Weight Quotes - Page 33

• Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Sports, Football, Wisdom

  Archibald MacLeish (1978). “Riders on the Earth: essays and recollections”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• My success has been something I've worked a long time at and it's been a gradual process. I compare it to the idea of someone losing a lot of weight over a period of a few years. You don't really notice the weight loss overall but if you compare photos from then and now there's a big difference.

  Ray William Johnson

  Loss, Years, Ideas

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The imagined memories had to have as much weight as the real, or we had to at least pretend they did to such a degree that they just very well might have. And so I never questioned Angela about that particular story, or about all the troubling things that it pointed to, content to believe that at least in this version things worked for her better than they did in the one I never heard.

  Dinaw Mengestu

  Memories, Real, Believe

  Dinaw Mengestu (2010). “How to Read the Air”, p.119, Penguin

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• I've been lifting weights since I was literally 15 or 16 years old. My muscles are short and powerful and built to lift heavy weights, not to be graceful and glide around a dance floor.

  Jake Pavelka

  Powerful, Lifting Weights, Years

  "Jake Pavelka, Vienna Girardi ('The Bachelor')". Digital Spy Interview, www.digitalspy.com. March 2, 2010.

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• It is almost never when a state of things is the most detestable that it is smashed, but when, beginning to improve, it permits men to breathe, to reflect, to communicate their thoughts with each other, and to gauge by what they already have the extent of their rights and their grievances. The weight, although less heavy, seems then all the more unbearable.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Men, Rights, Gauges

  Alexis de Tocqueville, Roger Boesche, James Toupin (1986). “Selected Letters on Politics and Society”, p.296, Univ of California Press

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• Tears at times have the weight of speech.

  Ovid

  Tears, Speech

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• I'm 5 feet 10 inches, and whatever my whatever my weight is, that's fine. As long as I am able to move and I feel good, it doesn't matter.

  Monica Seles

  Moving, Feet, Long

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• The earth is moved from its position by the weight of a tiny bird resting upon it.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Bird, Earth, Tiny

  Leonardo Da Vinci (1938). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”

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• I am writing this during my lunch period, because I need to reach towards the outside world of sanity, because I am overwhelmed by the sheer weight of the clerical work still to be done, and because at this hour of the morning normal ladies are still sleeping.

  Bel Kaufman

  Morning, Sleep, Writing

  Bel Kaufman (2012). “Up the Down Staircase”, p.72, Open Road Media

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• Of my fifty-seven years I have applied at least thirty to forgetting most of what I have learned or read. Since then, I have acquired a certain ease and cheer which I should never again like to be without. (...) I have stored little in my memory, but I can apply that little, and it is of use in many and varied emergencies. I keep it in order, but resist every attempt to increase its dead weight.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Memories, Cheer, Order

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• A Christian ought to realize what the weights laid on his spirit are.  If he encounters it in the morning and does not deal with it at once, he experiences defeat the whole day long.

  Watchman Nee

  Christian, Morning, Long

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• Anywhere in life, for girls there's pressure to keep your weight and to keep yourself feeling and looking good.

  Kate Upton

  Girl, Feelings, Pressure

  "Kate Upton Won’t Do Juice Fasts, Walk Runways" By Charlotte Cowles, www.thecut.com. February 1, 2013.

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• The coolest thing for me is the experience of floating and not feeling my weight. And hanging by a window just after sunset and watching the stars in the big black dome of the sky as the earth moves underneath.

  Kalpana Chawla

  Stars, Moving, Sunset

  AsianWeek, February 7-13, 2003.

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• There's a tiredness of abstract inteligence, and it's the most horrible of tirednesses. It doesn't weight on you like the tiredness of the body, nor does it worry you like the tiredness of knowledge and emotion. It's a weightiness of the conscience of the world, an inability of the soul to breathe.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Worry, Soul, Inability

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• Success is found balanced between optimism and realism, where it is unhindered by the weight of pessimism.

  Wes Fesler

  Optimism, Pessimism, Realism

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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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• I like the weight, look, and feel of a book. I enjoy turning the pages, and frequently scan the spines of my many books on the wall, each title a reminder of the stored information and creative thoughts contained therein.

  Al Seckel

  Wall, Book, Creative

  "Kindle or Kindling?" by Al Seckel, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 17, 2009.

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• It's all about mechanics; all the weight-lifting in the world can't help you if you're not running correctly.

  Ron Bramlett

  Running, Track, Weight Lifting

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• The record company really pissed me off when they told me to lose weight. I couldn't be bothered with looking a certain way. So I left the business. I don't regret it.

  Kim Wilde

  Regret, Business, Records

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• Paris is a place in which we can forget ourselves, reinvent, expunge the dead weight of our past.

  Michael Simkins

  Past, Paris, Forget

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• Thus can the demigod Authority Make us pay down for our offense by weight The words of heaven; on whom it will, it will, On whom it will not, so: yet still 'tis just.

  William Shakespeare

  Heaven, Pay, Authority

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Measure for Measure”, p.42, Penguin

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• If you cheat, if your weights and measures are inaccurate, if your financial dealings are shoddy, if you take things that do not belong to you, you won't be able to hide it forever. People will find out. Then your reputation and your business will suffer, because people don't want to deal with someone who can't be trusted.

  Wayne D. Dosick

  Honesty, People, Forever

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• If all the elements are arranged in the order of their atomic weights, a periodic repetition of properties is obtained. This is expressed by the law of periodicity.

  Dmitri Mendeleev

  Science, Order, Law

  Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev (2013). “Mendeleev on the Periodic Law: Selected Writings, 1869 - 1905”, p.271, Courier Corporation

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• As the husband is the wife is; thou art mated with a clown, As the grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Art, Husband, Wife

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.115, Cambridge University Press

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• Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance. In this great balance of utility, the spiritual service of art has no weight, and, deprived of all encouragement, it vanishes from the noisy Vanity Fair of our time.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Spiritual, Encouragement, Art

  "Literary and philosophical essays: French, German, and Italian", Collier, Volume 32, sourcebooks.fordham.edu. 1910.

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