Weak Quotes - Page 19

• Some people are so weak that whenever they see a hammer, they immediately turn into a nail!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  People, Nails, Hammers

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• The practice of medicine will be very much as you make it - to one a worry, a care, a perpetual annoyance; to another, a daily job and a life of as much happiness and usefulness as can well fall to the lot of man, because it is a life of self-sacrifice and of countless opportunities to comfort and help the weak-hearted, and to raise up those that fall.

  William Osler

  Jobs, Fall, Sacrifice

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• A small country cannot contend with a great; the few cannot contend with the many; the weak cannot contend with the strong

  Mencius

  Country, Strong, Small Countries

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• A man is born gentle and weak. At death he is hard and stiff.

  Laozi

  Men, Born, Gentle

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• To be prejudiced is always to be weak

  Samuel Johnson

  Samuel Johnson (1775). “The Pamphlet, Entitled, "Taxation No Tyranny," Candidly Considered, and It's [sic] Arguments, and Pernicious Doctrines, Exposed and Refuted”, p.13

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• A weak King must be what other Kings have been; a strong King is himself, and from then on the meaning of the name of King is changed.

  Orson Scott Card

  Strong, Kings, Names

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Hart's Hope”, p.32, Macmillan

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• When we grieve over someone who has died in Christ, we are sorrowing not for them, but for ourselves. Our grief isn't a sign of weak faith, but of great love.

  Billy Graham

  Grief, Grieving, Great Love

  Billy Graham (2007). “The Journey: Living by Faith in an Uncertain World”, p.221, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The weak can never forgive.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Strength, Being Strong, Forgiveness

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.155, A&C Black

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• A weak background is a deadly thing.

  Robert Henri

  Backgrounds

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• Remember: what you think you will become - good or bad, weak or strong, defeated or victorious.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Strong, Thinking, Remember

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2007). “The Tough-Minded Optimist”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• When God contemplates some great work, He begins it by the hand of some poor, weak, human creature, to whom He afterwards gives aid.

  Martin Luther

  Hands, Giving, Poor

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.32

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• Hate is the wrath of the weak.

  Alphonse Daudet

  Hate, Wrath

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• If the nails are weak, your house will collapse. If your verbs are weak and your syntax is rickety, your sentences will fall apart.

  William Zinsser

  Fall, House, Nails

  William Zinsser (2012). “On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• Since the world never faults a man who refuses to yield...it is generally recognized that weak men live in obedience to the world's will, while the strong obey only their own.

  Giacomo Leopardi

  Strong, Men, Yield

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• Nature's law says that the strong must prevent the weak from living, but only in a newspaper article or textbook can this be packaged into a comprehensible thought. In the soup of everyday life, in the mixture of minutia from which human relations are woven, it is not a law. It is a logical incongruity when both strong and weak fall victim to their mutual relations, unconsciously subservient to some unknown guiding power that stands outside of life, irrelevant to man.

  Anton Chekhov

  Nature, Strong, Fall

  "A Doctor's Visit". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1898.

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• It had the effect of cementing the Anglo-American alliance. What's the good of having bases if when you want to use them you're not allowed to by the home country. It made America realise that Britain was her real and true friend, when they were hard up against it and wanted something, and that no one else in Europe was. They're a weak lot, some of them in Europe you know. Weak. Feeble.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Country, True Friend, Real

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• Cohesion means respectful diversity, which is about much more than the weak-kneed tolerance.

  Mal Fletcher

  Mean, Diversity, Tolerance

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• There is no obligation for the author of a film to believe in, or to sympathise with, the moral behaviour of his characters. Nor is he necessarily to be accredited with the same opinions as his characters. Nor is it necessary or obligatory for him to believe in the tenet of his construction - all of which is a disclaimer to the notion that the author of Drowning by Numbers believes that all men are weak, enfeebled, loutish, boorish and generally inadequate and incompetent as partners for women. But it's a thought.

  Peter Greenaway

  Believe, Character, Men

  "Fear Of Drowning By Numbers". Book by Peter Greenaway, 1991.

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• God scorns and mocks the devil, in setting under his very nose a poor, weak, human creature, mere dust and ashes, yet endowed with the firstfruits of the Spirit, against whom the devil can do nothing.

  Martin Luther

  Dust, Devil, Ashes

  Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.48

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• It is important to strengthen the State governments; and as this cannot be done by any change in the Federal Constitution (for the preservation of that is all we need contend for), it must be done by the States themselves, erecting such barriers at the constitutional line as cannot be surmounted either by themselves or by the General Government. The only barrier in their power is a wise government. A weak one will lose ground in every contest.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Wise, Government, Important

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1789-1792”, p.351, Cosimo, Inc.

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• You can have a strong government and a weak people, or strong people and weak government, but you cannot have both.

  Robert Ringer

  Strong, Government, People

  Robert Ringer (2012). “The Entrepreneur: The Way Back for the U.S. Economy”, p.235, Simon and Schuster

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• Just supposing for the sake of the argument that there is a being of such a kind as that He may with any propriety be called "God", it does seem antecedently very improbable that weak and limited creatures of a day, such as we are, should discover Him by our own efforts.... who could be discovered in that way would hardly be worth discovering. I think we ought to stick to that principle rather firmly. I think we ought to be rather sure that we cannot know God unless God has been pleased to reveal Himself to us.

  John Gresham Machen

  Thinking, Effort, May

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• An excuse is the tool our weak self uses to prevent our strongest self from reaching greatness.

  Robin Sharma

  Greatness, Self, Tools

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Dec 23, 2013

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• Every maiden's weak and willin' When she meets the proper villian.

  Clarence Day

  Maidens

  CLARENCE DAY (1948). “THE BEST”

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• Note even Jonathan Swift would dare to write a satire in which politicians argued that - in a world where species are vanishing and more than a billion people are barely able to afford to eat - it would somehow be good for the planet to clear rain-forests to grow palm oil, or give up food-crop land to grow biofuels, solely so that people could burn fuel derived from carbohydrate rather than hydrocarbons in their cars, thus driving up the price of food for the poor. Ludicrous is too weak a word for this heinous crime.

  Matt Ridley

  Giving Up, Rain, Writing

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