Top 100 As Weak As Sayings
#1. In software, the chain isn't as strong as its weakest link; it's as weak as all the weak links multiplied together.
Steve McConnell
#2. But after a while, she began to experience the new reality of each person as being as strong and as weak as anyone else. Slowly, she learned that each of us grown-ups has as much and as little power as the other, and that we had best learn to take care of ourselves.(83)
Sheldon B. Kopp
#3. Come, for the House of Hope is built on sand: bring wine, for the fabric of life is as weak as the wind.
Hafez
#4. Braith lifted his head from her shoulder, kissed him. Centuries and her kiss still made him as weak as one of her fists to the face.
G.A. Aiken
#6. No one is ever quite as strong or as weak as you'd think.
Deb Caletti
#7. The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world: the most people can do is sometimes not to be as weak as they've been at other times.
Angus Wilson
#8. Dictatorships are never as strong as they think they are, and people are never as weak as they think they are.
Gene Sharp
#9. You're only as weak as you let yourself become, and you're only as strong as you allow yourself to be.
Daniel Hansen
#10. What's the matter?" he asked
"nothing"
"what do you want me to do for you?"
"i want you to be old. ten years older. twenty years older"
what she meant was: i want you to be weak. as weak as i am.
Milan Kundera
#11. Anger is too pathetic. Anger is as weak as fear.
Anne Rice
#12. We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.
J.K. Rowling
#13. The case for prohibiting drugs is exactly as strong and as weak as the case for prohibiting people from overeating.
Milton Friedman
#15. One who is unrestrained in life-delusion overcomes; as the wind a weak tree.
Gautama Buddha
#16. I don't believe you! Flowers are weak creatures. They are naive. They reassure themselves as best they can. They believe that their thorns are terrible weapons ...
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#17. What I wanted to do was slap him down a bit with wit and words. Grammar and vocabulary as a weapon. But what kind of world would it be if we all took every opportunity presented to us to assault the weak?
Charles Frazier
#20. I jerked away from her, almost falling. "No!" I meant to shout but it came out as a weak croak, "Don't touch me." My voice was shaking, though I couldn't tell if I was angry or afraid.
Patrick Rothfuss
#21. I grab the pillows off the bed and chuck them at the reflection in the mirror of the girl I no longer know. I watch as the girl in the mirror stares back at me, sobbing pathetically. The weakness in her tears infuriates me.
Colleen Hoover
#23. Who ever lives looking for pleasure only, his senses uncontrolled, immoderate in his enjoyments, idle and weak, the tempter will certainly overcome him, as the wind blows down a weak tree.
Gautama Buddha
#24. There is no such thing as objectivity. We are all just interpreting signals from the universe and trying to make sense of them. Dim, shaky, weak, static-y little signals that only hint at the complexity of a universe we cannot begin to understand.
Bones The Doctor In The Photo
#25. Believe not each accusing tongue,
As most weak persons do;
But still believe that story wrong,
Which ought not to be true!
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
#26. Tears fell from my eyes - yes, weak and foolish as it now appears to me, I wept for my departed youth; and for that beauty of which the faithful mirror too plainly assured me, no remnant existed.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
#27. Winter noon is on the rise. Weak suns yet alive
are as virtue to suns of that other day.
For the poor town dreams
of surrender, mother
never untender,
mother gallant
and gay.
Anne Carson
#28. I am not so weak as to submit to the demands of the age when they go against my convictions. I spin a cocoon around myself; let others do the same. I shall leave it to time to show what will come of it: a brilliant butterfly or maggot.
Caspar David Friedrich
#29. Maybe he would see me as weak and stupid. Maybe he was right.
Leslea Tash
#30. As a genre, the noir of post-World War II was based on characters who were weak or repellent, bound to let down us and themselves.
Steve Erickson
#31. He leaned heavily on the desk now, as if danger had strengthened him before and its lack now made him weak.
Kristin Cashore
#32. It is important to be nice. But sometimes niceness can be misconstrued as weak. Should we be nice to everybody? Should we be nice only when others are nice to us? Here are some interesting views about being nice. Read these nice quotes and turn on your niceness.
Dave Barry
#33. As gentle a man as he was, as tender as was his heart, there was nothing weak about Michael Hosea. He was the strongest-minded man Joseph had ever met. A Man like Noah. A Man like the Shepherd-king David. A man after God's own heart.
Francine Rivers
#34. It is true that the reluctance to abstain from animal food, in those who have been long accustomed to its stimulus, is so great in some persons of weak minds, as to be scarcely overcome; but this is far from bringing any argument in its favour
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#35. It's funny, most people think that revenge is a passionate affair, driven by rage and pain. But it can't be. Feelings such as those make you weak. They overwrite thought and cause reckless impulses that lead to poor decisions.
Carrie Ryan
#36. We have enforced a Darwinian process on wolves, turning them into the shy and elusive animals they've become. They didn't have that fear of us 30,000 years ago. We didn't have gunpowder; we had rocks. Wolves would have seen us as lunch, and we were weak and slow and tasty.
