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Quotes About Weakness

Vài ng??i y?u kém trên phương di?n nào Ä'ó. Ng??i khác nhau thì m?t y?u kém khác nhau.
~ Anthony Doerr
A way for a small thing to destroy a much larger thing.
~ Anthony Doerr
There was, she was learning, strength hidden at the center of weakness, ground at the bottom of the deepest pit.
~ Anthony Doerr
Some people are weak in some ways, sir. Others in other ways.
~ Anthony Doerr
Tolerance is that important but subordinate virtue by which, instructed in our own weakness, we bear with what is bad without pretending that it is good. We bear with it provisionally, even if sometimes there is nothing we can do about it or ever will be able to do about it. It
~ Anthony Esolen
Yet, unless he sets up as a saint, he need not hate himself for them. He is better employed, as it humbly seems to me, in giving thanks that power to resist was vouchsafed to him, than in fretting over wicked impulses which come unsought and extort an unwilling hospitality from the weakness of our nature.
~ Anthony Hope
You look closely enough, you'll find that everything has a weak spot where it can break, sooner or later.
~ Anthony Hopkins
My biggest thing is banana pudding, but it's the devil! So no one is allowed to bring it into my house. Because I can't control myself. So why put it in my domain?
~ Jennifer Hudson
I'd just lie around all day. It's the chemo, the poison they pump into you. Sometimes I'd be walking across the room and think, 'There it is; I got to rest.' And I had to, right then.
~ Daniel Woodrell
Science is his forte, and omniscience his foible.
~ Sydney Smith
In my own country I am in a far off land I am strong but I have no force or power I win all yet remain a loser At break of day I say goodnight When I lie down I have a great fear Of falling.
~ Francois Villon
I embody death, not peace. The only choice in this world we have made from our betrayals and our weakness and our greed.
~ Francesca Lia Block
Erra chi dice che le lettere guastano e' cervelli degli uomini, perché è forse vero in chi l'ha debole; ma dove lo truovano buono, lo fanno perfetto; perché el buono naturale congiunto col buono accidentale fa nobilissima composizione.
~ Francesco Guicciardini
we are never strong enough for what we fear will hurt us. We combat it, finally, out of our deepest weakness.
~ Francine Mathews
God chooses the foolish and weak things of the world to shame the wise and the strong, to show his power and our weakness without him. God's power is perfect in our weakness
~ Francine Rivers
When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.
~ Frank Herbert
Does the prophet see the future or does he see a line of weakness, a fault or cleavage that he may shatter with words or decisions as a diamond-cutter shatters his gem with a blow of a knife? —
~ Frank Herbert
Shield!" the old woman snapped. "You well know the weakness there! Shield your son too much, Jessica, and he'll not grow strong enough to fulfill any destiny.
~ Frank Herbert
He doesn't appear much, does he—one frightened old fat man too weak to support his own flesh without the help of suspensors." It
~ Frank Herbert
They'd never known anything but victory which, Paul realized, could be a weakness in itself. He put that thought aside for later consideration in his own training program.
~ Frank Herbert
Usar la fuerza bruta es volverse uno mismo infinitamente vulnerable a las fuerzas superiores.
~ Frank Herbert
He seemed too submissive to Paul, but then the Sardaukar had never been prepared for such happenings as this day. They'd never known anything but victory which, Paul realized, could be a weakness in itself. He put that thought aside for later consideration in his own training program.
~ Frank Herbert
I'll pay for my own mistake." "And your son will pay with you." "I'll shield him as well as I'm able." "Shield!" the old woman snapped. "You well know the weakness there! Shield your son too much, Jessica, and he'll not grow strong enough to fulfill any destiny.
~ Frank Herbert
Quando io sono più debole di te, ti chiedo la libertà perché ciò è in accordo con i tuoi princìpi. Quando sono più forte di te, io ti tolgo la libertà perché ciò è in accordo con i miei princìpi. Parole di un antico filosofo (attribuite da Harq al-Ada a un certo Louis Veuillot)
~ Frank Herbert