#weak

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 the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love. ↗

— Washington Irving

#deep #eloquently #grief #love #mark

The U.S. embargo imposed on Nicaragua, rather than weakening the Sandinistas, actually maintained them in power. ↗

— Bianca Jagger

#embargo #imposed #maintained #nicaragua #power

They think because I'm small, they can do what they want to do to me. But I'm not weak. If I lower my shoulder and they lower they're shoulder, they're going to go down. ↗

— Michael Johnson

#down #go #going #i #lower

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#chains #felt #habit #strong #too

To have any doubt in your body is the biggest weakness an athlete can have. There are times when I physically can't get myself to go for a skill because I'm thinking, 'My knee hurts really bad.' ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#athlete #bad #because #biggest #body

The culture of the chairmanship is to be the dominant voice in the Fed. If you have a weak chairman... the markets could be very unsettled. ↗

— David Jones

#could #culture #dominant #fed #markets

In the garment trades, on the other hand, the presence of a body of the disfranchised, of the weak and young, undoubtedly contributes to the economic weakness of these trades. ↗

— Florence Kelley

#contributes #economic #garment #hand #other

A great number of the women are victims to falling of the womb and weakness in the spine; but these are necessary results of their laborious existence, and do not belong either to climate or constitution. ↗

— Fanny Kemble

#climate #constitution #either #existence #falling

Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me. ↗

— Charles Kettering

#bring #good #good news #me #news

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#birth #born #come #education #estate