to get work in the US all they say is that I need to lose weight - but I bet they never said that to Mae West.
-- Charlotte Church

#Trying #Needs #Weight