Weight Quotes - Page 10

• Where does the hand become the wrist?
  where does the neck become the shoulder? The watershed
  and then the weight, whatever turns up and tips us over that
  razor's edge
  between something and nothing, between
  one and the other.

  Simon Armitage

  Hands, Doe, Razors

  Simon Armitage (2005). “The Shout: Selected Poems”, Houghton Mifflin

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• Science is not about what's true or what might be true, science is about what people with originally diverse viewpoints can be forced to believe by the weight of public evidence.

  Lee Smolin

  Believe, People, Might

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• The official toxicity limit for humans is between one and one and half grams of cocaine depending on body weight. I was averaging five grams a day, maybe more. I snorted ten grams in ten minutes once. I guess I had a high tolerance.

  George Jung

  Blow, Body Weight, Tolerance

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• The comparison to the old world is something to get excited about. We have the potential for more choice and innovation, and a different regulatory environment that doesn't place as much weight on economic regulations of terms and conditions.

  Michael K. Powell

  Choices, Innovation, Different

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• Also, with information having just come out at the time about J. Edgar Hoover's electronic surveillance of Dr. King, it gave greater weight to the statements of those persons who were alleging involvement of the FBI.

  Louis Stokes

  Kings, Drs, Surveillance

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• Anything you do to lose weight should be as easy as it can possibly be and still deliver results.

  Matt Stone

  Easy, Results, Should

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• When you start to treat the light weights like heavy weights, the heavy weights will go up a lot easier.

  Ed Coan

  Light, Easier, Treats

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• I've noticed a funny thing about people who are over-weight. They spend all their time thinking about food -except when they're actually eating it

  Paul McKenna

  Thinking, Funny Things, People

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• Wimps lift Weights, Cheerleaders lift People

  Stephanie

  Cheer, People, Wimps

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• Many of us are trying to lead multiple lives: child, mother, wife, lover, star, giving small doses of oxygen to each and imploding under the weight of so many competing roles. The women I have written in Bombshells struggle - sometimes hilariously, sometimes tragically - to bridge the chasm between the wilderness of their inner worlds and the demands of their outer worlds. And humour, in the end, is our saviour.

  Joanna Murray-Smith

  Mother, Stars, Children

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• According to recognized aero technical tests, the bumblebee cannot fly because of the shape and weight of his body in relation to the total wing area. The bumblebee doesn't know this, so he goes ahead and flies anyway.

  Igor Sikorsky

  Wings, Bumblebees, Body

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• The horrors of the Second World War, the chilling winds of the Cold War and the crushing weight of the Iron Curtain are little more than fading memories. Ideals that once commanded great loyalty are now taken for granted.

  Jan Peter Balkenende

  Crush, Loyalty, Memories

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• We discovered that if your friend's friend's friend gained weight, you gained weight. We discovered that if your friend's friend's friend stopped smoking, you stopped smoking. And we discovered that if your friend's friend's friend became happy, you became happy.

  Nicholas A. Christakis

  Smoking, Ifs

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• Reading was only part of the thrill that a book represented. I got a dizzy pleasure from the weight and feel of a new book in my hand, a sensual delight from the smell and crispness of the pages. I loved the smoothness and bright colors of their jackets. For me, a stacked, unread pyramid of books was one of the sexiest architectural designs there was, because what I loved most about books was their promise, the anticipation of what lay between the covers, waiting to be found.

  Debra Ginsberg

  Book, Reading, Hands

  Debra Ginsberg (2006). “Blind Submission: A Novel”, p.4, Crown

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• It wasn't about me trying to lose weight. It was all about emotions.

  Candace Cameron

  Trying, Emotion, Loses

  "Candace Cameron Bure Opens Up About Her Struggle With Bulimia" by Terri Schwartz, www.mtv.com. December 29, 2010.

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• It cannot be denied that too often the weight of the Christian movement has been on the side of the strong and the powerful and against the weak and oppressed-this, despite the gospel.

  Howard Thurman

  Christian, Strong, Powerful

  Howard Thurman (2014). “A Strange Freedom: The Best of Howard Thurman on Religious Experience and Public Life”, p.145, Beacon Press

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• Do you have any idea how many lives we must have gone through before we even get the first idea that there is more to life than eating, or fighting, or power in the Flock? A thousand lives, Jon, ten thousand! And then another hundred lives until we began to learn that there is such a thing as perfection, and another hundred again to get the idea that our purpose for living is to find that perfection and show it forth... we choose our next world through what we learn in this one. Learn nothing, and the next world is the same as this one, all the same limitations and lead weights to overcome.

  Richard Bach

  Fighting, Ideas, Perfection

  Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The Complete Edition”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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• The sightless Milton, with his hair Around his placid temples curled; And Shakespeare at his side,-a freight, If clay could think and mind were weight, For him who bore the world!

  William Wordsworth

  Thinking, Hair, Boredom

  William Wordsworth (1837). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...”, p.236

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• She lies about her age and weight and is slightly older than Rocket. But they've been a couple for eight years, longer than most in Hollywood.

  Kate Jackson

  Funny, Dog, Couple

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• I joined a health spa recently. They had a sign for "Free Weights." So I took a couple.

  Scott Wood

  Couple, Exercise, Dieting

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• Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, the emptiness of ages in his face, and on his back the burden of the world.

  Edwin Markham

  Hoe, Age, World

  'The Man with the Hoe' (1899)

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• I write because it is while I'm writing that I feel most connected to why we're here. I write because silence is a heavy weight to carry. I write to remember. I write to heal. I write to let the air in. I write as a practice of listening.

  Andrea Gibson

  Writing, Air, Practice

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• This is no occupation for an adult who can look other adults in the eye, carry his own weight, and count himself one of them.

  Franz Wright

  Eye, Adults, Looks

  Franz Wright (2013). “Kindertotenwald”, p.9, Knopf

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• A measuring jug is also vital when cooking rice, as this is always measured by volume rather than by weight

  Delia Smith

  Cooking, Jugs, Volume

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• For reforms ameliorate the situation of the working class, they lighten the weight of the chains labour is burdened with by capitalism, but they are not sufficient to crush capitalism and to emancipate the workers from their tyranny.

  Clara Zetkin

  Crush, Class, Reform

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