Eight Quotes - Page 46

Your waist size should not be more than half your height.

Birds teach us something very important: To whatever height you rise, you will finally come down to the ground!

America's critics can be heard everywhere. It is too much in love with money - worshipping the god of the marketplace, the golden calf. It has too much money, seven of the top 10 banks, eight of the top 10 companies etc. It is too stingy, giving away less of its wealth than other countries. It is vulgar, a rich barbarian.

For Ryan's Daughter I used a total of eight harps, something that was, at least, weird.

Guilt isn't always a rational thing, Clio realized. Guilt is a weight that will crush you whether you deserve it or not.

[On men:] On their best days, the best of them are eight years old.

Steve Kerr, now coaching Golden State after eight tumultuous and very inconsistent years at TNT.

The doctor looked at it after the game and he thought it didn't look too bad, but we'll see what happens. My skate got caught and I twisted it. I heard it twist and I couldn't get up. All my body weight fell on it. I had to be really hurt to leave the game - we were still in the game at that point.

God has been my number one inspiration. I also look up to Will Smith and Jamie Fox who are also personal friends of mine. They give me great career advice. I would also include Chris Stokes, as a filmmaker and music producer. I've been working with him since I was eight.

When a person is accustomed to one hundred and thirty-eight in the shade, his ideas about cold weather are not valuable.

I absolutely adored Wuthering Heights and fell in love with Heathcliff as most girls do.

It is not the weight of the future or the past that is pressing upon you, but ever that of the present alone. Even this burden, too, can be lessened if you confine it strictly to its own limits.

Like your weight set-point, which keeps the scale hovering around the same number, your happiness set-point will remain the same unless you make a concerted effort to change it.

If you have nothing to hide, if you're actually working for eight hours, or 10 or 12 hours, however long people decide to work, it's OK to have windows around conference rooms, it's OK to have cubicles. Because you're actually working. If you're not working, doing social media and spending half the day for personal stuff, then an environment like this will actually bother you.

Three or four drops of height have nothing to do with savageness.

The way to lose weight is to eat less, so I ate a lot less for a month and lost a lot of weight pretty quickly.

Once I had asked God for one or two extra inches in height, but instead he made me as tall as the sky, so high that I could not measure myself.

A country that is governed by its national army can never be morally free and, therefore, its so-called weakest member can never rise to his full moral height.

I like to roller skate. I have been roller skating since I was eight.

Being a mum makes you more aware of how short life is and how important it is to enjoy every minute because you have less time for yourself. A day doesn't have 24 hours any more - it only lasts 10, or eight. So you learn to get rid of all the parasites. I'm not talking about people, but things that could be toxic for happiness.

The mind reaches great heights only by spurts.

And I understand that, I testified in closed hearings over eight years because there are intelligence matters, there are sensitive matters that should not be held in a public hearing.

I try to do the right thing with money. Save a dollar here and there, clip some coupons. Buy ten gold chains instead of 20. Four summer homes instead of eight.

For someone to say I am overweight is completely ridiculous.

I carry about eight lip balms: Burts Bees, Rosebud Salve, Eos.