#feeble

Sanctions against polluters are feeble and out of date, and are rarely invoked. ↗

— Ralph Nader

#date #feeble #invoked #out #rarely

The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power. ↗

— Nikola Tesla

#civilisation #ever #feeble #fire #first

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#man #most #nature #reed #thing

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#beauty #because #feeble #force #right

The sediments of the past are many miles in collective thickness: yet the feeble silt of the rivers built them all from base to summit. ↗

— John Joly

#built #collective #feeble #many #miles

Who is against democracy? Is it the one who calls for peaceful resistance, or the one who bombs people, sheds their blood and leads them away from the leaders under feeble and dirty pretexts? ↗

— Muqtada al Sadr

#away #blood #bombs #calls #democracy

'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#enough #feeble #help #support #them

A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government. ↗

— Joseph Story

#executive #feeble #government #implies

When we contemplate the heroes of Christianity, and compare our feeble efforts with their astonishing performance and self devotion, we should fall into despair, were there not a few softening features, by which they are brought back to the ranks of humanity. ↗

— John Strachan

#back #brought #christianity #compare #contemplate

Of my own spirit let me be in sole though feeble mastery. ↗

— Sara Teasdale

#mastery #me #my own #own #sole