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Quotes About Weakness

But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.
~ Milan Kundera
My parents were great readers of poetry and had a weakness for the light fantastic.' 'A pleasant change from the heavy dismal we suffer from everywhere today,' commented Winnie.
~ Miss Read
Aris. Certainly, your prudence is excessively rare. Are you not ashamed of your want of firmness? and is it possible for a man to be so weak as to leave his wife absolute power, and not dare to attack what she has resolved upon? Ch. Good Heavens! brother, you speak very easily of it, but you do not know how noise troubles me. I am  very fond of rest, peace, and tranquillity, and my wife is terrible in her tempers.
~ Moliere
Le plus grand faible des hommes, c'est l'amour qu'ils ont de la vie.
~ Moliere
Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart. Seven days without laughter makes one weak.
~ Mort Walker
It was in our power to cause the Arab governments to renounce the policy of strength toward Israel by turning it into a demonstration of weakness.
~ Moshe Dayan
Refusing to hear an opposing point of view is a sign of weakness, not strength.
~ Unknown
Charat Singh's generous promise had called forth that trait of servility in Bakha which he had inherited from his forefathers, the weakness of the down-trodden, the helplessness of the poor and the indigent, suddenly receiving help, the passive contentment of the bottom dog suddenly illuminated by the prospect of fulfilment of a secret and long-cherished desire.
~ Unknown
These are our strength, who strike against history. These whose corrupt cells owe their new styles of weakness to our diseases; these carrying light for safety on their foreheads descended deeper for richer faults of ore, drilling their death. These touching radium and the luminous poison, carried their death on their lips and with their warning glow in their graves.
~ Muriel Rukeyser
People are sold their own weaknesses, their sweets, on the market and the exchange of vices, instincts and internal flaws.
~ Unknown
The exchange rate of the currencies of human weakness is growing, on the stock exchange it is self-interest, people are becoming weaker mentally and spiritually.
~ Unknown
Cut away all of those feelings that showcase your weakness and develop the strong character that you have always been dreaming since birth.
~ Unknown
Every strength becomes a weakness when not practiced.
~ Unknown
My African brothers are still so weak in their reflections on freedom, because they have been blinded by the love of capitalism whose true ends they do not understand or grasp.
~ Unknown
Strong people don't have time to hate what is within their reach. It is only the weak-minded who recognize their defeat and then turn to hatred as the only solution to feed their egos.
~ Unknown
Your silence is at its weakest when you lose the desire to climb the ladder of love, wealth, health, power, and knowledge.
~ Unknown
There is strength in humility and weakness in pride.
~ Unknown
However," he continued when she remained silent, her throat a knot of emotion, "it seems Montgomery could not help himself when it came to this vase. I'm afraid he has a weakness for beautiful things and has been known to relocate an item if he feels it is not being accorded the proper appreciation. Once he 'relocated' an ancient sculpture from the home of another archangel.
~ Nalini Singh
While Dmitri, as the leader of Raphael's Seven, could not accept such a weakness, the mortal he'd once been, the one who had loved a woman with a wide mouth and eyes of slanted brown . . . that man understood what it was to love so deeply it was a kind of beautiful madness.
~ Nalini Singh
I know exactly how strong he is... He is like a peacock, spreading his feathers and squawking loudly to distract you from the back that his body is but weak." -Jason to Mahiya
~ Nalini Singh
Lijuan warned Raphael I'd make him a little bit mortal.' 'You have.' Quiet equanimity. 'And you worry you've weakened him. You have.' Elena flinched. 'Elena.' Shaking his head, Keir waited until she met his gaze again. 'Even an archangel needs a weakness—absolute power is a corruption.
~ Nalini Singh
Never lose your heart, Elena. No matter if the world tells you it makes you weak. Immortals have so much power. It is good to have a weakness.
~ Nalini Singh
Leaving them alive would've been a sign of weakness, and Tatiana expects weakness from the 'emotional' races. What the bitch doesn't understand is that rage is an emotion, too.
~ Nalini Singh
I was seduced by her beauty, my Lady. I was weak and she took advantage." "You are a fool.
~ Nalini Singh