Weight Quotes - Page 19

• No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity.

  Edith Wharton

  Vanity, Nests, Frail

  Edith Wharton (2015). “The House of Mirth”, p.112, Xist Publishing

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• Anything you adopt temporarily only begets temporary results, and fluctuating your weight up and down is not lifespan favorable.

  Joel Fuhrman

  Results, Up And Down, Begets

  Dr Joel Fuhrman (2014). “The End of Dieting: How to Live for Life”, p.14, Hay House UK

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• For both optimal health and weight loss, you must consume a diet with a high nutrient-per-calorie ratiothere are no shortcuts.

  Joel Fuhrman

  Loss, Shortcuts, Calories

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• The bosom-weight, your stubborn gift, That no philosophy can lift.

  William Wordsworth

  Philosophy, Stubborn, Lifts

  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.361

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• It's tough for parents to talk to children about heavy-weight topics such as peer pressure, drugs and morality if they don't already have a closeness. A parent can't just all of a sudden pick out an hour and talk to a son about being morally clean if the parent and child haven't spent much time together for three or four years. I think closeness is developed more quickly by having fun together.

  David A. Bednar

  Children, Fun, Son

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• Bang bang bang. I understand now why so many horror movies use that device-the mysterious knock on the door-because it has the weight of a nightmare. You don't know what's out there, yet you know you'll open it. You'll think what I think: No one bad ever knocks.

  Gillian Flynn

  Fear, Thinking, Doors

  Gillian Flynn (2012). “Gone Girl: A Novel”, p.306, Crown

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• If you eliminate the junk food, you don't really run the risk of gaining weight if you've got a good workout routine.

  Joe Bastianich

  Running, Workout, Risk

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• The elements, if arranged according to their atomic weights, exhibit an apparent periodicity of properties.

  Dmitri Mendeleev

  Elements, Property, Exhibits

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• We must expect the discovery of many as yet unknown elements-for example, elements analogous to aluminum and silicon- whose atomic weight would be between 65 and 75.

  Dmitri Mendeleev

  Discovery, Example, Would Be

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• Meditation is as important as lifting weights and being out here on the field for practice.

  Russell Okung

  Lifting Weights, Practice, Meditation

  "Lotus pose on two". Interview with Alyssa Roenigk, www.espn.com. August 21, 2013.

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• I am always being asked to gain or lose weight, but I am at a point now where I don't care anymore. I love my body, I love my super-hourglass shape and I love showing it off.

  Ashley Graham

  Body, Care, Shapes

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• I've always overworked in the weight room. I love working with weights. I knew they'd give me the strength I needed.

  Florence Griffith Joyner

  Giving, Rooms, Give Me Strength

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• Once you lose the weight, you're really anxious to eat healthy.

  Etta James

  Healthy, Anxious, Loses

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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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• Nothing is real except the present, and already, I feel the weight of centuries smothering me. Some girl a hundred years ago once lived as I do. And she is dead. I am the present, but I know I, too, will pass. The high moment, the burning flash, come and are gone, continuous quicksand. And I don’t want to die.

  Sylvia Plath

  Girl, Real, Years

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.10, Anchor

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• It's sadness coming on like the old days, the vast seamless hopeless weight of sadness looking for a place to rest.

  Tim Winton

  Sadness, Hopeless, Old Days

  Tim Winton (2014). “Cloudstreet: Picador Classic”, p.281, Pan Macmillan

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• Weight-bearing exercise builds bone density, builds your muscular strength so that you can hold your body up where those bones have a tendency to get weak.

  Ann Richards

  Exercise, Density, Body

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• Weight isn't a factor in nutritional health.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Factors

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• The dreams of youth. So noble. So good. And heavy dreamsthey were- made frail only by their own weight.

  James Michael

  Dream, Noble, Youth

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• Fresh and clarifying, cool and refreshing, Lucite Green has a minty glow. Light in weight and also in tone, Lucite Green seems almost transparent.

  Leatrice Eiseman

  Light, Green, Tone

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• A friend of mine - a cameraman at MTV - lost a lot of weight from cycling, and I thought Id try it, too, thinking whenever you look at a cyclist they all look super-skinny, so hey, why not? But then it turned into such a psychologically satisfying thing.

  Carson Daly

  Thinking, Cycling, Mtv

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• No power is strong enough to be lasting, if it labours under the weight of fear.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Strong, Enough, Lasting

  "Cicero De Officiis".

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• For me, I was raped in my own dorm bed. Since then, it has basically become fraught for me, and I feel like I've carried the weight of what happened there with me everywhere since then.

  Emma Sulkowicz

  Bed, Dorms, Feels

  "Columbia University Student Will Drag Her Mattress Around Campus Until Her Rapist Is Gone" by Sarah Barness, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 3, 2014.

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• In every combustion there is disengagement of the matter of fire or of light. A body can burn only in pure air [oxygen]. There is no destruction or decomposition of pure air and the increase in weight of the body burnt is exactly equal to the weight of air destroyed or decomposed. The body burnt changes into an acid by addition of the substance that increases its weight. Pure air is a compound of the matter of fire or of light with a base. In combustion the burning body removes the base, which it attracts more strongly than does the matter of heat, which appears as flame, heat and light.

  Antoine Lavoisier

  Science, Fire, Light

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• It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Numbers, Regard

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