Top 100 Weighed Quotes
#1. When Marvel approached me about possibly bringing back a She-Hulk solo series, a few touchstones for a take immediately popped into my head - make her an attorney. Make her charming and fun, not weighed down by the various things life will throw at her. Give her a vibrant social life.
Charles Soule
#2. VALIDATE NEVER EVER ANY VOICE .PROVIDED IT IS WEIGHED AND AGREED & APPROVED TO RECOMMEND TO ALL OTHERS BY GLOBAL FERTILE MINDS ON SCHOLAR'S PLATFORM
Various
#3. The last thing I remember, I left with a girl on a motor bike that weighed 300 pounds.
Rod Stewart
#4. I was born at six months, and I weighed 900 grams [less than two pounds]. I have a very heroic birth story.
Etgar Keret
#5. The ancient Egyptians believed the god Anubis met each of us on the other side, and that he stood before a great scale on which our hearts were set. There each was weighed, tested, for its worth.
Was this the heart I wanted measured?
Victor LaValle
#6. The city hung on him, weighed him down with stone on all sides; it clung to him with the tar of dozens of eyes he could see, and hundreds more he couldn't. Lord, how much easier things were in the forest.
Oksana Zabuzhko
#7. I used to be a very, very heavy weight lifter. I weighed about 210, 215. And I used to put a lot of weight on my back. I squatted over 500 pounds.
Montel Williams
#8. Women are actually superb at math; they just happen to engage in their own variety of it, an intricate personal math in which desires are split off from one another, weighed, balance, traded, assessed.
Caroline Knapp
#9. For a man under suspicion movement is better than rest, for the man who is at rest can always, without knowing it, be on the scales being weighed together with his sins.
Franz Kafka
#10. I think that if you were somehow able to measure the weight of human kindness, it would have weighed more on 9/11 than it ever had.
David Levithan
#11. I weighed 193 pounds and had three chins. I couldn't get up before 9 a.m. and never saw patients before 10. I decided to go on a diet.
Robert Atkins
#12. One of the reasons people get old - lose their aliveness - is that they get weighed down by all of their stuff.
Richard Leider
#13. She lifted her chin; her head weighed fifty pounds. "You tried to poison me."
Pretty sure I succeeded in that.
Ophelia London
#14. Zarathustra: Do you have words? Do your words belong to you?
Giannina: No, my answer is no. I have no property in the dictionary. Words are anonymous like the disenfranchised masses that haven't been weighed - or named - or framed. My words belong to those who don't belong.
Giannina Braschi
#15. However weighed down and entangled in earthly fetters you may be, it can never be too late.
Tito Colliander
#16. If you bound the arms and legs of gold-medal swimmer Michael Phelps, weighed him down with chains, threw him in a pool and he sank, you wouldn't call it a 'failure of swimming.' So, when markets have been weighted down by inept and excessive regulation, why call this a 'failure of capitalism'?
Peter Boettke
#17. If we put a vinaigrette together, every part of it is weighed. For the burger, we do a bit of arugula, olive oil - everything is weighed. To the gram.
Jean-Georges Vongerichten
#18. It was a flight, a kind of fleeing, a kind of falling, falling higher and higher, spinning off the edge of the earth and beyond the sun and through the vast silent vacuum where there were no burdens and where everything weighed exactly nothing.
Tim O'Brien
#19. He held out his hands, palms up like a pair of scales with his options weighed on either side.
He lifted one hand. "A world of adventure." He lifted the other. "You.
Tessa Dare
#20. But in the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a single cloud above it.
Wislawa Szymborska
#21. What does that indignity amount to, weighed, I mean, in the scales of the New Testament?
Herman Melville
#22. I just had a baby girl. My daughter weighed 27 pounds. She was 3 years old. She was delivered to me by way of the court system and a blood test.
Donnell Rawlings
#23. With war, most people are heartless and less weighed as a ton of nothing.
Auliq Ice
#24. Set your sights beyond what you can see. There is true majesty in the concept of an unseen power which can neither be measured nor weighed.
