Weight Quotes - Page 11

• There will come a day, when all the lies will collapse under their own weight, and truth will again triumph.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Lying, Triumph, Collapse

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• Why do you live in your body like you will be given another? As if it were temporary. You starve it, you let anyone touch it, you berate it. Tell it that it should be completely different. You tug at your soft flesh, wish it thinner, wish it gone. You fall in love with those who praise the way it sighs under their hands, but who praises the way it holds up your weight, even when you are falling apart?

  Warsan Shire

  Falling In Love, Hands, Wish

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• The bridge of grace will bear your weight, brother. Thousands of big sinners have gone across that bridge, yea, tens of thousands have gone over it. Some have been the chief of sinners and some have come at the very last of their days but the arch has never yielded beneath their weight. I will go with them trusting to the same support. It will bear me over as it has for them.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Brother, Bridges, Support

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• I'm starting to cry. I'm remembering those years I struggled with my weight, those times when I saw my reflection in a store window and didn't know who that fat person was, years when it was a big accomplishment for me to exercise at two dots on the StairMaster. And now I'm finishing a 26-mile race. Damn! This is better than winning an Emmy!

  Oprah Winfrey

  Exercise, Reflection, Winning

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• It was only later that I suffocated under the weight of his arguments, and his darker thoughts articulated. It was only later that our tongues produced landslides, that we become caught in the cracks between what we said and what we meant, until we could not find each other, did not trust the words in our own mouths.

  Hannah Kent

  Broken Heart, Cracks, Mouths

  Hannah Kent (2013). “Burial Rites”, p.152, Pan Macmillan

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• For this my mother wrapped me warm,
  And called me home against the storm,
  And coaxed my infant nights to quiet,
  And gave me roughage in my diet,
  And tucked me in my bed at eight,
  And clipped my hair, and marked my weight,
  And watched me as I sat and stood:
  That I might grow to womanhood
  To hear a whistle and drop my wits
  And break my heart to clattering bits.

  Dorothy Parker

  Broken Heart, Mother, Home

  Dorothy Parker (1992). “The Sayings of Dorothy Parker”, Duckbacks

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• People are still grasping for the miracle, and unfortunately, there are no miracles, if you do not exercise for a year, and let your body remain dormant, then you will gain weight.

  Richard Simmons

  Exercise, Years, People

  "Richard Simmons...court jester & motivator". Interview: Richard Simmons diet, www.askmen.com.

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• But if you pick up every other magazine, it is the peanut butter diet, or the cabbage soup diet, and then you go to the radio and you hear that you can drink some solution and you will lose weight overnight. It just does not work that way!

  Richard Simmons

  Peanut Butter, Doe, Magazines

  "Interview: Richard Simmons diet". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com. July 20, 2007.

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• When will it no longer be necessary to attach special weight to the word 'woman' and raise it specially?

  Ding Ling

  Special, Raises

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• I was captain and should have set the example. I would lift a minimum of weights. Mine was natural physical strength. I always thought quickness and agility were much more important.

  Merlin Olsen

  Should Have, Important, Example

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• Advising the average person to not concern herself with calories but instead to pay attention to hunger triggers and eating foods rick in nutrients--well, it's a wonderful concept. I also love the thought of unicorns jumping over cotton candy rainbows. I'm even considering taking up basketball to see if it makes me taller. Come on already! Suggesting that someone who struggles with his weight does not need to think about calories is as risky as suggesting you not look at price tags the next time you're in the market for a car.

  Chalene Johnson

  Love, Basketball, Struggle

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• Think, for a moment, about our educational ladder.
  We've strengthened the steps lifting students from elementary school to junior high, and those from junior high to high school.
  But, that critical step taking students from high school into adulthood is badly broken. And it can no longer support the weight it must bear.

  Melinda Gates

  Inspirational, Strength, Strong

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• Being pregnant finally helped me understand what my true relationship was with my body - meaning that it wasn't put on this earth to look good in a swimsuit. I was like, 'Look, I can carry a baby! I'm gaining weight right, everything's going well.' And I've had that relationship ever since.

  Amy Adams

  Beauty, Baby, Swimsuits

  "Amy Adams: 'I'm Trying to Be More Present in Each Moment of My Life'" by Robert Moritz, parade.com. December 19, 2010.

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• Getting my lifelong weight struggle under control has come from a process of treating myself as well as I treat others in every way.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Struggle, Healing, Health

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• The heart bowed down by weight of woe to weakest hope will cling.

  Alfred Bunn

  Hope, Heart, Woe

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• This is essentially a people's contest... whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men - to lift artificial weights from all shoulders - to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all - to afford all, an unfettered start and a fair chance, in the race of life.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Race, People

  Abraham Lincoln (1991). “Great Speeches”, p.73, Courier Corporation

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• The law of violence is not a law, but a simple fact which can only be a law when it does not meet with protest and opposition. It is like the cold, darkness and weight, which people had to put up with until recently when warmth, illumination and leverage were discovered.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Peace, Simple, Law

  Leo Tolstoy (1987). “A Confession and Other Religious Writings”, p.248, Penguin UK

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• Friendship must never be buried under the weight of misunderstanding.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Friendship, Real Friends, Lost Friend

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• Opposition is a natural part of life. Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition - such as lifting weights - we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.

  Stephen Covey

  Life, Motivational, Change

  Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1997). “First Things First Every Day: Daily Reflections- Because Where You're Headed Is More Important Than How Fast You Get There”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

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• When one lifts a ballerina, it is not her weight but her nature that causes the problem.

  Maris Liepa

  Dance, Ballet, Causes

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• When I became of service to other people I stopped worrying about my weight so much.

  Judith Light

  People, Worry, Service To Others

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• The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.

  A. J. P. Taylor

  Peace, War, Army

  A J P Taylor (1974). “The First World War: An Illustrated History”, p.15, Penguin UK

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• Force without judgement falls on its own weight.

  Horace

  Peace, War, Fall

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• The battle is going very heavily against us. We're being crushed by the enemy weight. We are facing very difficult days, perhaps the most difficult that a man can undergo

  Erwin Rommel

  War, Men, Enemy

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• According to aerodynamic laws, the bumblebee cannot fly. Its body weight is not the right proportion to its wingspan. Ignoring these laws, the bee flies anyway.

  Andre Sainte-Lague

  Inspirational, Success, Uplifting

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