Weight Quotes - Page 35

• Rather I'd choose laboriously to bear A weight of woes, and breathe the vital air, A slave to some poor hind that toils for bread, Than reign the sceptred monarch of the dead.

  Homer

  Air, Toil, Woe

  Homer (1872). “The Iliad ...”, p.412

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• Even when I ran my bar I followed the same policy. A lot of customers came to the bar. If one in ten enjoyed the place and said he'd come again, that was enough. If one out of ten was a repeat customer, then the business would survive. To put it another way, it didn't matter if nine out of ten didn't like my bar. This realization lifted a weight off my shoulders. Still, I had to make sure that the one person who did like the place.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Matter, Nine

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• Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.

  Solon

  Gentleman, Oath, Honour

  "The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers". Book by Diogenes Laërtius, trans. C. D. Yonge. "Solon", sect. 12, p. 29, 1853.

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• If you attach no importance to weight problems, if not being able to wear new, trendy small-sized clothes does not cause you any regret, this book is not for you.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Regret, Book, Clothes

  "You'll think I'm a Madman". Interview With John Colapinto, www.theguardian.com. May 27, 2007.

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• There's gonna be a time when I'm way curvier, and that'll be sexy too. What defines sexy is not someone's weight. Personally I like curves. I wanna look good for me. I wanna feel good.

  Ashlee Simpson

  Sexy, Curves, Feel Good

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• I had a lot of challenges losing the weight. I still haven't lost the weight yet and I don't plan on going back to the body I used to be at. I love my sexy curves!

  Kendra Wilkinson

  Sexy, Curves, Challenges

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• I still think I'm fat. Right now I'm worrying about how I'm going to lose weight after the pregnancy. I feel like an elephant, but I do get the occasional sexy pregnant day where I think I look great.

  Lily Allen

  Sexy, Pregnancy, Thinking

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• I think I know I've been working very hard for the family business, sometimes those days are long days and I think if I know I'm working hard and pulling my weight, both working and playing hard at the same time, I think everyone who I work with can see I am there pulling my weight.

  Kate Middleton

  Work, Thinking, Long

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• I would eat 300 calories a day - a lot of Jell-O and no-sugar everything, of course. I was doing Pilates, weight-training, circuit training; over lunch I would run on a treadmill in my dressing room with a fan on my face so I wouldn't sweat my makeup off.

  Portia de Rossi

  Running, Makeup, Sweat

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• I had been on this insane diet for almost 17 years to maintain the weight that was demanded of me when I was modeling. My diet was really starvation. I am not naturally that thin.

  Carre Otis

  Years, Anorexia, Insane

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• A true chocolate lover finds ways to accommodate his passion and make it work with his lifestyle. One key, not just to keeping weight down and staying guilt-free, but also to keeping taste buds sharp (essential for the professionals who evaluate new products as well as judge recipes), Is being discriminating.

  Julie Davis

  Work, Passion, Keys

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• Under most conditions, the best roof for your bedroom is the sky. This commonsense arrangement saves weight, time, energy, and money.

  Colin Fletcher

  Sky, Energy, Backpacking

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• The rule of thumb for the old backpacking was that the weight of your pack should equal the weight of yourself and the kitchen range combined. Just a casual glance at the full pack sitting on the floor could give you a double hernia and fuse four vertebrae. After carrying the pack all day, you had to remember to tie one leg to a tree before you dropped it. Otherwise you would float off into space. The pack eliminated the need for any special kind of ground-gripping shoes, because your feet would sink a foot and a half into hard-packed earth, two inches into solid rock.

  Patrick F. McManus

  Journey, Feet, Hiking

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• I never - you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Fall, Men, Age

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• Quite often, most of us are defined first by our vital statistics - our sex, our height, our weight, the colour of our eyes and then we're defined by our job.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Jobs, Sex, Eye

  "Archipelago - Tom Hiddleston interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• You go in the weight room and you lift weights and you do all these things to strengthen your body. This is strengthening your mind. When you can stay focused and you can use that focus to always come back with your breath to center yourself, so that you're kind of floating in the moment, in the spirit.

  Phil Jackson

  Focus, Mind, Use

  "Former NBA coach Phil Jackson". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. June 5, 2013.

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• Childhood obesity isn't about looks. And it's not about weight. It's about how our kids feel. And those are really the implications of the problem and the words that tell a fuller picture of the challenges that we face; you know, kids struggling in ways that they didn't a generation ago.

  Michelle Obama

  Struggle, Kids, Childhood

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• A raised weight can produce work, but in doing so it must necessarily sink from its height, and, when it has fallen as deep as it can fall, its gravity remains as before, but it can no longer do work.

  Hermann von Helmholtz

  Fall, Height, Gravity

  Hermann von Helmholtz, David Cahan (1995). “Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays”, p.124, University of Chicago Press

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• Around 20 million premature and low-birth weight babies are born every year and are at high risk of death or disability because of hypothermia.

  Jane Chen

  Baby, Years, Risk

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• All the people who follow me on Twitter know my sense of humor. I sometimes forget the blogosphere will give it more weight than I intended.

  Kurt Sutter

  People, Giving, Sense Of Humor

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• Maybe lifting someone else’s weight makes yours a little more bearable

  Tarryn Fisher

  Littles, Bearable, Lifting

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• Justice is justly represented blind, because she sees no difference in the parties concerned. She has but one scale and weight, for rich and poor, great and small.

  William Penn

  Party, Differences, Justice

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.57, Courier Corporation

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• O Music! language of the soul, Of love, of God to man; Bright beam from heaven thrilling, That lightens sorrow's weight.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Music, Men, Heaven

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• In this life our sorrows are either not very long or not very great because nature either overcomes them by habits or puts an end to them by sinking under their weight. But in hell the torments cannot be overcome by habit, for while they are of terrible intensity they are at the same time of continual variety, each pain, so to speak, taking fire from another and re-endowing that which has enkindled it with a still fiercer flame.

  James Joyce

  Pain, Flames, Fire

  James Joyce (2013). “The Best of James Joyce”, p.268, Simon and Schuster

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• I am blessed with a good metabolism, and as long as I work out, carbs don't add to my weight. If I need a leaner, meaner look for a film, I go off carbs for a bit.

  Arjun Rampal

  Blessed, Work Out, Long

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