Weight Quotes - Page 28

• The ox feels the yoke, but does the bird feel the weight of its wings?

  Leigh Bardugo

  Wings, Bird, Doe

  Leigh Bardugo (2013). “Siege and Storm: Chapters 1-5”, p.260, Henry Holt and Company (BYR)

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• You don't get big and strong from lifting weights - you get big and strong from recovering from lifting weights

  Mark Rippetoe

  Strong, Lifting Weights, Bigs

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• Use now and then a little Exercise a quarter of an Hour before Meals, as to swing a Weight, or swing your Arms about with a small Weight in each Hand; to leap, or the like, for that stirs the Muscles of the Breast.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Health, Exercise, Science

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.102, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Light weight ... Yeah buddy!

  Ronnie Coleman

  Light, Training, Yeah

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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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• 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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• We come into the world laden with the weight of an infinite necessity.

  Albert Camus

  World, Infinite

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.210, Vintage

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• For years I exercised to be thinner, and I never got the results I wanted. Now I determine my weight by how my clothes feel.

  Judy Reyes

  Years, Clothes, Body Image

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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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• I think I sort of blossomed, so to speak, around 17. I started to get hips and put on weight, which I was very happy about. And that's when I met this agent, who told me I had to lose 10 pounds. I said, 'You've got to be kidding me. I finally got it on - I'm not losing it!'

  Tricia Helfer

  Thinking, Agents, Pounds

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• I love the way my weight fluctuates in the newspapers. It was 18 stone and then people look at a bad picture of me and add a few more stone on. I think the highest was 22 stone.

  Johnny Vegas

  Thinking, People, Add

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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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• At the next election he'll offer the British public an alternative that provides weight and substance and seriousness in a political debate that is, frankly, increasingly obsessed with modishness and flim-flam.

  Paddy Ashdown

  Political, Next, Alternatives

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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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