Weight Quotes - Page 7

• Being pregnant finally helped me understand what my true relationship was with my body - meaning that it wasn't put on this earth to look good in a swimsuit. I was like, 'Look, I can carry a baby! I'm gaining weight right, everything's going well.' And I've had that relationship ever since.

  Amy Adams

  Beauty, Baby, Swimsuits

  "Amy Adams: 'I'm Trying to Be More Present in Each Moment of My Life'" by Robert Moritz, parade.com. December 19, 2010.

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• Find me a reasonable lover against his weight in gold.

  Plautus

  Life, Gold, Lovers

  Titus Maccius Plautus (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Plautus (Illustrated)”, p.468, Delphi Classics

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• This is essentially a people's contest... whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men - to lift artificial weights from all shoulders - to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all - to afford all, an unfettered start and a fair chance, in the race of life.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Race, People

  Abraham Lincoln (1991). “Great Speeches”, p.73, Courier Corporation

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• Friendship must never be buried under the weight of misunderstanding.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Friendship, Real Friends, Lost Friend

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• Opposition is a natural part of life. Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition - such as lifting weights - we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.

  Stephen Covey

  Life, Motivational, Change

  Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1997). “First Things First Every Day: Daily Reflections- Because Where You're Headed Is More Important Than How Fast You Get There”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

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• When I became of service to other people I stopped worrying about my weight so much.

  Judith Light

  People, Worry, Service To Others

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• The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.

  A. J. P. Taylor

  Peace, War, Army

  A J P Taylor (1974). “The First World War: An Illustrated History”, p.15, Penguin UK

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• Today we are crushed by the sheer weight of the mechanized forces hurled against us, but we can still look to the future in which even greater mechanized forces will bring us victory. Therein lies the destiny of the world.

  Charles de Gaulle

  War, Lying, Destiny

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• The battle is going very heavily against us. We're being crushed by the enemy weight. We are facing very difficult days, perhaps the most difficult that a man can undergo

  Erwin Rommel

  War, Men, Enemy

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• As our economy faces up to potential labour shortages due to our ageing population and as it moves to a new level of sophistication to compete with the rest of the world, we're going to need every Australian on board pulling their weight, rejoining the workforce, gaining new skills. Writing off individuals and communities suffering from poverty just creates a dead weight for our economy to drag along.

  Julia Gillard

  Jobs, Moving, Writing

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• Force without reason falls of its own weight.

  Horace

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Fall

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• Well, it's true that I have been hurt in my life. Quite a bit. But it's also true that I have loved, and been loved. And that carries a weight of its own. A greater weight, in my opinion. It's like that pie chart we talked about earlier. In the end, I'll look back on my life and see that the greatest piece of it was love. The problems, the divorces, the sadness... those will be there too, but just smaller slivers, tiny pieces.

  Sarah Dessen

  Love, Faith, Hurt

  Sarah Dessen (2011). “This Lullaby”, p.187, Hachette UK

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• Nothing's changed my life more. I feel better about myself as a person, being conscious and responsible for my actions and I lost weight and my skin cleared up and I got bright eyes and I just became stronger and healthier and happier. Can't think of anything better in the world to be but be vegan.

  Alicia Silverstone

  Funny Inspirational, Eye, Feel Better

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• Light weight ... Yeah buddy!

  Ronnie Coleman

  Light, Training, Yeah

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• My temptation is emotional, and resisting will further my needed weight loss and strengthen my character. Furthermore, nothing tastes as good as thin feels.

  Stephen Covey

  Fitness, Character, Health

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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