Weight Quotes
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A woman's body does a thousand different things, toils, runs, studies, fantasizes, invents, wearies, and meanwhile the breasts enlarge, the lips of the sex swell, the flesh throbs with a round life that is yours, your life, and yet pushes elsewhere, draws away from you although it inhabits your belly, joyful and weighty, felt as a greedy impulse and yet repellent, like an insect's poison injected into a vein.
Elena Ferrante
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Opinions only carry weight in the second or third person.
Cass McCombs
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I've put on a lot of weight... I only weighed six and a half pounds when I was born.
Red Skelton
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Women had enormous weight in America. And they still have. Because they are truly the padrone owners, masters of America.
Sergio Leone
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I always go heavy and I always go to failure. Even when I tell myself I'm gonna go easy, once I get to the gym and start working, I never end up going easy. I hate leaving the floor feeling like I could have done more weight or more reps. I just love working out and going further than I ever did before.
Branch Warren
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Everybody seized upon a bit of the beast. The Sultan claimed the liver, which, when dried and powdered, is worth twice its weight in gold as medicine.
Isabella Bird
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The battle is going very heavily against us. We're being crushed by the enemy weight. We are facing very difficult days, perhaps the most difficult that a man can undergo.
Erwin Rommel
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When people talk about my weight, I'm like, 'You seem to have a problem with it; I don't.
Kelly Clarkson
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I make it a rule never to weigh or measure a fish I've caught, but simply to estimate its dimensions as accurately as possible, and then, when telling about it, to improve these figures by roughly a fifth, or twenty percent. I do this mainly because most people believe all fishermen exaggerate by at least twenty percent, and so I allow for the discounting my audience is almost certain to apply.
Ed Zern
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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.
Stephanie Klein
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My happy weight changes. Sometimes I eat more; sometimes I play more. I'll be different sizes all the time.
Kelly Clarkson
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I wish I was one of those cute pregnant girls who wear skinny jeans throughout their pregnancies. But I just gain weight.
Jennifer Garner
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Whence proceeds this weight we lay On what detracting people say? Their utmost malice cannot make Your head, or tooth, or finger ache; Nor spoil your shapes, distort your face, Or put one feature out of place.
Jonathan Swift
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Just because your body is losing inches doesn't mean you're losing weight or vice versa. It's not about the weight: it's about building lean muscle, which is going to increase your metabolism and then allow you to lose weight quicker.
Anna Kaiser
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Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find.
Seneca the Younger
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My weight is always perfect for my height - which varies.
Nicole Hollander
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I've talked to a number of actors who have gained weight for roles, and just the sheer physical toll it puts on one's knees and shoulders - no one wants to do it again. I'm 57 and I don't think I'm going to take on any job or go on vacation again and see to it that I can gain 30 pounds.
Tom Hanks
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There's an old Southern saying that if you're worried about your weight, clothes, or getting old, then you don't have any real problems.
Amy Hill Hearth
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It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
Isaac Newton
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... one's own faults are always a heavy chain to drag through life and one can't help groaning under the weight now and then.
George Eliot
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The relative majesty of buildings depends more on the weight and vigour of their masses than any other tribute of their design.
John Ruskin
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The older you get, the easier it is to get injured. But what I've learned the hard way is that the more excess weight you have, the more likely you are to get injured doing everyday things.
Steve Howey
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Weight is crucial and it is very beneficial - if you have spare weight in Formula One that is powerful performance.
Nico Hulkenberg
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I had other offers, but that message weighed a lot in my decision.
Gelson Martins