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Weight Quotes - Page 19

Like your weight set-point, which keeps the scale hovering around the same number, your happiness set-point will remain the same unless you make a concerted effort to change it.

Marci Shimoff, Carol Kline (2009). “Happy for No Reason: 7 Steps to Being Happy from the Inside Out”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

Fat gives things flavor.

"Julia Child: What I've Learned". Interview with Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. June 2001.

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.

Jonathan Swift (1841). “The Works. Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published. With Memoir of the Author, by Thomas Roscoe. -London, Washbourne 1841”, p.629

One of the burdens of being a black male is carrying the heavy weight of other people’s suspicions.

"Op-Ed: Shooting Of Black Teen Reveals 'Blindness'". "Talk Of The Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. March 19, 2012.

The gospel is not weight, it is wings. It carries us.

"'Fear Not; I Am with Thee'". Jean A. Stevens' address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. April 2014.

Dudley had reached roughly the size and weight of a young killer whale.

J.K. Rowling (2015). “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”, p.33, Pottermore