Weight Quotes
2048 quotes by 1502 authors
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Only miracle is plain; it is in the ordinary that groans with the weight of glory.
— Robert Farrar Capon
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for the first time in my life i realize why hangers are called hangers, because after fifteen minutes of trying things on and throwing them…
— David Levithan
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I don't know about your true form, but the weight of your ego sure is pushing the crust of the earth toward the breaking point.
— Jim Butcher
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I know the past will drag you backward and down, have you snatching at whispers of wind and the gibberish of trees rubbing together, trying…
— Lauren Oliver
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In short, Mrs. Pontellier was beginning to realize her position in the universe as a human being, and to recongize her relations as an individual…
— Kate Chopin
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So your desire is to do nothing? Well, you shall not have a week, a day, an hour, free from oppression. You shall not be…
— Victor Hugo
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Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight.
— Tom Stoppard
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...she still cannot resist looking out the window every couple of minutes. The sound of a passing truck causes her to glance away. Even if…
— Mark Z. Danielewski
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The fact is that Chinese parents can do things that would seem unimaginable-even legally actionable-to Westerners. Chinese mothers can say to their daughters, "Hey fatty-lose…
— Amy Chua
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I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope thro' darkness up to God,…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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He loved mountains, or he had loved the thought of them marching on the edge of stories brought from far away; but now he was…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Touching his hair, she leaned hesitantly forward, and he folded his arms around her, sinking into sensation again as they kissed--the slight weight of her…
— L.A. Weatherly
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Already she could feel the stunning weight of a lifetime of regret for letting him go, and she knew that it was enought to bury…
— Anna Godbersen
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Hey anyone who thinks a non-military–grade rappelling cable can support the weight of two grown men and a miniature donkey deserves to fall off a…
— Ally Carter
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Sometimes desire is air, sometimes desire is liquid. And every now and then, when everything else is air and liquid, desire solidifies, and the body…
— David Levithan
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What I'm saying is, when you have weight like that in your life, you have to start looking for the bigger picture or you are…
— Isaac Marion
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My point is that true leaders...understand the possible consequences of their decisions, and are willing to bear that weight. The question is whether that's a…
— Timothy Zahn
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Sometimes I think that if I had to choose between an ear of corn or making love to a woman, I'd choose the corn. Not…
— Sara Gruen
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The weight of the world is on our shoulders, its vision is through our eyes; if we blink or look aside, or turn back to…
— Virginia Woolf
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...Each secret you carry has a weight all its own. They add up, secrets, to a burden you must carry all your days.
— Ed Greenwood
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