#weight

Those nations have a very great responsibility at this juncture of the world's affairs, for by throwing their joint weight into the scales of history on the right side, they may tip the balance decisively in favour of peace. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

#balance #decisively #favour #great #great responsibility

None knows the weight of another's burden. ↗

— George Herbert

#burden #knows #none #weight

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh. ↗

— Herodotus

#give #knowledge #lustre #many #may

I like having my hair and face done, but I'm not going to lose weight because someone tells me to. I make music to be a musician not to be on the cover of Playboy. ↗

— Adele

#cover #done #face #going #hair

Even when I wasn't overweight I was never one of those girls or women who wanted to look nice. I always thought it wasn't important. ↗

— Jo Brand

#even #i #i always #important #look

The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust them; it was not in them, it only came through them, and what came through was longing... For they are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#beauty

Behold a republic standing erect while empires all around are bowed beneath the weight of their own armaments - a republic whose flag is loved while other flags are only feared. ↗

— William Jennings Bryan

#around #behold #beneath #bowed #empires

Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects. ↗

— Robert Burns

#heavy #impedes #more #protects #suspicion

We were only on orbit a little over two days, so we had no adverse effects from being weightless. ↗

— Robert Crippen

#being #days #effects #had #little

Your body has enough weight for you to be in perfect condition just working against yourself. ↗

— Jean Claude Van Damme

#body #condition #enough #just #perfect