Best weight & firsts Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Moral decay first hampers and then strangles honest government, regular commerce, and even the ability to take genuine pleasure in the goods of this world. Compulsion is applied from above as self-discipline relaxes below, and the last liberties expire under the weight of a unitary state.... Since religion has lost its empire over the souls of men, the most prominent boundary that divided good from evil is overthrown; kings and nations are guided by chance and none can say where are the natural limits of despotism and the bound of license.”

“When I look back to when I had my first son, I was unhappy. I couldn't understand why the weight wasn't just falling off.”

Firsts Looks Fall Son Weight Unhappy Falling Off

Author:Nicole Sullivan

“I had spent my entire career not wanting to talk about weight, not wanting to deal with it, wanting to be an actor first.”

Firsts Actors Deals Careers Weight

Author:Sara Rue

“When I first got an agent, they gave me some advice--lose weight.”

Firsts Loses Advice Weight Agents Lose Weight

Author:Jennifer Aniston

“And also it was a process of, we lifted weights as well, in an effort to train my body to then be able to lift heavier weights when I got in Australia. So that was the first couple of months.”

Firsts Wells Body Able Process Effort Months Couple Weight Train Lifts Australia

Author:Brandon Routh

“The first requisite of a good citizen in this Republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his weight; that he shall not be a mere passenger, but shall do his share in the work that each generation of us finds ready to hand; and, furthermore, that in doing his work he shall show, not only the capacity for sturdy self-help, but also self-respecting regard for the rights of others.”

Firsts Self Helping Shows Hands Able Rights Generations Share Self Help Willing Ready Citizens Capacity Weight Regard Mere Republic Passengers Good Citizen Sturdy

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“Gold and Silver have been the predominant currency for 4,500 years, but they became money in Lydia, in about 680 B.C. When they were minted into coins of equal weight in order to make trade easier and smoother. But it was when coinage first made its appearance in Athens that it truly flourished.”

Years Firsts Has Beens Made Order Easier Equal Gold Weight Trade Appearance Silver Currency Coins Athens Gold And Silver

Author:Michael Maloney

“Quite often, most of us are defined first by our vital statistics - our sex, our height, our weight, the colour of our eyes and then we're defined by our job.”

Firsts Eye Jobs Sex Weight Defined Height Colour Statistics

Author:Tom Hiddleston

“In the Seventies, women runners, developing amenorrhea and calcium-related shin splints, were the first to realize that nature is hovering over us, ready to shut down our systems if our fetus-feeding fat reserve drops below a certain percentage of body weight. In other words, in nature's eyes we are nothing but milk sacs and fat deposits.”

Ifs Firsts Body Eye Certain Realizing Ready Weight Fats Developing Related Milk Reserves Runners Feeding Seventies Percentages Deposits Fetus Hovering Calcium Body Weight

Book:Vamps & Tramps: New Essays

Source: Vamps & Tramps: New Essays

“The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.”

“Get an agent. Seriously, submitting stuff unagented means it will end up on the slush pile. An agent is the first quality filter, and a good agent is worth his or her weight in gold, as they'll often know the editors on a personal level and will be able to talk to them directly about the project.”

Knows Writing Firsts Mean Ends Able Stuff Levels Quality Projects Gold Weight Agents Editors Filters Slush

Author:Tim Lebbon

“Human nature is full of riddles; . . . one of those riddles is: how is it that people who have been crushed by the sheer weight of slavery and cast to the bottom of the pit can nevertheless find strength in themselves to rise up and free themselves first in spirit and then in body while those who soar unhampered over the peaks of freedom suddenly lose the taste of freedom, lose the will to defend it, and, hopelessly confused and lost, almost begin to crave slavery?'”

“It's extreme. The character comes back from the dead, and, at first he doesn't know where he is, how he got there.... How does that tie in with the physicality? I just didn't think he should be too healthy-looking, so I lost some weight for the role.”

Thinking Knows Should Firsts Doe Character Lost Roles Healthy Weight Extremes Ties Physicality

Author:Brandon Lee

“With the counseling of my family doctor, my mother ended up turning to Weight Watchers and their children's program. I went to weekly meetings, got counseling and would exercise with my peers who were my size. It was the first time I saw a proper children's portion size, and it wasn't two burgers, it was one.”

