Weight Quotes
2048 Weight quotes by 1502 unique authors
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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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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
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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
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So shall the world go on, To good malignant, to bad men benign, Under her own weight groaning.
— John Milton
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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
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The stretch of years leaves none unmarked: the blissful sense of youthful invincibility peels away and responsibility brings its weight to bear.
— Kate Morton
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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
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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
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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
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Weight doesn’t matter. It really doesn’t. I mean, it does if you’re a model or whatever.
— Meg Cabot
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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
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