Best weakness & ends Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“That man is formed for social life is an observation which, upon our first inquiry, presents itself immediately to our view, and our reason approves that wise and generous principle which actuated the first founders of civil government, an institution which hat its origin in the weakness of individuals, and hath for its end the strength and security of all; and so long as the means of effecting this important end are thoroughly known and religiously attended to government is one of the richest blessings to mankind, and ought to be held in the highest veneration”

“Creative people often feel highs of joy and lows of sorrow that others may never experience, and perhaps could not even handle if they did. Little wonder many outside the creative world mistake (or dismiss) eccentric responses of the spirit as weakness or mental illness. But in the end, these dismissive souls will never know what it is to be moved by tears by the beauty of rose or brought to joy by sunlight filtering through the leaves of spring or autumn. The creative walk in glades invisible to those outside their realms.”

“In such a world as this, with such hearts as ours, weakness is wickedness in the long run. Whoever lets himself be shaped and guided by any thing lower than an inflexible will, fixed in obedience to God, will in the end be shaped into a deformity, and guided to wreck and ruin”

World Heart Long Ends Running Decision Weakness Gods Will Ruins Obedience Fixed Long Runs Wickedness Wrecks Deformity Obedience To God

Book:MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture

Source: MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture

“The world is full of vulgar Purists, who bring discredit on all selection by the silliness of their choice; and this the more, because the very becoming a Purist is commonly indicative of some slight degree of weakness, readiness to be offended, or narrowness of understanding of the ends of things.”

World Ends Choices Understanding Becoming Degrees Weakness Vulgar Selection Offended Readiness Discredit Silliness

Book:The Stones of Venice

Source: The Stones of Venice

“The iron arc of the avoiding journey Curves back upon my weakness at the end; Whether the faint light spark against my face Or in the dark my sight hide from my sight, Centre and circumference are both my weakness.”

Ends Light Faces Dark Journey Weakness Sight Iron Sparks Centre Avoiding Curves Arcs

Book:World Within World: The Autobiography of Stephen Spender

Source: World Within World: The Autobiography of Stephen Spender

“I have found strength where one does not look for it: in simple, mild, and pleasant people, without the least desire to rule -- and, conversely, the desire to rule has often appeared to me a sign of inward weakness: they fear their own slave soul and shroud it in a royal cloak (in the end, they still become the slaves of their followers, their fame, etc.)”

People Looks Doe Stills Soul Ends Desire Found Simple Fame Weakness Slave Pleasant Etc Followers Inward Royal Cloaks Shrouds

Book:Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist

Source: Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist

“Absurdity is the one thing love can't stand; it can overlook anything else, -- coldness, or weakness, or viciousness, -- but just be ridiculous and that's the end of it!”

Ends One Thing Weakness Ridiculous Absurdity Coldness

Author:Margaret Deland

“The problem that we have is the President himself- a President who prides himself on his own weakness and incompetence and whose love of false prophets and strange women knows no bounds and has no end. A President who is as confused and as clueless as the comic character called Chancey Gardner in the celebrated 1970's Peter Seller's Hollywood blockbuster titled ”Being There”

Knows Ends Character Problem President Strange Pride Weakness Hollywood Bounds Comic Confused Prophet Peter Being There Incompetence Sellers Clueless Blockbuster False Prophets

Author:Femi Fani-Kayode

“It's come around to that point of view at the end of a long evolutionary process, in which the rule of law has slowly been replaced by giant idiosyncratic bureaucracies that are designed to criminalize failure, poverty, and weakness on the one hand, and to immunize strength, wealth, and success on the other.”

Long Ends Hands Law Process Wealth Views Poverty Weakness Point Of View Giants Replaced Bureaucracy Rule Of Law Wealth And Success

Book:The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap

Source: The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap

“He that resolves upon any great and good end, has, by that very resolution, scaled the chief barrier to it. He will find such resolution removing difficulties, searching out or making means, giving courage for despondency, and strength for weakness, and like the star to the wise men of old, ever guiding him nearer and nearer to perfection.”

Men Giving Mean Ends Stars Wise Weakness Perfection Difficulty Chiefs Barriers Resolve Resolution Despondency

Book:The World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors

Source: The World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors

“Sneezing absorbs all the functions of the soul just as much as the [sexual] act, but we do not draw from it the same conclusions against the greatness of man, because it is involuntary; although we bring it about, we do so involuntarily. It is not for the sake of the thing in itself but for another end, and is therefore not a sign of man's weakness, or his subjection to this act.”

Men Soul Ends Sex Greatness Draws Weakness Function Sake Conclusion Involuntary Subjection Greatness Of Man Sneezing

Book:Pascal Pensées

Source: Pascal Pensées

“Grief never ends, but it changes. It is a passage, not a place to stay. Grief is not a sign of weakness nor a lack of faith: it is the price of love.”

Ends Grief Weakness Passages Lack Of Faith Grieving A Death Death And Grieving Death Grieving Price Of Love

Author:Elizabeth I

“Most anger stems from feelings of weakness, sadness and fear: hard to remember when one is at the receiving end of its defiant roar.”

Ends Hard Feelings Remember Sadness Weakness Receiving Stem Remember When

Author:Alain de Botton

“In the end, the country is going the say, You know, whatever [Donald] Trump's weaknesses may be, he's a sincere guy trying very hard to get this country back on the right track.”

Knows Trying May Ends Country Hard Guy Trump Weakness Track Sincere Right Track

Author:Newt Gingrich

“Highly unequal societies are morally defective because they get to be that way through the exploitation by the clever and well-positioned ones of the vulnerabilities and weaknesses of others. The well-off then use their acquired political power to refuse to make sacrifices for others. This system brings us a wonderful range of products and experiences for consumers at the top of the privilege scale, but it also degrades and benumbs the workers at the lower end, as Adam Smith and Marx both said.”

