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Quotes About Weakness

It was a weak sensation, though: faint as faded regret.
~ Christopher Paolini
During this time Jefferson Davis made a speech in Macon, Georgia, which was reported in the papers of the South, and soon became known to the whole country, disclosing the plans of the enemy, thus enabling General Sherman to fully meet them. He exhibited the weakness of supposing that an army that had been beaten and fearfully decimated in a vain attempt at the defensive, could successfully undertake the offensive against the army that had so often defeated it.
~ Ulysses S. Grant
Duro oficio el del inquisidor, tiene que golpear a los más débiles, y cuando mayor es su debilidad.
~ Umberto Eco
Me respondió que, cuando los verdaderos enemigos son demasiado fuertes, hay que buscarse otros enemigos más débiles.
~ Umberto Eco
They were shaken to the depths of them, with the awe of love realized; and was it so very weak of them that they cried for a little peace? They had opened their hearts, like flowers to the springtime, and the merciless winter had fallen upon them?
~ Upton Sinclair
Your armies are going to pieces, but theirs stay put, and the same applies to the air forces. They are probing for weak spots all over the world, and wherever they find one they will move in. Their propaganda war has never been so active.
~ Upton Sinclair
When you were a child, you used to run to me for protection. Now, in moments of weakness, I want to hide my head on your knees; I want you to be strong and wise; I want you to protect and defend me. I'm not always strong in spirit, Vitya – I can be weak too. I often think about suicide, but something holds me back – some weakness, or strength, or irrational hope.
~ Vasily Grossman
Both learned that from hardship, a side of people emerged that they had not known. The People had thought themselves to be strong, yet they had been weak. And the two old ones whom they thought to be the most helpless and useless had proven themselves to be strong.
~ Velma Wallis
1 weakness of growth firms is marketing, the #2 problem is accounting.
~ Verne Harnish
Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
~ Victor Hugo
Strong and bitter wordes indicate a weak cause.
~ Victor Hugo
An army is a strange contrivance in which power is the sum of a vast total of impotence.
~ Victor Hugo
Errors make excellent projectiles. They strike it cleverly in its vulnerable spot, in default of a cuirass, in its lack of logic;
~ Victor Hugo
He doubted everything with an air of superiority--a great power in the eyes of the weak.
~ Victor Hugo
Eksige, olge nõrgad, patustage, kuid olge õiglased.
~ Victor Hugo
S'è detto che la schiavitù è sparita dalla civiltà europea: errore! Esiste sempre, ma pesa soltanto sulla donna e si chiama prostituzione. Pesa sulla donna, ossia sulla grazia, sulla debolezza, sulla beltà, sulla maternità. E questa non è già una delle minori vergogne dell'uomo.
~ Victor Hugo
Sometimes it feels like a strength and sometimes like a weakness, but I don't know how to stop loving him.
~ Kristin Hannah
she'd let weakness in, and loss and regret, and those emotions had tainted her view of herself, but her love had run deep and been honest. Her biggest failure had been an inability to love herself as well as she'd loved her family.
~ Kristin Hannah
You are my strong tower Shelter over me Beautiful and mighty Everlasting King You are my strong tower Fortress when I'm weak Your name is true and holy And Your face is all I seek
~ Kutless
The United States was as weak as it had been in human memory. Its people were unconcerned with anything but their own selfish needs and had turned their political system into just another source of cheap entertainment.
~ Kyle Mills
liquor and loquacity are your besetting weaknesses.
~ L. Sprague de Camp
Love is for weak people, it's a delusion and it can be deadly.
~ L.J. Smith
It is weakness which makes us hate an enemy and seek revenge, and it is idleness that pacifies us and causes us to neglect it.
~ la bruyere jean de iii
Anything is a temptation to those who dread it.
~ la bruyere jean de iv