Top 100 The Weight Quotes
#1. The fulcrum of resistance is in your mind where you pit yourself against the weight of the external.
Bryant McGill
#2. Whatever the reason for any one individual's tendency to gain weight, the only way to lose the weight is to eat less and exercise more.
Robin Marantz Henig
#3. We all have a cross to carry. I have to carry my own cross. If we don't carry our crosses, we are going to be crushed under the weight of it.
Jim Caviezel
#4. It's not my place to compare myself to greats like Tyson, Frazier or men like that. But I would look at a fighter like Evander Holyfield. He's a great heavyweight who worked his way up through the weight classes to become champion and had to beat bigger men along the way.
Wladimir Klitschko
#5. I have never in my life walked with a harness. The weight of the tether, makes it feel like I'm dragging an anchor behind me.
Nik Wallenda
#6. Once upon a time, the sky knew the weight of angel armies on the move, and the wind blew infernal with the fire of their wings.
Laini Taylor
#7. I feel that the English language will be able to carry the weight of my African experience. But it will have to be a new English, still in full communion with its ancestral home but altered to suit new African surroundings.
Chinua Achebe
#8. The weight is off my shoulders. I don't live in the past anymore. I look forward, instead of back.
Mackenzie Phillips
#9. Each word he said was boring, but collectively the melody of them lulled me. I tried to resist, but just the weight of him, in pounds and ounces, was a relief.
Miranda July
#10. Thus, the weight of my criticism is directed against the inadequacy of the theoretical foundations of the laissez-faire doctrine upon which I was brought up and for many years I taught
John Maynard Keynes
#11. I waited a beat before saying, "So, really, I'm not the craziest girl you've ever dated. That's a relief." "Your grasp of the weight of this situation is amazing," he retorted. I shrugged. "I'm just saying.
Molly Harper
#12. What if I was born into a normal life, one without a tortured childhood and without the weight of so many responsibilities and burdens?
Kelly St. Clare
#13. He is fifteen and ten and five. He is an instant. He is flying back to her. He is hers again. She feels the weight of him in her chest as he comes into her arms. He is her son, her beloved child, and she takes him back.
Ann Patchett
#14. They sent me to these places to get the weight off. The diets never worked; the diets actually made it worse.
Lisa Whelchel
#15. Thank you, Pig Keeper," Phillip said, and placed a few gold coins in the boy's hand. The boy's eyes went wide as he felt the weight of the gold,even as he absently corrected his prince. "Uh, Assistant Pig Keeper, actually.
James Riley
#16. What made the difference between choosing to die and deciding to live?
Was it the weight of sadness that buckled them over and dragged them away from all sane, rational thoughts with an anchor of hopelessness so intense they just gave up fighting?
Heidi R. Kling
#17. Night's darkness cloaked Elske, covering her as the winter snows cover mountains, from peak to foot. Elske moved with the weight of darkness on her shoulders, on her head; and she tasted it in her mouth like the flavorless rills that ran so fast in spring melts.
Cynthia Voigt
#18. In 1992, with the weight of a perceived world on our shoulders, we disappeared into a parking garage to write the songs that would change the course of our lives forever. 'Siamese Dream' represents all of our dreams coming true, while the dreams of a happy band fell apart.
Billy Corgan
#19. I'm one of those who cut off seeing people after a certain time, when the weight is gone and they sound like the dementia is very advanced - I don't want to see that. I don't even go in to look at the body. That's not my last memory.
Bill Cosby
#20. Still, what I want in my life
is to be willing
to be dazzled
to cast aside the weight of facts
and maybe even
to float a little
above this difficult world.
Mary Oliver
#21. You don't always have to take it all on, either, you know. The weight of the world. The responsibility for everyone else's problems. Sometimes it's okay to let somebody else worry about you.
Alyssa Day
#22. We carry with us the weight of the past, and because we do not have a finely developed sense of history and historicism, it is a past that is still alive in our present. We wear the dust of history on our foreheads, and the mud of the future on our feet.
