"And dreams in their development have breath,
And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy;
They leave a weight upon our waking thoughts,
They take a weight from off our waking toils,
They do divide our being." »Lord Byron
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"A man who enjoys responsibility usually gets it. A man who merely likes exercising authority usually loses it." »Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
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"The scars you acquire by exercising courage, Will never make you feel inferior." »D. A. Battista
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"Modern war has decimated many a country; but it has always spawned millions of bureaucrats. They fatten on shortages and thrive on trouble. Peace can never offer such opportunities for exercising petty tyrannies, using red tape to regiment the individual and making life generally unpleasant." »Paul Tabori, _The Natural Science of Stupidity_. (New York: ChiltonCompany, 1960), p. 104.
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"Tears at times have all the weight of speech." »Ovid
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"Force without wisdom falls of its own weight." »Horace
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"Childhood is that wonderful time when all you need to do to lose weight is take a bath." »Joe Moore
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"Getting my lifelong weight struggle under control has come from a process of treating myself as well as I treat others in every way." »Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, August 2004
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"If worry were an effective weight-loss program, women would be invisible." »Nancy Drew
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"I have no mercy or compassion for a society that crushes people, and then penalizes them for not being able to stand up under the weight." »Malcom X, My counselor, Mrs. Ross
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"I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight." »Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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"These two truths are the same in weight and importance. Accept and love WHO and WHERE you are now, and all good things shall find you there." »Unknown
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"Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic it is merely a form of emotional masturbation. It is the rarest thing to find a player who has not had his character affected for the worse by the practice of his profession. Nobody can make a habit of self-exhibition, nobody can exploit his personality for the sake of exercising a kind of hypnotic power over others, and remain untouched by the process." »Aldous Huxley
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"All wit and fancy, like a diamond, The more exact and curious ?tis ground, Is forced for every carat to abate As much of value as it wants in weight." »Butler
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"A wretched soul, bruised with adversity,
We bid be quiet when we hear it cry;
But were we burdened with like weight of pain,
As much or more we should ourselves complain." »William Shakespeare
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"A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry But were we burdened with like weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain." »William Shakespeare
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"A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience." »John Updike
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"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life That word is love." »Sophocles
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"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love." »Sophocles
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"One word
Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
That word is love." »Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus
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"Metric is definitely communist. One monetary system, one language, one weight and measurement system, one world - all communist! We know the West was won by the inch, foot, yard, and mile." »Dean Krakel, Director of the National Cowboy Hall of Fame
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"George The official toxicity limit for humans is between one and one and half grams of cocaine depending on body weight. I was averaging five grams a day, maybe more. I snorted ten grams in ten minutes once. I guess I had a high tolerance." »Blow
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"Globalization of markets, competition, partnerships and risks should carry far more weight in the designing of strategic national development plans. It is not enough to think about government budgets anymore, you need to build your economy and businesses for global markets and competition" »Med Jones
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"Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight. Equilibrium is pragmatic. You have to get everything into proportion. You compensate, rebalance yourself so that you maintain your angle to the world. When the world shifts, you shift." »Tom Stoppard
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"Because the results are expressed in numbers, it is easy to make the mistake of thinking that the intelligence test is a measure like a foot ruler or a pair of scales. It is, of course, a quite different sort of measure. Intelligence is not an abstraction like length and weight; it is an exceedingly complicated notion - which nobody has yet succeeded in defining." »Walter Lippmann
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"If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring." »Marya Mannes
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