Quotes About Weight

#1. If you believe that weight loss requires self-deprivation, I'm going to teach you otherwise.

Robert Atkins

#2. I had seen stars in such numbers that they filled the sky. It almost seemed as if the sky would break under the weight of all those things and come tumbling down. Never had I seen such an amazing skyful of stars.

Haruki Murakami

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

Candace Cameron

#4. Your ideal weight is the weight you happen to be when you can look at yourself naked in a full-length mirror and be happy with your shape.

Allen Carr

#5. The better question to ask yourself is: How to correct your diet so you can start losing weight?

Vinnie Tortorich

#6. So long as an opinion is strongly rooted in the feelings, it gains rather than loses in stability by having a preponderating weight of argument against it.

John Stuart Mill

#7. I got involved in cocaine because I needed to lose weight. I felt the pressure living here. I took it to wake me up and keep me moving.

Jessica Hahn

#8. The merit of those who fill a space in the world's history, who are borne forward, as it were, by the weight of thousands whom they lead, shed a perfume less sweet than do the sacrifices of private virtue.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#9. We all grow up with the weight of history on us. Our ancestors dwell in the attics of our brains as they do in the spiraling chains of knowledge hidden in every cell of our bodies.

Shirley Abbott

#10. We probably have a greater love for those we support than for those who support us. Our vanity carries more weight than our self-interest.

Eric Hoffer

#11. Like most girls, I constantly have to watch my weight, because if I didn't my curves would get ahead of me.

Amber Heard

#12. She was floating as the sea of pleasure took her out upon its rising tide and when she became aware of herself again it was to the feel of Zac behind her, supporting her weight by holding her under her arms. (Barely Restrained, 2011)

Brenda Cothern

#13. He felt the shock of contact. The weight of her against his chest felt like something she had decided to entrust to him. He

Michael Chabon

#14. The capper came when the manager of the bank came forward to testify in my behalf. He said that i was definitely not the woman who robbed the bank and that the robber was a different height and weight from mine.

Assata Shakur

#15. Young adult novels don't shy away from the discussion of weight issues, and 'Blubber,' the tale of an overweight, not-so-sympathetic fifth-grader bullied by her peers, is a refreshing take.

Jami Attenberg

#16. The hurt she suffered has encircled her, it seems: it is the virgin's bower, that vine that cannot bear its own weight but lives by twining itself around another, making it's host unrecognizable.

Christina Meldrum

#17. Better a friend to all his weight in gold.

Valgame

#18. People who watch their weight, golf scores, and fuel bills seem to shun quantitative evaluation of their investment management skills although it involves the most important client in the world-themselves.

Warren Buffett

#19. In our world, 80 to 90 percent of women's weight gain comes from overindulging in insulin-stimulating food. And it's not hardcore, straight-up, I-can-see you-in-the-face sugar. They're eating whole-wheat bread. They're eating ancient grains. They're eating black beans. That stuff is horrible.

Jorge Cruise

#20. I stare at her collarbone that's framed with lace, the hollow of her throat, her shoulders that rise with each rise with the weight of her next breath. We're fragile things. Our bones show through our skin. What would any god want with us?

Lauren DeStefano

#21. If people are talking about my weight cut all the time and are telling me how skinny I like, you have to respect the audience. You also have to respect all of the fighters who do this.

Jonathan Tucker

#22. I'm not a weight lifter. I'm a seeker. Weight lifting is so insignificant in my life.

Sri Chinmoy

#23. Each child's story is worthy of telling. There shouldn't be a sliding scale of death. The weight of it is crushing.

Anderson Cooper

#24. Love yourself enough to want the best for yourself in life starting with weight-loss and fitness to get you to

Kristy Graham

#25. The ground will never complain how much weight you add on it, how much you dig it and how much you grow on it, How long you live on it. Unused ground is an abomination to nature.

Yando Wanii Nimbo

#26. But she sounded like the weight of the sky had just been lifted off her shoulders - and believe me, I know firsthand how that feels.

