Weight Quotes - Page 38

• Also, I gained lots of weight between ages 18-20 because I was drinking alcohol at night. Alcohol has lots of calories and that does not help.

  Oksana Baiul

  Drinking, Night, Alcohol

  Q&As, www.goldenskate.com. March 7, 2003.

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• The writing of histories - as Goethe once noted - is one way of getting rid of the weight of the past.... The writing of history liberates us from history.

  Benedetto Croce

  Writing, Past, History

  Benedetto Croce (1941). “History as the Story of Liberty”

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• Where does the hand become the wrist?
  where does the neck become the shoulder? The watershed
  and then the weight, whatever turns up and tips us over that
  razor's edge
  between something and nothing, between
  one and the other.

  Simon Armitage

  Hands, Doe, Razors

  Simon Armitage (2005). “The Shout: Selected Poems”, Houghton Mifflin

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• The words of the President have an enormous weight and ought not to be used indiscriminately.

  Calvin Coolidge

  President, Used, Enormous

  Calvin Coolidge (2001). “The Quotable Calvin Coolidge: Sensible Words for a New Century”, Images from the Past Incorporated

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• Science is not about what's true or what might be true, science is about what people with originally diverse viewpoints can be forced to believe by the weight of public evidence.

  Lee Smolin

  Believe, People, Might

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• The official toxicity limit for humans is between one and one and half grams of cocaine depending on body weight. I was averaging five grams a day, maybe more. I snorted ten grams in ten minutes once. I guess I had a high tolerance.

  George Jung

  Blow, Body Weight, Tolerance

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• It needs a great nature to bear the weight of a great gratitude.

  Ouida

  Gratitude, Needs, Bears

  Ouida (2016). “Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida”, p.311, Ouida

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• The root of honesty is an honest intention, the distinct and deliberate purpose to be true, to handle facts as they are, and not as we wish them to be. Facts lend themselves to manipulation. Many a butcher's hand is worth more than its weight in gold. What we want things to be, we come to see them to be; and the tailor pulls the coat and the truth into a perfect fit from his point of view.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Honesty, Roots, Views

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• A public debt is a kind of anchor in the storm; but if the anchor be too heavy for the vessel, she will be sunk by that very weight which was intended for her preservation.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Anchors, Storm, Debt

  Charles Caleb Colton (1821). “Lacon: or, Many things in few words”, p.92

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• God does not weigh criminality in our scales. We have one absolute, with the seal of authority upon it; and with us an ounce is an ounce, and a pound a pound. God's measure is the heart of the offender,--a balance which varies with every one of us, a balance so delicate that a tear cast in the other side may make the weight of error kick the beam.

  James Russell Lowell

  Heart, Errors, Balance

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• Life is constantly weighing us in very sensitive scales, and telling every one of us precisely what his real weight is to the last grain of dust.

  James Russell Lowell

  Life, Real, Dust

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “My Study Windows”, p.48

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• Music is one of the fairest and most glorious gifts of God, to which Satan is a bitter enemy; for it removes from the heart the weight of sorrow, and the fascination of evil thoughts.

  Martin Luther

  Music, Heart, Evil

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• Since ancient Time began,
  Ever on some great soul God laid an infinite burden--
  The weight of all this world, the hopes of man,
  Conflict and pain, and fame immortal are his guerdon.

  Richard Watson Gilder

  Pain, Men, Soul

  Richard Watson Gilder (1900). “Five Books of Song”

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• Is it not a thing divine to have a smile which, none know how, has the power to lighten the weight of that enormous chain which all the living in common drag behind them?

  Victor Hugo

  Common, Divine, Chains

  Victor Hugo (1874). “Toilers of the Sea”, p.20

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• Judge not by the number, but by the weight.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Numbers, Judging, Quality

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• A broken fortune is like a falling column; the lower it sinks, the greater weight it has to sustain.

  Ovid

  Fall, Broken, Columns

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• Love cannot exorcise the gifts of hate. / Hate cannot exorcize what has no weight, / But laughter we can never over-rate.

  May Sarton

  Laughter, Hate, Rate

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• All must yield to the weight of years; conquest is not difficult for time.

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca

  Time, Yield, Years

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• all government, whatever its forms or pretenses, is a dead weight that paralyzes the free spirit and activities of the masses.

  Emma Goldman

  Government, Free Spirit, Form

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• God gives his wrath by weight, and without weight his mercy.

  George Herbert

  Wrath, Giving, Mercy

  George Herbert (1871). “The English poems of George Herbert, together with his collection of proverbs entitled Jacula prudentum”, p.258

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• Europe has lived on its contradictions, flourished on its differences, and, constantly transcending itself thereby, has created a civilization on which the whole world depends even when rejecting it. This is why I do not believe in a Europe unified under the weight of an ideology or of a technocracy that overlooked these differences.

  Albert Camus

  Believe, Europe, Civilization

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.243, Vintage

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• It is harder to maintain the balance of freedom than it is to endure the weight of tyranny.

  Simon Bolivar

  Balance, Endure, Tyranny

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• The white man has settled like a locust over Africa, and, like the locusts in early morning, cannot take flight for the heaviness of the dew on their wings. But the dew that weights the white man is the money that he makes from our labor.

  Doris Lessing

  Morning, Men, White Man

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• It is not the weariness of mortality, but the strength of divinity, which we have to recognize in all mighty things; and that is just what we now never recognize, but think that we are to do great things by help of iron bars and perspiration. Alas! we shall do nothing that way but lose some pounds of our own weight.

  John Ruskin

  Power, Thinking, Iron

  John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill (1858). “The true and the beautiful in nature, art, morals, and religion”, p.317

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• the illusion never really dissipates that you can lose twenty pounds in one night by cutting out dinner.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Cutting, Night, Twenties

  Shirley MacLaine (1987). “It's all in the playing”, Bantam

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