Isaac Newton
Mathematician, Physicist, Astronomer
"God created everything by number, weight and measure."
Weight quotes
Weight
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Robbie Williams
Singer, Songwriter
"I've been watching what I eat. When I was putting on all the weight, I was drinking Guinness and not eating. I didn't have room to because I was drinking all the time."
Archimedes
Mathematician, Physicist, Engineer
"Equal weights at equal distances are in equilibrium and equal weights at unequal distances are not in equilibrium but incline towards the weight which is at the greater distance."
Ashley Graham
Model
"I am always being asked to gain or lose weight, but I am at a point now where I don't care anymore. I love my body, I love my super-hourglass shape and I love showing it off."
Aretha Franklin
Singer, Songwriter
"Falling out of love is like losing weight. It's a lot easier putting it on than taking it off."
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"Along with a dozen other students I had dissected a human cadaver and sorted its contents by size, color, function, and weight. There was nothing pleasant about the experience. Its only consolation was its truth and its only virtue was its utility."
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"We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs... of our barbarous ancestors."
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"Today, we turn to one person to provide what an entire village once did: a sense of grounding, meaning, and continuity. At the same time, we expect our committed relationships to be romantic as well as emotionally and sexually fulfilling. Is it any wonder that so many relationships crumble under the weight of it all?"
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"Any solid lighter than a fluid will, if placed in the fluid, be so far immersed that the weight of the solid will be equal to the weight of the fluid displaced. On floating bodies I, prop 5."
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"The Raiders of old were vicious and crazy and cruel. Hanging around their locker room was like hanging around the weight room at Folsom Prison."
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"Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly."
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"The wing structure of the hornet, in relation to its weight, is not suitable for flight, but he does not know this and flies anyway."
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"There is great weight in the modern times of being monarch, the scrutiny and access is much more than in times gone by."
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"You could do with losing a little bit of weight."
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"It is the accumulative weight of our disciplines and our judgments that leads us to either fortune or failure."
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"When I was larger, people said I was fat. Now that I've lost weight, they say I died."
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"The words of the President have an enormous weight and ought not to be used indiscriminately."
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"Thus can the demigod Authority Make us pay down for our offense by weight The words of heaven; on whom it will, it will, On whom it will not, so: yet still 'tis just."
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"The best way to lose weight is to know that you are light."
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"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."
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"As in roulette, same is true of the stock trader, who will find that the expense of trading weights the dice heavily against him."
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"Since weight training involves repetitions, a great deal of energy must be exerted. Therefore, weight training should be practiced only every other day."
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"The only weights I lift are my dogs."
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"Fashion is the healthiest motivation for losing weight."
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"I don't like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight...I've always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing."
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