Weight Quotes
Susan Bordo’s Unbearable Weight is a masterpiece of complex an nuanced thinking not only about a significant problem that faces women but about our culture. A very valuable book.
Spare me the people who ask, 'Have you thought about ... losing weight, hiring an assistant, buying a Pentium, working with an etiquette specialist, coloring your hair?
Where is the society which does not struggle along under a dead-weight of tradition and law inherited from its grandfather?
How a man perceives substance dictates the amount of substance in a man. To know the depth of anyone's true substance, simply measure the weight of what consumes and excites their inner drive.
I'm more focused and have a greater sense of challenge, because I constantly feel the weight of time.
There might have been a period around 'Tango & Cash' when I was nearly fashionable. My problem is that my weight's always been changing for the movies I'm in.
I suppose I am one of those lucky people who eats what they like and doesn't gain too much weight.
As a young woman, I attended Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, South Africa, which was then not segregated. But I witnessed the weight of Apartheid everywhere around me.
Alone, he must bear the weight of a sin he dare not confess to the one person he loves…and has lost.
But what's worth more than gold?" "Practically everything. You, for example. Gold is heavy. Your weight in gold is not very much gold at all. Aren't you worth more than that?
I don't think there would be many examples of South Africa pushing its weight around the African Continent. I don't think the facts would substantiate that argument.
It baffles me that people think that obliterating the past will save them from its consequences, as if throwing away the empty cake plate would help you lose weight.
I had a gentleman in college tell me, during a date, that I could be really pretty if I lost some weight. On a date!
If Atheists are lonely and downtrodden, we have only ourselves to blame. Numerically, we are strong. Let's start punching our weight.
Yeah! I got type-two diabetes! I'm sure there's going to be some media scandal now, saying I got it because I gained and lost weight for movie parts or something - but I doubt that.
Food is a fairly significant aspect of my life. I have struggled mightily with food. With my weight. And I'm conscious of it. So I have a sensitivity to people who struggle with their weight.
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 your scars and tribulations.
The thing I care about is my weight - I'm as fanatical about it as a member of Girls Aloud. I weigh myself every morning. I know exactly what I want to be - 82kg - and I try to stick to it.
If you're going to solve a weight-loss problem - or smoking problem for that matter - you must address both the psychological and physiological.
When you go on an extreme diet, your body's self-preservation mechanism responds by burning calories as slowly as possible. Of course, that makes it much more difficult to lose weight.
I'm business savvy and my will is only to win. I can't hit rock bottom any lower. It's only up from here. The weight is off the shoulders with that.
Its always when you think that youve lost a little of the baby weight that someone steps in grabs a handful of a now sans baby soft belly and asks the inevitable When are you due?
I don't need to be 19 years old or starve myself for some weight or turn men's heads down that road. And thank God I finally know that.
Whether it's playing catch or going to the weight room, you've just got to blend in and introduce yourself as you go along.
I try not to take on the weight or the burden of it. Once it's on the paper, I try to leave it, because I want to surrender to what I'm supposed to write about.
Love resembles a tree: it bends under its own weight, deeply rooted in our being and sometimes turns green in the ruins of a heart.
Is it not a thing divine to have a smile which, none know how, has the power to lighten the weight of that enormous chain which all the living in common drag behind them?
We get death threats, kidnapping threats. The press criticizes my weight. It's just the English way.
The only time I get upset by things written about me - when people write irresponsible things about my weight... I appreciate that young girls look up to me. And I take that very seriously.
No government can be trusted, that does not trust its own people with military-style arms of greater weight and power than those possessed by the central government itself.
Everyone longs for expressiveness. That's why love carries so much weight. Because so many lives are without other means of expressiveness.
I think there is a big question in how much music a film needs - a lot of films are overloaded for my taste, so that the story can't carry its own weight.
Two evils, of almost equal weight, may befall the man of erudition; never to be listened to, and to be listened to always.
All schools of philosophy, and almost all authors, are rather to be frequented for exercise than for weight.
In one way, I'm sympathetic to the institutional reluctance to face the music. I'd give a lot to mark my weight to 'model' rather than to 'market.'
I put heavy weight on certainty. It's not risky to buy securities at a fraction of what they're worth.
Often try what weight you can support, And what your shoulders are too weak to bear.
Success is found balanced between optimism and realism, where it is unhindered by the weight of pessimism.
Justice is justly represented blind, because she sees no difference in the parties concerned. She has but one scale and weight, for rich and poor, great and small.
Me this uncharted freedom tires; I feel the weight of chance desires, My hopes no more must change their name, I long for a repose that ever is the same.
I'm not going to say I'm a big girl. I'm a very small person, but I'm a healthy weight. That might be a little weird for Hollywood.
The height of your success will be measured with reference to the depth from which you started.