Weak Quotes - Page 29

• When I'm weak, you can be strong; when I'm strong, you can be weak. That's what I believe marriage is.

  Gisele Bundchen

  Strong, Believe, I Believe

  4 Copy quote

• There is a power in public opinion in this country - and I thank God for it: for it is the most honest and best of all powers - which will not tolerate an incompetent or unworthy man to hold in his weak or wicked hands the lives and fortunes of his fellow-citizens.

  Martin Van Buren

  Country, Men, Hands

  "The Complete Book of U.S. Presidents". Book by William A. DeGregorio (p. 133), 1984.

  63 Copy quote

  Show source
• 

  Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

  Edmund Burke

  Encouraging, Encouragement, Mind

  28 Copy quote

• Brooke and I share some similarities. We're both passionate, fiercely loyal people. But she is far more outlandish than I'd ever be, particularly with her body and her sexuality. Brooke has made herself weak for men - she only gained self-confidence from their attention.

  Sophia Bush

  Self Confidence, Men, People

  53 Copy quote

• Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Positive, Strength

  31 Copy quote

• My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak.

  John le Carre

  Care, Definitions, Firsts

  5 Copy quote

• A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Education, Ignorance, Perspective

  "Many Thoughts of Many Minds" edited by Henry Southgate, 1862.

  40 Copy quote

  Show source

• Don't assume your child is weak. If you, the parent, assume that they can't take anymore, what kind of signal are you sending them?

  Amy Chua

  Children, Parent, Assuming

  7 Copy quote

• Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Philosophical, Vehement, Causes

  9 Copy quote

• When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Success, Simplicity, Should

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations". Book by John Bartlett, 1919.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• My sense of proprietorship has been so weak that actually I didn't pay attention and I lost the copyrights on a lot of the songs.

  Leonard Cohen

  Song, Attention, Pay

  Leonard Cohen (2014). “Leonard Cohen on Leonard Cohen”, p.684, Omnibus Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Mind, Atheism, Reform

  Biographia Literaria ch. 1 (1817)

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content.

  Mason Cooley

  Office, Literature, Bloody

  5 Copy quote

• When I was sixteen or seventeen, I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a playwright. But everything I wrote, I thought, was weak. And I can remember falling asleep in tears because I had no talent the way I wanted to have.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Fall, Tears, Sixteen

  "Francis Ford Coppola: What I've Learned" by Stephen Garrett, www.esquire.com. July 7, 2009.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Insomniacs tend to fall into two general categories - those who give up and those who don't. I don't. I refuse to admit defeat by turning on the light. I will not try to read or watch a movie, thank you. Productivity is a crutch of the weak.

  Sloane Crosley

  Thank You, Giving Up, Fall

  10 Copy quote

• Strong women only marry weak men.

  Bette Davis

  Girly, Strong Women, Weak Man

  12 Copy quote

• Art has a way of confronting us, of reminding us, of engaging us, in what it means to be human, and what it means to be human is to be flawed, is to be contradictory, is to be often weak, and yet despite all of these what we would consider drawbacks, that we're also quite beautiful. Spin is the opposite.

  Junot Diaz

  Beautiful, Art, Mean

  "Author Explains Tales Of New Vision, New Life". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. June 10, 2009.

  38 Copy quote

  Show source

• Robert Benchley has a style that is weak and lies down frequently to rest.

  Max Eastman

  Art, Lying, Style

  Max Eastman (2017). “Enjoyment of Laughter”, p.259, Routledge

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind.

  Elizabeth I

  Strong Women, Sex, Rocks

  135 Copy quote

• When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it's the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone's talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false 'intelligence' and selected 'leaks'.

  Brian Eno

  Government, Talking, Dubious

  "Lessons in how to lie about Iraq" by Brian Eno, www.theguardian.com. August 16, 2003.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a failure. You have to keep in your head: what's the worst that can happen?

  Michael Fassbender

  Silly, Mean, Pressure

  "What's a nice boy like Michael Fassbender doing in a film like Shame?". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2012.

  50 Copy quote

  Show source

• Unrestrained liberalism only makes the strong stronger and the weak weaker and excludes the most excluded.

  Pope Francis

  Strong, Liberalism, Excluded

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think it is the weak and the young and the minorities that you need to look after to get a healthy creative environment - to get a lot of choices, a lot of different styles of music, a lot experimental stuff that everyone else feeds off.

  Peter Gabriel

  Thinking, Choices, Creative

  9 Copy quote

• If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak.

  William Godwin

  Strong, Doubt, Purpose

  William Godwin (1798). “Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, and Its Influence on Morals and Happiness: By William Godwin”, p.337

  57 Copy quote

  Show source

• We aren't leveraging this great economic engine, the strongest economy in the world. And yet we have this totally weak response. We import $500 billion a year more in products than we export.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Years, World, Economic

  4 Copy quote