Own Weight Quotes
35 quotes by 34 authors
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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…
— Erma Bombeck
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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…
— Albert Camus
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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
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Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
— Horace
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Force without reason falls of its own weight.
— Horace
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If one is willing to do a thing he is afraid to do, he does not have to ... face a situation fearlessly, and if…
— Florence Scovel Shinn
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A fruit is not afraid of its own weight. It grows into its skin fully. It is whole, each part of its body equally alive.
— Gayle Brandeis
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I was sitting in a chair in the patent office at Bern when all of a sudden a thought occurred to me: "If a person…
— Albert Einstein
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The decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Prosperity ripened the principle of decay; the cause of the destruction multiplied…
— Edward Gibbon
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Time shakes the stable tyranny of thrones, And tottering empires rush by their own weight.
— John Armstrong
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Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him…
— Etienne de La Boetie
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This is no occupation for an adult who can look other adults in the eye, carry his own weight, and count himself one of them.
— Franz Wright
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THERE WILL COME A DAY WHEN ALL THE LIES WILL COLLAPSE UNDER THEIR OWN WEIGHT, AND THE TRUTH WILL TRIUMPH AGAIN
— Joseph Goebbels
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Life demands sacrifice and difficult decisions from us at every moment. Living does not mean passing through a void of nothingness but rather through a…
— Shin Kyung-sook
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From the moment they had left the Earth, their own weight, and that of the Projectile and the objects therein contained, had been undergoing a…
— Jules Verne
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Ultimately, the law will collapse under its own weight. Until then, we have to start building a better health care system in its place. And…
— Paul Ryan
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Other anatomical changes associated with long-duration space flight are definitely negative: the immune system weakens, the heart shrinks because it doesn't have to strain against…
— Chris Hadfield
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The dreams of youth. So noble. So good. And heavy dreamsthey were- made frail only by their own weight.
— James Michael
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Some Americans need hyphens in their names, because only part of them has come over; but when the whole man has come over, heart and…
— Woodrow Wilson
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I learned to basically pull my own weight, just do my own thing. I spent a lot of time alone and I loved it. It…
— Sebastian Thrun
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