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Quotes About Weakness

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~ Margaret Mitchell
In a weak moment I have written a book...
~ Margaret Mitchell
We are not as strong as technology's pull.
~ Sherry Turkle
Praise has different effects, according to the mind it meets with; it makes a wise man modest, but a fool more arrogant, turning his weak brain giddy.
~ Owen Feltham
We live in a wondrous time in which the strong is weak because of his moral scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.
~ Otto von Bismarck
Go after a man's weakness, and never, ever, threaten unless you're going to follow through, because if you don't, the next time you won't be taken seriously.
~ Roy Cohn
Ice cream was my undoing, and six chocolate milk shakes in a row were nothing to me at one time.
~ Kate Smith
Time is not a great artist but weakens all he touches.
~ William Hogarth
I was still too weak to understand his chess ideas at that time but I remember being covered in smoke.
~ Alexei Shirov
Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
~ Alexander Pope
I'm frequently in need of consolation, I often feel weak, and more often than not, I fail to meet expectations. I know this, and every day I resolve to do better.
~ Anne Frank
It strikes fear to my heart when Peter talks of later being a criminal, or of gambling; although it's meant as a joke, of course, it gives me the feeling that he's afraid of his own weakness.
~ Anne Frank
Is it really such an admirable trait not to let myself be influenced by others? Am I right in following my own conscience? To be honest, I can't imagine how anyone could say "I'm weak" and then stay that way. If you know that about yourself, why not fight it, why not develop your character? Their answer has always been: "Because it's much easier not to!
~ Anne Frank
The weak shall fall and the strong shall survive and not be defeated.
~ Anne Frank
Jealousy has always been my cross, the weakness and woundedness in me that has most often caused me to feel ugly and unlovable, like the Bad Seed.
~ Anne Lamott
The mainland can stretch until it breaks at the weakest points, and those weaknesses are called faults. Each island represented a victory and a defeat: it had either pulled itself free or pulled too hard and found itself alone. Later, as these islands grew older, they turned their misfortune into virtue, learned to accept their cragginess, their misshapen coasts, ragged where they'd been torn. They acquired grace.
~ Anne Michaels
I mean a spiritual fear of being weak, to the very soul, the fear which makes you hate, because you are too self-obsessed to love, too consumed by rage that you are not what you wished, that the road is harder, the price tougher than you thought.
~ Anne Perry
selfishness in others. It was ugly from every aspect, a spiritual weakness which soured every other virtue. Even courage and honesty were marred by it in the end.
~ Anne Perry
la debilidad era peligrosa. Quienes eran conscientes de sus desventajas eran quienes atacaban. Alguien
~ Anne Perry
I have lived lies. I have done it again and again. I live lies because I cannot endure the weakness of anger, and I cannot admit the irrationality of love.-Marius
~ Anne Rice
I live lies because I cannot endure the weakness of anger, and I cannot admit the irrationality of love.
~ Anne Rice
Anger is too pathetic. Anger is as weak as fear.
~ Anne Rice
But I lived a lie. I lived it out of anger. This is what I am trying to tell you. I have lived lies. I have done it again and again. I live lies because I cannot endure the weakness of anger and I cannot admit the irrationality of love. Oh the lies I have told myself and others. I knew it yet I didn't know.
~ Anne Rice
But in every family there are bad people, and weak people, and some people who can't or won't withstand the trials of life, and who fail spectacularly. Their guardian angels weep; demons beholding them dance for joy. But only The Maker decides what ultimately happens to them.
~ Anne Rice