#feeble

Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense. ↗

— Ida B. Wells

#brave #brave men #cannot #defense #even

Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature. ↗

— Maurice Maeterlinck

#issued #may #nature #only #our

Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang's feeble imagination. ↗

— Henry Miller

#any #bad #city #feeble #feeling

I won it, at least five million times. Men who were stronger, bigger and faster than I was could have done it, but they never picked up a pole, and never made the feeble effort to pick their legs off the ground and get over the bar. ↗

— Bob Richards

#bigger #could #done #effort #faster

The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply the intellect, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#feebleness #forgetting #fortify #human #intellect

Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#fall #feeble #function #into #meaning

A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must, in practice, be a bad government. ↗

— Joseph Story

#bad #bad government #executed #execution #feeble

It accumulates over the years and I've led so many bands of my own now and forced myself into new situations... You would hope that you play better and better - until you just get too feeble to do it anymore. ↗

— Andy Summers

#bands #better #feeble #forced #get

A feeble body weakens the mind. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#feeble #mind #weakens

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#cannot #comfortable #contemptible #face #feeble