Weigh Quotes - page 7

In New York, if you weigh under 200 pounds and decline so much as a cookie at a co-worker's party, women will flock to your side, assuring you of your appealing physique. This is how skittish we are about the dangers of anorexia and the pressures of body image. (Sloane Crosley)
I'd heard it all the time, 'Live in the moment.' But if I did that, I'd weigh more than a dump truck. Losing weight wasn't about the moment at all; it was about having faith in the future. It was about knowing there would be another meal in a few hours. View quote
Stephanie Klein
Though I weigh only 120 pounds, when I'm mad, I weigh a ton. View quote
Thomas Starr King
How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed. View quote
Buckminster Fuller
One cannot look too closely at and weigh in too golden scales the acts of men hot in their political excitement. View quote
Henry Hawkins, 1st Baron Brampton
From the beginning, I've had to juggle and weigh the silly things people say - and I've learnt that they're meaningless, and they're mostly inaccurate. So I don't worry about it, because there's nothin' for me to deal with. View quote
Alicia Keys
Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words. View quote
George Eliot
No such luck. " He smiles. "For better or for worse, I don't have that kind of power. If I sound like I'm always predicting ominous things, it's because I'm a pragmatist. I use deductive reasoning to generalize, and I suppose this sometimes winds up sounding like unlucky prophecies. You know why? Because reality's just the accumulation of ominous prophecies come to life. All you have to do is open a newspaper on any given day and weigh the good news versus the bad news, and you'll see what I mean. View quote
Haruki Murakami
I didn't get excited by weight loss, and since I was already happy being fat, I couldn't see the point of it all. I'm 6 ft. and weigh about 18 st. or 19 st., but weighing myself is not something I do with much pleasure. View quote
Maeve Binchy
I think it's best if there's an amendment that goes on the ballot where the people can weigh in. Every time this issue has gone on the ballot, the people have voted to retain the traditional definition of marriage as recently as California in 2008. View quote
Michele Bachmann
Whether it's a relationship or what you're wearing, or how much you weigh and what you said when you didn't mean it, like - it's hard to be totally under the microscope. (Amy Lee)
We teach children how to measure and how to weigh. We fail to teach them how to revere, how to sense wonder and awe. View quote
Harold S. Kushner
I always say you shouldn't weigh yourself. I don't even have a set of scales in my house. View quote
Kim Kardashian
If I think I weigh too much, I'll lose weight; if my hair looks stupid, I'll cut it. I guess I'm my harshest critic. I'm not easily satisfied. View quote
Marilyn Manson
It seems to me a pity they should allow a philosophy so instinct with life to become infected with seeds of death in such notions as that of the unreality of all ideas of infinity and that of the mutability of truth, and in such confusions of thought as that of active willing (willing to control thought, to doubt, and to weigh reasons) with willing not to exert the will (willing to believe). View quote
Charles Sanders Peirce
The ecological impact of book manufacture and traditional book marketing - I think that should really be considered. We have this industry in which we cut down trees to make the paper that we then use enormous amounts of electricity to turn into books that weigh a great deal and are then shipped enormous distances to point-of-sale retail. View quote
William Gibson
I used to weigh myself every day at a certain time of day. Then I would write down the number and measure my body fat. It wasn't a healthy way to live. View quote
Katherine Heigl
Well, let me tell you, if you're 45, had three children and are post-menopausal, you're not going to weigh what you did the day you graduated from high school. Get that out of your head. That's a media-driven ideal that you're never going to healthfully obtain. View quote
Phil McGraw
Our feeling about every obligation depends in each case upon the spirit in which the benefit is conferred; we weigh not the bulk of the gift, but the quality of the good-will which prompted it. View quote
Seneca
I look a hundred and weigh 110 - you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me. View quote
Wallis, Duchess of Windsor
How seldom we weigh our neighbor in the same balance with ourselves. (Thomas à Kempis)
My doctor said, 'If you can weigh what you weighed in high school, you'll essentially be healthy and not have Type 2 diabetes.' Well, I'm gonna have Type 2 diabetes, because there is no way I can weigh as much as I did in high school. View quote
Tom Hanks
Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away. View quote
Dinah Craik
To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind. View quote
John Lyly
The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least. View quote
Sophie Swetchine