Quotes of: Weight-loss Keyword

The alternative to peace is war, which will expose everyone to mass casualties, misery and a loss of perspective for many years to come.

Boris Trajkovski

The job of the poet is to render the world - to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do.

Mark Van Doren

I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss.

Georg Solti

There are repercussions to everything, even advancement and success. And I think that the repercussions to my success was the loss of my marriage.

Jill Scott

I think I've always had a decent perspective on wins and losses on the tennis court.

Andy Roddick

The more the discomfort or the pain or loss, the better you are able to focus and change course of your life!

Stan The Man SA

We are more sensitive to losses than to gains; the pleasure of winning is less than the pain of losing.

Life

Whatever the response to loss and tragedy, the experience seems to boil down to one journey--searching for Jesus.

W. Scott Lineberry

Increasingly prices are set by sellers to raise their prices without a loss of sales sufficient to wipe out the gain.

William Vickrey

Life, death, preservation, loss, failure, success, poverty, riches, worthiness, unworthiness, slander, fame, hunger, thirst, cold, heat - these are the alternations of the world, the workings of fate. Day and night they change place before us, and wi...

The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu

When he first said my diagnosis, I couldn't believe it. There must be another PTSD than post-traumatic stress disorder, I thought. I have only heard of war veterans who have served on the front lines and seen the horrors of battle being diagnosed wit...

Hiding from Reality: My Story of Love, Loss, and Finding the Courage Within

I whisper over to myself the way of loss, the names of the dead. One by one, we lose our loved ones, our friends, our powers of work and pleasure, our landmarks, the days of our allotted time. One by one, the way we lose them, they return to us and a...

Jayber Crow

If [the loss of fertility of the soil and the loss of soil as a renewable resource] does happen, we are familiar enough with the nature of American salesmanship to know that it will be done in the name of the starving millions, in the name of liberty...

The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture

Things are continually beginning again; they’re never really resolved, you know. They are only resolved temporarily. We live in a society that peddles solutions, whether it’s solutions to those extra pounds you’re carrying, or to your thinning ...

Jeanette Winterson

The shame and the downfall of a modern materialistic society is her inability to treasure, care for, admire, adore, cherish, value, revere, respect, uphold, uplift, protect, shield, defend, safeguard, treasure and love her children. I praise all the ...

C. JoyBell C.

[first lines] Narrator: At exactly 3:45 on that Saturday afternoon in the last week of September, Marvin Unger was, perhaps, the only one among the hundred thousand people at the track who felt no thrill at the running of the fifth race. He was total...

The Killing

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. The imagination must be given not wings but weights.

The Education of Henry Adams

The size of the tree you cut determines the weight with which you have to throw the axe.

Shaping the dream

Weight doesn’t matter. It really doesn’t. I mean, it does if you’re a model or whatever.

Queen of Babble

Wings are freedom only when they are wide open in flight. On one's back they are a heavy weight.

Unknown

It was Hell, if hell is where the life we love cannot exist.

Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles