#weigh

The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales. ↗

— Aesop

#same #scales #seldom #suffer #those

My mom cooked pot roast with noodles and frozen vegetables. Or she'd make spaghetti or hot dogs, or heat up TV dinners. Before I started modeling at age 19, I was 5'8" and weighed 165 pounds. ↗

— Carol Alt

#before #cooked #dinners #dogs #frozen

I have been going to the gym instead of the bar, trying to get back down to my fighting weight. ↗

— Gregg Allman

#bar #been #down #fighting #get

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#fame #light #like #river #solid

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#consider #contradict #granted #nor #read

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#greatest #hangs #smallest #upon #weights

The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comically wrong to a modern book-reading, movie-going, television-watching, legend-loving American public conditioned to think of him as one of the presidential giants on the order of Washington and Lincoln. ↗

— Russell Baker

#american #american public #commentators #conditioned #down

If you move something 10 pounds through space and then stop suddenly, there's a little overshoot. When you transfer weight from one leg to another, there's a certain way that it happens. ↗

— Brad Bird

#certain #certain way #happens #leg #little

My mum was very conscious about fashion and my dad was born into the tailoring tradition, so fashion has always been my life, although now, really, I wear the same thing - just in different weights - light and heavy cashmere in winter and cotton in summer. ↗

— Domenico Dolce

#although #always #been #born #conscious

I know one lab that studies nicotine receptors and all the scientists are smokers, and another lab that studies impulse control and they're all overweight. ↗

— David Eagleman

#control #i #impulse #know #lab