Weak Quotes - Page 36

• You are human and mortal; we are the sum of our weak moments and our strong.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Strong, Moments, Humans

  Mercedes Lackey, Larry Dixon (1995). “The Black Gryphon”, p.26, Penguin

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• The men in my family are strong because the women in my family kill and eat the weak ones.

  Robert Jordan

  Strong, Men, My Family

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• There's lots of kinds of chains. You can't see most of them, the one's that bind folks together. But people build them, link by link. Sometimes the links are weak, snap like this one did. That's another funny thing, now that I think of it. Sometimes when you mend a chain, the place where you fix it is strongest of all.

  Bruce Coville

  Thinking, Funny Things, People

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• Libertarian action must recognize this dependence as a weak point and must attempt through reflection and action to transform it into independence. However, not even the best-intentioned leadership can bestow independence as a gift. The liberation of the oppressed is a liberation of women and men, not things. Accordingly, while no one liberates himself by his own efforts alone, neither is he liberated by others. Liberation, a human phenomenon, cannot be achieved by semihumans. Any attempt to treat people as semihumans only dehumanizes them.

  Paulo Freire

  Men, Reflection, People

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.47, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  "Liberating Faith : Religious Voices for Justice, Peace, and Ecological Wisdom". Book by Roger S. Gottlieb, 2003.

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• Only a weak person needed someone else around all the time.

  Sarah Dessen

  Self Reliance, Lock And Key, Needed Someone

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.28, Penguin

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• An enemy, Ender Wiggin," whispered the old man. "I am your enemy, the first one you've ever had who was smarter than you. There is no teacher but the enemy. No one but the enemy will tell you what the enemy is going to do. No one but the enemy will ever teach you how to destroy and conquer. Only the enemy shows you where you are weak. Only the enemy tells you where he is strong. And the rules of the game are what you can do to him and what you can stop him from doing to you. I am your enemy from now on. From now on I am your teacher.

  Orson Scott Card

  Teacher, Strong, Men

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• The minds of human beings are not always entirely at one with the world in which they live, some people have trouble adjusting to reality, basically they're just weak, confused spirits who use words, sometimes very skillfully, to justify their cowardice.

  Jose Saramago

  Confused, Reality, People

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• ...we are unfashioned creatures, but half made up, if one wiser, better, dearer than ourselves - such a friend ought to be - do not lend his aid to perfectionate our weak and faulty natures.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Half, Aids, Made

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.24, Wordsworth Editions

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• There are things of which I may not speak; There are dreams that cannot die; There are thoughts that make the strong heart weak, And bring a pallor into the cheek, And a mist before the eye.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Dream, Strong, Eye

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.339, Library of America

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• I know that I shall die struggling for breath, and I know that I shall be horribly afraid. I know that I shall not be able to keep myself from regretting bitterly the life that has brought me to such a pass; but I disown that regret. I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Regret, Struggle, Hands

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• The whole "weak in the knees" thing,which she always thought was just some idiotic expression back from the golden age of idiotic expressions,was real. -Suite Scarlett

  Maureen Johnson

  Real, Expression, Age

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• It never occurred to him to be spiritually won over to the enemy. Many moderns, inured to a weak worship of intellect and force, might have wavered in their allegiance under this oppression of a great personality. . . . But this was a kind of modern meanness to which Syme could not sink even in his extreme morbidity. Like any man, he was coward enough to fear great force; but he was not coward enough to admire it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Personality, Enemy

  "The Man Who Was Thursday". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, Ch. VI : The Exposure, 1908.

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• I want you to be weak. As weak as I am.

  Milan Kundera

  Want, I Want You

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• But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.

  Milan Kundera

  Strong, Hurt, Unbearable

  "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.

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• If you cannot stand a spoon upright in the cup, then the coffee is too weak.

  Lawrence Block

  Coffee, Spoons, Cups

  Lawrence Block (2001). “The Thief who Couldn't Sleep”, Center Point Pub

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• In the construction of houses, choice of woods is made. Straight un-knotted timber of good appearance is used for the revealed pillars, straight timber with small defects is used for the inner pillars. Timbers of the finest appearance, even if a little weak, is used for the thresholds, lintels, doors, and sliding doors, and so on. Good strong timber, though it be gnarled and knotted, can always be used discreetly in construction.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Strong, Doors, Choices

  Miyamoto Musashi (2013). “The Book of Five Rings: A Text on Kenjutsu and the Martial Arts in General, Written by the Swordsman Miyamoto Musashi”, p.25, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Sensuality often hastens the "Growth of Love" so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Roots, Growth, Sensuality

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.276, Modern Library

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• I could have forgiven it if he'd fallen desperately in love with someone and gone off with her. I should have thought that natural. I shouldn't really have blamed him. I should have thought he was led away. Men are so weak, and women are so unscrupulous.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Men, Should Have, Gone

  W. Somerset Maugham (2012). “The Moon and Sixpence”, p.43, Courier Corporation

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• Everyone has their weak spot. The one thing that, despite your best efforts, will always bring you to your knees, regardless of how strong you are otherwise.

  Sarah Dessen

  Strong, Best Effort, Weak Spots

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.170, Penguin

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• When a woman loves you she's not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she's weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Women, Love You, Soul

  W. Somerset Maugham (2012). “The Moon and Sixpence”, p.109, Courier Corporation

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• The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.

  Alice Hoffman

  Strong, Needs

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• Everyone had some defect, or body or of mind: he thought of all the people he had known (the whole world was like a sick house and there was no rhyme or reason in it), he saw a long procession, deformed in body, warped in mind, some with illness of the flesh, weak hearts or weak lungs, and some with illness of the spirit, languor of will, or craving for liquor. At that moment he felt a holy compassion for them all. …The words of the dying God crossed his memory: Forgive them, for they know not what they do.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Memories, Heart, Compassion

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• Who will deny that true religion consists, in a great measure, in vigorous and lively actings of the inclination and will of the soul, or the fervent exercises of the heart? That religion which God requires, and will accept, does not consist in weak, dull, and lifeless, wishes, raising us but a little above a state of indifference.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Heart, Exercise, Soul

  Jonathan Edwards “The Blank Affections: The Religious Affections with Blank Pages Interleaved”, Lulu.com

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• Winter broke off, finally, a long ash crumbling at the end of a cigarette, burned out, weak and emptied.

  Gregory Galloway

  Winter, Long, Crumbling

  Gregory Galloway (2015). “As Simple as Snow”, p.202, Penguin

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