Pounds Quotes - Page 15

• 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 think I sort of blossomed, so to speak, around 17. I started to get hips and put on weight, which I was very happy about. And that's when I met this agent, who told me I had to lose 10 pounds. I said, 'You've got to be kidding me. I finally got it on - I'm not losing it!'

  Tricia Helfer

  Thinking, Agents, Weight

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• In an era of billion-person countries and trillion-pound economies, we need to find ways to amplify our voice. We are most likely to be heard when the Chinese negotiate with a £10 trillion E.U., not a £1.5 trillion Britain.

  Douglas Alexander

  Country, Voice, Chinese

  "Labour's mature patriotism over Europe" by Douglas Alexander, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2011.

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• Armed people are free. No state can control those who have the machinery and the will to resist, no mob can take their liberty and property. And no 220 pound thug can threaten the well-being or dignity of a 110 pound woman who has two pounds of iron to even things out. Is that evil? Is that wrong?

  L. Neil Smith

  Thug, Two, Iron

  L. Neil Smith (2001). “The Probability Broach”, p.121, Macmillan

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• For every child of an illegal immigrant who's a valedictorian, there's another 100 out there who weigh 130 pounds and they've got calves the size of cantaloupes because they're hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert (http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/12/steve-king-still-stands-by-cantaloupe-comments/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0).

  Michael C. Burgess

  Kings, Children, Marijuana

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• I've never even been out of my BMI range. I'm 5-foot-3. If I gain five pounds, it shows.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Feet, Gains, Range

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• One: There is a low limit of weight [of about] 50 pounds beyond which it is impossible for an animal to fly. Two: The animal machine is far more effective than any we can hope to make. Three: The weight of any machine constructed for flying, including fuel and engineer, cannot be less than three or four hundred pounds. Is it not demonstrated that a true flying machine, self-raising, self-sustaining, self-propelling, is physically impossible?

  Joseph LeConte

  Animal, Self, Two

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• We are each given a block of marble when we begin a lifetime, and the tools to shape it into sculpture... We can drag it behind us untouched, we can pound it into gravel, we can shape it into glory.

  Richard Bach

  Block, Tools, Sculpture

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• I really wanna lose three pounds.

  Regina George

  Three, Loses

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• I actually lost 90 pounds over the course of 15 months in order to save money on life insurance.

  Derek Kilmer

  Order, Months, Saving Money

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• Fashion is an illusion. It's a multibillion-pound industry that has to appear frivolous. Designers work and work and work, all night sometimes.

  Philip Treacy

  Fashion, Night, Sometimes

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• The hedonistic lifestyle is difficult to achieve when you're still carrying your own gear. Trust me that you don't feel glamorous with a 60-pound amp in your arms; it's a lot less sexy than toting a vodka gimlet and impossible to do in heels.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Sexy, Arms, Gears

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