#weigh

Suddenly in the end when it's over, you feel a big weight on your shoulders. That's the role of the captain. Unfortunately, it's sometimes like that in sport. ↗

— Guy Forget

#captain #end #feel #in the end #like

Though I weigh only 120 pounds, when I'm mad, I weigh a ton. ↗

— Thomas Starr King

#mad #only #pounds #though #ton

Japan's humid and warm summer climate, as well as frequent earthquakes resulted in lightweight timber buildings raised off the ground that are resistant to earth tremors. ↗

— Harry Seidler

#climate #earth #earthquakes #frequent #ground

Exercise stimulates growth plates, by putting pressure on bone cells, forcing them to specialize and create new cells. Too much pressure, however, damages the growth plates, which are soft and fragile...The rule of thumb is that lifting one's own body weight (in push-ups,pull-ups, etc) is fine at any age, and kids over fifteen can lift weights. ↗

— Arianne Cohen

#height #weight-lifting #age

The heel is engineering in itself. This little thing that supports the human weight has to have a precise balance. ↗

— Christian Louboutin

#engineering #heel #human #itself #little

Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, the emptiness of ages in his face, and on his back the burden of the world. ↗

— Edwin Markham

#back #bowed #burden #centuries #emptiness

Brand-new research suggests that the faster you take weight off, the longer you keep it off. Now that's a reason for dieters everywhere to rejoice. ↗

— Mike Moreno

#everywhere #faster #keep #longer #now

I was captain and should have set the example. I would lift a minimum of weights. Mine was natural physical strength. I always thought quickness and agility were much more important. ↗

— Merlin Olsen

#always #captain #example #i #i always

But Italy can only have any real influence on world affairs if it carries weight in Europe. ↗

— Romano Prodi

#any #carries #europe #influence #italy

I would rather have one article a day of this sort; and these ten or twenty lines might readily represent a whole day's hard work in the way of concentrated, intense thinking and revision, polish of style, weighing of words. ↗

— Joseph Pulitzer

#concentrated #day #hard #hard work #i