Ted Koppel
#25. Not enslaved to principles but bound by love for God, they have become free from the problems and conflicts of ethical decision. They are no longer weighed down by them. They belong completely and solely to God and God's will.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#26. I couldn't remember the cats' names any better than the dogs'. Four of them were named after the Horsemen of the Apocalypse, and all I could really recall was that Famine ironically weighed about thirty pounds.
Richelle Mead
#27. And if you cannot remain indifferent, you must resolve to throw your weight into that balance in which the fate and condition of man is weighed.
Lajos Kossuth
#28. You have to be as light as you can be and not get weighed down and stuck in your emotion, stuck in your body, stuck in your head. You just want to always be trying to elevate somehow.
Bill Murray
#29. I looked into her eyes, and saw my own staring back, the same peculiar shade, pale grey, flecked with yellow, rimmed with black. Now I knew the nature of her debt. It had weighed on her conscience for fourteen years. I was looking into the eyes of mother and I knew that I would never see her again.
Celia Rees
#30. The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment ... We are told that by its aid the stars are weighed and the billions of molecules in a drop of water are counted. Yet, like the ghost of Hamlet's father, this great science eludes the efforts of our mental weapons to grasp it.
Alfred North Whitehead
#31. Waning. He was perfectly safe there. Nor, indeed, was it the death of Basil Hallward that weighed most upon his mind. It was the living death of his own soul that troubled him. Basil had painted the portrait that had marred his life.
Oscar Wilde
#32. The former measured six feet and an inch in his stockings, and, without a single pound of cumbrous flesh about him, weighed a hundred and eighty. The latter was an inch shorter than his rival, and ten pounds lighter; but he was much the most active of the two.
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
#33. Man himself is helpless to detach himself from the gnawing guilt of a heart weighed down with the guilt of sin. But where man has failed, God has succeeded.
Billy Graham
#34. Don't let yourself be weighed down by what other people think, because in a few years, in a few decades, or in a few centuries, that way of thinking will have changed. Live now what others will only live in the future.
Paulo Coelho
#35. And, uh, I did that, and there was nothing more ridiculous to me than finding the weight of the earth because I didn't care how much the earth weighed.
Rube Goldberg
#36. I put myself up for full professor, an act of such unprecedented and unmitigated arrogance that the committee approved it, thus effectively rooting me to the scene of the crime, too weighed down by tenure, rank, and salary to be marketable ever again.
Richard Russo
#37. Worry and trouble weighed heavily on the hands of her clock, rushing time along.
V.C. Andrews
#38. UNIVAC: a device, which contained 20,000 vacuum tubes, occupied 1,500 square feet and weighed 40 tons; there was also a laptop version weighing 27 tons.
Dave Barry
#39. Ted shrank from these youths, though he was six foot four and weighed in at two hundred thirty, with a face that looked innocuous enough in the bathroom mirror but often prompted colleagues to ask him what was the matter.
Jennifer Egan
#40. Temples are places of personal revelation. When I have been weighed down by a problem or a difficulty, I have gone to the House of the Lord with a prayer in my heart for answers. The answers have come in clear and unmistakable ways.
Ezra Taft Benson
#41. 'Foyle's War' made me realise that Churchill actually had questionable morals; his decisions meant that good people died. It must have weighed heavily on his soul, but he never let his personal demons get in the way of what was best for our country.
Honeysuckle Weeks
#42. He who bestows something great receives no gratitude; for in accepting it the recipient has already been weighed down too much.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#43. No man speaketh, or should speak, of his prince, that which he hath not weighed whether it will consist with that veneration which should be preserved inviolate to him.
Isaac Barrow
#44. The philosopher strives to find the liberating word, that is, the word that finally permits us to grasp what up to now has intangibly weighed down upon our consciousness.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#45. The women I'm attracted to have to know their worth. That measurement can only be weighed from the inside, and when that's taken into account and she truly appreciates it? Everything on the outside of her becomes an asset.
Riley Murphy
#46. In the self-appraisal of efficacy, there are many sources of information that must be processed and weighed through self-referent thought
Albert Bandura
#47. The benefits of the accomplished journey cannot be weighed in terms of perfect moments, but in terms of how this journey affects and changes our character.
