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Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.

Quote by Charles Babbage about opinion, fall, power

The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of considerable importance, particularly in military affairs.

Quote by Charles Babbage about army, animals, man

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

Quote by Francis Bacon about fame, things, light

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

Quote by Francis Bacon about god

I really believe that a lawyer - no matter how good - if he or she is really worth their weight in salt, they will lose some cases because, after all, it is not really one of those secretive things that not everything is decided by who your lawyer...

Quote by Floyd Abrams about faith, things, good, good luck

I had to gain weight until I looked like a seal so I could compete with the real whores who played the other roles. I was fat as a barrel.

Quote by Victoria Abril about real estate

I lost a lot of weight. I'm thin as it is, but I was probably 50 pounds lighter; and if you're that skinny, your head starts acting sort of funny.

Quote by Kevin Bacon about heads, contentment

He shifted his weight from foot to foot, but it was equally uncomfortable on each.

Quote by Douglas Adams

Also, I gained lots of weight between ages 18-20 because I was drinking alcohol at night. Alcohol has lots of calories and that does not help.

Quote by Oksana Baiul about drinking, help, night

The weight of ages seemed to have fallen from me.

Quote by Taylor Caldwell

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

Quote by Albert Camus about philosophy, day, god

Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulent dealers in awe, for the same reason.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about fear, reason

Finally, you get the job, and you think you'll be dancing on the ceiling, but I just wanted to go take a nap. It was just like a weight had been lifted off or something.

Quote by Josh Duhamel about contentment

I actually lost weight by not obsessing. When I crave something, I eat it.

Quote by Carmen Electra

The demographic weight of countries such as China and India exercise a massive pressure on our wages and salaries. They have accomplished massive technological advances and the revolution in information technology has reduced the costs of transport.

Quote by Laurent Fabius about salary, revolution, technology, country

The great weight of the ship may indeed prevent her from acquiring her greatest velocity; but when she has attained it, she will advance by her own intrinsic motion, without gaining any new degree of velocity, or lessening what she has acquired.

Quote by William Falconer

But then in April of 1985 the dollar began a sharp decline. The dollar's trade weighted value fell 23 percent in just 12 months and by a total of 37 percent by the beginning of 1988.

Quote by Martin Feldstein about decline, commerce, value, beginning

I couldn't get as big as a bodybuilder. I tried to put on as much weight in the right places as I could. My weightlifting was impressive for me, but not for some of the guys I see down at the gym.

Quote by Ralph Fiennes about rightness

I like to keep fit, but I never lift very heavy weights.

Quote by Ralph Fiennes

The first expectation was that I was supposed to put on weight. Then it was expected that we would lead proper lives, though there wasn't a lot of conversation about it.

Quote by Peter Fonda about expectation, conversation