Top 100 Weighs Quotes
#1. If your rod weighs six ounces, your reel nine, and your line another ounce or two, it means that you are holding a pound of weight in your casting hand - much of the time at arm's length - all the time you fish. Try carrying a pound of butter around that way for four or five hours.
Ted Trueblood
#2. Anxiety in a man's heart weighs him down, but a good word makes him glad.
Solomon
#3. But when we crave power over life - endless wealth, unassailable safety, immortality - then desire becomes greed. And if knowledge allies itself to that greed, then comes evil. Then the balance of the world is swayed, and ruin weighs heavy in the scale.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#4. Music can minister to minds diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with its sweet oblivious antidote, cleanse the full bosom of all perilous stuff that weighs upon the heart.
William Shakespeare
#5. Chill penury weighs down the heart itself; and though it sometimes be endured with calmness, it is but the calmness of despair.
Anna Brownell Jameson
#6. What do you do when disappointment comes? When it weighs on you like a rock, you can either let it press you down until you become discouraged, even devastated, or you can use it as a stepping-stone to better things.
Joyce Meyer
#7. A heart weighs more when it splits in two; it crashes in the chest like a broken plane. Sarah dragged her wreckage back to the house up to her bedroom, and down into a deep, dark hole.
Mitch Albom
#8. I travel to work on my motorcycle, so it's jeans, boots and a brown Aero leather jacket that weighs as much as I do. If it were black, it would seem like I've got a Brando idea going on, which I don't.
Hugh Laurie
#9. You cannot imagine how time ... can be ... so still. It hangs. It weighs. And yet there is so little of it. It goes so slowly, and yet it is so scarce.
Margaret Edson
#10. The past is the anchor that weighs us down.
Don Trowden
#12. Bravery is a complicated thing to describe. You can't say it's three feet long and two feet wide and that it weighs four hundred pounds or that it's colored bright blue or that it sounds like a piano or that it smells like roses. It's a quality, not a thing.
Mickey Mantle
#13. The human heart is the only thing in this world that weighs more when it is broken
Michael Xavier
#14. It's hard to carry a weight of news with none to tell and days ahead before you can release it. Good news weighs just as heavy as bad.
Mark Lawrence
#15. Every generation gets the Constitution that it deserves. As the central preoccupations of an era make their way into the legal system, the Supreme Court eventually weighs in, and nine lawyers in robes become oracles of our national identity.
Noah Feldman
#16. I have skinny genes. My mother weighs 90 pounds.
Ellen Barkin
#17. Tired of life, afraid of death, not unlike
A lost brig, toy of ebb and flow on the ocean,
My soul weighs anchor for a frightful shipwreck.
Paul Verlaine
#18. Yellow?" The king's eyebrows nudge up. "What, you thought I'd like the color of spilled blood or something?" He tips his head back as he weighs my words. "Yeah, I kind of did.
Laura Thalassa
#19. The inability to pass reasonable gun safety laws after the Newtown massacre is something that weighs heavily on my mind.
Eric Holder
#20. Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
Terry Pratchett
#21. This is why angels choose sides, why people join teams. It costs too much not to; it weighs too heavily to soldier on alone.
Lauren Kate
#22. My spirit is too weak
mortality
Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep,
And each imagin'd pinnacle and steep
Of godlike hardship tells me I must die
Like a sick Eagle looking at the sky.
John Keats
#23. A crown is a pitiless master, harsher than the staff of a pig-keeper; while a staff bears up, a crown weighs down, beyond the strength of any man to wear it lightly.
Lloyd Alexander
#24. There are two types of pain you will go through in life, the pain of discipline and the pain of regret. Discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tonnes.
Jim Rohn
#25. I know that he, Matthew Broderick, doesn't have his laundry done, and that he hasn't had a hot meal in days. That stuff weighs on my mind.
Sarah Jessica Parker
#26. Through EdgeRank, Facebook weighs likes, comments, and shares, but it currently does not give greater weight to click-throughs or any other action that leads to sales.
Gary Vaynerchuk
#27. Why women choose to dress like this on a regular basis baffles me. It weighs so much. And then they add those high shoes? I will never understand Ladies," Rose commented
Brandi Gillilan
#28. The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.
Francis Quarles
#29. She watched you wrestle Toby Jameson, who probably weighs two hundred pounds, without even working up a sweat. And she said to herself, wow, that's a good wrestler, he must be an angel.
Cynthia Hand
#30. iridium is one of the three heaviest (densest) elements on the Table - two cubic feet of it weighs as much as a Buick, which makes iridium one of the world's best paperweights, able to defy all known office fans.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#31. The consciousness of the past weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.
Karl Marx
#32. To love,
and all the heartache that weighs it down.
To love,
and all the heartbeats that lift it up.
