Weight Quotes - Page 20

• One of the burdens of being a black male is carrying the heavy weight of other people’s suspicions.

  Jonathan Capehart

  People, Black, Males

  "Op-Ed: Shooting Of Black Teen Reveals 'Blindness'". "Talk Of The Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. March 19, 2012.

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• Every day you're alive, you can change the world. It could be for the better or for the worse. It can be big waves or small waves. The very fact that you're alive and breathing and walking outside, going to class, whatever it is, you're changing the world with each footstep. There's a lot of weight to that.

  Tim Foreman

  Breathing, Class, Alive

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• He was in a room of the Gesshuuji, which he had thought it would be impossible to visit. The approach of death had made the visit easy, had unloosed the weight that held him in the depths of being. It was even a comfort to think, from the light repose the struggle up the hill had brought him, that Kiyoaki, struggling against illness up that same road, had been given wings to soar with by the denial that awaited him.

  Yukio Mishima

  Struggle, Thinking, Wings

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• Far too many times over the next 12 to 15 years, it was brought to my attention that people who followed my exercise guidelines exactly but ignored their diet, their weight and their cigarette smoking had heart attacks at age 55.

  Kenneth H. Cooper

  Heart, Exercise, Years

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• While weight loss is important, what's more important is the quality of food you put in your body - food is information that quickly changes your metabolism and genes.

  Mark Hyman, M.D.

  Loss, Important, Quality

  FaceBook post by Mark Hyman, MD from Jan 16, 2017

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• If we change in different directions, then we don't have any future anyway, do we? I think it's possible for two people to change together, to grow together and enrich instead of diminish each other. The sum of one and one, if they're the right ones, can be infinity! But so often one person drags the other down; one person wants to go up like a balloon and the other's a dead weight. I've always wondered what it would be like if both people, if a woman and a man both wanted to go up like balloons!

  Richard Bach

  Change, Future, Men

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• My ideal weight is moobless.

  Albie Sachs

  Dieting, Ideals

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• After all, when a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence. As Ruskin wrote in his earlier and better days, "No weight nor mass nor beauty of execution can outweigh one grain or fragment of thought.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Lessons, Execution, Better Days

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• You cannot immunize sick, malnourished children and expect them to get away with it. You'll kill far more children than would have died from natural infection...It needs to be appreciated that children in developing countries are at a much greater risk of complications from vaccination and from mercury toxicity...because poor nutrition, parasitic and bacterial infections and low birth weight.

  Archie Kalokerinos

  Country, Children, Sick

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• Being in the dark, there's a real weight to it. It's heavy.

  Amanda Lindhout

  Real, Dark, Heavy

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• Action can give us the feeling of being useful, but only words can give us a sense of weight and purpose.

  Eric Hoffer

  Giving, Feelings, Purpose

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• The first pressure of sorrow crushes out from our hearts the best wine; afterwards the constant weight of it brings forth bitterness, the taste and stain from the lees of the vat.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Crush, Heart, Wine

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1873). “Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.455

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• If you want to lose weight, you have to be obsessed with it. You can't depend upon your dietician, your trainer or various health aids that you have. You have to be organised. And believe me, it isn't that difficult. The first 10 days are terrible because you have to break the lifelong habits that you have made.

  Kajol

  Believe, Want, Firsts

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• I love my body. And, I'm always working out. I'm an exercise freak, be it cardio, weights, t'ai chi or yoga.

  Kajol

  Yoga, Exercise, Work Out

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• How describe the delicate thing that happens when a brilliant insect alights on a flower? Words, with their weight, fall upon the picture like birds of prey.

  Jules Renard

  Flower, Fall, Delicate Things

  Jules Renard (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.62, Tin House Books

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• Life is cut to allow for growth ... one may vigorously put on weight before one fills it out entirely.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Cutting, Growth, May

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• I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.

  Karl Lagerfeld

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• The famous carry about with them a great weight of patriarchal baggage-the footnotes of their lives.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Baggage, Footnotes, Human Relations

  Elizabeth Hardwick (1984). “Bartleby in Manhattan, and Other Essays”, Vintage

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• I never lifted a weight in my life. Why am I going to do steroids? That's not going to do me any good. We didn't have any weights in our clubhouse. We had one exercise bike and that was for the guy who tweaked his hamstring. And that thing didn't even work half the time.

  George Brett

  Exercise, Guy, Half

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• I feel that the English language will be able to carry the weight of my African experience. But it will have to be a new English, still in full communion with its ancestral home but altered to suit new African surroundings.

  Chinua Achebe

  Home, Able, Suits

  "Chinua Achebe: A life in writing" by Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2010.

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• Most of us human beings tend to be parochial in our perceptions. What happens is that we have a very limited and narrow view of our self interest and do not adequately weight the price that has to be paid on the other side for any of these measures we are promoting.

  Alan Borovoy

  Self, Views, Perception

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• Libraries can be of indispensable service in lifting the dead weight of poverty and ignorance.

  Francis Keppel

  Ignorance, Library, Poverty

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• And when I went to Houston, they had a conditioning coach by the name of Gene Coleman. And that was the first time I had gone to an organization that had a program with a weight room and designed specifically for pitchers.

  Nolan Ryan

  Sports, Names, Organization

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• I was this role model for heavy people. But the thing is, I never set out to be a role model at all, and I don't set out to be one now. I won't preach to anyone and tell them how to lose weight. I don't know any better than the next person.

  Ricki Lake

  People, Role Models, Roles

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• For a couple of days after chemotherapy, food tastes really bland, even the best foods. I haven't been sick, but have been a little tired. I haven't lost any weight.

  Grete Waitz

  Couple, Tired, Sick

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