Should we not be moved rather than chilled by the knowledge that he might have attained his greatness only through his frailties? — Lou Andreas-Salomé Copy Share Image
Neither a borrower nor a lender be, for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing; the wrong that I do is through… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
The mountain is a mirror, where climbers look to find themselves. They discover their frailty, take heart from their strengths, drink deep… — Lincoln Hall Copy Share Image
The aim is to postpone frailty, postpone degenerative disease, debilitation and so on and thereby shorten the period at the end of… — Aubrey de Grey Copy Share Image
Love's but the frailty of the mind, When 'tis not with ambition joined; A sickly flame, which if not fed expires; And… — William Congreve Copy Share Image
What I see is not a world of male oppression and female victimization, but an internation conspiracy by women to keep from… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
No further seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode (There they alike in trembling hope repose),… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
It's one of the saving graces in a life, to be able to perceive one's own and others' absurdity, to notice our… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
[On dishonest business methods:] ... frequently the defender of the practice falls back on the Christian doctrine of charity, and points out… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own --… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Prayer is like practicing the piano or ballet or writing: you have to bring your body for a very long time, in… — Heather King Copy Share Image
“You live as if you were destined to live forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, of how much… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
Love and faith are not common companions. More commonly power and fear consort with faith…Power is not to be crossed; one must… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
Burns had his faults, his frailties. He was intensely human. Still, I would rather appear at the "Judgment Seat" drunk, and be… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Paradoxically, the more deeply one grows in enlightenment, the more clearly one discerns one's own frailties and limitations. — Kim Hee-jin Copy Share Image
What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
...all enjoyment is dependent upon the frailty of human life and human desires ... if we were to have all we want… — Ellen Swallow Richards Copy Share Image
Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age yields improvements… — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share Image
For a guy who believes in hope, Obama doesn't seem to be able to spread much of it around. How can he?… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
We’d hoped for love of a different kind, love that knew and forgave our human frailty but did not miniaturize our grander… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
The forest did not tolerate frailty of body or mind. Show your weakness, and it would consume you without hesitation. — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
Though her emotions had not deviated from a jittery frailty she knew that in her own room she could at least attempt… — Anna Godbersen Copy Share Image
Sometimes we are devils to ourselves When we will tempt the frailty of our powers, Presuming on their changeful potency. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Whoever can weep over himself for one hour is greater than the one who is able to teach the whole world; whoever… — Isaac of Nineveh Copy Share Image
The writer's life [is] full of frailty and defeat like any other life. What counts is the work. Yet the work can… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
A philosopher ... is not fairly judged by his eccentricities, nor by the frailties to which he is liable; still less should… — John Grier Hibben Copy Share Image
I discovered that our clan included loads of cousins and uncles and aunts and animals of every shape. I was taught that… — Timothy Shriver Copy Share Image
You are persecuted and despised. It were better that a person should be the oppressed than that he should be the oppressor;… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
People who reach certain levels of frailty, more important than getting their mammogram, more important than getting their blood pressure tweaked, they're… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
Grace can pardon our ungodliness and justify us with Christ's righteousness; it can put the Spirit of Jesus Christ within us; it… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism. In heroism, we feel, life's… — William James Copy Share Image
“In this respect the frailty of the human mind is surely proved: even when it seems to follow the way, it limps… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The last thing you ever want to do is extend the period of frailty and disability and make people unhealthy for a… — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share Image
It turns out that justices are also God’s children; and being of this world, their makeup consists of actual flesh and blood.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
By experience; by a sense of human frailty; by a perception of "the soul of goodness in things evil;" by a cheerful… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
The elegance of dress, of motion, and of manners gives a lustre to beauty, and inflames the senses through the imagination. Luxurious… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image