Weak Quotes - Page 6

• Many have never felt strong, but everyone knows what it is to feel weak.

  Mason Cooley

  Strong, Weakness, Feels

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• With a weak and rotting core, you don't have much of a foreign policy. You're discounted at the negotiating table, economically and militarily. So when people ask what's the best course of action for the U.S.-China relationship, I can give you ten academic responses. But the reality is we need to rebuild our core.

  Jon Huntsman, Jr.

  Reality, People, Giving

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• When reasons are weak, attitudes stiffen.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Attitude, Reason

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• It is not given to our weak intellects to understand the steps of Providence as they occur: we comprehend them only as we look back upon them in the far-distant past.

  George B. McClellan

  Past, Looks, Steps

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• It is the folly of weak-minded people, to imagine they are what flattery or conceit represents them; and that it is useless for them to be what they are not, since they seem already to have acquired the reputation of it.

  Norm MacDonald

  People, Useless, Reputation

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• Reason is always weak where prejudice is strong.

  Norm MacDonald

  Strong, Prejudice, Reason

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• Love is... what makes a weak man brave and a king step off his throne. Good times, bad times, easy times, tough times, it comes in an instant and lasts three days after forever. That's what love is.

  Mike Oldfield

  Love, Kings, Men

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• Heat is a universal solvent, melting out of things their power of resistance, and sucking away and removing their natural strength with its fiery exhalations so that they grow soft, and hence weak, under its glow.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Melting, Resistance, Heat

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter IV, Section 3,

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• I have never had illusions about the value of my individual contribution! I realized early that what a man or a woman does is built on what those who have gone before have done, that its real value depends on making the matter in hand a little clearer, a little sounder for those who come after. Nobody begins or ends anything. Each person is a link, weak or strong, in an endless chain. One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.

  Ida Tarbell

  Strong, Real, Mistake

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• The thoughts and opinions of one human being, if they are sincere, must always have an interest for some other human beings. The world is there to think about; and if we have lived, or are living, with any sort of energy, we must have thought about it, and about ourselves in relation to it - thought 'furiously' often. And it is out of the many 'thinkings' of many folk, strong or weak, dull or far-ranging, that thought itself grows.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Strong, Thinking, Dull

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• There is nothing more startling in human relations that the strong emotion of weak people.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Strong, People, Weakness

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• I take this pain, Lord Jesus,
  From Thine own hand;
  The strength to bear it bravely
  Thou wilt command.
  I am too weak for effort.
  So let me rest,
  In hush of sweet submission
  On Thine own breast.

  Frances Ridley Havergal

  Sweet, Jesus, Pain

  Frances Ridley Havergal, Maria Vernon Graham Havergal, Frances Anna Shaw (1888). “Poetical Works”

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• Had I made capital on my prettiness, I should have closed the doors of public employment to women for many a year, by the very means which now makes them weak, underpaid competitors in the great workshop of the world.

  Jane Swisshelm

  Beauty, Work, Mean

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• The lemonade is weak, like your soul.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Soul, Like You, Lemonade

  "Kabale und Liebe (Intrigue and Love)". Play by Friedrich Schiller (Act V, Scene VII), April 13, 1784.

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• Superstring theories provide a framework in which the force of gravity may be united with the other three forces in nature: the weak, electromagnetic and strong forces. Recent progress has shown that the most promising superstring theories follow from a single theory. For the last generation, physicists have studied five string theories and one close cousin. Recently it has become clear that these five or six theories are different limiting cases of one theory which, though still scarcely understood, is the candidate for superunification of the forces of nature.

  Edward Witten

  Strong, Cousin, Progress

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• Women are all so far Machiavellians that they are never either good or bad by halves; their passions are too strong, and their reason too weak, to do anything with moderation.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Strong, Women, Passion

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• The best way to compel weak-minded people to adopt our opinion, is to frighten them from all others, by magnifying their danger.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Fear, People, Way

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). “Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son”, p.352

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• Nothing convinces persons of a weak understanding so effectually, as what they do not comprehend.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Ignorance, Understanding, Gullibility

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.629

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• Sooner mayest thou trust thy pocket to a pickpocket than give loyal friendship to the man who boasts of eyes to the heart never mounts in dew! Only when man weeps he should be alone, not because tears are weak, but they should be secret. Tears are akin to prayer,--Pharisees parade prayers, imposters parade tears.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Prayer, Eye, Heart

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• The tongue of man is powerful enough to render the ideas which the human intellect conceives; but in the realm of true and deep sentiments it is but a weak interpreter. These are inexpressible, like the endless glory of the Omnipotent.

  Lajos Kossuth

  Powerful, Men, Ideas

  Lajos Kossuth (1851). “Authentic Life of ... Louis Kossuth ... With a full Report of his Speeches delivered in England ... To which is added his Address to the People of the United States of America”, p.100

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• My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak. What I see in my country, progressively over these years, is that the rich have got richer, the poor have got poorer. The rich have become indifferent through a philosophy of greed, and the poorer have become hopeless because they're not properly cared for. That's actually something that is happening in many Western societies. Your own, I am told, is not free from it.

  John le Carre

  Country, Philosophy, Years

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• Pedigrees seldom improve by age; the grandson is too often a weak infringement on the grandsire's parent.

  Josh Billings

  Parent, Age, Ancestry

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• I acknowledge Thee, Lord of heaven and earth, and praise Thee for my first rudiments of being, and my infancy, whereof I remember nothing; for Thou hast appointed that man should from others guess much as to himself; and believe much on the strength of weak females.

  Saint Augustine

  Believe, Men, Heaven

  Saint Augustine of Hippo (2016). “Saint Augustine of Hippo Collection [50 Books]”, p.9, Aeterna Press

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• An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality--same stuff, same make up, only more force. And the strong driving force usually finds his weak spot, and he goes cranked, or goes under.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Strong, Men, Artist

  D. H. Lawrence, George J. Zytaruk, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.95, Cambridge University Press

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• Brave people add up to an aristocracy. The democracy of thou-shalt-not is bound to be a collection of weak men.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, Weak Man, People

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8467, Delphi Classics

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