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“One thing worse than an America that is too strong, the world will learn, is an America that is too weak.”

World America Strong One Thing Weak

Book:The Frugal Superpower: America's Global Leadership in a Cash-Strapped Era

Source: The Frugal Superpower: America's Global Leadership in a Cash-Strapped Era

“Oil policy, policy toward the United States, policy toward Iran, Bahrain, Yemen, very unlikely, I think, to see significant change. These policies were the policies that had a wide family consensus. The question I think would be if the king becomes sick, whether you have weak Saudi leadership in the Arab world and the Middle East rather than strong Saudi leadership, but I think the fundamental policies will continue, the ones we’re familiar with under King Abdullah.”

“I believe that a country's first duty is to set its own house in order; and having set its own house in order, it can contribute better to the community of the world. Instead of being a weak link, it should be a strong link.”

World Should Firsts Believe Country Order House Strong I Believe Community Duty Weak Links Cooperation

Author:George Cadle Price

“I've already got the Kingdom of Heaven in my heart! That's my nationality, my citizenship, my Country!-A Country that's never persecuted the poor or oppressed the weak or destroyed small peoples of the World like America has. It's a Country that's never lost a battle and never fought a war for the wrong reason.”

World Heart War Country Reason America Lost Heaven Poor My Heart Battle Weak Kingdoms Destroyed Heavenly Oppressed Citizenship Nationality Kingdom Of Heaven Persecuted Wrong Reasons

Author:David Berg

“I felt so insufficiently equipped, so unprepared, so weak, and at the same time it seemed to me that my reflections on art were correct. I quarreled with all the world and with myself.”

World Art Felt Doubt Reflection Weak Unprepared

Author:Edgar Degas

“If we have Christ with us, we can do all things. Let us not be thinking how weak we are. Let us lift up our eyes to Him and think of Him as our Elder Brother who has all power given to Him in Heaven and on earth. He says, 'Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.'”

Ifs Thinking World Ends Eye Earth Christian Given Heaven Christ Can Do Brother All Things Weak Lifts Elders End Of The World

Author:Dwight L. Moody

“Our principles were revolutionary. We began as a small, weak republic. But we survived. Our example inspired others, imperfectly at times, but it inspired them nevertheless. This constitutional republic, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal, prospered and grew strong. To this day, America is still the abiding alternative to tyranny. That is our purpose in the world - nothing more and nothing less.”

“You don't want to become so sensitive that you can't interact with people in the world. If you get to that point, you are not practicing psychic development. You are running away from the world, and you've made yourself weak.”

People Ifs World Want Made Running Success Development Weak Sensitive Running Away Psychics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Death and pain dominate this world, for though many are cured, they leave still weak, still tremulous, still knowing mortality has whispered to them; have seen in the folding of white bedspreads according to rule the starched pleats of a shroud.”

World Stills Pain White Knowing This World Weak Mortality Shrouds Folding Pleats

Author:Denise Levertov

“Let us build a structure of peace in the world in which the weak are as safe as the strong in which each respects the right of the other to live by a different system in which those who would influence others will do so by the strength of their ideas, and not by the force of their arms. Let us accept that high responsibility not as a burden, but gladly gladly because the chance to build such a peace is the noblest endeavor in which a nation can engage.”

World Ideas Different Strong Force Nations Peace Chance Responsibility Accepting Influence Arms Safe Weak Structure Burden Live By Endeavor

Author:Richard M. Nixon

“Whereas, according to the declaration of that true man of the world Talleyrand, the use of language is to conceal the thoughts; this is to declare in the present instance, when I say I am not able to bear much talking, it means really, and without any mistake, or equivocation, or oblique meaning, or implication, or subterfuge, or omission, that I am not able; being at present rather weak in the head, and able to work no more.”

Men World Mean Use Able Language Mistake Talking Bears Weak Instance Declaration Implications Omission True Man Use Of Language Subterfuge

Author:Michael Faraday

“Is this wide world not large enough to fill thee,Nor Nature, nor that deep man's Nature, Art?Are they too thin, too weak and poor to still thee,Thou little heart?”

Men World Heart Littles Art Stills Enough Poor Weak Wide Thee

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“[T]he individual in whom the will for the light is strong and clear finds his heart inextricably bound up with the struggle of the forces of light in his native place and time. Much as he may long for the opportunity of fuller self- expression in a happier world, he knows that for him self-expression is impossible save in the world in which his mind is rooted. The individual in whom the will for the light is weak soon persuades himself that his opportunity lies elsewhere.”

Source: Darkness and the light

“Christ has lifted woman to a new place in the world. And just in proportion as Christianity has sway, will she rise to a higher dignity in human life. What she has now, and what she shall have, of privilege and true honor, she owes to that gospel which took those qualities peculiarly and which had been counted weak and unworthy, and gave them a Divine glory in Christ.”

World Humans Women Christ Quality Christianity Divine Higher Honor Glory Dignity Weak Privilege Human Life Proportion Unworthy Places In The World New Places

Book:Christianity's Challenge and Some Phases of Christianity Submitted for Candid Consideration

Source: Christianity's Challenge and Some Phases of Christianity Submitted for Candid Consideration

“Enter with me into the sufferings, not only of the people of India but of the whole world. Nonviolence is a more active and real fight against wickedness than retaliation whose very nature is to increase wickedness. It is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest.”

People World Real Whole Suffering Fighting Weapons Weak India Increase Active Whole World Strongest Nonviolence Wickedness Retaliation

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“As believers, we are running the race together. We are connected by our faith in God and our love for the world that He sent Christ to save. So if one gets weak, we carry them. We aren't called to stop moving forward. We aren't called to criticize each other. No, we are called to encourage each other, to reach down and carry each other, and to keep moving.”

“. . . every preacher who does not make prayer a mighty factor in his own life and ministry is weak as a factor in God's work and is powerless to project God's cause in this world.”

World Doe Causes Prayer This World Projects Weak Factors Preacher Ministry Powerless

Book:Power Through Prayer

Source: Power Through Prayer

“All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions. The man strongly possessed of an idea is the master of all who are uncertain or wavering. Clear, deep, living convictions rule the world.”

Men World Believe Ideas Action Faith Strong Force Clear Doubt He Man Masters Weak Conviction Possessed Uncertain Unseen Wavering

Book:Common-sense in Religion: A Series of Essays

Source: Common-sense in Religion: A Series of Essays

“We aren't leveraging this great economic engine, the strongest economy in the world. And yet we have this totally weak response. We import $500 billion a year more in products than we export.”

World Years Economy Economic Products Weak Response Billions Strongest Engines Imports

Author:Jennifer Granholm

“This is the power of the powerful to define, to structure, to say, 'This is the way the world works.' It's enormous power. Among the powers of the weak, I think the first one is the power not to believe the powerful.”

Thinking World Way Firsts Believe Powerful Power Weak Structure Enormous Working It

Author:Elizabeth Janeway

“People with really weak characters cause an immense amount of suffering in the world. They destroy whole civilisations.”

People World Whole Character Suffering Causes Amount Weakness Weak Immense Civilisation Weak Character

Book:A gesture of belonging: letters from Bessie Head, 1965-1979

Source: A gesture of belonging: letters from Bessie Head, 1965-1979

“The art world is the biggest joke going. It's a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak. And modern art is a disgrace - never have so many people used so much stuff and taken so long to say so little.”

People World Littles Long Art Home Used Stuff Taken Modern Jokes Art Is Weak Disgrace Pretentious Art World Modern Art

Author:Banksy

“Humans live in a world where the weak are dominant. This is a terrible insult to our animal nature, a sort of perversion or a deep contradiction.”

World Humans Animal Terrible Weak Insult Contradiction Dominant Perversion

Author:Muriel Barbery

“In Republican fantasy world, everything is always Obama's fault. Somehow, he's weak and he's ineffective, and yet he pulls the strings on everything in the world.”

World Fantasy Republican Weak Faults Strings Fantasy Worlds

Author:Bill Maher

“I am pleased as punch no longer to believe in a god who declares reason a sin, who will not choose many noble and great and wise things but has chosen the base things of the world, the foolish things, the weak things and the things which are not. A god who can choose his companions in eternity and prefers Jerry Falwell and Tammy Bakker over Albert Einstein and Marie Curie. I am no longer a fool for Christ's sake. And I have no more desire to be a sheep than to be a fool. It is possible to pull out justification for imposing your will on others, simply by calling your will God's will.”

“If a beach-head of cooperation may push back the jungle of suspicion, let both sides join in creating a new endeavor, not a new balance of power, but a new world of law, where the strong are just and the weak secure and the peace preserved. All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days, nor in the life of this Administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.”

“Having children can smooth the relationship, too. Mother and daughter are now equals. That is hard to imagine, even harder to accept, for among other things, it means realizing that your own mother felt this way, too--unsure of herself, weak in the knees, terrified about what in the world to do with you. It means accepting that she was tired, inept, sometimes stupid; that she, too, sat in the dark at 2:00 A.M. with a child shrieking across the hall and no clue to the child's trouble.”

Source: Living Out Loud

“What the unpenetrating world call Humanity, is often no more than a weak mind pitying itself.”

World Mind Self Humanity Weak Pity Self Pity Weak Minds

Book:Letters and passages restored from the original manuscripts of the History of Clarissa. To which is subjoined, a collection of such of the moral and instructive sentiments ... contained in the History, as are presumed to be of general use and service ... Published for the sake of doing justice to the purchasers of the first two editions of that work

Source: Letters and passages restored from the original manuscripts of the History of Clarissa. To which is subjoined, a collection of such of the moral and instructive sentiments ... contained in the History, as are presumed to be of general use and service ... Published for the sake of doing justice to the purchasers of the first two editions of that work

“What a weak, credulous, incredulous, unbelieving, superstitious, bold, frightened, what a ridiculous world ours is, as far as concerns the mind of man. How full of inconsistencies, contradictions and absurdities it is. I declare that taking the average of many minds that have recently come before me ... I should prefer the obedience, affections and instinct of a dog before it.”

Men World Should Mind Dog Concern Weak Instinct Average Affection Ridiculous Obedience Contradiction Frightened Absurdity Autobiography Superstitious Inconsistency

Book:The Correspondence of Michael Faraday, Volume 4: 1849-1855

Source: The Correspondence of Michael Faraday, Volume 4: 1849-1855

“The last song I recorded with [Hank Williams, Sr.] was "I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive." I remember thinking, "Hoss, you're not just jivin'," because he was so weak that all he could do was sing a few lines and then just fall in the chair.”

Thinking World Country Lasts Remember Song Fall Lines Alive This World Weak Chairs Last Song Hank Williams

Author:Chet Atkins

“I never pretend to be so superior a being as to be above having and indulging a hobby horse [her journal writing], and while I keep mine within due bounds and limits, nobody, I flatter myself, would wish to deprive me of the poor animal: to be sure, he is not formed for labour, and is rather lame and weak, but then the dear creature is faithful, constant, and loving, and though he sometimes prances, would not kick anyone into the mire, or hurt a single soul for the world--and I would not part with him for one who could win the greatest prize that ever was won at any races.”

“The thoughts and opinions of one human being, if they are sincere, must always have an interest for some other human beings. The world is there to think about; and if we have lived, or are living, with any sort of energy, we must have thought about it, and about ourselves in relation to it - thought 'furiously' often. And it is out of the many 'thinkings' of many folk, strong or weak, dull or far-ranging, that thought itself grows.”

Ifs Thinking World Humans Energy Strong Grows Interest Human Beings Opinion Weak Relation Folks Dull Sincere

Author:Mary Augusta Ward

“Had I made capital on my prettiness, I should have closed the doors of public employment to women for many a year, by the very means which now makes them weak, underpaid competitors in the great workshop of the world.”

World Should Years Mean Made Work Beauty Doors Weak Should Have Employment Competitors Great Work Workshops Very Mean Underpaid Prettiness

Author:Jane Swisshelm

“And sometimes I remember days of old When fellowship seemed not so far to seek, And all the world and I seemed much less cold, And at the rainbow's foot lay surely gold, And hope felt strong, and life itself not weak.”

World Sometimes Remember Strong Felt Feet Cold Weak Gold Lays Rainbow Fellowship

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)

“In this world it is very dangerous to be weak.”

World Dangerous This World Weak

Author:I. L. Peretz

“What do I see in the God of that infamous sect if not an inconsistent and barbarous being, today the creator of a world of destruction he repents of tomorrow; what do I see there but a frail being forever unable to bring man to heel and force him to bend a knee. This creature, although emanated from him, dominates him, knows how to offend him and thereby merit torments eternally! What a weak fellow, this God!”

Ifs Knows Men World God Today Force Religious Know How Forever Tomorrow Creatures Weak Destruction Fellows Creator Knees Merit Heels Torment Repent Sects Inconsistent Frail Infamous

Author:Marquis de Sade

“If you are strong you can take a punch and not flinch, but if you have a sore spot, a nudge on that sore spot will make you scream. Muslims committed the huge blunder of revealing their vulnerability. Now the world knows what hurts them. When you find your opponent's weak spot, it is exactly where you want to hit him.”

Ifs Knows World Want Strong Hurt Huge Weak Committed Spots Vulnerability Opponents Scream Revealing Blunders Nudge Weak Spots

Author:Ali Sina

“I think what life experience has brought to my poems is compassion. When you work hard to make a living, raise a child up into the world, fail at marriage and try again, teach and fail, travel and fall, become ill, well again, weak but grateful, you learn patience, forbearance.”