Shashi Tharoor
#23. I need to capture my sprite with trembling hands. Except I could crush her. Wonder how many small things of beauty - flowers, seashells, dragonflies - have met such a demise. Wonder how much fragile love has collapsed beneath the weight of confession.
Ellen Hopkins
#24. A poet who makes use of a worse word instead of a better, because the former fits the rhyme or the measure, though it weakens the sense, is like a jeweller, who cuts a diamond into a brilliant, and diminishes the weight to make it shine more.
Horace Walpole
#25. It's fun to change your body and find new things that your body does because of the weight.
Nick Nolte
#26. Well-established theories collapse under the weight of new facts and observations which cannot be explained, and then accumulate to the point where the once useful theory is clearly obsolete.
Al Gore
#27. Damn them for tormenting me! Don't they see I'm not what they think? That they are casting upon me the weight of their own hopes? Their own dreams? No one should be asked to carry such a burden. It's impossible! He
Ian C. Esslemont
#28. It's odd but even when I was a kid, I would write about 'old and other times' as though I had a lot of years behind me. Now I do, so there is a difference in the weight of memory.
David Bowie
#29. I may not be in the weight room as much as some guys, but I get my work done.
Cory Lidle
#30. Barcelona is a very old city in which you can feel the weight of history; it is haunted by history. You cannot walk around it without perceiving it.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#31. My father is from Jamaica, and as a child I spent many holidays there. I remember the weight and drenching wetness of that hot rain, as I experienced it in my childhood, not only for itself, but for what it represented for me.
Sadie Jones
#32. They were the lowest in the army, and yet they bore the weight of kings.
Brandon Sanderson
#33. I can feel blood dripping from the wounds on my face and I can feel my heart beating and I can feel the weight of my life beginning to drop and I realize why dawn is called mourning.
James Frey
#34. The terrorists-those nineteen people, with hundreds or maybe thousands behind them-did the worst thing you can possibly imagine. But tens of millions people did the right thing ... On 9/11, all the hatred and murder could not compare with the weight of love, of bravery, of caring.
David Levithan
#35. 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
#36. Women who bear the weight of opposition, she wrote, create a shelter for the rest of us.
Sue Monk Kidd
#37. I used to spend a couple of hours in the weight room, but really, an hour is long enough. I lift twice a week and on other days incorporate more core yoga and different exercises. It's important to listen to your body. I will shut it down if I'm tired.
Misty May-Treanor
#38. Torpedoes were expensive, and heavy. Each cost up to $ 5,000 - over $ 100,000 today - and weighed over three thousand pounds, twice the weight of a Ford Model T.
Erik Larson
#39. I did this all for you. I would take the weight of the world on my shoulders for you.
Berengaria Brown
#40. The weight of what has been lost is always heavier than what remains.
Brit Bennett
#41. Won't say anything, won't burst into tears and buckle under the weight of this last, awful straw.
Laura Wiess
#42. At this point we must remind ourselves that the idea that the world is made up of weightless atoms surprises us because we have experienced the weight of things. Similarly, we could not admire the lightness of language if we had not also learned to admire language endowed with weight.
Italo Calvino
#43. This new Ariella, quiet and sad, bowed under the weight of terrible knowledge and countless secrets,
Julie Kagawa
#44. No matter how dark and gloomy it looks in your life right now, if you'll release the weight of those burdens, you will see the sun break forth.
Joel Osteen
#45. Why should men be allowed to strut under the privilege of their life adventures, wearing them like a breast full of medals, while women went all gray and silent beneath the weight of theirs?
Carol Shields
#46. Outside, a birch tree bends from the weight of the snow. it'll spring back up once the snow melts, back to its normal, upright self.
could that happen to me ?
Carrie Jones
#47. He on whom heaven confers a sceptre knows not the weight till he bears it.
Pierre Corneille
#48. A man cannot take on new burdens of debt at every turn or he will buckle beneath the weight and be unable to move.
