Weight Quotes - Page 40

• Time shakes the stable tyranny of thrones, And tottering empires rush by their own weight.

  John Armstrong

  Thrones, Empires, Tyranny

  John Armstrong (2011). “John Armstrong's The Art of Preserving Health: Eighteenth-century Sensibility in Practice”, p.82, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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• Socially, the issue of men's weight is simply not a big deal.

  Nia Vardalos

  Men, Issues, Bigs

  "Vardalos Fires Off At 'Fat-ist' Hollywood" by wenn.com, June 15, 2009.

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• People have a right to their own opinions, but not to their own facts. Evidence must be located, not created, and opinions not backed by evidence cannot be given much weight.

  James W. Loewen

  Creating, People, Facts

  James W. Loewen (2007). “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong”, p.358, Simon and Schuster

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• Knowledge—like a nail—is made load-bearing by being driven in. If it's not driven deep enough, it will break when any weight is put upon it.

  Kató Lomb

  Nails, Enough, Break

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• It wasn't about me trying to lose weight. It was all about emotions.

  Candace Cameron

  Trying, Emotion, Loses

  "Candace Cameron Bure Opens Up About Her Struggle With Bulimia" by Terri Schwartz, www.mtv.com. December 29, 2010.

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• If no one saw - it didn't count. It's only when you eat in front of strangers or people that make you feel guilty that food is really fattening.

  Arabella Weir

  People, Saws, Guilty

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• What finally prompted me to lose weight was a view of myself in a hairdresser's full-length mirror when I was seated and wearing one of the salon's floral print robes and realized that I looked like a slipcovered club chair.

  Mimi Sheraton

  Mirrors, Views, Clubs

  Mimi Sheraton (2004). “Eating My Words: An Appetite for Life”, Large Print Press

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• The wicked will run to the iron bridge, but it will collapse under their weight. The righteous will cross the paper bridge, and it will support them all. Paper is the only eternal bridge. Your purpose as a writer is to achieve one task, and one task only: to build a paper bridge to the world to come.

  Dara Horn

  Running, Bridges, Iron

  Dara Horn (2006). “The World to Come: A Novel”, p.84, W. W. Norton & Company

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• the fear of fat works ... because it's being manipulated in us to enforce class divisions, racisms, womyn-hatred. And we give it the room to work because it's so close to us, it's our own bodies, that we don't see it as coming from outside ourselves, we don't name it for the weapon it is.

  Elana Dykewomon

  Class, Names, Racism

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• Whenever women have made any social gains, whether it's being accepted as athletes or moving into the professions, it's going to be contradicted with an image of woman as small, diminished, reduced, brought back to a childish body. The result is that a lot of extraordinary power is going to be diverted into making oneself smaller than one is meant to be.

  Kim Chernin

  Moving, Athlete, Body

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• New Haven cultivates ... an open gloom that seems happy to acknowledge disrepair and the superfluity of appearance. ... I realized that what cramped the town was the weight of unwritten volumes: they scored lines of unfinished writing on every second face that walked the streets.

  Sara Suleri

  Writing, Cities, Faces

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• To me thin people never had any meaningful problems.

  Dorothy Cannell

  Meaningful, People, Problem

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• I don't obsess about my weight, which is probably one of the reasons why other people have such a problem with it.

  Kelly Clarkson

  People, Reason Why, Problem

  "Kelly Clarkson Can't Be Put Down: 'I'm Never Going to Obsess About My Body'" by Brie Schwartz, www.redbookmag.com. April 14, 2015.

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• Like many musicians, I can hear the weight in the sound. Sound is matter. We speak of the colour of an instrument, of transparency... We can demand more sombre or lighter colours, deeper playing and singing, heavier or lighter sound. And manipulating those means is like creating a painting.

  Laurence Equilbey

  Mean, Creating, Singing

  "There Will Be Joy". Interview with Lydia Perović, logger.believermag.com. August 1, 2013.

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• I took desperate measures to lose weight and did terrible things to myself. I went from diet pills to thirty laxatives a day to throwing up.

  Richard Simmons

  Desperate Measures, Pills, Thirty

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• Writing of history is our only heuristic principle. The Germans have a word for it, einfühlen. It is the ability to experience the past in the present and to recreate it. In my books, I have tried to recreate it in the most natural way possible: History must be integrated into the story without the weight of premonition.

  Gore Vidal

  Book, Writing, Past

  "The End of Gore Vidal". Interview with Lila Azam Zanganeh, www.guernicamag.com. August 15, 2012.

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• Journeys end in lovers' meeting.' ... But the real journey - the journey of adventure itself - is frequently another matter: often gray, often loverless, often demanding from the secret soul of the adventurer spirit and inspiration, lest the blood turn cold in sick dismay, and the brain cloud under its weight of nostalgia.

  Katherine Cecil Thurston

  Real, Inspiration, Adventure

  Katherine Cecil Thurston (2008). “Max (EasyRead Comfort Edition)”, p.22, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I felt the vulnerability, the fragility of the children of the world, and how it was, nonetheless, on their frail shoulders that we loaded the weight of our weary hopes and eternal new beginnings.

  Gabrielle Roy

  Children, New Beginnings, Fragility

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• Major fluctuations in weight gain and loss are detrimental to your health and embarrassing to explain to your friends and family.

  Linda Sunshine

  Loss, Family And Friends, Gains

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• O Hope, sweet flatterer! thy, delusive touch
  Sheds on afflicted minds the balm of comfort,
  Relieves the load of poverty, sustains
  The captive, bending with the weight of bonds,
  And smooths the pillow of disease and pain.

  Richard Glover

  Hope, Sweet, Pain

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• I hate skinny women, especially when they say things like 'Sometimes I forget to eat.' Now, I've forgotten my mother's maiden name, and my keys, but you've got to be a special kind of stupid to forget to eat!

  Marsha Warfield

  Mother, Stupid, Hate

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• It's one thing to lose weight, but it's another thing to eat healthy.

  Jennifer Hudson

  Healthy, One Thing, Loses

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• Ive always found a cure for the blues is wandering into something unknown, and resting there, before coming back to whatever weight you were carrying.

  Diane Sawyer

  Coming Back, Found, Cures

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• I pile on the weight when I work. All that location catering's not good for the love handles. I lose a bit when I'm not working, but I love my food and the occasional snifter.

  Ray Winstone

  Location, Occasional, Catering

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• While fad diets might seem like the quick-fix solution to lose weight, they won't help you get healthy in the long run.

  Daphne Oz

  Running, Long, Healthy

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