Firsts Children Two Mother Saws Exercise First Time Program My Family Doctors Weight Meetings Size Portions Peers Counseling Burgers Watchers Weight Watchers Portion Sizes

Author:Ginnifer Goodwin

“The habits of a lifetime when everything else had to come before writing are not easily broken, even when circumstances now often make it possible for writing to be first; habits of years - responses to others, distractibility, responsibility for daily matters - stay with you, mark you, become you. The cost of discontinuity (that pattern still imposed on women) is such a weight of things unsaid, an accumulation of material so great, that everything starts up something else in me; what should take weeks take me sometimes months to write; what should take months, takes years.”

Source: Silences

“The Persians are very fond of wine ... It is also their general practice to deliberate upon affairs of weight when they are drunk; and then in the morning, when they are sober, the decision to which they came the night before is put before them by the master of the house in which it was made; and if it is then approved they act on it; if not, they set it aside. Sometimes, however, they are sober at their first deliberations, but in this case they always reconsider the matter under the influence of wine.”

Ifs Firsts Made Sometimes Matter Night House Decision Practice Morning Cases Influence Masters Weight Wine Affair Drunk Sober Deliberate Approved Deliberation General Practice

Author:Herodotus

“Bakers of bread rolls and pastry cooks will not buy grain before eleven o'clock in winter and noon in summer; bakers of large loaves will not buy grain before two o'clock. This will enable the people of the town to obtain their supply first. Bakers shall put a distinctive trademark on their loaves, and keep weights and scales in their shops, under penalty of having their licenses removed.”

People Firsts Two Food Summer Weight Towns Cooking Winter Scales Bread Cooks Clock Shops Culinary Grain Penalties License Eleven Noon Distinctive Bakers Pastries Trademarks Licenses

Author:Cardinal Richelieu

“First I lost weight, then I lost my voice, and now I've lost Onassis.”

Firsts Lost Voice Loss Weight Onassis

Author:Maria Callas

“We have always borne part of the weight of war, and the major part ... Men have made boomerangs, bows, swords, or guns with which to destroy one another; we have made the men who destroyed and were destroyed! ... We pay the first cost on all human life.”

Men Firsts Humans Made War Pay He Man Cost Majors Gun Weight Destroyed Human Life Bows Boomerang

Author:Olive Schreiner

“After my first week of no wheat, my stomachaches were gone, my mucous cleared up, and I felt incredibly energetic. My headaches were also less frequent and less severe, and I had lost 3 pounds, most of it swelling and water weight my body had been holding onto as part of its response to the wheat products in my diet.”

Firsts Body Lost Felt Water Gone Week Products Weight Response Diets Pounds Severe Holding On Energetic Wheat Headache Swelling

Author:Daphne Oz

“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.”

Firsts School Healthy High School First Time Weight Nutritionist

Author:Jonah Hill

“The first six years of my career, I got more comments on my weight than on my singing. So I think I became so self-conscious that I started working on it harder.”

Thinking Years Firsts Self Careers Six Singing Conscious Weight Harder Comment Self Conscious

Author:Kenny Rogers

“As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”

Thinking Firsts Matter Young Death Fall Easy Consciousness Steps Balance Weight Scales Life And Death Gravity Unthinkable

Book:Temporary Homelands

Source: Temporary Homelands

“The hardest thing was going through different stages of weight loss. At the beginning, it was easy to take off the weight with exercise and eating less but then you reach a point where 90 per cent of the weight loss is achieved purely through reducing your calorie intake. My goal was to lose four pounds per week. That worked well for the first few months but then things got tricky.”

Firsts Wells Different Easy Goal Loses Loss Four Week Stage Months Exercise Eating Weight Hardest Hardest Thing Weight Loss Reducing Tricky Calories Eating Less

Author:Matthew McConaughey

“I guess with myself, I was probably the first woman to lift weights and do circuit training and to run the sand hills.”

Firsts Running Training Weight Hills Lifts Sand Circuits Circuit Training

Author:Margaret Court

“Discussing the attempts of Augustus' generals to add to the extent of the Roman Empire early in his reign: The northern countries of Europe scarcely deserved the expense and labour of conquest. The forests and morasses of Germany were filled with a hardy race of barbarians, who despised life when it was separated from freedom; and though, on the first attack, they seemed to yield to the weight of the Roman power, they soon, by a signal act of despair, regained their independence, and reminded Augustus of the vicissitude of fortune.”

“My outlook was so limited that I assumed that all deviates were openly despised and rejected. Their grief and their fear drew my melancholy nature strongly. At first I only wanted to wallow in their misery, but, as time went by, I longed to reach its very essence. Finally I desired to represent it. By this process I managed to shift homosexuality from being a burden to being a cause. The weight lifted and some of the guilt evaporated.”

Firsts Wanted Causes Process Grief Essence Weight Guilt Misery Burden Melancholy Rejected Homosexuality Outlook Despised Deviate

Author:Quentin Crisp

“The reason I gained so much weight in the first place and the reason I had such a sorry history of abusive relationships with men was I just needed approval so much. I needed everyone to like me, because I didn't like myself much.”

Men Firsts Reason Needed Weight Sorry Like Me Approval Abusive Abusive Relationship

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“Lemurs are good parents but they do it in different ways. I originally studied father care. I was very interested in that and we saw that a lot of these animals that lived in pairs and the father wasn't doing anything at all for the first month. But then suddenly, when the baby got to be a certain weight then the dads chipped in and started carrying the babies which was very nice. And then if there was twins or triplets then they helped.”

Ifs Way Firsts Different Care Certain Father Parent Animal Saws Nice Baby Months Dad Weight Different Ways Pairs Twins Very Nice Good Parent Triplet Lemurs

Author:Patricia Wright

“When we shall come home, and enter into the possession of our Brother's fair kingdom, and when our heads shall find the weight of the eternal crown of glory, then we shall look back to pains and sufferings and then we will see life and sorrow to be less than one step or stride from a prison to glory. Our little inch of time-suffering is not worthy of our first night's welcome-home to heaven.”

“If you want to lift a hundred pounds, you don't expect to succeed the first time. You start with a lighter weight and work up little by little. You actually fail to life a hundred pounds, every day, until the day you succeed. But it is in the days when you are exerting yourself that the growth is occurring.”

Ifs Want Firsts Littles Growth Failing Succeed Hundred First Time Weight Lifts Pounds Lighters

Author:Norman Doidge

“When I got pregnant with my first child I gained nearly 5st. I did a bit of pretending: "I'm just really small, so I just put on a lot of weight when I'm pregnant." That is true, but I also ate a lot of cake.”

Firsts Children Bits Weight Pretending Cake Pregnant

Author:Sally Phillips

“Comfort is key. I need to make sure the cleat first my foot perfectly. Weight is important, too.”

Needs Firsts Important Feet Keys Comfort Weight Cleats

Author:Amy Rodriguez

“For starters, I should just tell you that The Band was always my favorite band from the first moment that I heard the first note of "The Weight" on WNEW radio. It was when I was eight years old and Music From Big Pink came out. They were my favorite band always. They had a profound influence on me and on my becoming a musician.”

Should Years Firsts Moments Bigs Heard Influence Becoming Band Musician Weight Notes Profound My Favorite Radio Eight Starters Favorite Bands

Author:Colin Linden

“If I hold a twenty pound weight, I cannot detect a fly landing on it because the least detectable difference in the stimulus is half a pound. On the other hand, if i hold a feather, a fly landing on it makes a great difference. Obviously then, in order to be able to tell the differences in exertion one must first reduce the exertion. Finer and finer performance is possible only if the sensitivity, that is, the ability to feel the difference is improved.”

Ifs Feels Firsts Hands Able Order Differences Ability Half Performances Weight Twenties Pounds Sensitivity Feathers Stimulus Landing Exertion

Author:Moshe Feldenkrais

“The pressure to be thin, which causes guilt and obsessiveness around food, is terrible and starts so early. For me, it started at sixteen when I left home and gained weight for the first time and was told by a slightly older boy, out of the blue, that I was "too plump." The shock of that lasted a good long time.”

Firsts Long Home Left Causes Boys Terrible Long Time First Time Weight Pressure Blue Guilt Shock Sixteen Good Long

Author:Kate Christensen

“I have had, like most women, a lifelong preoccupation with my weight. My first published short story was a love story between an elderly man and a very young morbidity obese woman.”

Men Firsts Stories Young Weight Love Story Short Story Elderly Lifelong Preoccupation Obese Morbidity

Author:Lori Lansens

“Comics who grew up surviving their childhood by being able to be the first one to make the joke about their weight or their hairy arms - like me - whatever they're insecure about, whatever they're apologizing for, that becomes their strength.”

Firsts Able Childhood Arms Grew Grew Up Jokes Weight Like Me Apologizing Insecure Surviving

Author:Sarah Silverman

“This is a woman [Hillary Clinton] who for many of her 52 years never cared a fig about her appearance, but in the chrysalis of transformation from political wife to independent woman, the jawline has been chiseled, the dominatrix eyebrows weeded, the weight dropped, and the result is a woman who obviously enjoys for the first time being called beautiful.”

