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Indifference is the dead weight of history.

I needed to stop eating sweeties and cakes. It's the bane of my life. I had to lose the weight for my health.

In friendship similarity of character has more weight than kinship.

In my trailer, I work out with free weights and do situps and push-ups. I'm just trying to stay lean and active looking.

In our world, 80 to 90 percent of women's weight gain comes from overindulging in insulin-stimulating food. And it's not hardcore, straight-up, I-can-see you-in-the-face sugar. They're eating whole-wheat bread. They're eating ancient grains. They're eating black beans. That stuff is horrible.

In some movies you feel like you're a very small part of a huge machine. Whereas in the theater you can have a very small part, but you can still feel the weight and the gravity of it. Given the nature of theater, it's a more concentrated and quiet experience

...instead it seems that business - like weight loss - is a subject wherein hope and fear inspire limitless gullibility.

I occasionally go to the gym and I lift free weights, I don't use machines.

In the end mortals always expired before faeries. They were such finite creatures. Their first heartbeat and breath were but a blink from death. To add the weight of nourishing his insatiable court in a time of peace was to hasten that unconscionably.

In the stormy current of life characters are weights or floats which at one time make us glide along the bottom, and at another maintain us on the surface.

I stare at her collarbone that's framed with lace, the hollow of her throat, her shoulders that rise with each rise with the weight of her next breath. We're fragile things. Our bones show through our skin. What would any god want with us?

I pulled Lena's necklace out of my pocket. I let the charms roll around in my palm, but they were tangled and meaningless without her. The necklace was heavier than I imagined, or maybe it was the weight of my conscience.

I really worshipped Mama Cass a lot. Mama Cass, who was really fat and she didn't lose weight. Yeah, she went on diets but for the most part of her life and the better part of her career she was a big person.

Is he on his horse? O happy horse, to bear the weight of Antony!

I put heavy weight on certainty. It's not risky to buy securities at a fraction of what they're worth.

Is it a surprise that into the vessel, in which the mercury has no inclination and no repugnance, not even the slightest, to being there, it should enter and should rise in a column high enough to make equilibrium with the weight of the external air which forces it up?

I started to put on weight when I was about four and a half and it got really bad when I was around nine. I ballooned. I was about 110 pounds.

I sure don't think of myself as a fat person, just someone who carries extra weight. I've never seen anyone on the DL with pulled fat.

It is a small soul, buried beneath the weight of affairs, that does not know how to get clean away from them, that cannot put them aside and pick them up again.

I tend to be slim and you know, I actually can lose weight quicker than I can gain it.

It has been quite a weight, hasn't it?" Tam asked. "What weight?" Rand replied. "That lost hand you've been carrying." Rand looked down at his stump. "Yes. I believe it has been at that.

I think of myself as a stylist, and stylists can become notoriously obsessed with the placing of a comma, the weight of a semicolon.

I think, on a frame like mine, if I lose a few pounds, it makes a big difference. I hated every bit of attention on my weight and size. Even now, I can't put into words what exactly happened.

I think we should put the same weight now on the co-factors as we have on HIV.

I tend to eat vegetables only when I'm with the kids and the rest of the time, I'm a bit slack. But, I am weight-conscious, so I concentrate on avoiding junk food.

It has long been known that the chemical atomic weight of hydrogen was greater than one-quarter of that of helium, but so long as fractional weights were general there was no particular need to explain this fact, nor could any definite conclusions be drawn from it.

I think that strength levels go hand in hand with building a great physique. You've got to lift heavy weight to get big - period.

I think they say that when you're breast feeding, you know, your weight kind of slims down. It's a little easier. It's like a workout within itself. It's very tiring actually and you find yourself snacking more often.

I think, when men tell women to lose weight, it's a diversion from their own lack of size in certain areas.

It is easy to tell the toiler How best he can carry his pack But no one can rate a burden's weight Until it has been on his back

It is the accumulative weight of our disciplines and our judgments that leads us to either fortune or failure.

It required 85 parts by weight of oxygen and 15 parts of hydrogen to compose 100 parts of water.

It is true I gained muscular vigour, but with it a prodigious appetite, which I was compelled to indulge, and consequently increased in weight, until my kind old friend advised me to forsake the exercise.

It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.

It's a massive undertaking putting an album together... It's not light weight at all.

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?

It's a heavy weight, the camera. Now we have modern and lightweight, small plastic cameras, but in the '70s they were heavy metal.

It's not about weight, it's about fitness, and one component of being fit is to have relatively low body fat, because fat is not very efficient, whereas muscle is.

It's as if the fasion designers decided that once a woman hit a certain weight, she'd have no need for business suits, for skirts and blazers, for anything except glorified sweatsuits, and they tried to apologize for dressing us like overaged Teletubbies by silk-screening daisies on the tops.

It's a weight problem isn't it; you can't wait for lunch.

It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life.

It's normal to gain weight during pregnancy. It's something that has to happen to your body.

It's sadness coming on like the old days, the vast seamless hopeless weight of sadness looking for a place to rest.

It’s very easy for me to gain weight. Even though I tried not eating for a week when I was really young, I couldn’t do it any longer because I liked my food too much.

It's the weight of expectation that's the hardest to deal with, really, from my point of view.

It was an instant weight lifted off my chest - both literally and figuratively.

It was only later that I suffocated under the weight of his arguments, and his darker thoughts articulated. It was only later that our tongues produced landslides, that we become caught in the cracks between what we said and what we meant, until we could not find each other, did not trust the words in our own mouths.

It wasn't exactly that Lula was fat. It was more that she was too short for her weight." - Stephanie Plum

It wasn't about me trying to lose weight. It was all about emotions.

It wasn’t until Thor that I started lifting weights. It was all pretty new to me.