Weight Quotes
2048 quotes by 1502 authors
-
What is the sound of one hand clapping? What is the weight of a single grain of sand? The answer is equal to my interest…
— Meg Cabot
-
Perhaps, after all, our best thoughts come when we are alone. It is good to listen, not to voices but to the wind blowing, to…
— Gladys Taber
-
So shall the world go on, To good malignant, to bad men benign, Under her own weight groaning.
— John Milton
-
They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing--these were intangibles, but the intangibles had their own mass and…
— Tim O'Brien
-
The stretch of years leaves none unmarked: the blissful sense of youthful invincibility peels away and responsibility brings its weight to bear.
— Kate Morton
-
Don't tell me about worth," Nita said. "My father commands fleets." "The wealthy measure everything with the weight of their money." Tool leaned close. "Sadna…
— Paolo Bacigalupi
-
We should leave people alone about their weight. Being skinny for a while (provided you actually eat food and don't take pills or smoke to…
— Tina Fey
-
There weren’t any fairy tales in the streets around me. If there was ever a Cinderella, her glass slippers shattered under her weight and she…
— Mira Grant
-
Weight doesn’t matter. It really doesn’t. I mean, it does if you’re a model or whatever.
— Meg Cabot
-
People talk of sorrow as if it is soft, a thing of water and tears. But true sorrow is not soft. True sorrow is a…
— Laurell K. Hamilton
-
It wasn't exactly that Lula was fat. It was more that she was too short for her weight." - Stephanie Plum
— Janet Evanovich
-
Light That's how I feel- like the winter-fringed breeze might scoop me up into its wings, fly away with me trapped in its feathered embrace.…
— Ellen Hopkins
-
She did not know if her gift came from the lord of light or of darkness, and now, finally finding that she didn't care which,…
— Stephen King
-
But I hope I will never have a life that is not surrounded by books, by books that are bound in paper and cloth and…
— Rick Bragg
-
Sometimes you build up these walls, you build and you build and you build up these walls and you think they’re so strong, but then…
— Deb Caletti
-
She could become a spinster, like Emily Dickinson, writing poems full of dashes and brilliance, and never gaining weight.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
-
So now I have sworn to bury All this dead body of hate I feel so free and so clear By the loss of that…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
-
Grief is like sinking, like being buried. I am in water the tawny color of kicked-up dirt. Every breath is full of choking. There is…
— Lauren Oliver
-
So . . . middle school? Awkward.Having a hobby that's different from everyone else's? Awkward. Singing the national anthem on weekends instead of going to…
— Taylor Swift
-
She still had her bad days, no question, when the black dog of depression sniffed her out and settled its crushing weight on her chest…
— Lev Grossman
Who Wrote These Weight Quotes
1,502 authors contributed a total of 2,048 Weight Quotes, led by these top contributors: