“Alas! in the clothes of the greatest potentate, what is there but a man?” — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The glimpses of human strength and frailty that a physician sees are with me still. — Daniel Nathans Copy Share Image
To me, all human behavior is unpredictable and, considering man's frailty... and... the ramshackle universe he functions in, it's... all irrational. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Don't expect people to behave perfectly-after all, they are people, with all of the faults and frailties of the human condition. — Donald Fehr Copy Share Image
Such is the frailty of man that even where he makes the truest and most forcible impression in the memory, in the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Right and wrong becomes more difficult for each of us as we grow older, because the older we get the more we… — Blanche Lincoln Copy Share Image
Individual faults and frailties are no excuse to give in - and no exemption from the common obligation to give of ourselves. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility. — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
'Contagion' should serve as a wake-up call not only about the germs, but perhaps more importantly about the frailty of governance, nationally… — Laurie Garrett Copy Share Image
Remember: even the smallest drop of God's strength is more than enough to cover our frailties, our shortcomings, and the places where… — Lysa TerKeurst Copy Share Image
Love is not 'blind' but visionary: It sees into the very heart of its object And sees the 'real self' behind and… — Andras Angyal Copy Share Image
We are not masters of our own affections; our inclinations dailyalter: now we love pleasure, and anon we shall dote on business.… — George Etherege Copy Share Image
Necessity, that great refuge and excuse for human frailty, breaks through all law; and he is not to be accounted in fault… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“The nightmare they banished – a thing of darkness and misery, born of their fears, bloated on their hatreds. They did not… — Grant Smuts Copy Share Image
I don’t deny that there can be an element of escapism in mountaineering, but this should never overshadow its real essence, which… — Walter Bonatti Copy Share Image
Tears are copiously showered over frailties the discoverer takes a malicious delight in circulating; and thus, all granite on one side of… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
'Tis certain that a serious attention to the sciences and liberal arts softens and humanizes the temper, and cherishes those fine emotions… — David Hume Copy Share Image
My friend, be not like him who sits by his fireside and watches the fire go out, then blows vainly upon the… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
AIDS has come upon us with cruel abandon. It has forced us to confront and deal with the frailty of our being… — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
A life in Christ is a life of restfulness. There may be no ecstasy of feeling, but there should be an abiding… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
All legislation, all government, all society is founded upon the principle of mutual concession, politeness, comity, courtesy; upon these everything is based...Let… — Henry Clay Copy Share Image
The whole is a riddle, an enigma, an inexplicable mystery. Doubt, uncertainty, suspence of judgment appear the only result of ourmost accurate… — David Hume Copy Share Image
There are important arguments to be made about the relative merits of an hereditary or an elected head of state: but not… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
“Clusters of distant lights was the view of Mankind that he liked the best. The lights had the archaic charm of little… — Jean-Christophe Valtat Copy Share Image
Man passes; he knows that he is dust; nothing is more evident than his frailty. If he should for a single moment… — Charles Wagner Copy Share Image
He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“My Lady, you certainly tell me about wonderful constancy, strength and virtue and firmness of women, so can one say the same… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
“The breath of wind that moved them was still chilly on this day in May; the flowers gently resisted, curling up with… — Irène Némirovsky Copy Share Image
In a family it is normal to take charge of those who need help. Do not be afraid of frailty! — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I do feel as if my own music as quite flawed, and it's that frailty or lack of technical proficiency that goes… — Justin Broadrick Copy Share Image
A woman filled with faith in the one she loves is the creation of a novelist's imagination. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“Time erodes people, and when you are old enough you weigh nothing. It's comforting to know that I will never be as… — Maija Haavisto Copy Share Image
It is a blessed thing to know that no power on earth, no temptation, no human frailty can dissolve what God holds… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
But it's also another myth to think that you should be as tight as a drum and not have any frailties or… — William Hurt Copy Share Image
Never attribute to malice or other deliberate decision what can be explained by human frailty, imperfection, or ignorance. — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
Snow makes cities innocent again, reveals the frailty of the human gesture against the void. — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
Secrets can remind us of the countless human dramas, of frailty and heroism playing out silently in the lives of people all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The longer I live the more conscious I am of human frailty, and of the constant, overwhelming need we all have of… — Elizabeth Prentiss Copy Share Image
The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
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