There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.
The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.
It will make you powerful. But it will also make you weak. Your prowess in combat will be beyond any mortal's, but your weaknesses, your failings will increase as well." You mean I'll have a bad heel?" I said. "Couldn't I just, like, wear something besides sandals? No offense.
It is weakness, says the Vedanta, which is the cause of all misery in this world. Weakness is the one cause of suffering. We become miserable because we are weak. We lie, steal, kill and commit other crimes, because we are weak. We die because we are weak. Where there is nothing to weaken us, there is no death nor sorrow. We are miserable through delusion. Give up the delusion and the whole thing vanishes.
The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge.
I like characters who have two different things going on, whether it is Robin from 'Top Of The Lake' having that strength juxtaposed with the vulnerability and being in pain, or whether it is Peggy from 'Mad Men' with her naivety and her sort of idiocy at times, combined with her intelligence and courage really to do what she did at that time.
Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility.
They that have voice of lions and act of hares,--are they not monsters?
Only great men have great faults. Only great men have great faults.
To be strong is to understand weakness. To be weak is to have fears. To have fears is to have something precious to you. To have something precious to you is to be strong.
Every hero is a Samson. The strong man succumbs to the intrigues of the weak and the many; and if in the end he loses all patience he crushes both them and himself.
Every form of strength is also a form of weakness.
Well, here he was. They could save each other, the way the poets promised lovers should. He was mystery, he was darkness, he was all she had dreamed of. And if she would only free him he would service her - oh yes - until her pleasure reached that threshold that, like all thresholds, was a place where the strong grew stronger, and the weak perished. Pleasure was pain there, and vice versa. And he knew it well enough to call it home.
In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
The strongest have their moments of fatigue.
The force of arms only reveals man s weakness.
We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
The same wind that uproots trees makes the grass shine. The lordly wind loves the weakness and the lowness of grasses. Never brag of being strong. The axe doesn't worry how thick the branches are. It cuts them to pieces. But not the leaves. It leaves the leaves alone.
People are composed of many things, and in my work, what influences me is the complexity of people - the chiaroscuro of dark and light. When I play a strong guy, I try to find, where is he weak? And, conversely, when I play a weak guy, where is he strong?
I embrace everything about Ally... I don't particularly see her as a whiner. One week she's tough, the next she's really weak. I love that. She's human.
If we're talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don't look at Clinton.
A master of straw eates a servant of steele.
You are human and mortal; we are the sum of our weak moments and our strong.
It might be, gentlemen, that the lion and the lamb would be down together, but ... the lamb would be inside the lion.
Discussing possible economic union with the United States:
Where might is, the right is: Long purses make strong swords. Let weakness learn meekness: God save the House of Lords!