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Pounds Quotes - Page 7

Most people I know feel that life would be complete if they could just lose ten pounds.

Betty Jane Wylie (1986). “Successfully single: how to live alone and like it”

GMO herbicide-tolerant crops have led to a 527 million pound increase in herbicide use in the U.S. between 1996 and 2011.

"Zoe Lister-Jones: The Dangers of GMOs". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 27, 2016.

There is here a great melting pot in which we must compound a precious metal. That metal is the metal of nationality.

Woodrow Wilson (1916). “Wit and Wisdom of Woodrow Wilson: Extracts from the Public Speeches of the Leader and Interpreter of American Democracy, with Masterpieces of Eloquence”, Best Books

It is that fery person for all the orld, as just as you will desire; and seven hundred pounds of moneys, and gold, and silver, is her grandsire upon his death's-bed-Got deliver to a joyful resurrections!

William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.2321, BookCaps Study Guides

In this year 1634, I purchased the moiety of thirteen houses in the Strand for five hundred and thirty pounds.

William Lilly, Elias Ashmole (1822). “William Lilly's history of his life and times from the year 1602 to 1681”, p.78

Let a gentleman be known to have been cheated of twenty pounds, and it costs him forty a-year for the remainder of his life.

Walter Savage Landor (1829). “Barrow and Newton. Peleus and Thetis. The King of Ava and Rao-Gong-Fao. Photo Zavellas and his sister Kaido. Epicurus, Leontion, and Ternissa. The Empress Catharine and Princess Dashkoff. William Penn and Lord Peterborough. Miguel and mother. Metellus and Marius. Nicolas and Michel. Leofric and Godiva. Izaac Walton, Cotton, and William Oldways”, p.83

I made my living being 20 or 30 pounds heavier than the average model. And that's where I got famous.

"The supermodel turned spokeswoman". Interview with Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2007.

Juice fasting destroys your metabolic rate. I see a lot of women who are like, "Oh, I lost seven pounds and then I gained 10." That's not what detoxification is about.

"Join the Gwyneth Paltrow & Tracy Anderson Fit Club". Interview with Judith Newman, www.redbookmag.com. December 20, 2012.

Meat reared on land matures relatively quickly, and it takes only a few pounds of plants to produce a pound of meat.

"Can We Stop Killing Our Oceans Now, Please?" by Sylvia Earle, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 14, 2013.

One ounce of practice is worth a thousand pounds of theory.

Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2266, Manonmani Publishers

The body is mortal and the mind is mortal; both, being compounds, must die.

Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2623, Manonmani Publishers