#weight

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. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#citizen #first #good #good citizen #his

I'd already put on a bit of weight before I got pregnant. ↗

— Jennifer Ellison

#before #bit #got #i #pregnant

After 'Kong,' my knuckles have never recovered because I had to wear very heavy weights on my forearms and around my hips and ankles to get the sense of size and scale of the movement of the character... You are telling your body that you are these things and that you're feeling these thoughts and that you're experiencing these experiences. ↗

— Andy Serkis

#ankles #around #because #body #character

Tears at times have the weight of speech. ↗

— Ovid

#tears #times #weight

But if you pick up every other magazine, it is the peanut butter diet, or the cabbage soup diet, and then you go to the radio and you hear that you can drink some solution and you will lose weight overnight. It just does not work that way! ↗

— Richard Simmons

#cabbage #diet #does #drink #every

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

— Meg Cabot

#weight #beauty

I was doing a show at the National Youth Theatre, playing an old man. Before that I had played fat clowns and I thought, 'If I want to have the career I would like, I am going to have to lose weight.' I was just starting drama school, and found I was moving around a lot. I also started to eat sensibly. The weight just dropped off. ↗

— Harry Melling

#am #around #before #career #clowns

...I gotta burn these scales... sigh* ↗

— Hiroko Sakai

#funny #humorous #scale #weight #diet

Staying requires being curious about who you actually are when you don't take yourself to be a collection of memories.When you don't infer your existence form replaying what happened to you, when you don't take yourself to be the girl your mother/father/brother/teacher/lover didn't see or adore. When you sense yourself directly, immediately, right now, without preconception, who are you? ↗

— Geneen Roth

#self #weight #food

But replacing hunger for divine connection with Double Stuf Oreos is like giving a glass of sand to a person dying of thirst. It creates more thirst, more panic. ↗

— Geneen Roth

#self #weight #food