Weight Quotes

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life that word is love. (Sophocles)
I look at an ant and see myself: a native South African, endowed with a strength much greater than my size, so I might cope with the weight of racism that crushes my spirit. View quote
Miriam Makeba
We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns. View quote
Tom Waits
The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
None knows the weight of another's burden. View quote
George Herbert
Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh. View quote
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor. View quote
Albert Camus
The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to religion. The one bids you bear injuries with patience, the other tells you if you don't resent them, you are not fit to live. View quote
Bernard Mandeville
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance is a celebration of that miracle. View quote
Martha Graham
Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect. (Eleanor Roosevelt)
While weight loss is important, what's more important is the quality of food you put in your body - food is information that quickly changes your metabolism and genes. View quote
Mark Hyman, M.D.
Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight. View quote
Rollo May
Fact and fiction carry the same intrinsic weight in the marketplace of ideas. Fortunately, reality has no advertising budget. View quote
Daniel Suarez
The first pressure of sorrow crushes out from our hearts the best wine afterwards the constant weight of it brings forth bitterness, the taste and strain from the lees of the vat. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The record company really pissed me off when they told me to lose weight. I couldn`t be bothered with looking a certain way. So I left the business. I don`t regret it. View quote
Kim Wilde
No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity. View quote
Edith Wharton
The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
I'm more focused and have a greater sense of challenge, because I constantly feel the weight of time. View quote
Sylvester Stallone
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 stand up under the weight. View quote
Malcolm X
There's a certain slant of light, On winter afternoons, That oppresses, like the weight Of Cathedral tunes. (Emily Dickinson)
Me this unchartered 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. View quote
William Wordsworth
The monumental pomp of age Was with this goodly personage A stature undepressed in size, Unbent, which rather seemed to rise In open victory o'er the weight Of seventy years, to loftier height. View quote
William Wordsworth
The sightless Milton, with his hair Around his placid temples curled And Shakespeare at his side,a freight, If clay could think and mind were weight, For him who bore the world. View quote
William Wordsworth
Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub. View quote
Erma Bombeck