#weak

It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#disappeared #earth #ever #face #quarrelsome

Now the thing is not to get into unnecessary quarrels by talking too much and not to indicate any weakness by talking too much; let our actions speak for themselves. ↗

— Henry L. Stimson

#actions speak #any #get #indicate #into

Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

#highest #ideas #moral #music #namely

It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

#always #best #done #matter #people

You work enough with someone and you develop a shorthand. You know how he likes to work through the day and he knows where you're vulnerable and where your weaknesses and strengths are, so it makes for a good team, a team that knows who's over there behind your back. ↗

— David Strathairn

#behind #day #develop #enough #good

People just take your kindness for weakness sometimes, and that's just the bottom line. ↗

— Ruben Studdard

#bottom line #just #kindness #line #people

We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more. ↗

— Madame Swetchine

#fancy #far #more #needs #only

Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished. ↗

— Sophie Swetchine

#born #conflict #knows #strength #vanquished

Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#formerly #magic #medicine #men #mistake

Xenophobia manifests itself especially against civilizations and cultures that are weak because they lack economic resources, means of subsistence or land. So nomadic people are the first targets of this kind of aggression. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#aggression #because #civilizations #cultures #economic