Thinking World Trying Wells Children Hard Fall Compassion Teach Failing Hard Work Weak Raises Grateful Ill Life Experience Try Again Forbearance

Author:Dorianne Laux

“I think we fought Vietnam for the benefits of civilization, and certainly we fought it to oppose authority. To show our authority, to show we weren't weak. Isn't that what Nixon kept saying? "We have to show the world that we're not weak." So of course what we ended up showing the world was that we were, yep, weak. 'Cause we couldn't beat these kids in black pajamas.”

Thinking World Shows Kids Courses Causes Black Civilization Authority Benefits Beats Weak Vietnam Pajamas

Author:Stephen King

“All the religions of the world describe God pre-eminently as the Friend of the friendless, Help of the helpless, and Protector of the weak.”

World God Helping Weak Helpless Protector Friendless

Book:The Essential Writings

Source: The Essential Writings

“The ways of God are entirely different from our ways. To us it seems necessary to employ powerful means in order to produce great effects. This is not God's method; quite the contrary. He likes to choose the weakest instruments that He may confound the strong: "God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong - Infirma mundi elegit ut confundat fortia".”

World Way May Mean Different Seems Order Strong Powerful Effects Produce Weak Shame Method Instruments Contrary Likes Rosary

Author:Columba Marmion

“It is weakness, says the Vedanta, which is the cause of all misery in this world. Weakness is the one cause of suffering. We become miserable because we are weak. We lie, steal, kill and commit other crimes, because we are weak. We die because we are weak. Where there is nothing to weaken us, there is no death nor sorrow. We are miserable through delusion. Give up the delusion and the whole thing vanishes.”

World Giving Whole Lying Suffering Dies Causes Strength Crime This World Sorrow Giving Up Weakness Weak Misery Stealing Commit Miserable Delusion Vedanta

Author:Swami Vivekananda

“He who always thinks himself as weak will never become strong, but he who knows himself to be a lion, rushes out from the worlds meshes, as a lion from its cage.”

Thinking Knows World Motivational Strong Weak Lions Cages Mesh Weak Will

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“The United States, as the world knows, will never start a war. We do not want a war. We do not now expect a war. This generation of Americans has already had enough - more than enough - of war and hate and oppression. We shall be prepared if others wish it. We shall be alert to try to stop it. But we shall also do our part to build a world of peace where the weak are safe and the strong are just. We are not helpless before that task or hopeless of its success. Confident and unafraid, we labor on - not toward a strategy of annihilation but toward a strategy of peace.”

“When God wants to move a mountain, he does not take a bar of iron, but he takes a little worm. The fact is, we have too much strength. We are not weak enough. It is not our strength that we want. One drop of God's strength is worth more than all the world.”

World Want Littles Doe Enough Facts Moving Too Much Mountain Weak Bars Iron Worms

Author:Dwight L. Moody

“In a world where the threat is asymmetrical, where the weak defy the strong, the power of conviction, the capacity to convince, the ability to sway opinion count as much as the number of military divisions.”

World Strong Ability Numbers Opinion Military Capacity Weak Threat Conviction Convince Division

Author:Dominique de Villepin

“One moves swiftly and imperceptibly from a world in which affirmative action can`t be ended because its beneficiaries are too weak to a world in which it can`t be ended because its beneficiaries are too strong.”

World Action Moving Strong Weak Affirmative Action Affirmative Beneficiaries

Book:Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam and the West

Source: Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam and the West

“When the veil of fiction was rent, man shuddered before "Nature, red in tooth and claw." Nature had always been that and always will be, and the hands of man, even when he fashions and defends the noblest civilization, must forever be bloody hands, for this is a world in which only the strong and resolute nations survive, while the weak, especially the morally weak, who babble about brotherhood and peace, are biologically degenerate and doomed to extinction.”

“I do know that the world knows or thinks that I have money and lots of it. They perceive me as an old weak man and an easy target.”

Thinking Knows Men World Easy Weak Perceive Target Weak Man

Author:John McAfee

“I have always said that if Great Britain were defeated in war I hoped we should find a Hitler to lead us back to our rightful position among the nations. I am sorry, however, that he has not been mellowed by the great success that has attended him. The whole world would rejoice to see the Hitler of peace and tolerance, and nothing would adorn his name in world history so much as acts of magnanimity and of mercy and of pity to the forlorn and friendless, to the weak and poor.... Let this great man search his own heart and conscience before he accuses anyone of being a warmonger.”