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Quotes About Puny

Because he knew … God, he knew! Jerott's terrible romanticism, which would taste death so readily; so splendidly offer the blood of his fellows, in defence of the weak and the puny.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Let us inquire what glory there was in an omnipotent being torturing forever a puny little creature who could in no way defend himself? Would it be to the glory of a man to fry ants?
~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Nature wanted to show mankind, an irreverent, over-venturesome mankind, just how puny and pitifully helpless a thing mankind really is…
~ Alistair MacLean
In the vastness of the desert, each reduction of the group made them realize how small they were, how puny, in relation to the space they were traveling through.
~ Larry McMurtry
Our tree was so puny we used orthopedic bulbs.
~ Milton Berle
Methinks marriage has made my brother soft," Alaric replied. " 'Tis a shame when a puny lass has to save his arse.
~ Maya Banks
scrawny neck.
~ Bob Mayer
reality was bleak and often unbearable, their puny lives a meaningless trudge toward the blank vault of death.
~ Julie Schumacher
Killian…the new kid?" Sloan asks, already wheezing. "Why are we running from him? He's hotter than Bocher! That's Bow plus Archer, in case your puny brain isn't hip to my hop.
~ Gena Showalter
I was brimming with anger and hatred. I hated, not society, puny sociologists' abstraction, I hated the universe. I wanted to cause it pain in return for the pain it caused me.
~ Iris Murdoch
How small the cosmos (a kangaroo's pouch would hold it), how paltry and puny in comparison to human consciousness, to a single individual recollection, and its expression in words!
~ Vladimir Nabokov
He was, in fact, roaring something like, "HA HA, PUNY SCAVENGERS! YOU CAN NEVER HIT ME! I AM THE GREATEST WARRIOR IN THE ENTIRE ARMY OF SAND! HA HA HA!
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Plan Number Three: Attack Him with All Available Weaponry. Ludicrous. I wasn't Tarzan. I was a puny, feeble, vegetarian life form.
~ Yann Martel
Thirty seconds after the explosion came first, the air blast pressing hard against people and things, to be followed almost immediately by the strong, sustained, awesome roar which warned of doomsday and made us feel that we puny things were blasphemous to dare tamper with the forces heretofore reserved to the Almighty.
~ Unknown
Princeton is a wonderful little spot. A quaint and ceremonious village of puny demigods on stilts.
~ Albert Einstein