Bruce Cameron
#37. In a world where the threat is asymmetrical, where the weak defy the strong, the power of conviction, the capacity to convince, the ability to sway opinion count as much as the number of military divisions.
Dominique De Villepin
#38. I haven't any language weak enough to depict the weakness of my spiritual life. If I weakened it enough it would cease to be language at all. As when you try to turn the gas-ring a little lower still, and it merely goes out.
C.S. Lewis
#39. Extreme right-wingers are known for giving God a bad name; extreme left-wingers are known for giving God a weak name. He's not as simple as conservative versus liberal, old versus new. His wings are balanced. God is both and neither.
Criss Jami
#40. Whereas the staff, of course, was devoted to the idea that weak people should be helped as much as possible, that nobody should die.
Kurt Vonnegut
#41. In the birthing process, you come out just realizing how stupid and weak men are! I mean, I might as well not have been in there, we're useless!
Heath Ledger
#42. The war had left his body pathetically damaged and weak, but his mind was as strong and clear as it had ever been, perhaps even tempered and made stronger by adversity. That, not madness, was his curse.
Dean Koontz
#43. In morals as in politics anarchy is not for the weak.
Mary McCarthy
#44. Woman knows man well enough where he is weak, but she is quite unable to fathom him where he is strong. The fact is that man is as much a mystery to woman as woman is to man. If that were not so, the separation of the sexes would only have been a waste of Nature's energy.
Rabindranath Tagore
#45. In the high-octane, low responsibility world of American politics it was better to be seen as crazy than weak.
Richard Peters
#46. If we live truly, we shall see truly. It is as easy for the strong man to be strong, as it is for the weak to be weak.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#47. Who says I would have? I knew he meant it cruelly, that it was a weak moment and all he wanted was for me to feel as much pain as he did, but there wasn't enough venom in his words for them to sting. He just wasn't capable of it.
Alexandra Bracken
#48. Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is exploitation of the strong by the weak.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
#49. The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat.
Napoleon Hill
#50. He remembers noticing his dad's shadow was shorter than the others, and he had a visceral sense his father was weaker than the rest, and that he was more dangerous as a weak person with a lot of power than a powerful person with a lot of power.
Jardine Libaire
#51. Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.
David Hare
#52. We're not the fragile beings we've been trained to think we are. We're not as weak (of body, of mind, of will) as we've hypnotized ourselves into thinking.
Johnny B. Truant
#53. Hurry, oh peaceful Death, and carry me from these multitudes who left me in the dark corner of oblivion because I do not bleed the weak as they do. Come, oh gentle Death, and enfold me under your white wings, for my fellowmen are not in want of me. Embrace
Kahlil Gibran
#54. War is honorable
In those who do their native rights maintain;
In those whose swords an iron barrier are
Between the lawless spoiler and the weak;
But is, in those who draw th' offensive blade
For added power or gain, sordid and despicable
As meanest office of the worldly churl.
Joanna Baillie
#55. The heart is a pump, xxx weak and fickle as any other machine, and sometimes an embolism of indifference stops affection's flow.
James K. Morrow
#56. It occurred to him that strength was quite different from toughness and that being vulnerable wasn't quite the same as being weak.
Michelle Magorian
#57. Knowing what she did to him made her feel powerful, just as knowing what he did to her made her feel weak.
Kate Meader
#58. Today, the need to avoid confusing marriage with other types of unions based on weak love is especially urgent. It is only the rock of total, irrevocable love between a man and a woman that can serve as the foundation on which to build a society that will become a home for all mankind.
Pope Benedict XVI
#59. The toughest thing for a homeschooler is the same as for a school teacher - shifting from a weak tea vision of math being grinding calculations to a rich frothy mug of math as an active way of thinking.
John Golden
#60. Our enemies believed America was weak and materialistic, that we would splinter in fear and selfishness. They were as wrong as they are evil.
George W. Bush
#61. Do you use 'True Will' as an excuse to do nothing?
Have you declared yourself enlightened?
Damn your weak philosophies; a pox and a pestilence your despicable sloth and arrogance.
Peter J. Carroll
#62. I detest bullies for their cowardice, and despise them for their cruelty. I never knew a tough man who preyed on the weak. Tough men hate bullies almost as much as bullies hate tough men.
Gregory David Roberts
#63. Every preacher who does not make prayer a mighty factor in his own life and ministry is weak as a factor in God's work and is powerless to project God's cause in this world.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#64. As I said, this was my sarcastic summer. It was only long after that I recognized sarcasm as the protest of people who are weak.
John Knowles
#65. Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business. I live by the golden rule: Treat others as you'd want them to treat you. The religious right wants to tell people how to live.
Jesse Ventura
#66. Bring wings to the weak and bring grace to the strong
May all evil stumble as it flies in the world
All the tribes comes and the mighty will crumble
We must brave this night and have faith in love
Janelle Monae
#68. Most of us know what we should expect to find in a dragon's lair, but, as I said before, Eustace had read only the wrong books. They had a lot to say about exports and imports and governments and drains, but they were weak on dragons.
C.S. Lewis
#69. Nothing which is so weak for working purposes as this enormous importance attached to immediate victory. There is nothing that fails like success.