Ella Maillart
#48. My mom cooked pot roast with noodles and frozen vegetables. Or she'd make spaghetti or hot dogs, or heat up TV dinners. Before I started modeling at age 19, I was 5'8 and weighed 165 pounds.
Carol Alt
#49. As gold and silver are weighed in pure water, so does the soul test its weight in silence, and the words that we let fall have no meaning apart from the silence that wraps them round.
Maurice Maeterlinck
#51. A tendency toward enthusiasm and a chivalrous instinct have more than once been weighed as evidence of a lack of judgment.
Lloyd Paul Stryker
#52. He also had deep brown eyes, light brown skin and an infectious grin, even in the middle of a grueling SWAT workout. In short, exactly her type. If only he wasn't a teammate, making him off-limits. And if only she didn't have baggage from her past that weighed more than he did.
Elizabeth Heiter
#53. Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of the world all things are weighed by the false scale of custom.
Lord Byron
#54. Among all my recollections, among all the numberless sensations of my life, the memory of the lone murder I had committed weighed heaviest on my mind.
(from 'The Specter of Alexander Wolf')
Gaito Gazdanov
#55. There is no correlation between dietary cholesterol and blood cholesterol levels. Framingham residents who ate the most cholesterol, saturated fat, and total calories actually weighed the least and were the most physically active.
Mark Sisson
#56. Hadn't we both yearned for escape, reinvention, new identities? Hadn't we each, in the end, unmoored ourselves by cutting loose the anchors that weighed us down?
Khaled Hosseini
#57. Young men, romantics, call it love at first sight, but even then I understood it was only prettiness. Young men see pretty, and they start hanging all the things they hope you'll be onto you till you're so weighed down you can't move.
Joshilyn Jackson
#58. Is the price of happiness not weighed in the cost of commitment, the value of life's experience in the plurality of existence and measured in a love shared?
Don Swann II
#59. He wore pointy-toed leather shoes, designer pants that were way too tight, and a god-awful silk shirt with the top three buttons open. Maybe he thought he looked like a groovy love god, but the guy couldn't have weighed more than ninety pounds, and he had a bad case of acne.
Rick Riordan
#60. I have obsessed about my weight in some sort of way all my life. I used to write in my journal what I weighed every day.
Valerie Bertinelli
#61. A free and open Internet should not have to be weighed down by legal challenges - its dynamism is essential to our economy.
Anna Eshoo
#62. The baloney weighed the raven down, and the shopkeeper almost caught him as he whisked out the delicatessen door.
Peter S. Beagle
#63. Was glad that there was beauty in the world that would not be weighed in the scales of the casting department.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#64. When Lytle was born, the Wright Brothers had not yet achieved a working design. When he died, Voyager 2 was exiting the solar system. What does one do with the coexistence of those details in a lifetime's view? It weighed on him.
John Jeremiah Sullivan
#65. Miss Greenshaw appeared to have no fear of burglars, and was probably justified, as most things in the house weighed several tons and were of no marketable value.
Agatha Christie
#66. My wife was of slight stature and weighed no more than a box of old books. Folded as she was, she fitted snugly into the trunk.
Stephen Livingston
#67. At the end of the rainbow waited the pot of gold. But rainbows were made of faint and fragile gossamer-and gold weighed a ton-and since the world began, gold was the reason to do most anything.
V.C. Andrews
#68. When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.
Stephanie Klein
#69. Rules serve no purpose; they can only do harm. Not only must the artist's mind be clear, it must also be free. His fancy should not be hindered and weighed down by a mechanical servility to such rules.
Federico Zuccari
#70. In the love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body.
Milan Kundera
#71. She still weighed only forty kilos and stood one metre twenty-four centimetres tall.
Stieg Larsson
#72. ...real love, lasting love, wasn't blind. It was wide-eyed and accepting. It was give and take. It weighed the good against the bad. It saw all the dark recesses and didn't wither.
Megan Bryce
#73. I absolutely hated high school. As a freshman, I was 5 feet tall and weighed 95 pounds ... When I got to high school, I had no social skills. Was I a nerd? More of a dork. Definitely not one of the popular kids.