Brittainy C. Cherry
#34. An hour ago, I would have sworn that a man's body wouldn't fit in a standard trash bag, and that even if it did, it'd be too heavy to lift."
"Pieces always fit better than the whole," he said. "And a corpse weighs less after you drain the blood."
"Spoken like a true psychopath.
Rachel Vincent
#36. A worker bee is just over a centimeter long and weighs only about sixty milligrams; nevertheless, she can fly with a load heavier than herself.
Sue Monk Kidd
#37. Order always weighs on the individual. Disorder makes him wish for the police or for death. These are two extreme circumstances in which human nature is not at ease.
Paul Valery
#38. Every choice has a consequence, every consequence another choice. Little agonies waiting to be embraced. Only the moment before the choice really weighs anything. Very heavy moments, exploding into nothing.
MCM
#39. That one teaspoon of a neutron star weighs billions of tonnes,
Holly Smale
#40. Magnetism is not like in the superhero movies. I couldn't pull a car toward myself, because a car weighs more than I do. I just ended up pulling myself to the car.
Richard Paul Evans
#41. What I learned, a little too late, was that the 'traditional' Martin Short target viewer weighs under 300 pounds. Unfortunately, I was on during daytime.
Martin Short
#42. An anxious heart weighs a man down, but a kind word cheers him up. - Proverbs 12:25
Sue Birdseye
#43. I still have the strength to carry the bread I eat, What always weighs more is the bread of the others,
Jose Saramago
#44. The biggest threat to advanced economies is that debt will accumulate until the overhang weighs on growth.
Carmen Reinhart
#45. The tradition of past generations weighs like the Alps on the brains of the living.
Karl Marx
#46. No book has worth by itself, but by the relation to what you have from many other books, it weighs.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#47. For this world has neither worth nor weight with God; so slight it is, it weighs not with God so much as a pebble or a single clod of earth; as I am told, God has created nothing more hateful to Him than this world, and from the day He created it He has not looked upon it, so much He hates it.
Al-Hasan Al-Basri
#48. What weighs six ounces, sits in a tree, and is dangerous?"
"A sparrow with a machine gun."
"Or course
Batman Memes
#49. A scale can tell what a body weighs, but not its value.
Marty Rubin
#50. You might be a redneck if ... your belt buckle weighs more than three pounds.
Jeff Foxworthy
#51. Always respect Mother Nature. Especially when she weighs 400 pounds and is guarding her baby.
James Rollins
#52. Carefully purify your conscience from daily faults; suffer no sin to dwell in your heart; small as it may seem, it obscures the light of grace, weighs down the soul, and hinders that constant communion with Jesus Christ which it should be your pleasure to cultivate.
Francois Fenelon
#53. One of the first lessons a president has to learn is that every word he says weighs a ton.
Calvin Coolidge
#54. Grief weighs nothing but you still have to drag it around.
Emily Rapp
#55. The armour of others is too wide, or too strait for us; it falls off us, or it weighs us down.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#56. When someone wrongs you, you both share the burden of that wrongdoing - the pain of it weighs on both of you. Forgiveness, then, means choosing to bear the full weight all by yourself.
Veronica Roth
#57. The sun weighs on them from overhead, weighs like light upon them all, as they tilt their faces up toward the source, mouths open, joyful, and light touches the backs of their mouths, the unbroken backs of their throats.
Alexandra Kleeman
#58. A man's life weighs more then glory, and a price paid in blood is a heavy reckoning.
Lloyd Alexander
#59. There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the fall of an empire of fourteen years and the dropping of a woman's glove, and almost always the glove weighs more than the empire.
Honore De Balzac
#60. The unwarranted devotion. Putting up with the fear of being with the wrong person because you can't deal with the fear of being alone. The hope tinged with doubt, and the doubt tinged with hope. Every time I see these feelings in someone else's face, it weighs me down.
David Levithan
#61. To a billion people around the world surviving on just a dollar a day, the question of what to eat tonight is more about life and death than about recipes. The struggle of poor people around the globe weighs heavily on me, especially now that I am a mother, which is why I work with Oxfam.
Giada De Laurentiis
#62. The brain weighs only three pounds, yet it is the most complex object in the solar system.
Michio Kaku
#63. The sunlight lying on an acre of farm land weighs several tons, believe it or not.
Jack Finney
#64. Talking about things that are understandable only weighs down the mind.
Alfred Jarry
#65. Age doesn't bother me. So many of my heroes were older guys. It's the lack of years left that weighs far heavier on me than the age that I am.
David Bowie
#66. The more kilos you have to move around, the more it weighs on your knees. Then of course in terms of stamina, the way you move around, it's a little extra. It might not be much, but when you exercise with two, three extra kilos, you can feel a difference; it's important.