G.K. Chesterton
#70. There is no such thing as bad timing. Just weak people.
Iveta Cherneva
#71. Thank God I am 20 feet tall, so my crying is never mistaken as weak. It can be mistaken as weird, but not weak.
Wendy Williams
#72. Anne's is a world very like this one, and you can move about in it with familiarity - but not freedom: it is a place of rigorous consequence, where the weak have to give way to the strong, where her governess heroine Agnes must walk as best she can in the cold shade of money and masculinity.
Jude Morgan
#73. Verbal clashes seldom come to a satisfying end. They peter out in weak retorts that leave you wishing you'd been as clever in the moment as you are in reviewing the conversation later.
Sue Grafton
#74. Shut up, Four! she says, and I want to yell back that I'm as frustrated as she is, with an
Erudite vulture analyzing my every move, searching for my weak points so he can hit them as hard
as he can.
Veronica Roth
#75. Prodigality is indeed the vice of a weak nature, as avarice is of a strong one; it comes of a weak craving for those blandishments of the world which are easily to be had for money, and which, when obtained, are as much worse than worthless as a harlot's love is worse than none.
Henry Taylor
#76. Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.
Thucydides
#77. The Court stands against any winds that blow as havens of refuge for those who might otherwise suffer because they are helpless, weak, outnumbered, or because they are nonconforming victims of prejudice or public excitement.
Hugo Black
#78. There can be no peace as long as there is grinding poverty, social injustice, inequality, oppression, environmental degradation, and as long as the weak and small continue to be trodden by the mighty and powerful.
Dalai Lama
#79. Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good. Let us therefore study the incidents of this, as philosophy to learn wisdom from.
Abraham Lincoln
#80. Weak men like humble women, especially great women who make them feel as inferior.
Brent Weeks
#81. Optimism ... is neither weak nor naive. It can be tough and pure and earned just as clearly as any brooding existential despair.
Charlie Pierce
#82. At high enough energy and temperature - such as occurred a mere fraction of a second after the big bang - electromagnetic and weak force fields dissolve into one another, take on indistinguishable characteristics, and are more accurately called electroweak fields.
Brian Greene
#83. To tell you the truth, though, I loved his weak side, too. I loved it as much as I loved his good side. There was absolutely nothing mean or sneaky about him. He was weak: that's all.
Haruki Murakami
#84. Oh, yes. I'd do it all again; the spirit is willing yet; I feel the same desire to do the work but the flesh is weak. It's too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.
Susan B. Anthony
#85. But if I must be alone, I refuse to be alone as if it were something weak and distasteful, like convalescence.
Mary Francis Kennedy Fisher
#86. What's rare is to have a good, strong man, as opposed to a good, weak man. Those are the ones who ruin the world. Men who mean well, but buckle under others' opinions until their good intentions destroy an untold number of lives." My
Sara Raasch
#87. One big blow can hit and destroy any strong door in front of you. As for the 1000 feeble blows, they can't even remove the cobwebs. Courage is the key.
Israelmore Ayivor
#88. Mental illness is a physical illness, not some disease that enters the minds of the weak or characterless. Like cancer can happen to anyone, let's start treating mental illnesses as what they are, devastating diseases. ~ Sherry Hunter
Sherry Hunter
#89. Don't ever call yourself weak, because you aren't, you're a warrior and warriors can move mountains because mountains are no match for a true warrior such as yourself
Rider
#90. He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
#91. A weak mind sinks under prosperity, as well as under adversity. A strong and deep mind has two highest tides - when the moon is at the full, and when there is no moon.
David Hare
#92. Counter football is not something weak teams only can do by the way. It is sometimes said in a way as if counter football is inferior. It's not.
Guus Hiddink
#93. She said we can't save everyone, but we can damned sure as hell fight to save those we love ... She taught me that we can only do our best. You've done your best ... not beat yourself up because you missed something or someone. It makes you weak.
Lora Leigh
#94. For a hunter, her shields were surprisingly weak, as if she somehow still saw innocence in the world.
Then she will kill you. She will make you mortal.
Was it not worth the loss of a little immortality to have that strange mix of innocence and strength close to him?
Nalini Singh
#95. Men's moral principles are weak enough without their being made subordinate to selfishness; and their selfishness is quite active enough, without any such effort as Christianity makes to constitute it the mainspring of all their conduct.
Lysander Spooner
#96. A scientist is as weak and human as any man, but the pursuit of science may ennoble him even against his will.
Isaac Asimov
#97. We have been warned by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself ... There must be law, steadily invoked and respected by all nations, for without law, the world promises only such meager justice as the pity of the strong upon the weak.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#98. There is nothing which is so weak for working purposes as the enormous importance attached to immediate victory.
G.K. Chesterton
#99. Being human doesn't mean you're weak, it just means you're subject to the same little quirks and foibles as the rest of us - for which you should be grateful.
Patricia Ryan
#100. Islam doesn't have a monopoly on violence in Africa. And violence plays a particularly critical role in places where statehood is weak at best, such as the Maghreb.
Eliza Griswold
