"I want more muscles! I go to the gym three or four times a week with a personal trainer. I can afford that now. I can't put on weight though, no matter how much I eat."
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"I used to be a fighter and I'm used to taking weight off."
"Her purse was a weight, ballast; it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away."
"Nobody gets muscles by watching ME lift weights."
"Is he on his horse? O happy horse, to bear the weight of Antony!"
"Sorrow, like a heavy ringing bell, once set on ringing, with its own weight goes; then little strength rings out the doleful knell."
"Life is cut to allow for growth ... one may vigorously put on weight before one fills it out entirely."
"Guilt has always its horrors and solicitudes; and, to make it yet more shameful and detestable, it is doomed often to stand in awe of those to whom nothing could give influence or weight but their power of betraying."
"We are buried beneath the weight of information."
"[on having to lose weight] I thought I'll drink vodka instead of wine because it's less calories!"
"I know I'm a person who's been bugged for years about the up and down weight thing."
"A broken fortune is like a falling column; the lower it sinks, the greater weight it has to sustain."
"God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires."
"It is not the weight of the future or the past that is pressing upon you, but ever that of the present alone. Even this burden, too, can be lessened if you confine it strictly to its own limits."
"Rome is a place almost worn out by being looked at, a city collapsing under the weight of reference."
"I was thin in high school and then I gained weight. I went to a nutritionist. I learned for the first time about what things are healthy to eat, basically."
"Whence proceeds this weight we lay On what detracting people say? Their utmost malice cannot make Your head, or tooth, or finger ache; Nor spoil your shapes, distort your face, Or put one feature out of place."
"It would be far easier to lose weight permanently if replacement parts weren't so handy in the refrigerator."
"Thoughts - even fears - were airy things, formless until you made them solid with your voice and once given that weight, they could crush you."
"I'm very short, so I just have to watch my weight because I have a big appetite."