Quotes About Weakness

She was foolish and weak. She'd trusted Haakon, because he was beautiful and dazzling, because he'd spoken a few romantic words to her and made her believe that he loved her.

The cuts were the truth, written in blood, and no one must ever read it. Rulers were ruthless. They did not show weakness or fear. They did not cry. They made others cry. Hadn't her stepmother told her that a thousand times?

Dexter liked the Irish, was drawn to them, although time and again they had proved untrustworthy. It wasn't duplicity so much as a constitutional weakness that might have been the booze or might have been what drove them to it. You wanted a mick to help you dream up schemes, but in the end you needed a wop or a Jew or a Polack to bring them off.

And this is why you don't want me to be friends with Dee, because you were afraid that I'd find out the truth?" That, and you're a human. Humans are weak. They bring us nothing but trouble." My eyes narrowed. We aren't weak. And you're on our planet. How about a little respect, buddy." Amusement flickered in his emerald eyes. Point taken.

Fear does that to a person: shrinks them down, makes them small and weak.

All great heroes have a flaw. It's one of the things that makes them heroes.

All great heroes have a flaw. It's one of the things that makes them heroes.

To live entirely without a goal! I have glimpsed this state, and have often attained it, without managing to remain there: I am too weak for such happiness.

He's such a cobweb, a pinch would annihilate him.

His weakness was the only time when I could taste the delight of paying wrong for wrong.

The weaklings — ashamed, but grateful — holding out their hands to the flames, their renewed faith glowing inside them. Well, he supposes there are times mercy may do what strictness can't.

The greater the mental charlatan, the more definite his insistence on the wickedness and weakness of human nature.

Sie haben diesen Mistkerl genau da erwischt, wo es wehtut: bei seinem Ehrgeiz.

Any of these vultures smell weakness, and they'll mess you up faster than sugar in a gas tank.

What I did was shameful. I was weak and I will carry regret for the rest of my life.

What, for instance, does it mean to be insulted? [29] Stand by a rock and insult it, and what have you accomplished? If someone responds to insult like a rock, what has the abuser gained with his invective? If, however, he has his victim's weakness to exploit, then his efforts are worth his while.

Most of what passes for legitimate entertainment is inferior or foolish and only caters to or exploits people's weakness. If you yourself don't choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest.

Consciousness of its weakness will keep you from tackling difficult subjects.

Most of what passes for legitimate entertainment is inferior or foolish and only caters to or exploits people's weakness.

The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it.

Rudeness is a weak persons imitation of strength.

It has been often said that power corrupts. But it is perhaps equally important to realize that weakness, too, corrupts. Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. Hatred, malice, rudeness, intolerance, and suspicion are the fruits of weakness. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression.

It has been often said that power corrupts. But it is perhaps equally important to realize that weakness, too, corrupts.

When the weak want to give an impression of strength they hint menacingly at their capacity for evil. It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.