Oh, you weak, beautiful people
who give up with such grace.
What you need is someone to take hold of you -
gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.
- Tennessee Williams
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt
until they are too strong to be broken.
- Samuel Johnson
A weak man is just by accident.
A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
History does not long entrust the care of freedom
to the weak or the timid.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Fate is for those too weak to determine their own destiny.
- Kamran Hamid
I'm having a bad day. I am not size six.
My legs are not skinny as sticks,
and dammit, someone's got to pay.
I'm afraid that I can't satisfy myself
and that my happiness depends on someone else.
I feel weak, so you're gonna take the fall.
You're so shallow.
- Jewel
How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?
- Henry David Thoreau
The weak can never forgive.
Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
In the world there is nothing more
submissive and weak than water.
Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong,
nothing can surpass it.
- Lao Tzu
He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak.
Strong convictions precede great actions.
- Louisa May Alcott
How far you go in life depends on you being
tender with the young,
compassionate with the aged,
sympathetic with the striving
and tolerant of the weak and the strong.
Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
- George Washington Carver
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.
- Albert Schweitzer
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom.
It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest
might weaken and the wisest might err.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you.
- Mike Murdock
Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline;
simulated fear postulates courage;
simulated weakness postulates strength.
- Lao Tzu
There is a sacredness in tears.
They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.
They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues.
They are messengers of overwhelming grief ...
and unspeakable love.
- Washington Irving
You can't let praise or criticism get to you.
It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
- John Wooden
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
The most certain way to succeed
is always to try just one more time.
- Thomas A. Edison
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
- Albert Einstein
As you simplify your life,
the laws of the universe will be simpler;
solitude will not be solitude,
poverty will not be poverty,
nor weakness weakness.
- Henry David Thoreau
Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
It is daily admission of one's weakness.
It is better in prayer to have a heart without words
than words without a heart.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
Life is like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute -
only the last couple seconds are fatal,
but most people are scared to death the whole way down.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all
is the person who argues with him.
- Stanislaw Jerszy Lec
Oh, if only God would give me some sign.
If He would just speak to me once. Anything.
One sentence. Two words. If He would just cough.
- the movie Love and Death
You ask me if I keep a notebook
to record my great ideas.
I've only ever had one.
- Albert Einstein
One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends
is that three out of four murders
are committed by people who know the victim.
- George Carlin
I don't want to move to a city where the only cultural advantage
is being able to make a right turn on a red light.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall
Life only
appears to be
rushing toward us
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is only a dirty trick played on us
to achieve continuation of the species.
- W. Somerset Maugham
Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter
if only we could prevent girls from being girls.
- Anne Frank
Things may come to those who wait,
but only the things left by those who hustle.
- Abraham Lincoln
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition,
is not only a waste of energy
but the worst habit you could possibly have.
- Dale Carnegie
The attempt to combine wisdom and power
has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
- Albert Einstein
There is only one thing about which I am certain,
and that is that there is very little
about which one can be certain.
- W. Somerset Maugham
Only dead fish swim with the stream.
- Anonymous
Money is better than poverty,
if only for financial reasons.
- Woody Allen
The reason I talk to myself is because
I'm the only one whose answers I accept.
- George Carlin
The only good thing ever to come out of religion was the music.
- George Carlin
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born
at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
- Mark Twain
The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous.
In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
- Winston Churchill
There are three hundred and sixty-four days
when you might get un-birthday presents,
and only one for birthday presents, you know.
- Lewis Carroll
The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper
is that your guests are so pleased
to feel how very much better they are.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The only true love is love at first sight;
second sight dispels it.
- Israel Zangwill
Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because
he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong
only because he has remained silent.
- Winston Churchill
There is no such thing as public opinion.
There is only published opinion.
- Winston Churchill
The physician can bury his mistakes,
but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines -
so they should go as far as possible from home
to build their first buildings.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Only two things are infinite,
the universe and human stupidity,
and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein
Less is only more where more is no good.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
I never make stupid mistakes.
Only very, very clever ones.
- John Peel
Human beings are the only creatures on the planet
who tell time and think they have to earn a living.
- Buckminster Fuller
A doctor can bury his mistakes
but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
- Albert Einstein
I've developed a new philosophy...
I only dread one day at a time.
- the character Charlie Brown in Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts comic
I always pass on good advice.
It is the only thing to do with it.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
The claim "I was only following orders" has been used
to justify too many tragedies in our history.
- Captain Picard of the television series
STAR TREK: The Next Generation
Magic is natural to Wizards,
and only a little harder for the rest of us.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.
- African Proverb
Advertisements contain the only truths
to be relied on in a newspaper.
- Thomas Jefferson
Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie
It is only the poor who pay cash,
and that not from virtue,
but because they are refused credit.
- Anatole France
I only wish that ordinary people
had an unlimited capacity for doing harm;
then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
- Socrates
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely
only after they have exhausted all other alternatives.
- Abba Eban
I believe totally in a Capitalist System,
I only wish that someone would try it.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
You are only young once,
but you can stay immature indefinitely.
- Anonymous
If you want total security, go to prison.
There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on.
The only thing lacking... is freedom.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Life is an adventure.
I can only wonder what treasure
awaits at the top of the path.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You're only here for a short visit.
Don't hurry. Don't worry.
And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
- Walter Hagen
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