A Quote by Paula Poundstone

I don’t believe for a second that weightlifting is a sport. They pick up a heavy thing and put it down again. To me, that’s indecision.

Paula Poundstone

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Paula Poundstone
American - Comedian
Born: December 29, 1959

God picks you up. You don't pick yourself up. You're the one who knocked you down or even if somebody else knocked you down, your willingness to believe that what they said had value, was your conspiring with them, with their effort to knock you down - I've never been able to get myself up and I've noticed that every time I ask God to pick me up - he does.

Marianne Williamson

Girls ask me to pick them up all of the time, and I have to admit, sometimes it's hard to put them down again.

Hafthor Bjornsson

Gossip and rumor are evil; easy to lift up, heavy to carry, and hard to put down again.

Hesiod

I did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.

Bill Nighy

Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.

Samuel Johnson

Once you've put one of his [Henry James] books down, you simply can't pick it up again.

Mark Twain

There's no weightlifting event in Palaro, that's why I'm going here, hoping they consider including weightlifting again.

Hidilyn Diaz

I can pick up any sport pretty quickly - believe me, I know how to throw a football.

Marisa Miller

My books flow. People say they pick them up and they can't put them down. It's because when I'm writing them I pick my pen up and I cannot put my pen down.

Jackie Collins

Indecision is fatal. It is better to make a wrong decision than build up a habit of indecision. If you're wallowing in indecision, you certainty can't act - and action is the basis of success

Marie Beynon Lyons Ray

Because here's the thing about a book: when you pick up a story, you put down your own.

Holly Smale

It's exciting to do something like this because usually what happens in theater is that, after the first or second reading of a play, it falls apart completely and the rehearsal process is such that you begin to pick up the pieces and put it back together again.

Treat Williams

I didn't want to come to L.A. without a plan. I was already dealing with my own indecision in Atlanta, so I didn't want to pick up and relocate and do the same thing in a different area.

Y'lan Noel

My mum didn't want me to do weightlifting because the sport is for men.

Hidilyn Diaz

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.

Ralph Fiennes

My hermeneutics is when I see verses in Scripture that are "apparent" contradictions - I don't believe they are contradictions - I believe them both. I believe them both. I believe take up your cross and deny yourself and follow me, and I believe come unto me all you who are weary and heavy laden and I will give you rest. They are different sides of the same thing.

Rick Warren

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