Quotes About Feeble

He felt the touch of cool air wafted out from the interior of the church—the feeble breath of a dying building.

The hushed winds wail with feeble moan Like infant charity.

What a feeble thing intelligence is, with its short steps, its waverings, its pacings back and forth, its disastrous retreats! Intelligence is a mere instrument of circumstances. There are people who say that intelligence must have built the universe - why, intelligence never built a steam-engine! Circumstances built a steam-engine. Intelligence is little more than a short foot-rule by which we measure the infinite achievements of Circumstances.

There's something vile (and all the more vile because ridiculous) in the tendency of feeble men to make universal tragedies out of the sad comedies of their private woes.

The European Union is becoming more economically feeble every year.

In 1996, I was in was in an acoustic kind of rock band, we were called Feeble. We were just playing locally.

Weak and beggarly elements.

I am so miserable, there are so many questions, I can see no way out and am so wretched and feeble that I could lie forever on the sofa and keep opening and closing my eyes without knowing the difference.

It is embarrassing how feeble I feel, how timidly I move through life, always guarded, ready to defend myself, ready to be angry.

Yes, let us most joyfully say, ignorant and feeble though we be, 'Lord, teach us to pray.

Hearts quaking with cheap and feeble charity or oozing potato love have not written history.

as thin as piss on a rock.

but that the necessity of being constantly engaged in learning is owing to our imperfection, he at the same time reminds us, that a subject which is of boundless extent cannot be comprehended by our feeble and narrow capacities.

I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.

Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.

We must not inquire too curiously into motives," he interposed, in his measured way. "Miss Brooke knows that they are apt to become feeble in the utterance: the aroma is mixed with the grosser air. We must keep the germinating grain away from the light.

We must not inquire too curiously into motives,' he interposed, in his measured way. 'Miss Brooke knows that they are apt to become feeble in the utterance: the aroma is mixed with the grosser air.

weak as water.

Thou art but a feeble flower in the garden of the universe, yet thou hath a purpose much greater than thyself.

Love Virtue, she alone is free,She can teach ye how to climbHigher than the sphery chime;Or, if Virtue feeble were,Heav'n itself would stoop to her.

Between you and me, the critics don't know a great deal about acting, either. The more experienced and scholarly can detect feeble plays without a Geiger counter, even though occasionally they hail as masterpieces items which offend the nose of the property man.

But words are vain; reject them all— They utter but a feeble part: Hear thou the depths from which they call, The voiceless longing of my heart.

The people said there might be disease in the cave," said Gabby the seagull. "They seemed really worried. They kept talking about how people can give the bats something called COVID and how bad that would be because even if the bats don't get sick they can pass it on to other animals or right back to people later. And also they talked about a fungus and white noses and feeble bats and bats flying off-kilter and about how bat colonies around the world have been wiped out.

He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, straightened it out again.