Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and perceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and last some crisis shows what we have become.
Brooke Foss WestcottTags: strength humanity courage bravery weakness cowardice development
People with weaknesses get killed by the people who lack them. Notice I'm not dead.
Sherrilyn KenyonTags: weakness avalon kerrigan
You are human and mortal; we are the sum of our weak moments and our strong.
Mercedes LackeyLike a turnip such a head could be blown away very easily. For where a man was weak, a woman has unmanned him. It would be a mercy to blow such a man away.
Joyce Carol OatesTags: weakness
All cruelty springs from weakness.
SenecaTags: weakness character cruelty behavior
A lot of what we experience as strength comes from knowing what to do with weakness.
Barbara EhrenreichIt was vertigo. A heady, insuperable longing to fall. We might also call vertigo the intoxication of the weak. Aware of his weakness, a man decides to give in rather than stand up to it. He is drunk with weakness, wishes to grow even weaker, wishes to fall down in the middle of the main square in front of everybody, wishes to be down, lower than down." -Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, p. 76
Milan KunderaTags: weakness helplessness drunkenness
Anything cracked will shatter at a touch.
OvidTags: weakness
The willingness to change one’s mind in the light of new evidence is a sign of rationality not weakness.
Stuart SutherlandTags: intelligence weakness
The weaker you are the louder you bark.
-Tenten
Tags: strength weakness barking
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