weight quotes

• Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight. () [training/]
• Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects. (Robert Burns) [heavy//more]
• We come into the world laden with the weight of an infinite necessity. (Albert Camus) []
• Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful. (Albert Camus) [god/master/]
• The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor. (Albert Camus) [top/mountain//more]
• Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh. (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield) [knowledge/give//give]
• A mind that questions everything, unless strong enough to bear the weight of its ignorance, risks questioning itself and being engulfed in doubt. If it cannot discover the claims to existence of the objects of its questioning -- and it would be miraculous if it so soon succeeded in solving so many mysteries -- it will deny them all reality, the mere formulation of the problem already implying an inclination to negative solutions. But in so doing it will become void of all positive content and, finding nothing which offers it resistance, will launch itself perforce into the emptiness of inner revere. (Emile Durkheim) [mind//ignorance/being]
• Since we are assured that the all-wise Creator has observed the most exact proportions of number, weight and measure in the make of all things, the most likely way therefore to get any insight into the nature of those parts of the Creation which come within our observation must in all reason be to number, weigh and measure. (Stephen Hales) [/measure/insight/nature]
• The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added. (Samuel Johnson) [willpower//willpower]
• Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg) [creation//willpower]
• The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his weight. (Theodore Roosevelt) []
• That blessed mood in which the burthen of the mystery, in which the heavy and the weary weight of all this unintelligible world is lightened. (William Wordsworth) [heavy/]
• I'm always watching my weight. I don't eat sweets like cookies or chocolate. Sugarless chewing gum is enough for me. But bread is different. I come from Czechoslovakia, where we eat lots of it, so it's hard to say no. (Daniela Pestova) []
• I'm clean and sober for over a year and no one seems to care! They're like, 'Oh, her dramatic weight gain.' So, stop making fun of me! (Courtney Love) [care/]
• Free driving is like an extreme sports version of snorkeling, ... That's about 50 feet deep. And basically what you do is you hold your breath and you wear a weight belt and go down as fast as possible and hold your breath for minutes at a time. (Jessica Alba) [/time]
• You can usually tell when I'm happy by the fact that I've put on weight. (Christy Turlington) []
• Do you realize if one-tenth of one-percent write out of possibly 40 million viewers - 40,000 write - the weight that would carry? Is that too much to ask - that one tenth of one per cent be attentive to what they see? To take control of their own lives? Or do they want to remain children and give that control away? (Bill Bixby) [/take/control/give]
• The sheer level of fascination on the subject is really a symptom of how this issue affects people, particularly women who are in utter disbelief that anyone would consciously go the other way -- to actually try to gain weight (Colin Firth) [people/women/]
• It's like, now you've done it, you stood up with the big boys and you were good onscreen. It gives me a lot more weight walking into a room. They just treat me with a different level of respect. They don't remember Superman so much as they remember that role, which is a different realm. (Dean Cain) [more//respect/remember]
• They have equal weight and you do the same work you'd do if you were playing a dramatic role. (Harvey Keitel) [/role]
• I lost a lot of weight. I'm thin as it is, but I was probably 50 pounds lighter; and if you're that skinny, your head starts acting sort of funny. (Kevin Bacon) []
• “I did put on weight for the last half of the film, but the Ferris wheel scene was shot with a harness on me so that if I fell I wouldn't fall all the way.” (Ryan Gosling) [/film]
• I was told I had to gain a lot of weight because Hobbits are very portly. Peter [Jackson] is forever suggesting I have more food. 'A little more food for Mr. Astin. (Sean Astin) [/more/food/more]
• I hate overweight, because it implies that there's a weight standard I should be adhering to. (Camryn Manheim) []
• My parents have always been offended by my weight, embarrassed maybe. It didn't fit with their sensibilities. (Camryn Manheim) [parents/]
• When it comes to boys and her weight, I think Ellenor is much more conservative than I am, and she has not had the dialogue I have had about my weight. (Camryn Manheim) [/think/more/dialogue]
• I don't have time to obsess about my weight, because now I'm obsessing about my kid. (Ally Sheedy) [time/]
• I've gotten beyond my problems with my weight, beyond my fixation with weight and now all of a sudden everyone is talking about my weight! (Ally Sheedy) [//]
• What happened was I hit my 30s and all of a sudden I was not spending so much time thinking about my weight, because there were too many other things going on. (Ally Sheedy) [time/thinking/]
• I don't have to lose weight or gain weight, get a job or lose a job, or do anything. (Dyan Cannon) [/]
• “I have been dairy free for several years, and I started because I felt it was going to reduce my allergies, which it did, and help me lose weight, which it did.” (Fran Drescher) [help/]

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