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

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

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.

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?

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 until Thor that I started lifting weights. It was all pretty new to me.

I used to be a fighter and I'm used to taking weight off.

It would be foolish, in forming our expectations, to attach great weight to matters which are very uncertain.

It was truly amazing, Clary thought, how much teenage boys were able to eat without ever gaining weight or making themselves sick. -pg.68-

I used to lift very heavy weights in my mid-twenties - I used to bench press over 300lb. The most I ever lifted was 330lb; I couldn't do that today, no way.

I've always overworked in the weight room. I love working with weights. I knew they'd give me the strength I needed.

I've lost some weight. I am on that new Obama diet. Every day I let Vladimir Putin eat my lunch.

I've had weight issues all my life. I've been on all the diets: Atkins, liquid protein, Scarsdale diet. Now I go to the gym often. I'm always on the StairMaster, and I do weights.