Years Firsts Has Beens Beautiful Political Enjoy Results Wife First Time Weight Transformation Independent Clinton Appearance Eyebrows Independent Women Figs Chrysalis Jawline

Author:Gail Sheehy

“When Denzel [Washington] first called me on the phone after we'd just done a reading of the film ["Fences"]. He said, "Oh Viola it was so good, wasn't it?! I'm gonna tell Russell [Hornsby] to lose a little bit of weight and..." I was just sitting there thinking, why is he calling me? And I told him, "Denzel don't you tell me to lose weight!" He said, "I'm not telling you to lose weight! I can't believe you would say that."”

Thinking Firsts Believe Littles Said I Can Done Film Reading Bits Loses Calling Little Bit Sitting Weight Phones Fence Lose Weight Viola Denzel

Author:Viola Davis

“There are three bombs. The first one is the atomic bomb, which disintegrates reality, the second one is the digital or computer bomb, which destroys the principle of reality itself - not the actual object - and rebuilds it, and finally the third bomb is the demographic one. Some experts have found out that in five thousand years from now, the weight of the population will be heavier than the weight of the planet. That means that humanity will constitute a planet of its own!”

Years Firsts Mean Reality Humanity Three Found Principles Five Objects Planets Thousand Computer Thirds Weight Population Experts Bombs Digital Thousand Years Demographics Atomic Bomb

Author:Paul Virilio

“[Sundance is] giving people a chance - many first-time filmmakers. It carries that weight - if you bring something here, people connect with it and it can launch a career.”

People Ifs Giving Firsts Chance Careers First Time Weight Filmmaker Carrie Sundance

Author:Elijah Wood

“Science is starting to show that our brains are less able to detect calories in liquids. So, people in the know, including food industry executives, when they run into health trouble, the first thing they do is cut calories out of all the liquids that they drink as a way of maintaining their weight.”

People Knows Way Firsts Shows Running Able Brain Cutting Trouble Industry Drink Weight Including Starting Executives Maintaining Liquid Calories Food Industry

Author:Michael Moss

“Putting on weight is easy all the way through. But after the first couple of weeks, the novelty wears off very quickly, and your body is groaning and starting to really shout at you, saying, 'Why? Why? Why? Why are you doing this?'”

Way Firsts Body Easy Week Couple Weight Starting Your Body Novelty Groaning

Author:Christian Bale

“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.”

Firsts Able Poverty Military Willing Duty Citizens Weight Conservative Socialism Welfare Republic Citizenship Good Citizen Republic Day Good Citizenship

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“Remember, science fiction's always been the kind of first level alert to think about things to come. It's easier for an audience to take warnings from sci-fi without feeling that we're preaching to them. Every science fiction movie I have ever seen, any one that's worth its weight in celluloid, warns us about things that ultimately come true.”

Thinking Firsts Kind Feelings Remember Levels Fiction Audience Easier Weight Science Fiction Warning Sci Fi Preaching Celluloid Science Fiction Movie

Author:Steven Spielberg

“There's a moment when love makes you believe in death for the first time. You recognize the one whose loss, even contemplated, you'll carry forever, like a sleeping child. All grief, anyone's grief...is the weight of a sleeping child.”

Firsts Believe Children Moments Loss Sleep Grief Forever First Time Weight Fugitive Sleeping Child

Author:Anne Michaels

“I think it was the first time in my life I ever felt like I looked “good”. Do you know what I mean? That nice feeling when you look in the mirror, and your hair’s right for the first time in your life? I don’t think we should base so much on weight, muscles, and a good hair day, but when it happens, it’s nice. It really is.”

Thinking Knows Should Firsts Looks Mean Feelings Happens Felt Nice Hair First Time Weight Mirrors Muscles Do You Know Nice Feeling Good Hair

Book:The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition

“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.”

Firsts Ends Creatures Weight Breaths Court Add Mortals Finite Heartbeat Faerie Blink Insatiable Expired

Author:Melissa Marr

“Everyday he got up. Before sleep wore off, he was who he used to be. Then, as his consciousness woke, it was as if poison seeped in. At first he couldn't even get up. He lay there under a heavy weight. But then only movment could save him, and he moved and he moved and he moved, no movement being enough to make up for it. The guilt on him, the hand of God pressing down on him, saying, You were not there when your daughter needed you.”

Ifs Firsts Enough Hands Used Sleep Consciousness Movement Needed Daughter Weight Moved Lays Guilt Everyday Heavy Used To Be Get Up Poison Hands Of God Your Daughter Heavy Weights

Author:Alice Sebold

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