Rick Riordan

#27. I live my life balancing on a set of scales, the slightest weight tipping me into darkness. The problem is each time that happens, they never quite rebalance.

Nicola Haken

#28. I know I looked skinnier in The House Bunny, but thanks to my diet of beer and doughnuts, I'm back to my fightin' weight!'

Anna Faris

#29. The other advantage is that in conventional manufacturing processes, it takes a long time for a factory to produce an amount of product equal to its own weight. With molecular machines, the time required would be something more like a minute.

K. Eric Drexler

#30. America wrestles with its obesity crisis to such an extent that Americans forget there are worse weight problems on earth than obesity.

Melissa Fay Greene

#31. When you're walking into the stadium, you just say to yourself, 'the 100m is the same anywhere, the shot put is the same weight anywhere.'

Daley Thompson

#32. Both could feel the relationship crumbling to pieces beneath the weight of everything that Gavin refused to say.

J.K. Rowling

#33. We're in a situation now where weight and extreme weight and heart disease is the biggest killer in this country today.

Jamie Oliver

#34. There was a hollow in her chest, but at the bottom of this emptiness a heavy weight pressed down and bruised her stomach, so that she felt sick.

Carson McCullers

#35. The silence seemed to gain weight between us, his face turned hard, and his lips became a thin, grim line. He pushed me away from him. "If I wanted to drain you, Cassandra," he said, his voice deep, "it wouldn't be your blood you should be concerned about.

L.J. Kentowski

#36. My weight is a bit like the state of my bank account; if I don't check the balance I can't get upset.

Ruth Saberton

#37. I was very soft. I gained a lot of weight with my second child and was very on the couch. And [me manager ] said, "You know, this is a softer role [in Misteress]. She is a softer character. She's a lesbian that's always the passive half of the relationship."

Shannyn Sossamon

#38. Much of anything. But put a series together and patterns emerged. Some were obvious: haircuts, weight gained or lost, fashion trends. Others required

Marcus Sakey

#39. Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.

Malcolm X

#40. It wasn't permanent like the limestone cross that flagged the mountain peak in the horizon, so he made sure to write it down. After making the sign of the cross, a deep hunger pulled his weight to the bottom of La Loma.

Richard Yanez

#41. The warm water makes me feel weightless. It carries my burdens for me, understanding that I need a moment to relieve my shoulders of this weight. To close my eyes and relax.

Tahereh Mafi

#42. Generally, the more weight you put on, the less effective you are.

Sugar Ray Leonard

#43. One eye-witness is of more weight than ten hearsays. Those who hear, speak of shat they have heard; whose who see, know beyond mistake.
[Lat., Pluris est oculatus testis unus, quam auriti decem.
Qui audiunt, audita dicunt; qui vident, plane sciunt.]

Plautus

#44. Two evils, of almost equal weight, may befall the man of erudition; never to be listened to, and to be listened to always.

Walter Savage Landor

#45. In Louisiana, one of the first stages of grief is eating your weight in Popeyes fried chicken. The second stage is doing the same with boudin. People have been known to swap the order. Or to do both at the same time.

Ken Wheaton

#46. Things separate from their stories have no meaning. They are only shapes. Of a certain size and color. A certain weight. When their meaning has become lost to us they no longer have even a name. The story on the other hand can never be lost from its place in the world for it is that place.

Cormac McCarthy

#47. I eat things I shouldn't eat all the time. I have to work out so I can enjoy myself! I like to run, and I'll do body weight stuff: push-ups, squats, lunges, pull-ups.

Carrie Underwood

#48. The weight of his fingers on mine, like a bird landing on a branch. It was the drop of a match. I did not see that we were surrounded by tinder until I felt it burst into flames.

Hannah Kent

#49. Most of us human beings tend to be parochial in our perceptions. What happens is that we have a very limited and narrow view of our self interest and do not adequately weight the price that has to be paid on the other side for any of these measures we are promoting.