“I am the most concerned that we end up in a situation where your - everything is known about you and so therefore, not only Google, but Google, Facebook, Twitter - the whole set of companies - essentially knows all your weaknesses and therefore how to manipulate you in subtle ways in order to have you do things you might not otherwise do.”

Knows Way Ends Whole Might Order Company Situation Known Weakness Concerned Subtle Google Manipulate

Author:Tim Wu

“If you have a weakness for furry slippers or something, you might end up with that kind of advertising. It's a very complicated algorithmic decision. There's no one dude who's deciding what ads are going with things, and it's very individualized also. And that's the idea of collecting information is that in theory, you're showing people things that they should want to see or for which they are a good target. So, no, there's no master person.”

People Ifs Want Should Kind Persons Ideas Ends Might Decision Information Masters Theory Weakness Complicated Advertising Target Ads Collecting Slippers Furry Collecting Information

Author:Tim Wu

“I like [ Rick] Santorum personally and respect him, but you wouldn't say that he was really that strong of an opponent. At the end of the day it wasn't like [Ronald] Reagan running against [George] Bush, or [George W.] Bush against [John] McCain, even. It's sort of surprising that Romney had as much trouble as he did, and I think it shows a weakness in appeal to those voters.”

Thinking Ends Shows Running Strong Trouble Weakness Appeals Opponents The End Of The Day Voters Surprising Romney Mccain

Author:William Kristol

“In the end, many of his more militant colleagues began to feel that [Ho Chi Minh's] tendency to compromise, and his reluctance to confront the enemy directly, was a sign of weakness. The decision to confront the United States in 1963-1965 was a tacit recognition that Ho's approach had failed.”

Feels Ends States Decision United Enemy United States Approach Weakness Tendencies Compromise Recognition Colleagues Militant Reluctance Tacit

Author:William J. Duiker

“Let me tell you about weakness! Killing the strong to prove your strength is foolish weakness. Killing fools is easy weakness. Killing the weak is evil weakness. Accomplishing your ends without killing, mastering your mind when you want to kill--that is strength!”

Want Mind Ends Evil Strong Easy Fool Prove Weakness Weak Let Me Killing Foolish

Author:Victoria Hanley

“I see that I've become a really bad correspondent. It's not that I don't think of you. You come into my thoughts often. But when you do it appears to me that I owe you a particularly grand letter. And so you end in the "warehouse of good intentions": "Can't do it now." "Then put it on hold." This is one's strategy for coping with old age, and with death--because one can't die with so many obligations in storage. Our clever species, so fertile and resourceful in denying its weaknesses.”

Thinking Ends Age Dies Weakness Letters Strategy Intention Species Clever Obligation Old Age My Thoughts Think Of You Coping Good Intentions Fertile Storage Resourceful Warehouse

Author:Saul Bellow

“Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.”

Mind Ends Weakness Weak Encouragement Aim Noble Encouraging Applause Spurs Glitter

Author:Edmund Burke

“It's a weakness to apologize before hearing what the other person's grievances are. You don't want to end up creating new grievances where there were none to begin with. Another Daddy-ism, if you hadn't already guessed.”

Ifs Want Persons Ends Creating Weakness Hearing Apologizing Daddy Grievance Isms

Book:All These Things I've Done

Source: All These Things I've Done

“Good men and bad men alike are capable of weakness. The difference is simply that a bad man will be proud all his life of one good deed - while an honest man is hardly aware of his good acts, but remembers a single sin for years on end.”

Men Years Ends Remember Differences Sin Honest Honesty Proud Capable Weakness Deeds Being Honest Good Man Be Proud Good Deeds Honest Man Bad Man

Author:Vasily Grossman

“The book which the reader now holds in his hands, from one end to the other, as a whole and in its details, whatever gaps, exceptions, or weaknesses it may contain, treats of the advance from evil to good, from injustice to justice, from falsity to truth, from darkness to daylight, from blind appetite to conscience, from decay to life, from bestiality to duty, from Hell to Heaven, from limbo to God. Matter itself is the starting-point, and the point of arrival is the soul. Hydra at the beginning, an angel at the end.”

“The Holy Spirit as the Spirit of Power helpeth our infirmity in prayer. The Holy Spirit as the Spirit of Life ends our deadness in prayer. The Holy Spirit as the Spirit of Wisdom delivers us from ignorance in this holy art ofprayer. The Holy Spirit as the Spirit of Fire delivers us from coldness in prayer. The Holy Spirit as the Spirit of Might comes to our aid in our weakness as we pray.”

Art Ends Might Spirit Prayer Fire Ignorance Praying Holy Weakness Aids Holy Spirit Infirmity Coldness Spirit Of Life

Author:Leonard Ravenhill

“While we may continue to use the words smart and stupid, and while IQ tests may persist for certain purposes, the monopoly of those who believe in a single general intelligence has come to an end. Brain scientists and geneticists are documenting the incredible differentiation of human capacities, computer programmers are creating systems that are intelligent in different ways, and educators are freshly acknowledging that their students have distinctive strengths and weaknesses.”

“Every defensive end who is going to be picked in the first round is going to be a good pick for whoever they're chosen by, but if I had to tell you what sets me apart, that would be my desire and determination to get better. I know what I need to work on, I know my weaknesses, but I have that work ethic to improve every day. I have that want to be the best player at my position, and I have the belief in myself that one day that will come true.”

Ifs Knows Want Needs Firsts Ends Would Be Desire Belief Player Position One Day Picks Ethics Weakness Determination Rounds Chosen Get Better Being The Best Work Ethic Best Players

Author:Justin Tuck

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