Quotes About Weakness

These are only new devices for putting the weak at the mercy of the strong.

I am not yet a complete person. I am struggling to conquer my weakness. I am good at finding what is right, at enflaming various souls, at lighting up various minds. But I am unable, on my own, to come in contact with people, to battle against indifference, ridicule or even small talk.

Los baños calientes provocan la debilidad del corazon y del cuerpo.

Ahora se daba cuenta de que el genio de aquellos que habían redactado la Constitución consistía en prevenir la debilidad de carácter del hombre y la presencia constante del mal en el mundo y convertir la libertad individual en la realidad legal a la que el país tenía que volver una y otra vez.

All he'd learned was that love was a jewel with too many facets to count. Strength and weakness running side by side through it. And that no one could give or take it with any less than an open hand.

You want to pay me? Give me a slice of that pizza." "What? Seriously?" "That's Rinaldo's pizza. I've got a weakness." "You want a slice of pizza?" "It doesn't seem like much to ask after I risked a concussion and possible brain damage to change your tire.

There was no monster so fierce or so vulnerable as a man's ego.

Everybody's mean sometimes. That's because our flesh is weak and we're loaded with sin.

without control, my power, my strength, my feelings are a weakness.

Love's a lie, an illusion created by weak women and conniving men. An excuse for the middle class to breed and their betters to ignore so they can marry within their own station and build more wealth.

A weak and dying Messiah is the very antithesis of a man-made cure.

The ultimate failure of the United States will probably not derive from the problems we see or the conflicts we wage. It will more likely derive from our uncompromising belief in the things we consider unimpeachable and idealized and beautiful. Because every strength is a weakness, if given enough time.

The problem in this case was you can't be a middle-aged virgin in America without something being wrong with you. People can't conceive of a virtue in someone else that they can't conceive in themselves. Instead of believing you're stronger, it's so much easier to imagine you're weaker.

You gain power by pretending to be weak. By contrast, you make people feel strong. You save people by letting them save you.

You gain power by pretending to be weak. By contrast, you make people feel so strong. You save people by letting them save you.

People can't concieve of a virtue in someone else that they can't coneive in themselves. Instead of believing you're stronger, it's so much easier to imagine you're weake. You're addicted to self-abuse. You're a liar. People are always ready to believe the opposite of what you tell them.

You gain power by pretending to be weak. By contrast, you make people feel so strong. You save people by letting them save you. All you have to do is be fragile and grateful. So stay the underdog. People really need somebody they feel superior to. So stay downtrodden.

You gain power by pretending to be weak. By contrast, you make people feel so strong. You save people by letting them save you. All you have to do is be fragile and grateful. So stay the underdog. People really need somebody they feel superior to. So stay downtrodden. People need somebody they can send a check at Christmas. So stay poor. Charity isn't the right word, but it's the first word that comes to mind.

As pessoas não conseguem conceber que alguém tenha uma virtude que elas não conseguem conceber em si mesmas. Em vez de acreditar que você é mais forte, é mais fácil acreditar que você é mais fraco.

The weakest people alive will try to glorify themselves by tearing down the truly amazing strength of the dead.

Worse than alcoholism or heroin addiction, dying seems like the greatest weakness, and in a world where people say you're lazy for not shaving your legs, then being dead seems like the ultimate character flaw. It's as if you've shirked life—simply not made enough serious effort to live up to your full potential.

He understood Lawrence was weak and frightened, as bullies generally were when you scratched just beneath the surface of their swagger. "I

Well, here he was. They could save each other, the way the poets promised lovers should. He was mystery, he was darkness, he was all she had dreamed of. And if she would only free him he would service her - oh yes - until her pleasure reached that threshold that, like all thresholds, was a place where the strong grew stronger, and the weak perished. Pleasure was pain there, and vice versa. And he knew it well enough to call it home.

He was mystery, he was darkness, he was all she had dreamed of. And if she would only free him he would service her -oh yes- until her pleasure reached that thereshold that, like all theresholds, was a place where the strong grew stronger, and the weak perished.