Grant Show
#74. Art is viable when it finds elements in the surrounding environment. Our ancestors drew their subject matter from the religious attitudes which weighed on their souls. We must now learn to draw inspiration from the tangible miracles around us.
Umberto Boccioni
#75. At 9 years old I weighed about 10 lbs. less than what my weight is at 32. I needed to get help.
Ginnifer Goodwin
#76. I weighed 245 pounds when I was 16 years old. I had a 44-inch waist. And that was two years before 'Dukes of Hazzard' started.
John Schneider
#77. I do not believe that gifts, whether of mind or character, can be weighed like sugar and butter
Virginia Woolf
#78. Eighteen months before I was born, my mother was in Auschwitz. She weighed 49 pounds. She always told me that God saved her so she could give me life. I was born out of nothing.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#79. The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales.
Aesop
#80. I was as big as I have ever been. I had a personal trainer and was working out. I was feeling good. I was muscular. I had never weighed more than 155 pounds.
Marc Wallice
#81. The killer walked with a light step that could be achieved only by someone not weighed down with a conscience, and went out into the night's embrace.
Dean Koontz
#82. I've put on a lot of weight ... I only weighed six and a half pounds when I was born.
Red Skelton
#83. I weighed 190 when I got to boot camp, I came out at 178. I ate only the beans and tomato sauce.
Tom Sizemore
#84. The only weight I ever lifted weighed 24 ounces. It was a Schlitz. I always replaced my fluids.
Art Donovan
#85. You are so in love with your own profligate freedom that you refuse to even be grateful to another person lest you be weighed down by the smallest shred of guilt or obligation.
Tiffany Reisz
#86. For 24 years of my adult life, by choice I weighed well over 200 pounds. I say 'by choice' because I have never 'accidentally' eaten anything, so when I choose to eat too much, I have chosen to weigh too much.
Zig Ziglar
#87. I'd just turned 50, weighed 285, and my doctor had read me the riot act about my health.
Daniel Baldwin
#89. Earth is home to more than twelve thousand species of ants. If you weighed all the ants and all the humans, the ants would weigh more.
Chuck Wendig
#90. I had a lot of questions where I had to be very frank and clinical. I had to go to school on it about what it could mean physically to be trans and the options that have to be weighed and considered. But I love that. Exploring that opens my worldview in ways that I would never be able to try.
Jeffrey Tambor
#91. He has had to learn to hide it, even more than most of us. Somewhere, I think, there is a center to him. It glows like a coal being slowly crushed into diamond, weighed down by layers and layers of surface.
Lauren Oliver
#92. I recently had my annual physical examination, which I get once every seven years, and when the nurse weighed me, I was shocked to discover how much stronger the Earth's gravitational pull has become since 1990.
Dave Barry
#93. Shauna stalks into a room as though it offends her. She was a plus-size model, one of the few known by one name. Shauna. Like Cher or Fabio. She stood six one and weighed one hundred ninety pounds. She was, as you might expect, a head-turner, and all heads in the waiting room obliged. Shauna
Harlan Coben
#95. You must take a year off, one of these days, before you're old and tired and weighed down by responsibility. Go away somewhere, and read. Read all the important books. Educate yourself, then you'll see the world in a different way.
Helon Habila
#96. If you have to die [ ... ] better to go down fighting. Better to die in company. Better not be the last, and alone, weighed down with all that knowing.
Elizabeth Bear
#97. Contrary to popular mythology, the best and most durable relationships are based not on vulnerability or passion but on a conjugation of positive attributes, a meeting of mind, body and soul that is all the more powerful as it is not weighed down with neediness and unreasonable expectation.
Mariella Frostrup
#98. I'm a computer guy, and one of the things I did with the good fortune that 'Presumed Innocent' brought me was to buy one of the very first laptop computers. It weighed about eight and a half pounds, by the way.
Scott Turow
#99. All the room darkened and my heart again sank; inexpressible sadness weighed it down
Charlotte Bronte
#100. Modern man is weighed down more by the burden of responsibility than by the burden of sin . We think him more a savior who shoulders our responsibilities than him who shoulders our sins. If instead of making decisions we have but to obey and do our duty, we feel it as a sort of salvation.
Eric Hoffer
