Weakly Quotes
47 quotes by 43 authors
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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
— Tallulah Bankhead
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I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle,…
— Tallulah Bankhead
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Should the enemy forestall you in occupying a pass, do not go after him if the pass is fully garrisoned, but only if it is…
— Sun Tzu
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It is only possible through the fact that sympathy for the general life and suffering of mankind is very weakly developed in the individual.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Miserable mortals who like leaves at one moment flame with life eating the produce of the land and at another moment weakly perish.
— Homer
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Blood transforms the warm bath water and, in it, I see weakly that this was a mistake. The razor's cut is not deep, nevertheless the…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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The division into whig and tory is founded in the nature of men; the weakly and nerveless, the rich and the corrupt, seeing more safety…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I've known people who had fantastic ideas, but who couldn't get the idea off the ground because they approached everything weakly. They thought that their…
— Donald Trump
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I became aware of just how fleeting the sense of happiness was, and how flimsy its basis: a warm restaurant after having come in from…
— Teju Cole
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Mankind is made up of inconsistencies, and no man acts invariably up to his predominant character. The wisest man sometimes acts weakly, and the weakest…
— Lord Chesterfield
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The parties of Whig and Tory are those of nature. They exist in all countries, whether called by these names or by those of Aristocrats…
— Thomas Jefferson
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These are my politics: to change what we can; to better what we can; but still to bear in mind that man is but a…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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I find it striking that the quality of the urban habitat of homo sapieans is so weakly researched compared to the habitats of gorillas, elephants,…
— Jan Gehl
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Members of weakly religious families get, of course, no religious training from any source outside the family.
— Gregory Bateson
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Unlike national markets, which tend to be supported by domestic regulatory and political institutions, global markets are only 'weakly embedded'. There is no global lender…
— Dani Rodrik
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One of the effects of civilization is to diminish the rigour of the application of the law of natural selection. It preserves weakly lives that…
— Francis Galton
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A politician weakly and amiably in the right, is no match for a politician tenaciously and pugnaciously in the wrong.
— Edwin Percy Whipple
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Isaac Newton was born at Woolsthorpe, near Grantham, in Lincolnshire, on Christmas Day, 1642: a weakly and diminutive infant, of whom it is related that,…
— Augustus De Morgan
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The sickly, weakly, timid man fears the people, and is a Tory by nature. The healthy, strong and bold cherishes them, and is formed a…
— Thomas Jefferson
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It's better to decide wrongly than weakly. If you're weak, you're likely to be wrong anyway.
— Bill Parcells
Who Wrote These Weakly Quotes
43 authors contributed a total of 47 Weakly Quotes, led by these top contributors: