Weight Quotes - Page 22

• Most people who are healthy, and I'm healthy, can't even live my life. Trust me. I get up 530-6 every morning. I'm in the gym. I run a couple miles. I lift weights, and then I'm at work until 8-9 o'clock at night.

  Magic Johnson

  Motivational, Basketball, Running

  "Magic Johnson pushes HIV awareness". Interview with Dr. Sanjay Gupta, www.cnn.com. November 24, 2004.

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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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• When I saw contestants fighting for their lives on 'The Biggest Loser,' I realized I just wanted to be healthy - to have fun playing soccer with my son or teaching my daughter to shoot hoops. Then it was so much easier to say no to carbs, soda, or dessert, and the weight just came off.

  Alison Sweeney

  Soccer, Daughter, Mother

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• Unless a person decides that `Whatever the cost, I want just to be myself. Condemned, unaccepted, losing respectability - everything is okay but I cannot pretend anymore to be somebody else`... This decision and this declaration - this declaration of freedom, freedom from the weight of the crowd - gives birth to your natural being, to your individuality. Then you don`t need any mask. Then you can be simply yourself, just as you are. And the moment you can be just as you are, there is tremendous peace that passeth understanding.

  Rajneesh

  Giving, Decision, Understanding

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• Life, sometimes so wearying is worth its weight in gold the experience of traveling lends a wisdom that is old.

  John McLeod

  Life, Gold, Sometimes

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• I hate overweight, because it implies that there's a weight standard i should be adhering to

  Camryn Manheim

  Hate, Loss, Fats

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• Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Writing, Sound, Looks

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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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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• He's put on weight and I've lost it, and vice versa.

  Ronnie Whelan

  Soccer, Vices, Lost

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• Hey fellas! This is what you work all off season for. This is why you lift all them weights! This is why you do all that!

  Bill Parcells

  Motivational, Football, Nfl

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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 intellectual's hostility to the businessman presents no mystery, as the two have, by function, wholly different standards. While the businessman's motto is the customer is always right, the intellectual's task is to preserve his perceived standards against the weight of popular opinion.

  Bertrand de Jouvenel

  Philosophy, Two, Political

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• My temptation is emotional, and resisting will further my needed weight loss and strengthen my character. Furthermore, nothing tastes as good as thin feels.

  Stephen Covey

  Fitness, Character, Health

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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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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• It is true I gained muscular vigour, but with it a prodigious appetite, which I was compelled to indulge, and consequently increased in weight, until my kind old friend advised me to forsake the exercise.

  William Banting

  True Friend, Exercise, Old Friends

  William Banting (1864). “Letter on Corpulence: Addressed to the Public”, p.12

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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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• By the time I was fourteen the nail in my wall would no longer support the weight of the rejection slips impaled upon it. I replaced the nail with a spike and went on writing.

  Stephen King

  Wall, Writing, Support

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• The avalanche of time sweeps everything before it. Every individual instant hurtles into oblivion, drowning out the obliteration of the instant immediately preceding it, and then it too disappears under the onslaught of the next and the next and the next. When the avalanche has shuddered past for a long enough time, the perception of the past evolves. Distant events grow beyond mere history and take on the weight of legend.

  David Gerrold

  Time, Past, Long

  David Gerrold (1993). “Under the Eye of God”, Spectra

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• She followed the pleasure where it led. She had no weight, no name, no thoughts, no history. Then came a burst of phosphorescence, as though a firework had discharged behind her eyes, and it was over. She felt quiet and warm. For the first conscious moment of her life, her mind was free from wonder, free from worry, free from work or puzzlement. Then, from the middle of that marvelous furred stillness, a thought took shape, took hold, took over. I shall have to do this again.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Eye, Names, Worry

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2013). “The Signature of All Things”, p.93, A&C Black

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• I stare at her collarbone that's framed with lace, the hollow of her throat, her shoulders that rise with each rise with the weight of her next breath. We're fragile things. Our bones show through our skin. What would any god want with us?

  Lauren DeStefano

  Skins, Want, Next

  FaceBook post by Lauren DeStefano from Apr 15, 2013

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• He had no memory of ever being hugged like this, as though by a mother. The full weight of everything he had seen that night seemed to fall in upon him as Mrs. Weasley held him to her. His mother's face, his father's voice, the sight of Cedric, dead on the ground all started spinning in his head until he could hardly bear it, until he was screwing up his face against the howl of misery fighting to get out of him.

  J. K. Rowling

  Mother, Memories, Father

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• To me, when someone wrongs you, you both share the burden of that wrongdoing - the pain of it weighs on both of you. Forgiveness, then, means choosing to bear the full weight all by yourself. Caleb's betrayal is something we both carry, and since he did it, all I've wanted is for him to take its weight away from me. I am not sure that I'm capable of shouldering it all myself - not sure that I am strong enough, or good enough.

  Veronica Roth

  Strong, Pain, Betrayal

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• The fire, the fire. It rages within, a campfire and then an inferno, and my body is its fuel. I feel it racing through me, eating away at the weight. There is nothing that can kill me now; I am powerful and invincible and eternal.

  Veronica Roth

  Powerful, Fire, Racing

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• I could kiss you forever," she murmured against his lips, sucking at the lower one, playing with the upper, his body weight a luscious pressure. "I love feeling you against me." "You say such things, Elena. You will make me your slave.

  Nalini Singh

  Kissing, Body Weight, Forever

  Nalini Singh (2013). “Archangel's Legion”, p.46, Penguin

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