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“Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.”

Men Mind Diversity Weak Stress Social Justice Luck Bondage Exaggerated Obstinacy Weak Man Human Bondage

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“I tell the truth, and I expose myself as a weak, misguided, misdirected, dysfunctional human being I used to be.”

Humans Used Human Beings Weak Used To Be Telling The Truth Misguided

Author:Russell Means

“Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.”

Knows Way Shows Literature Speak Strength Weakness Weak Faults Premeditation

Book:Correspondence

Source: Correspondence

“Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.”

Feelings Weapons Weak Defense Warrior Contempt Despised Unwanted

Book:The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self

Source: The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self

“A novelist needs to know his own strong points and weak points.”

Knows Needs Strong Weak Novelists Weak Points

Author:David Mitchell

“Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.”

Thinking Men Love Past Stupid Weak Affair Love Affair Past Love

Book:My Story

Source: My Story

“A strong man doesn't have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn't match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.”

Men World Love Strong Men And Women Weak Dominant Strong Man

Book:My Story

Source: My Story

“He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.”

Reason Shows Authority Argument Weak Anger Arguing Noise Command

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“More and more political analysts and weak-kneed politicians are advising the historically pro-life Republican Party to abandon its pro-life stance for political gain. My first response is that if you cannot trust a party on the value of defending human life, how can you trust it on issues like marginal tax rates?”

Ifs Firsts Humans Political Values Party Issues Politician Republican Taxes Gains Weak Response Rate Human Life Abandon Republican Party Pro Life Stance Analysts

Author:Gary Bauer

“Every woman needs one man in her life who is strong and responsible. Given this security, she can proceed to do what she really wants to do-fall in love with men who are weak and irresponsible.”

Men Want Love Needs Fall Strong Given Security Weak Responsible Falling In Love One Man Irresponsible

Author:Richard J. Needham

“Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.”

Source: Animal Farm and 1984

“A weak currency is the sign of a weak economy, and a weak economy leads to a weak nation.”

Nations Money Economy Weak Currency Glitter

Author:Ross Perot

“The God we serve does not seek out the perfect, but instead uses our imperfections and our shortcomings for his greater good. I am humbled by my own limitations. But where I am weak, He is strong.”

Doe Use Strong My Own Perfect Greater Weak Limitation Imperfection Shortcomings Greater Good

Author:Rick Perry

“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.”

Literature Weak Weary Midnight Dreary Quaint Nevermore Alliteration Thursday Next

Author:Edgar Allan Poe

“A movie about a weak, vulnerable woman can be feminist if it shows a real person that we can empathize with.”

Ifs Persons Real Shows Weak Feminist Vulnerable Real Person Strong Female Characters

Author:Natalie Portman

“People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of.”

People Taken Demand Goodness Weakness Advantage Weak Good People Taken Advantage Weak People

Author:Dennis Prager

“In the beginning, people think vulnerability will make you weak, but it does the opposite. It shows you're strong enough to care.”

People Thinking Doe Enough Shows Care Strong Weak Opposites Vulnerability Strong Enough

Author:Victoria Pratt

“A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence.”

Strong Levels Common Danger Weak Excellence Equality Inequality Communism Mediocrity Exploitation

Author:Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

“Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is exploitation of the strong by the weak.”

Strong Weak Property Inequality Communism Exploitation

Book:Property is Theft!: A Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Anthology

Source: Property is Theft!: A Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Anthology

“Julia progresses from cradle to grave, showing how government makes every good thing in her life possible. The weak economy, high unemployment, falling wages, rising gas prices, the national debt, the insolvency of entitlements - all these are fictionally assumed away in a cartoon that is produced by a president who wants us to forget about them.”

Want Government Fall President Forget Economy Progress Weak Good Things Debt Graves Rising Gas Unemployment Cartoon Wages Cradle Entitlement Julia National Debt Gas Prices Insolvency

Author:Mitt Romney

“I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.”

Love Life Inspiration Strong Relationship Weak Hatred Expected Gentleness

Book:The Many Worlds of L*e*o R*o*s*t*e*n: Stories, Humor, Social Commentary, Travelogues, Satire, Memoirs, Profiles, and Sundry Entertainments Never Before Published; with a Special Introd., Background Notes, Revelations and Confessions, All Hand-written and Themselves Worth the Price of Admission

Source: The Many Worlds of L*e*o R*o*s*t*e*n: Stories, Humor, Social Commentary, Travelogues, Satire, Memoirs, Profiles, and Sundry Entertainments Never Before Published; with a Special Introd., Background Notes, Revelations and Confessions, All Hand-written and Themselves Worth the Price of Admission

“We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.”

Men Needs Reason Born Education Birth Weak Aids Foolish Birthday Helpless Estates Birth Life Need Strength

Book:Emile

Source: Emile

“What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.”

Firsts Art Artist Imagination Industry Weak Thirds Tenderness Sensibility Great Artist

Author:Salman Rushdie

“Sometimes people don't trust the force of kindness. They think love or compassion or kindness will make you weak and kind of stupid and people will take advantage of you; you won't stand up for other people.”

People Thinking Kind Sometimes Force Compassion Kindness Stupid Advantage Weak Don't Trust

Author:Sharon Salzberg

“An evil fate has deprived me of the full use of my right hand, so that I am not able to play my compositions as I feel them. The trouble with my hand is that certain fingers have become so weak, probably through writing and playing too much at one time, that I can hardly use them.”

