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"You may have killed God beneath the weight of all that you have said; but don't imagine that, with all that you are saying, you will make a man that will live longer than he."
"If I lost weight, I'd be two-dimensional!"
"No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity."
"I wanted to get really fit. I wanted to lose some weight. So I've been doing Pilates and yoga, trying to lean out my body so I won't be bulky."
"I have been dairy free for several years, and I started because I felt it was going to reduce my allergies, which it did, and help me lose weight, which it did."
"Anywhere in life, for girls there's pressure to keep your weight and to keep yourself feeling and looking good."
"I had to tell about my colonic, which expresses the fact why I'm so neat today as opposed to a few years ago. I never knew that the weight made that much difference."
"Some things never leave a person: scent of the hair of one you love, the texture of persimmons, in your palm, the ripe weight."
"Unfortunately for the good sense of mankind, the fact of their fallibility is far from carrying the weight in their practical judgement, which is always allowed to it in theory; for while every one well knows himself to be fallible, few think it necessary to take any precautions against their own fallibility."
"It is proper that we acknowledge the overwhelming weight of international opinion against the juvenile death penalty."
"I think the hardest thing is losing weight. That's the hardest thing more than anything else."
"We choose our next world through what we learn in this one. Learn nothing, and the next world is the same as this one, all the same limitations and lead weights to overcome."
"We must see whether the same clock with weights will go faster at the top of a mountain or at the bottom of a mine; it is probable, if the pull of the weights decreases on the mountain and increases in the mine, that the earth has real attraction."
"Real Christians do not carry their religion, their religion carries them. It is not weight, it is wings."
"Every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me more and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome."
"I think because I did a lot of modelling and appeared in lads mags a lot of women didn't necessarily warm to me. But now I have been through childbirth, post-natal depression and struggled with my weight, women seem to relate to me a lot more."
"Love cannot exorcise the gifts of hate. / Hate cannot exorcize what has no weight, / But laughter we can never over-rate."
"I used to beat myself up about weight and working out, and no matter what I did I never felt good about myself. I decided to accept myself and know that I am good."
"The whole thing of weight, I guess it's because there is a wider fascination we all have with weight."
"Revealed religion has no weight with me."