Mark Lawrence
#49. Hold in, hold in, one crack and the wall is breached. I need now to be finite, self-contained, to stop this bacterial grief dividing and multiplying till its weight is the weight of the world. Bacteria: agents of putrefaction. My father's decay lodged in me.
Jeanette Winterson
#50. The adult who puts his arm around his companion in the ballroom, and the child in the roadway, skipping in a round dance - they forget themselve, they dissolve the weight of earthly contact and the rigidity of daily existence. The soul slips into a twilight stage.
Curt Sachs
#51. It never really felt like work to me, although I called it that; it felt like some weird mental trampoline I bounced on. Those were the springs that took away all the weight of the world for awhile.
Stephen King
#52. For the Romanov regime fell under the weight of its own internal contradictions. It was not overthrown.
Orlando Figes
#53. You can map out a whole city according to the weight of memory, like pins on the homicide board tracking the killer's movements. But the connections get thicker and denser and more complicated all the time.
Lauren Beukes
#55. [L]et us talk about the unholy vice of self-esteem, the beginning and completion of the passions; and let us talk briefly, for to undertake an exhaustive discussion would be to act like someone who inquires into the weight of the winds.
John Climacus
#56. The night sky was distended in my dreams, sinking to earth with the weight of destructive glory behind it. In one of those dreams I reached up and touched it gently with a fingertip, and it burst like a yolk, releasing a deluge of light.
Sofia Samatar
#57. Anything we create ourselves is not meant to carry the weight of our strongest desires and dreams. Anything we put our hope in, short of the Creator himself, will either crumble or fall short of the joy that God intended for us to have in him.
David Boudia
#58. From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
#59. I watch people sometimes, wonder how they can walk around with the weight of what they know.
Cate Kennedy
#60. What sets black people apart is not some deficit in personal responsibility. It's the weight on our shoulders. That is what's actually different. We have the weight and burden of history.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#61. Genet suggested that colonialism would crumble from the weight of its ignorance, its arrogance and greed, and that the oppressed would take over the positions of their former masters. They would be no better, no more courageous and no more merciful. I
Maya Angelou
#62. In taking up another's cross, one must sometimes get crushed by the weight.
Paul Kalanithi
#63. Women who put on a few pounds after starting lithium sometimes say the cure is worse than the disease. The weight gain shoots them straight into depression.
Patty Duke
#64. I often read nonfiction with a pencil in hand. I love the feel, the smell, the design, the weight of a book, but I also enjoy the convenience of my Kindle - for travel and for procuring a book in seconds.
Drew Gilpin Faust
#65. The weight of lies will bring you down, follow you to every town 'cause nothing happens here that doesn't happen there.
Colleen Hoover
#66. I feel the weight of time passing, slipping through my fingers faster than I can hold on to it.
Caisey Quinn
#67. The weight is just a tool. Do you focus on the hammer or the nail? You better focus on the thing you're trying to hit.
Kai Greene
#68. We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs ... of our barbarous ancestors.
Guy De Maupassant
#69. I can't just sit all day on the couch and expect the weight to come off. My goals are my new focus instead of food.
Graham Elliot
#70. Mum handed me back my engagement ring and I slipped it on. I found the weight of it around my finger comforting, as it Todd was holding my hand.
Rosamund Lupton
#71. The weight of the lie was so great it almost didn't escape my lips and barely made it to her ears
V.C. Andrews
#72. I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit.
Miriam Makeba
#73. The human conscience is often beyond the grasp of a psychiatrist ... Humans are helpless to detach themselves from the gnawing guilt of a heart bowed down with the weight of sin. But where humans have failed, God has succeeded.
Billy Graham
#74. She'd pushed it down, crushed it beneath the weight of stubborn determination, but still it haunted her at night, when such terrors shamble from their dens to torment innocent insomniacs.
Ari Marmell
#75. Carbohydrate density is simple to calculate
just divide the quantity of carbohydrate in food by the weight of the food. The more carbs packed into a given gram of food, the higher its carbohydrate density.