Alan Borovoy

#50. The IIc was Apple's first crack at a 'portable' computer, which it sort of was if you didn't mind a 7.5 pound weight, plus monitor, external floppy drive, and all the cables.

Andrew Rosenthal

#51. I was fat, so I have the right to tell other fat people not only that they should lose weight, but also that they must lose weight because I was fat, and I lost weight, and I saw the difference.

Jean Nidetch

#52. force without judgement crashes by its own weight.

Nigel Benn

#53. I hate to say this, but I'm one of those people with an extremely fast metabolism. I eat, eat, eat, and yet I can't seem to gain any weight.

Jasmine Tookes

#54. The fire, the fire. It rages within, a campfire and then an inferno, and my body is its fuel. I feel it racing through me, eating away at the weight. There is nothing that can kill me now; I am powerful and invincible and eternal.

Veronica Roth

#55. I don't obsess about my weight. I just know I've got to watch it when my pants feel tight.

Diane Kruger

#56. I have lost weight because my events are so exciting. When I'm done I don't want to eat.But I could see how it could go the other way for some people. That's only because their events are boring.

Donald Trump

#57. The measure of a man, or woman, is not so much what they have accomplished, though that has weight. It often is much more though what that man or woman has overcome to accomplish what they have.

Leif Gregersen

#58. She suspected too late that behind his professional authority and worldly charm, the man she had married was a hopeless weakling: a poor devil made bold by the social weight of his family names.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#59. Once you've held a book and really loved it, you forever remember the feel of it, its specific weight, the way it sits in your hand.

Erika Swyler

#60. Which is that there's too much weight improperly distributed: towers and elevators; steel, stone and cement. So much mass up so high that gravity itself could end up being warped

Douglas Coupland

#61. I belong to no one, yet am used by everyone. To some, I am money, to others I can fly. I make up space, yet don't take it up. To those who never change, I hold no sway. But to those who do, I carry the weight of desert sands. What am I?" I

A.G. Howard

#62. The Scriptures of God are my only foundation and substance in all matters of weight and importance.

John Knox

#63. He didn't speak for a bit, but his weight drew me closer, like a moon pulled near to its planet. I lay quiet, my hand on him, my hip against his - flesh of his flesh.

Diana Gabaldon

#64. I wish I was one of those cute pregnant girls who wear skinny jeans throughout their pregnancies. But I just gain weight.

Jennifer Garner

#65. The irrationality of disgust suggests it is unreliable as a source of moral insight. There may be good arguments against gay marriage, partial-birth abortions and human cloning, but the fact that some people find such acts to be disgusting should carry no weight.

Paul Bloom

#66. Tunes sat on the bed with the weight of the world on his shoulders. He knew he fucked up by messing with Tiffany.

Ms. Brii

#67. Action can give us the feeling of being useful, but only words can give us a sense of weight and purpose.

Eric Hoffer

#68. Your brain is the "greediest" organ in the body; the resting brain uses oxygen and glucose at 10 times the rate of the rest of the body. Thus, even though the brain makes up less than 2.5 percent of total body weight, it is responsible for 20 percent of the body's energy consumption.

Patricia Wolfe

#69. Darkness, terrible cold darkness, the salty depths of the deepest oceans where no light warmed the rocks and the weight of the black water would crush a man like a grape.

Chris Wooding

#70. It's not physical weight which stops us from moving forward in life. It's the mental baggage we carry all day long which sabotages our success and happiness.

Maddy Malhotra

#71. I think that people's weight fluctuates. It happens. It happens to everybody.

Nicole Richie

#72. If you put on weight it's not by chance. You put on weight because you eat compulsively.

Pierre Dukan

#73. The heart bow'd down by weight of woe, To weakest hope will cling, To thought and impulse while they flow, That can no comfort bring, That can, that can no comfort bring, With those exciting scenes will blend, O'er pleasure's pathway thrown; But mem'ry is the only friend That grief can call its own.

Alfred Bunn

#74. I do look a bit different because Dudley was a very piggish character and about three years ago I lost quite a considerable amount of weight. It means that I can lead a normal life without the baggage of people running after me and shouting things at me.

