Weak Quotes - Page 32

• Republicans always try to paint Democrats as weak on defense. This time, they can't. After all, Mitt Romney's idea of an overseas accomplishment is sending U.S. jobs there.

  Charles Schumer

  Jobs, Ideas, Accomplishment

  Chuck Schumer's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 5, 2012.

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• One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Spiritual, Strong, Truth

  Albert Schweitzer (2014). “Reverence for Life: The Ethics of Albert Schweitzer for the Twenty-First Century”, p.26, Open Road Media

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• If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment.

  Haile Selassie

  Strong, Government, People

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• Sometimes I feel my arm is like a swan's neck - so weak.

  Maria Sharapova

  Swans, Hands, Arms

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• 'The Sopranos' gets praised as novelistic, but it follows the most banal of life patterns, showing the sheer tedium of being a mobster. It has dead spots, boring plotlines, weak episodes. Characters develop slowly, or don't. Like viewers, a gangster might get bored, fade out of the action, then come back to find none of his debts forgotten.

  Rob Sheffield

  Character, Bored, Debt

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• Spending too much time focused on others' strengths leaves us feeling weak. Focusing on our own strengths is what, in fact, makes us strong.

  Simon Sinek

  Strong, Feelings, Too Much

  "How To Spend Your Time: Simon Sinek". www.askmen.com.

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• These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately in excellent condition.

  Douglas Sirk

  Meaningful, Promise, Rotten

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• If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.

  Alexander Smith

  Strong, Character, Race

  Alexander Smith (2012). “Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.38, tredition

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• Actors, movie stars, rock stars, I can meet them with no worries - but with footballers I go weak at the knees. All of them.

  Matt Smith

  Stars, Rocks, Worry

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Irony is the recourse of the weak-minded wimp, I think. I hate bands that deliver their songs with knowing smiles on their faces, so that if those songs fall flat they can say 'Ah well, we never really meant it anyway.' It's so dishonest.

  Robert Smith

  Song, Hate, Fall

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• Desperation, weakness, vulnerability - these things will always be exploited. You need to protect the weak, ring-fence them, with something far stronger than empathy.

  Zadie Smith

  Empathy, Stronger, Weakness

  "This Week in Fiction: Zadie Smith" by Cressida Leyshon, www.newyorker.com. February 3, 2013.

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• 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

  Men, Effort, Selfishness

  Lysander Spooner (1971). “The collected works of Lysander Spooner”

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• People don't realize that when they 'throw out' their back, it's often because of weak abs. These muscles are essential for lower-back strength and good posture.

  Sylvester Stallone

  People, Essentials, Realizing

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• If we have built on the fragile cornerstones of human wisdom, pride, and conditional love, things may look good for a while, but a weak foundation causes collapse when storms hit.

  Charles Stanley

  Pride, Storm, Foundation

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• It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth.

  John Steinbeck

  Sick, Literature, Earth

  "Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Fourth Series". Book edited by George Plimpton. Chapter "On Intent", 1977.

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  It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Motivational, Strong, Animal

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• Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.

  Thomas Szasz

  Strong, Mistake, Men

  The Second Sin "Science and Scientism" (1973)

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• Xenophobia manifests itself especially against civilizations and cultures that are weak because they lack economic resources, means of subsistence or land. So nomadic people are the first targets of this kind of aggression.

  Antonio Tabucchi

  Xenophobia, Mean, Land

  "I lost a reference with whom I '...want to be someone else but without ceasing to be[me]...'" by PEDRO74, ireport.cnn.com. March 27, 2012.

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• How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Literature, Glitter

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.133, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I mean the flesh, never fade! The flesh never leave the creation, see, because with that divine spirit the flesh cannot fade. If the spirit is weak then the flesh fade, seen?

  Peter Tosh

  Mean, Flesh, Spirit

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Strong, Fear, People

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• People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

  Desmond Tutu

  People, Favors, Speak

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• Passion is what gets you through the hardest times that might otherwise make strong men weak, or make you give up.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Strong, Giving Up, Passion

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• You have a right to say no. Most of us have very weak and flaccid 'no' muscles. We feel guilty for saying no. We get ostracized and challenged for saying no, so we forget it's our choice. Your 'no' muscle has to be built up to get to a place where you can say, 'I don't care if that's what you want. I don't want that. No.'

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Choices, Care, Want

  "Iyanla Vanzant Covers ESSENCE Magazine, Shares 10 Ways To ‘Claim Your Joy’ This Year". www.huffingtonpost.com. January 3, 2013.

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• 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.

  Jesse Ventura

  Fear, Numbers, People

  Jesse Ventura, Dick Russell (2013). “DemoCRIPS and ReBLOODlicans: No More Gangs in Government”, p.209, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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