Andrew Weil
#76. I stare at the crowbar between us. You've never truly felt the weight of something like that until you've destroyed someone with it.
Courtney Summers
#77. The wings of hope are strong enough to carry the weight of despair.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#78. With twelve horse power at our command, we considered that we could permit the weight of the machine with operator to rise to 750 or 800 pounds, and still have as much surplus power as we had originally allowed for in the first estimate of 550 pounds.
Orville Wright
#79. It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#80. The sum of all the things we shouldn't have done in our lives is enough to kill us with the weight.
Tarryn Fisher
#81. I eat healthily because that's the way I prefer to eat, and I'm sure it helps keep the weight off.
Twiggy
#82. You must learn to tell worry from thought and thought from prayer. Sometimes a light will go from your life, and a thought becomes a prayer til you are strong enough to stand under the weight of your own thought again.
Richard Llewellyn
#83. Equal weights at equal distances are in equilibrium and equal weights at unequal distances are not in equilibrium but incline towards the weight which is at the greater distance.
Archimedes
#84. Our Lady is always close to us, especially when we feel the weight of life with all its problems
Pope Francis
#85. Same job, whether it's comedy or drama. Regardless of the weight of the role, I feel like the job is always kind of the same. Who is this person? What's this guy here, and how is he playing with this thing, and what's he trying to say? And what's the volley with all these other people around him?
Greg Kinnear
#86. I was a very ancient twelve; my views at that age would have done credit to a Civil War veteran. I am much younger now than I was at twelve or anyway, less burdened. The weight of the centuries lies on children, I'm sure of it.
Flannery O'Connor
#87. She'd been noticing the feet of colored people ever since she'd come south. "They've been pressed down to the earth so hard," she said. "And the weight of what they carry tortures their feet.
Paula Fox
#88. They would make new lives for themselves - peaceful, solitary lives - and there the weight of all that they'd endured would lift from them, and they would be deserving of all the happiness and simple prosperity they would find.
Khaled Hosseini
#89. I looked out again at the rising moon and I let the weight of my day, my week, lift away with the rushing wind as I was blown into the depths of myself.
Gerry Abbey
#90. Immortality affords you the opportunity to witness history in the making. Humanity's triumphs and its cruelties, both. It is both a high price to pay and a priceless gift, to carry the weight of that knowledge.
Chloe Neill
#91. No one, not even Shakespeare, surpasses Milton in his command of the sound, the music, the weight and taste and texture of English words.
Philip Pullman
#92. The drenched fabric clung to every sculptured line of Ayden's torso and revealed in detail how his muscles flexed to hold the weight. It was glorious. If you were into that sort of thing. And based how my breath caught at the sight, I was.
A&E Kirk
#93. Affliction does not come by chance - the weight of every stroke of the rod - is accurately measured.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#94. We're still under the weight of this impression that the ocean is too big to fail, that the planet is too big to fail.
Sylvia Earle
#95. He who embraces the cross and bears it with patience lightens the weight of the cross. Indeed, the weight itself becomes a consolation; for God abounds with grace to all those who carry the cross with good will in order to please him.
Alphonsus Liguori
#96. You have never felt the weight of disappointing love or of failing to live up to expectations. The only thing you've ever been is lonely by yourself-you have no idea how desperate it is to be lonely in the midst of people who love you, and whom you would have done anything to make happy..
Alma Alexander
#97. The poem has to bear the weight with image, language ... the screenplay with dialogue, plot ...
Julianna Baggott
#98. I tried desperately to shift the weight of the dish back in towards me, as I saw Mother reaching
Kate Mildenhall
#99. The weight of fear goes away as soon as we face our monsters and realize they weren't as scary as we thought.
Karen White
#100. Hope is a hollow backbone. It can't always carry the weight of reality. And I was tired of propping it up. I was tired of mending it each time it snapped.
Leylah Attar
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