Weight Quotes - Page 12

• 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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• As our economy faces up to potential labour shortages due to our ageing population and as it moves to a new level of sophistication to compete with the rest of the world, we're going to need every Australian on board pulling their weight, rejoining the workforce, gaining new skills. Writing off individuals and communities suffering from poverty just creates a dead weight for our economy to drag along.

  Julia Gillard

  Jobs, Moving, Writing

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• Force without reason falls of its own weight.

  Horace

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Fall

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• Well, it's true that I have been hurt in my life. Quite a bit. But it's also true that I have loved, and been loved. And that carries a weight of its own. A greater weight, in my opinion. It's like that pie chart we talked about earlier. In the end, I'll look back on my life and see that the greatest piece of it was love. The problems, the divorces, the sadness... those will be there too, but just smaller slivers, tiny pieces.

  Sarah Dessen

  Love, Faith, Hurt

  Sarah Dessen (2011). “This Lullaby”, p.187, Hachette UK

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• Nothing's changed my life more. I feel better about myself as a person, being conscious and responsible for my actions and I lost weight and my skin cleared up and I got bright eyes and I just became stronger and healthier and happier. Can't think of anything better in the world to be but be vegan.

  Alicia Silverstone

  Funny Inspirational, Eye, Feel Better

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• The secret of meditation is the art of unlearning. Mind is learning; meditation is unlearning: that is - die constantly to your experience; let it not imprison you; experience becomes a dead weight in the living and flowing, riverlike consciousness.

  Rajneesh

  Art, Meditation, Secret

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• Resolve that whatever you do, you will bring the whole man to it; that you will fling the whole weight of your being into it.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Commitment, Champion, Winner

  Orison Swett Marden (2015). “An Iron Will, He Can Who Thinks He Can & Pushing To The Front (Wisdom & Empowerment Series): How to Achieve Self-Reliance Which Leads to Vigorous Self-Faith, Personal Growth & Success”, p.84, e-artnow

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• I'm not a big power-and-strength guy, but I have a lot of balance, and I can take hits and stay on my feet. I control myself real good, shift my weight, and run real low. I do things that people haven't seen some of the running backs in the league do.

  Marshall Faulk

  Football, Running, Real

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• I didn't even think of my breasts in a nostalgic way, I just wanted to be able to live my life without that fear all the time. It's not 'pity me', it's a decision I made that's got rid of this weight that I was carrying around.

  Sharon Osbourne

  Cancer, Thinking, Decision

  "Sharon Osbourne reveals she had preventive double mastectomy" by Lizzy Davies, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2012.

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• I'm fighting hard - it's difficult under the weight of criticism but you have to take it

  Steve McClaren

  Fighting, Criticism, Difficult

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• Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of an atomic bomb. You know the ones: Was, did, had, made, went, looked... One-size-fits-all looks like crap on anyone. Sew yourself a custom made suit. Pick a better verb. Challenge all those verbs to really lift some weight for you.

  Janet Fitch

  Running, Writing, People

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• I think of myself as a stylist, and stylists can become notoriously obsessed with the placing of a comma, the weight of a semicolon.

  Truman Capote

  Writing, Thinking, Stylist

  Truman Capote, M. Thomas Inge (1987). “Truman Capote: Conversations”, p.28, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I don't know how much I can be bothered to have to lose the baby weight. It's such a pain... I'm not one of those people for whom it magically drops off.

  Kate Winslet

  Baby, Pain, People

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• What no woman or man needs is anyone telling them they are 'too fat' or 'too skinny.' That just adds to the many stereotypes out there about a person's weight.

  LeAnn Rimes

  Men, Skinny, Add

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• My weight and my pant size are the absolute last thing I'm concerned about. People who talk and judge pregnant women's weight need to get a life!

  Ashlee Simpson

  People, Judging, Needs

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• In and of itself, sports may be trivial, but as a symbol of the American way of life, it has enormous weight. We are seen, worldwide, as an enormously competitive, enthusiastic people who work as hard as we play and play as hard as we work. When baseball - which has traditionally canceled one day of games for huge national celebrations or disasters - stops play for six days, that has reverberations in the national consciousness.

  Thomas Boswell

  Sports, Baseball, Hockey

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• The Declaration has a moral power which is of enormous weight and influence. The statement of the rights represent a goal, or a standard, to which every man can look and with which he can compare what he in fact enjoys. The fact that no country was prepared to vote against the Declaration indicates its compelling moral force.

  H. V. Evatt

  Country, Men, Rights

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• Uniformity in the currency, weights, and measures of the United States is an object of great importance, and will, I am persuaded, be duly attended to.

  George Washington

  Science, Important, United States

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1838). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private”, p.9

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• The money problem facing the country from 1789 to 1896 existed because Congress never exercised is authority to "coin money or regulate the value thereof" - but rather delegated that authority, sometimes by charter and sometimes by default, to the banking system. This despite the provision in the Constitution that charged Congress with the power to 'coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standards of weight and Measures.'

  William Jennings Bryan

  Country, Banking, Coins

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• The answer to the mystery of existence is the love you shared sometimes so imperfectly, and when the loss wakes you to the deeper beauty of it, to the sanctity of it, you can't get off your knees for a long time, you're driven to your knees not by the weight of the loss but by gratitude for what preceded the loss.

  Dean Koontz

  Gratitude, Grief, Love You

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• My weight fluctuates constantly—I don't really take good care of myself. I just sort of exist and survive.

  Megan Fox

  Care

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