Weak Quotes - Page 9

• Whether we like it or not, one day science will take God from us! This will be especially a great destruction for the weak minds!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Science, Mind, One Day

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• Law is a thing which is insensible, and inexorable, more beneficial and more profitious to the weak than to the strong; it admits of no mitigation nor pardon, once you have overstepped its limits.

  Livy

  Strong, Law, Limits

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book II, section 3,

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• We need a plague. It's gotta happen. And don't worry, it's only gonna kill the weak. Seriously. Put on a sweater, take some vitamins, you're gonna be fine! We gotta let mother nature do her
  thing, man. She keeps trying to help us out and we won't let her do it.

  Bill Burr

  Mother, Men, Sweaters

  "Bill Burr: Let It Go". Documentary, Comedy, 2010.

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• What do I see in the God of that infamous sect if not an inconsistent and barbarous being, today the creator of a world of destruction he repents of tomorrow; what do I see there but a frail being forever unable to bring man to heel and force him to bend a knee. This creature, although emanated from him, dominates him, knows how to offend him and thereby merit torments eternally! What a weak fellow, this God!

  Marquis de Sade

  God, Religious, Men

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• You can't build a great building on a weak foundation.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Foundation, Building, Weak Foundation

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• Make decisions from the strong part of you, not the weak.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Strong, Decision

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• Slanders, sir, for the satirical rogue says here that old men have grey beards, that their faces are wrinkled, their eyes purging think amber and plum-tree gum, and that they have a plentiful lack of wit, together with most weak hams.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Men, Thinking

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [201]

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• Ah me, how weak a thing
  The heart of woman is!

  William Shakespeare

  Women, Heart

  1599 Portia. Julius Caesar, act 2, sc.4, l.41-2.

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• Those, that with haste will make a mighty fire,
  Begin it with weak straws.

  William Shakespeare

  Fire, Haste, Straws

  William Shakespeare (1816). “The Works of William Shakspeare...: Collated Verbatim with the Most Authentic Copies, and Revised, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.27

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• My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Tongue, Rich

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed, William Hazlitt (1852). “The Works of William Shakspeare”, p.488

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• I understood that menstruation - the indication that you're a real woman - stopped if you grew weak from illness

  Aya Kito

  Real, Illness, Grew

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• In the period after the Second World War, there were still leaders in Europe who represented weak countries, but possessed a sense of global foreign policy. Nowadays, on the other hand, there are politicians who represent pretty powerful countries, but whose citizens are not prepared to sacrifice themselves for the state.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Country, Powerful, War

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• This president [Barack Obama] has had weak leadership, which has led to bad choices. We have got to stop worrying about being loved and start worrying about being respected. And that's exactly how I'll lead our country.

  Chris Christie

  Country, Worry, Choices

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Of course, speculation will always make a crisis worse. If there is a weak point, it will expose it.

  George Soros

  Weak Points, Crisis, Speculation

  "'You Need This Dirty Word, Euro Bonds'". SPIEGEL Interview, www.spiegel.de. August 15, 2011.

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• I was brought up in a household of chaos and I never felt stable at home. At a really young age, I decided I was never going to feel helpless, I was never going to feel weak around a man, and I was never going to rely on anyone. Independence was a big, big thing for me.

  Christina Aguilera

  Home, Men, Independence

  "Christina: Intimate Talk About a Past That Still Hurts". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. November 30, 2006.

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• My toughest fight was myself. For me to disclose and let things out was not easy because we don't want to seem weak or like we are different, but I learned that it's okay.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Fighting, Different, Want

  "Sugar Ray Leonard Interview Real Steel". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 6, 2011.

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• In the birthing process, you come out just realizing how stupid and weak men are! I mean, I might as well not have been in there, we're useless!

  Heath Ledger

  Stupid, Mean, Men

  "Remembering Heath Ledger" by Prairie Miller, newsblaze.com. January 23, 2008.

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• If you are strong you can take a punch and not flinch, but if you have a sore spot, a nudge on that sore spot will make you scream. Muslims committed the huge blunder of revealing their vulnerability. Now the world knows what hurts them. When you find your opponent's weak spot, it is exactly where you want to hit him.

  Ali Sina

  Hurt, Strong, Want

  Source: myislam.dk

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• I think what life experience has brought to my poems is compassion. When you work hard to make a living, raise a child up into the world, fail at marriage and try again, teach and fail, travel and fall, become ill, well again, weak but grateful, you learn patience, forbearance.

  Dorianne Laux

  Children, Fall, Grateful

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• I did mega-training with ex-military men. I'd be in the gym for two hours after a 12-hour day on Spooks, and it was so hardcore I'd throw up. I stuffed myself with food and drank protein shakes to bulk up. I used to be a dancer, but I had to strap my weak ankles every day and strengthen my wrists so I could hold a machine gun. My body just wasn't up to it.

  Richard Armitage

  Military, Men, Gun

  "Richard Armitage: 'I was a beanpole with a nose I hadn't grown into'". Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. May 30, 2010.

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• I think we fought Vietnam for the benefits of civilization, and certainly we fought it to oppose authority. To show our authority, to show we weren't weak. Isn't that what Nixon kept saying? "We have to show the world that we're not weak." So of course what we ended up showing the world was that we were, yep, weak. 'Cause we couldn't beat these kids in black pajamas.

  Stephen King

  Kids, Thinking, Civilization

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• We won't make the weak stronger by making the strong weaker, as a very wise man once said. That applies to the economy as well. If Germany were less competitive, the euro area as a whole would lose, because less could be produced then.

  Mario Draghi

  Wise, Strong, Men

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• If our ahimsa is not of the brave but of the weak, and if it will bend the knee before himsa, Gandhism deserves to be destroyed.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Brave, Knees, Ahimsa

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

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• My Swaraj takes note of bhangis, dheds, dublas and the weakest of the weak, and except the spinning wheel I know no other thing which befriends all these.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spinning, Wheels, Notes

  Mahatma Gandhi (1966). “Socialism of My Conception”

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• The British are weak in numbers, we are weak in spite of our numbers.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Numbers, Language, British

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.142, A&C Black

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