Harry Melling

#75. If you followed logic all the way back to its origin, did you inevitable end up at a point of illogic, an article of faith? Even an indisputable fact must be chosen as the place to start reasoning, given weight by a mind that believed in its worth.

Rachel Hartman

#76. I think a lot of people think because I was getting the divorce, that was really the catalyst for gaining so much weight.

Valerie Bertinelli

#77. Anything you hide gives you pain; anything you hide makes your face darker; anything you hide puts a weight on you; anything you hide makes you feel very tired! The solution is: Don't hide anything!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#78. I want more muscles! I go to the gym three or four times a week with a personal trainer. I can afford that now. I can't put on weight though, no matter how much I eat.

Christopher Parker

#79. A man's balance depends on the weight he carries between his legs.

James A. Baldwin

#80. Without earnestness no man is ever great, or does really great things. He may be the cleverest of men; he may be brilliant, entertaining, popular; but he will want weight. No soul-moving picture was ever painted that had not in it depth of shadow.

Peter Bayne

#81. If you find you require willpower, you aren't ready to lose weight.

Augusten Burroughs

#82. I've always been - despite my deep desire to become one of those writers who actually felt the immense weight of suffering - a fairly optimistic person.

Alida Nugent

#83. God created everything by number, weight and measure.

Isaac Newton

#84. A trial is still an ordeal by battle. For the broadsword there is the weight of evidence; for the battle-ax the force of logic; for the sharp spear, the blazing gleam of truth; for the rapier, the quick and flashing knife of wit.

Lloyd Paul Stryker

#85. The notion that we read the New Testament exactly as the early Christians did, without any weight of tradition coloring our interpretation, is an illusion. It is also a dangerous illusion, for it tends to absolutize our interpretation, confusing it with the Word of God.

Justo L. Gonzalez

#86. Unhealed trauma is behind our health, weight, addiction, sleep, and relationship issues.

Doreen Virtue

#87. The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are. Imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didn't have the weight of gender expectations.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#88. It's not just about losing the weight, it's about losing the lifestyle and mindset that got you there. -Steve Maraboli

Brian Mills

#89. There's nothing more tragic than a man who gains weight like a woman does.

Edan Lepucki

#90. I did not become a runner to lose weight, I did it to escape my computer

The Oatmeal

#91. When a woman tries on clothing from her closet that feels tight, she will assume she has gained weight. When a man tries something from his closet that feels tight, he will assume the clothing has shrunk.

Rita Rudner

#92. A body of ten ounces raised in any scale may serve as a proof, that the counterbalancing weight exceeds ten ounces; but can never afford a reason that it exceeds a hundred.

David Hume

#93. Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub.

Erma Bombeck

#94. But I like business,' said Pancks, getting on a little faster. 'What's a man made for?' 'For nothing else?' said Clennam. Pancks put the counter question, 'What else?' It packed up, in the smallest compass, a weight that had rested on Clennam's life; and he made no answer.

Charles Dickens

#95. One of the biggest struggles of my life is my weight. My weight is always going up and down, and I'm always fighting that, and I think that no matter what I do, I'm never going to look good enough to everybody else.

Khloe Kardashian

#96. As iron is fashioned by fire and on the anvil, so in the fire of suffering and under the weight of trials, our souls receive that form which our Lord desires them to have.

Madeleine Sophie Barat

#97. Obamacare is terminal. It is going to fail under the crushing weight of its own flawed design.

Glenn Thompson

#98. Why should you live in a world without feeling its weight?

Karl Ove Knausgard

#99. In order to gain the respect of your players in the locker room, you can't just perform on Saturday. You have to do it consistently during practices, meetings, and in the weight room.

Junior Seau

#100. Black people comprehend the South. We understand its weight. It has rested on our backs ... I knew that my heart would break if ever I put my foot down on that soil, moist, still, with old hurts. I had to face the fear/loathing at its source or it would consume me whole.

Maya Angelou