Quotes About Weakness

The politics of the last twenty years in Britain are liars' politics. The problem is we are ruled by the weak and the small-minded, who are too stupid to know that they are weak and small-minded.

The thanks of a weak one are but of little value, he muttered, but you have them, for truly, in this past week, little but scraps have come my way- and for all my body is small, yet is my appetite unseemly great.

It's a weakness of mine-I want people to understand me.

A strong offensive is indicated. The stalemate you seem to be satisfied with is fatal. It would be a confession of weakness to all the worlds of the Periphery, where the appearance of strength is all-important, and there's not one vulture among

He was thirty-two. Not old—but he felt old. His body, whatever its mutant mental powers, was physically weak. Every star! Every star he could see—and every star he couldn't see. It must all be his! Revenge on all. On a humanity of which he wasn't a part. On a Galaxy in which he didn't fit.

Sure you are. You're weak on logic, that's the trouble with you. You're like the guy in the story who was caught in a sudden shower and who ran to a grove of trees and got under one. He wasn't worried, you see, because he figured when one tree got wet through, he would just get under another one. (Lupov)

Tennyson once wrote: 'He is all fault who has no fault at all.

Now the Empire is stronger than we; it always has been. But this is the first time we are in danger of its direct attack, so that strength becomes terribly menacing. Then if it can be beaten, it must be once again as in all past crises by a method other than pure force. We must find the weak side of its enemy and attack it there.

La caridad, igual que su socialismo, es un invento de los débiles para doblegar y utilizar a los fuertes.

Justice! Is it just for everyone to have the same amount? The lazy the same as those who work? The foolish the same as the intelligent? Even animals don't live like that! It's not a matter of rich and poor, it's a matter of strong and weak.

Bringing the Baltics into the alliance is not a zero sum game in which NATO's gain is Russia's loss, NATO's strength Russia's weakness.

For Mr. Putin, vacillation invites aggression. His world is a brutish, cynical place, where power is worshiped, weakness is despised, and all rivalries are zero-sum.

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

Abstainer: a weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

Even the lion has to defend himself against flies.

The difference between weakness and wickedness is much less than people suppose; and the consequences are nearly always the same.

The demand is for certainty is a sign of weakness.

Self distrust is the cause of most of our failures. In the assurance of strength, there is strength, and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.

If we resist our passions, it is more from their weakness than from our strength.

An amiable weakness.

It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudo-simplicities of brutal directness.

Violence is a symptom of impotence.

Man is only a reed, the weakest thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence.