Pounds Quotes - Page 7

• At 200 pounds, with a 17-inch neck, a resting pulse of 78, a bench press of 200 pounds, I was very much indeed a normal, All-American male. I carried my sickness within.

  Dirk Benedict

  Pulse, Males, Benches

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• I had to add Oguchi into the list. After all, he’s a soccer player—fittest athletes ever. At 6'4 210 pounds, he's one of the most feared men in the world's game.
  I've played against a lot of massive defenders. And no one has Oguchi's strength. His shoulders and chest are so big that people confuse him with an NFL player. He can move anyone in the game with one arm, including the best strikers in the world. Guys absolutely fear him.

  Charlie Davies

  Soccer, Moving, Athlete

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• All through school, I was losing hundreds of pounds in school, so that's a journey - that's an old journey. I'm tired of that. I know that road.

  Luther Vandross

  Tired, School, Journey

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• I met Tom Baker doing a voice-over when David [Arabella's friend, David Tennant] wasn't at all well known. We were doing this voice-over together and I said to Tom, 'Oh, my friend's a really, really big Doctor Who fan,' and he replied, 'Wait!' He got his cheque book out and asked, 'What his name?' I said 'David Tennant'. He wrote, 'To David Tennant, seventeen pounds forty five', signed it and I asked him what it meant. He said, 'He'll know'

  Arabella Weir

  Book, Names, Voice

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• The Who got paid 4000 pounds during those days, but we always smashed our equipment that cost more than 5000 pounds.

  Pete Townshend

  Cost, Rock N Roll, Equipment

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• I would say the best moment of all was when I caught a 7.5 pound perch in my lake.

  George W. Bush

  Lakes, Dumb, Bass

  "Big fish gave Bush biggest thrill", news.bbc.co.uk. May 7, 2006.

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• A man in love will jump to pick up a glove or a bouquet for a silly girl of sixteen, whilst at home he will permit his aged mother to carry pails of water and armfuls of wood, or his wife to lug a twenty-pound baby, hour after hour, without ever offe

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Love, Girl, Mother

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Ida Husted Harper (1889). “History of woman suffrage”

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• An ounce of doing things is worth a pound of theorizing.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Inspirational, Business, Action

  Wallace D. Wattles, General Press (2016). “The Science of Getting Rich”, p.33, GENERAL PRESS

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• Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

  William James

  Apology, Opportunity, Men

  William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.134, Booklassic

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• I represent more the healthy, happy, curvy, strong woman. And that sounds much healthier to me than being 80 pounds and skinny as a bean.

  Heidi Klum

  Strong Women, Healthy, Skinny

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• An ounce of mirth is worth a pound of sorrow.

  Richard Baxter

  Sorrow, Mirth, Merriment

  Richard Baxter, William Orme (1830). “The Practical Works of the Rev. Richard Baxter: With a Life of the Author, and a Critical Examination of His Writings”, p.376

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• To get the truth, you want to get your own heart to pound while you write.

  Robert McKee

  Writing, Heart, Creativity

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• Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it. Seek out the memories depression takes away and project them into the future. Be brave; be strong; take your pills. Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds. Eat when food itself disgusts you. Reason with yourself when you have lost your reason.

  Andrew Solomon

  Love, Depression, Strong

  Andrew Solomon (2014). “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• When you gain 50 pounds during pregnancy like I did, you fear that you'll never get back in shape

  Charisma Carpenter

  Pregnancy, Shapes, Gains

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• His hooves pound the beat, your heart sings the song.

  Jerry Shulman

  Song, Horse, Heart

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• When an eighty-five pound mammal licks your tears away, then tries to sit on your lap, it's hard to feel sad.

  Kristan Higgins

  Dog, Trying, Tears

  Kristan Higgins (2012). “Catch of the Day”, p.75, HQN Books

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• In those days [the 1790s],the students paid their professors directly for the lectures-typically about three guineas a class (a guinea was worth slightly more than a pound).

  Joshua Kendall

  Teaching, Class, Lectures

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• In one of our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 pounds on an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come great harmony.

  Theodore E. Steinway

  Iron, Piano, May

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• Don't even wait until you've lost a pound. The minute you can push the plate away with food still on it, give yourself a pat on the back.

  Tony Robbins

  Loss, Giving, Waiting

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.162, Simon and Schuster

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• Shawn Carter was born December 4th,
  Weighing in at 10 pounds, 8 ounces.
  He was the last of my 4 children,
  The only one who didn't give me any pain when I gave birth to him.
  ...And that's how I knew that he was a special child.

  Gloria Carter Spann

  Children, Pain, Rap

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• I actually think I left 10 to 20 pounds on the stage, because it went up pretty easily. Seven hundred has been an accomplishment I've wanted for a while, but the last few months, as my training has gotten better, I knew this was going to be a reality. That's when I knew I was getting close and this could really happen.

  Pepe Smith

  Thinking, Reality, Accomplishment

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• At Thanksgiving, my mom always makes too much food, especially one item, like 700 or 800 pounds of sweet potatoes. She's got to push it during the meal. "Did you get some sweet potatoes? There's sweet potatoes. They're hot. There's more in the oven, some more in the garage. The rest are at the Johnson's."

  Louie Anderson

  Thanksgiving, Mom, Sweet

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• And while these pounds were being shed, while the physiological miracles were occurring with the heart and muscle and metabolism, psychological marvels were taking place as well. Just so, the world over, bodies, minds, and souls are constantly being born again, during miles on the road.

  George A. Sheehan

  Running, Heart, Miracle

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• I get an abundance of e-mail every day, some say 'dear Richard, can you call my husband, he weighs 400 pounds...' or 'my 14-year-old is 200 pounds...' or 'I just got divorced, no one wants me, I am 500 pounds.' So I pick up the phone and I call people.

  Richard Simmons

  Husband, Phones, Years

  "Interview: Richard Simmons diet". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.

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• I just clipped 2 articles from a current magazine. One is a diet guaranteed to drop 5 pounds off my body in a weekend. The other is a recipe for a 6 minute pecan pie.

  Erma Bombeck

  Weekend, Pie, Pecans

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