“You tell me: Can you live crushed under the weight of the present? Without a memory of the past and without the desire to look ahead to the future by building something, a future, a family? Can you go on like this? This, to me, is the most urgent problem that the Church is facing.” LooksProblemPastDesireChurchMemoriesBuildingGoes OnWeightUrgentCrushedPast MemoriesBuilding Something Author:Pope Francis
“I didn't have any aspirations of becoming famous or successful; in fact I was scared to death of all that. I remember somebody once said that if a rock musician goes on tour, he goes insane. I was very impressionable and I carried this useless weight of fear around with me about going on tour, all because of this thing somebody said.” IfsSaidFactsRememberSuccessfulRocksGoes OnBecomingMusicianWeightScaredInsaneUselessAspirationRock MusicImpressionableRock MusiciansBecoming Famous Author:Steve Vai
“I often find myself worrying about celebrities. It's an entirely caring thing; it's not like the people who commission those photographs with cruel arrows to go on the covers of the celebrity magazines. The photographs show botched plastic surgery, raging eczema, weight gain and horrible clothes for maximum schadenfreude.” PeopleShowsWorryGoes OnClothesGainsWeightPhotographCaringRageHorribleMagazinesPlasticSurgeryMaximumArrowsPlastic SurgerySchadenfreudeEczema Author:Peter York
“We are dying of preconceptions, outworn rules, decaying flags, venomous religions, and sentimentalities. We need a new world. We've wrenched up all the old roots. The old men have no roots. They don't know it. They just go on talking and flailing away and falling down on the young with their tons of dead weight and their power. For the power is still there, in their life-in-death. But the roots are dead, and the land is poisoned for miles around them.” KnowsMenWorldNeedsStillsYoungFallTalkingPowerLandDyingGoes OnRootsWeightMilesOld ManNew WorldFlagsFalling DownSentimentalityPreconceptionsVenomousFlailing Book:The Inland Island Source: The Inland Island
“Even if I'm hormonal and I feel like I've got a couple pounds of water weight, I will never starve myself, I will never, ever go on a diet.” IfsFeelsWaterGoes OnCoupleWeightDietsPounds Author:Portia de Rossi
“I've talked to a number of actors who have gained weight for roles, and just the sheer physical toll it puts on one's knees and shoulders - no one wants to do it again. I'm 57 and I don't think I'm going to take on any job or go on vacation again and see to it that I can gain 30 pounds.” ThinkingWantI CanJobsActorsNumbersRolesGoes OnGainsWeightShouldersKneesPoundsVacationSheerTolls Author:Tom Hanks
“I also go on long walks with my dog, a golden retriever named Breeze-and I work out with weights at a health club a couple of times a week.” LongWalksWeekDogGoes OnCoupleWeightClubsWork OutGoldenBreezeMy DogLong WalksRetrieversGolden Retrievers Author:Karen Hughes
“When you go on an extreme diet, your body's self-preservation mechanism responds by burning calories as slowly as possible. Of course, that makes it much more difficult to lose weight.” SelfBodyCoursesDifficultLosesGoes OnWeightExtremesYour BodyBurningDietsMechanismPreservationCaloriesSelf PreservationLose Weight Author:Tony Robbins
“People are starting to go on about my weight but I'm not going to change my size because they don't like the way I look.” PeopleWayLooksGoes OnWeightStartingSize Author:Adele
“Statistically, if you have ever dieted you are extremely likely not only to regain any weight you lose, but to go on to gain even more. Dieting makes you fat.” IfsLosesGoes OnGainsWeightFatsDieting Author:Arabella Weir