Weight Quotes

2048 Weight quotes by 1502 unique authors

My hands tend to be full enough dealing with people who hate me for who I am. Concentrate too hard on the millions of people… — David Sedaris
A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry; But were we burdened with light weight of pain, As… — William Shakespeare
The hurt is not enough: I long for weight and strength. To feel the earth as rough to all my length — Robert Frost
I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to remove weight from… — Italo Calvino
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living. — Jonathan Safran Foer
He could tell at once that they carried different sorts of bubble bath mixed with the water though it wasn't bubble bath as Harry had… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Thinking about something is like picking up a stone when taking a walk, either while skipping rocks on the beach, for example, or looking for… — Daniel Handler
to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you've held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your… — Ellen Bass
Love drains you, takes with it much of your blood sugar and water weight. You are like a house slowly losing its electricity, the fans… — Lorrie Moore
Studies have shown that an ant can carry one hundred times its own weight, but there is no known limit to the lifting power of… — Terry Pratchett
She didn't love him and he didn't love her; she was like an addiction, and what they were doing had a darkness to it, a… — Kim Edwards
Each child’s story is worthy of telling. There shouldn’t be a sliding scale of death. The weight of it is crushing. — Anderson Cooper
It is a small soul, buried beneath the weight of affairs, that does not know how to get clean away from them, that cannot put… — Michel de Montaigne
They encouraged you to put some of your weight in their hands and soon as you felt how light and lovely it was, they studied… — Toni Morrison
It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life. — Anne Lamott
There are times when personal experience keeps us from reaching the mountain top and so we let it go because the weight of it is… — Bell Hooks
There are a few people out there with whom you fit just so, and, amazingly, you keep fitting just so even after you have growth… — Lauren F. Winner
Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to… — Malcolm X
He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to refuse, free to equivocate;… — Jean-Paul Sartre
It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders,… — Eudora Welty
...the problem of space remained, she thought, taking up her brush again. It glared at her. The whole mass of the picture was poised upon… — Virginia Woolf
We've all led raucous lives, some of them inside, some of them out. But only the poem you leave behind is what's important. Everyone knows… — Charles Wright
It's the centuries, Scarlett darling. All the life lived there, all the joy and all the sorrow, all the feasts and battles, they're in the… — Alexandra Ripley
My working method has more often than not involved the subtraction of weight. I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly… — Italo Calvino

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