Puny Quotes

79 Puny quotes by 65 unique authors

Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a greater… — G. Stanley Hall
Suddenly contemporary Christianity sales pitches don't seem adequate anymore. Ask Jesus to come into your heart. Invite Jesus to come into your life. Pray this… — David Platt
It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he will endure: that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged and… — William Faulkner
A puny body weakens the soul. — Paul Cezanne
Our tree was so puny we used orthopedic bulbs. — Milton Berle
Even the largest of my dreams and ambitions, I realize with increasing dismay, were puny, measly, compared to the object of my dreaming. I would… — Rick Bass
By science calmed, over the peaceful soul, Bright with eternal Wisdom's lucid ray, Peace, meek of eye, extends her soft control, And drives the puny… — Humphry Davy
The burning conviction that we have a holy duty towards others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft. What… — Eric Hoffer
A tale of scandal is as fatal to the credit of a prudent lady as a fever is generally to those of the strongest constitutions.… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
I thought my mountain was coming this morning. It was near to speaking when suddenly it shifted, sulked, and returned to smallness. It has eluded… — Emily Carr
Meditation is the ultimate selfless act, because when you meditate you are sacrificing your puny personality for the universal reality. — Frederick Lenz
I am amused to see from my window here how busily a man has divided and staked off his domain. God must smile at his… — Henry David Thoreau
The confined air of a metropolis is hurtful to the minds and bodies of those who have never lived out of it. It is impure,… — William Hazlitt
The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great. — Meister Eckhart
We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the sea. Little did… — Imelda Marcos
It is so easy to be hopeful in the daytime when you can see the things you wish on. But it was night, it stayed… — Zora Neale Hurston
I do not love; I do not love anybody except myself. That is a rather shocking thing to admit. I have none of the selfless… — Sylvia Plath
Then there came a faraway, booming voice like a low, clear bell. It came from the center of the bowl and down the great sides… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
There are things of such darkness and horror—just, I suppose, as there are things of such great beauty—that they will not fit through the puny… — Stephen King
But under it all they were men, penetrating the land of desolation and mockery and silence, puny adventurers bent on colossal adventure, pitting themselves against… — Jack London
How small the cosmos (a kangaroo's pouch would hold it), how paltry and puny in comparison to human consciousness, to a single individual recollection, and… — Vladimir Nabokov
I do feel that I’ve managed to make something I could maybe call my world…over time…little by little. And when I’m inside it, to some… — Haruki Murakami
Yet I was a fool to fancy for a moment that she valued Edgar Linton's attachment more than mine -- If he love with all… — Emily Bronte
If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day. — Emily Bronte

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