Young guys don't tend to want to portray people who have frailties or are less than macho. — Samuel L. Jackson Copy Share Image
“...the strands that connect us are frail, so don't hang great weights on slender wires...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
I will not quarrel with a slight mistake, Such as our nature's frailty may excuse. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon Copy Share Image
It is an all-too-human frailty to suppose that a favorable wind will blow forever — Rick Bode Copy Share Image
The French have a significant saying, that a woman who buys her complexion will sell it. — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
We've been tested by every force of nature, disease, and human frailty. — Tate Reeves Copy Share Image
The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
“Have not we affections and desires for sport, and frailty, as men have?” — William Shakespeare 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
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
“Give me knowledge of my end and the measure of my days, so I may know my frailty. My lifetime is no… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
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
Just as our bread, mixed and baked, packaged and sold without benefit of accident or human frailty, is uniformly good and uniformly… — John Steinbeck 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
God knows I've got so many frailties myself, I ought to be able to understand and forgive them in others. But I… — Ava Gardner 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
C.S. Lewis admitted, when he was asked to set forth his beliefs, that he never felt less sure of them than when… — Robert Adams 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
'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
[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
“You have been told that, even like a chain, you are as weak as your weakest link. This is but half the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We have seen that in this country in the last few years, particularly on Wall Street, with the rise of the old… — Lee R. Raymond Copy Share Image
Actors in any capacity, artists of any stripe, are inspired by their curiosity, by their desire to explore all quarters of life,… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
False greatness is unsociable and remote: conscious of its own frailty, it hides, or at least averts its face, and reveals itself… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
It is your organized religions that have made it clear through their most sacred scriptures that cruelty and killing is an acceptable… — Neale Donald Walsch 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
In this we see the wondrous virtue of the Lord: that the power dwelling in His body should communicate to perishable things… — Hilary of Poitiers Copy Share Image
Vanish. Pass into nothingness: the Keats line that frightened her. Fade as the blue nights fade, go as the brightness goes. Go… — Joan Didion 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… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Each morning we awaken to the light and the invitation to a new day in the world of time; each night we… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
“He sank back into his black-and-white world, his immobile world of inanimate drawings that had been granted the secret of motion, his… — Steven Millhauser Copy Share Image
The trouble with him was that he was without imagination. He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Blessed are they who in this sea of frailty, climb aboard a piece of ass as it floats by. — J. P. Donleavy Copy Share Image
“If "Frailty, thy name is woman", Frailty must be a man named as 'woman” — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
Blessed is he who has never been tempted; for he knows not the frailty of his rectitude. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
The glimpses of human strength and frailty that a physician sees are with me still. — Daniel Nathans Copy Share Image
Immortal Spenser, no frailty hath thy fame but the imputation of this idiot's friendship! — Thomas Nashe Copy Share Image
Snow makes cities innocent again, reveals the frailty of the human gesture against the void. — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image