Feels Writing I Can Play Use Hands Able Certain Evil Too Much Fate Trouble Weak Fingers One Time Composition Deprived

Book:The Letters of Robert Schumann

Source: The Letters of Robert Schumann

“Republicans always try to paint Democrats as weak on defense. This time, they can't. After all, Mitt Romney's idea of an overseas accomplishment is sending U.S. jobs there.”

Trying Ideas Jobs Republican Weak Democrat Paint Defense Accomplishment Romney

Author:Charles Schumer

“One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.”

Ifs World Happens Truth Spiritual Suffering Spirituality Strong Weak Historical Firm World History Stand Firm Spiritual Truth

Book:Reverence for Life: The Ethics of Albert Schweitzer for the Twenty-First Century

Source: Reverence for Life: The Ethics of Albert Schweitzer for the Twenty-First Century

“Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.”

Love May Shows Love You Weak Love Yourself Provoking

Book:Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life

Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life

“If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment.”

People Ifs Giving Government Remember Strong Nations Hours Judgment Weak Appeals League Impunity Weak People League Of Nations Strong Government

Author:Haile Selassie

“Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.”

“Sometimes I feel my arm is like a swan's neck - so weak.”

Feels Sometimes Hands Arms Weak Necks Swans

Author:Maria Sharapova

“'The Sopranos' gets praised as novelistic, but it follows the most banal of life patterns, showing the sheer tedium of being a mobster. It has dead spots, boring plotlines, weak episodes. Characters develop slowly, or don't. Like viewers, a gangster might get bored, fade out of the action, then come back to find none of his debts forgotten.”

Character Might Action Weak Forgotten Patterns Boring Debt Spots Bored Fades Episodes Sheer Viewers Gangsters Sopranos Tedium Mobster

Author:Rob Sheffield

“Spending too much time focused on others' strengths leaves us feeling weak. Focusing on our own strengths is what, in fact, makes us strong.”

Facts Feelings Strong Too Much Weak Focused Spending

Author:Simon Sinek

“If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.”

Ifs Character Strong Race Weak Remains Possession Worthless Egotism Glitter Distinctive

Book:Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country

Source: Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country

“Actors, movie stars, rock stars, I can meet them with no worries - but with footballers I go weak at the knees. All of them.”

I Can Actors Stars Worry Rocks Weak Knees Movie Star Rock Star Footballer No Worries

Author:Matt Smith

“Irony is the recourse of the weak-minded wimp, I think. I hate bands that deliver their songs with knowing smiles on their faces, so that if those songs fall flat they can say 'Ah well, we never really meant it anyway.' It's so dishonest.”

Ifs Thinking Wells Faces Hate Song Fall Knowing Band Weak I Hate Irony Flats Recourse Wimps

Author:Robert Smith

“Desperation, weakness, vulnerability - these things will always be exploited. You need to protect the weak, ring-fence them, with something far stronger than empathy.”

Needs Protect Empathy Weakness Weak Stronger Rings Vulnerability Desperation Fence

Author:Zadie Smith

“Men's moral principles are weak enough without their being made subordinate to selfishness; and their selfishness is quite active enough, without any such effort as Christianity makes to constitute it the mainspring of all their conduct.”

Men Made Enough Effort Moral Christianity Principles Weak Active Selfishness Subordinates Moral Principles

Book:The collected works of Lysander Spooner

Source: The collected works of Lysander Spooner

“People don't realize that when they 'throw out' their back, it's often because of weak abs. These muscles are essential for lower-back strength and good posture.”

People Realizing Essentials Weak Muscles Posture Good Posture

Author:Sylvester Stallone

“If we have built on the fragile cornerstones of human wisdom, pride, and conditional love, things may look good for a while, but a weak foundation causes collapse when storms hit.”

Ifs Humans Looks May Causes Pride Built Weak Foundation Storm Fragile Collapse Cornerstones Conditional Human Wisdom Conditional Love Weak Foundation

Author:Charles Stanley

“It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth.”

Ifs Earth Faces Literature Weak Sick Ugly

Author:John Steinbeck

“Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.”

Inspirational Enough Desire Artist Weak Thought Provoking Restraining

Author:William Blake

“What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.”

Men Life Made Care Weak Idiot Obscure Glitter Explicit Weak Man

Book:The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake

Source: The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake

“The weak in courage is strong in cunning.”

Strong Weak Cunning Fetters

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.”

Men Religion Strong Mistake Magic Society Weak Medicine Medical Glitter Scientism Weak Man Medical Science Medical Doctor

Author:Thomas Szasz

“Xenophobia manifests itself especially against civilizations and cultures that are weak because they lack economic resources, means of subsistence or land. So nomadic people are the first targets of this kind of aggression.”

People Firsts Kind Mean Culture Economic Land Civilization Resources Weak Target Aggression Xenophobia Subsistence Nomadic Economic Resources

Author:Antonio Tabucchi

“I mean the flesh, never fade! The flesh never leave the creation, see, because with that divine spirit the flesh cannot fade. If the spirit is weak then the flesh fade, seen?”

Ifs Mean Spirit Creation Divine Weak Flesh Fades Never Fade

Author:Peter Tosh

“Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.”

People Mind Strong Fear Common Laughing Weapons Empty Weak Coward Dread Ridicule Strong Mind Strong Minded

Author:Martin Farquhar Tupper

“People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.”

People Speak Weak Favors Despised Biased

Author:Desmond Tutu

“Passion is what gets you through the hardest times that might otherwise make strong men weak, or make you give up.”

Men Giving Might Passion Strong Giving Up Weak Hardest Strong Man Hardest Times

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson