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Quotes About Weakness

I have no strength now to speak of my loss of strength.
~ Greg Egan
Renee's self-possession, her ability to possess other selves, is a measure of the weakness of her husband, his inability to stop his own self from splitting in half.
~ Greil Marcus
Pep had realised that one of the few weaknesses of the Atlético defence was with second balls. They defended so deep that if his players attacked as a unit and were already around the box they could attack those rebounds.
~ Guillem Balagué
Weakness is giving in to temptation. Strength is resisting it.
~ Guillermo del Toro
No, vanity - that was his weakness: the urge to constantly prove to himself and to others that nothing and no one could withstand him and that his heart didn't know either fear nor pity. Liar. He was afraid of everything. Especially himself.
~ Guillermo del Toro
But, in reality, the ingenious inferences made in these experiments are symptoms not of great strength but of great weakness. For all this ingenuity is needed only because we know so little about how the brain works. Were we not profoundly ignorant, we would not need to rely on roundabout methods of gleaning information from measures such as reaction speed to various contrived tasks.
~ Guy Deutscher
The strength of any weakness within us is the degree to which it is feared.
~ Guy Finley
Everybody here is infirm. Everybody here is infirm.
~ Gwendolyn Brooks
Az emberi gyengeségr?l éppúgy példa alapján alkotunk képet, ahogy a pecsétnyomó lenyomatot hagy a viaszon.
~ Gyula Kristó
La debilidad fundadora de todas las otras debilidades del Estado mexicano es su penuria fiscal.
~ Héctor Aguilar Camín
If you have to hurt other people in order to feel powerful, you are an extremely weak individual.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Feelings allow us to enjoy life, to mourn loss, to have a way to experience and express love. So that we can feel something in our moments of weakness.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Man is a reed, the weakest of nature, but he is a thinking reed. It is not necessary that the entire universe arm itself to crush: a vapor, a drop of water suffices to kill him. But if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than what kills him, because he knows that he dies and the advantage that the universe has over him, the universe knows nothing of this.
~ James Hollis
There are some people," she said, smiling at him, "whose weaknesses seem to be strength, instead of weakness.
~ James Jones
Help! he sighed. I feel a strong weakness.
~ James Joyce
But I don't fear him, and that's because I have never known a bully who was not a coward.
~ James Lee Burke
I feel like I'm going to HURL. Which, even if I wanted to do, I couldn't do, because I haven't eaten. I can't even drag myself out of my room. And while I'd be able to muster the strength to roundhouse Fang until he begged for MERCY, I'de be mush around an Eraser.
~ James Patterson
It gets so tiring, this strong-picking-on-the-weak stuff. It was the story of my life -literally- and it seemed to be a big part of the outside world too. I was sick of it, sick of guys like these, stupid and bullying.
~ James Patterson
Humans were the weakest species. Maybe that was why they could be the meanest animals.
~ James Patterson
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
~ Edmund Burke
Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
It's better not to argue with women... When people push boundaries too far, it's not because they are strong but because they are weak. But maybe weakness is not the worst quality for a woman.
~ Vladimir Putin
The history of women is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.
~ Oscar Wilde
I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department.
~ Eric Clapton