Amelie Mauresmo
#67. Superiority makes every man feel its equal. It is courtesy without condescension; affability without familiarity; self-sufficiency without selfishness; simplicity without snide. It weighs sixteen ounces to the pound without the package, and it doesn't need a four-colored label to make it go.
George Horace Lorimer
#68. Environment protection weighs the same in my life as my professional acting career.
Li Bingbing
#69. I wonder how much of what weighs me down is not mine to carry.
Aditi
#71. The master judges by the result, but our Father judges by the effort. Failure does not always mean fault. He knows how much things cost, and weighs them where others only measure.
Andrew Murray
#72. Ask Robespierre. Ask the man with the conscience which is more important, your friend or your country - ask him how he weighs an individual in the scheme of things. Ask him which comes first, his old pals or his new principles. You ask him, Camille.
Hilary Mantel
#73. The judge weighs the arguments and puts a brave face on the matter, and since there must be a decision, decides as he can, and hopes he has done justice and given satisfaction to the community
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#74. On the scale of desire, your absence weighs more than someone else's presence
Jeffrey McDaniel
#75. It is dreadful when something weighs on your mind, not to have a soul to unburden yourself to. You know what I mean. I tell my piano the things I used to tell you.
Frederic Chopin
#76. You may very well fall in love with somebody who makes less money, who's younger than you, who weighs less than you.
Gloria Steinem
#77. There is an empty space in my heart. It weighs me down and each step I take through life gets harder and harder, I realize now that I am no longer the man she once knew, but a bitter and hollow replica of him, unworthy of her love.
Inger Iversen
#78. Yes," Amanda said. "It is. The looneybins are full of people like me. Our dreams harness us, and they whip us with soft whips - oh, lovely whips - and we run and we run, always in the same place . . . because the ship . . . Lisey, the sails never open and the ship never weighs its anchor . . .
Stephen King
#79. The dinner table is a lively debate, and everybody weighs in in a different way. I like that, though.
Vanessa Kerry
#80. And you finally get there, you reach a point where you refuse to feel anymore pain and the desire to chase happiness out weighs any choice that gives you reason to question where you're headed.
Nikki Rowe
#81. But the memory of war weighs undiminished upon the people's minds. That is because deeper than material wounds, moral wounds are smarting, inflicted by the so- called peace treaties.
Hjalmar Schacht
#82. This sorrow weighs upon the melancholy souls of those who lived without infamy or praise.
Dante Alighieri
#83. If your husband is overweight, don't ask him how much he weighs or sneak up behind him when he stands on the bathroom scale.
Ellen Fein
#84. A secret weighs on us, a terrible secret weighs with a terrible weight.
Sue Miller
#85. The sacred law of Jesus Christ governs our civilization, but it does not, as yet, permeate it; it is said that slavery has disappeared from European civilization. This is a mistake. It still exists; but it weighs only upon the woman, and it is called prostitution.
Victor Hugo
#86. this burden weighs so heavily
when our demons we must carry
clinging to this fleeting breath
dying for a fighting chance
The Phantoms
#87. We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.
Jim Rohn
#88. I do not think I will ever become deadened, because I live in other people's lives, I must admit there are times when it weighs medown because I can't do some of the things I want.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#89. The mind wants to forget because it weighs so much on the heart and soul. I am tired of crying and feeling so helpless. I want to breathe again -just for a little while.
Angelina Jolie
#90. One 'beautiful-mind' indeed weighs heavy over thousand creations of nature
and that is why from Socrates to Kabir, all hold such great importance.
Deep Trivedi
#91. Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds.
Andrew Solomon
#93. Less than 10% of the fuel energy burned in automobiles is translated into forward motion of the vehicle and even then most of this energy is needed to move the vehicle itself, which typically weighs 20 times more than its passengers.
David Suzuki
#94. Because when they strike it can be that quick that if they're within range, you're dead, you're dead in your tracks. And his head weighs more than my body so it's WHACK!
Steve Irwin
#95. THE FOLLOWING LATE April I found a dead bull moose about two kilometers from the site where I had left the doe. A bull moose probably weighs ten times as much as a white-tailed doe. This one looked emaciated; it had apparently died from complications of moose tick disease, a common
Bernd Heinrich
#97. [Footnote:] The Dotterel weighs only four ounces. It has long been a scientific riddle how so much wrong-headedness can manage to exist in so small a space. Still, there's the Least Gnatcatcher.
Will Cuppy
#98. Love does not wear out the heart, even if it weighs a thousand tons.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#99. Every year lays more earth upon us, which weighs us down from aerial regions, till we go under the earth at last.
E.T.A. Hoffmann
#100. You'll be given a tape machine which is about the size of a box of popcorn. It weighs six pounds. With it, you'll be given sixty tape clips which are about four inches long. The equipment will fit inside a coat pocket without a bulge. It's a triumph of modern technology.
Richard Bachman