#weak

The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong. ↗

— Marlene Dietrich

#make #more #strong #than #weak

The weak in courage is strong in cunning. ↗

— William Blake

#cunning #strong #weak

What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care. ↗

— William Blake

#explicit #grand #idiot #made #men

Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained. ↗

— William Blake

#desires #enough #restrain #restrained #their

As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there. ↗

— John Donne

#compose #determine #differences #doors #families

People are composed of many things, and in my work, what influences me is the complexity of people - the chiaroscuro of dark and light. When I play a strong guy, I try to find, where is he weak? And, conversely, when I play a weak guy, where is he strong? ↗

— Kirk Douglas

#composed #conversely #dark #find #guy

I didn't want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didn't want any more Jewish sentimentality and Jewish suffering. I was sickened by our sad songs. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#fear #fed #fed up #i #jewish

Robert Benchley has a style that is weak and lies down frequently to rest. ↗

— Max Eastman

#frequently #lies #rest #robert #style

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#discipline #disorder #fear #perfect #postulates

Having yet another vote on refinery legislation that uses high oil prices as an excuse to weaken environmental protections and to give more legislative gifts to the oil industry is misguided in the extreme. ↗

— Sherwood Boehlert

#environmental #excuse #extreme #gifts #give