The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong. ~Marlene Dietrich
#quotes #marlene-dietrich #weakness #strength

All electoral laws in Europe are more democratic than they are in the United States. ~Peter Camejo
#quotes #peter-camejo #law #europe #united-states

Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way. ~Harvey Mackay
#quotes #harvey-mackay #disappointment #hardship

We live through books; we have adventures in them, we lead alternative lives through them. We expand our memories through them. And that sometimes art can offer us more intense experiences of the world than life itself can. ~Anthony Doerr
#quotes #anthony-doerr #art #books

The scheme of a game is played on positional lines; the decision of it, as a rule, is effected by combinations. ~Richard Reti
#quotes #richard-reti #games

I frankly encountered more anti-Semitism in the northeast than I did in Oklahoma, but not much either place. Anti-Semitism is not part of my life. ~Tim Blake Nelson
#quotes #tim-blake-nelson #anti-semitism

Who are you? The band sang. I tried to remember but I really couldn't say. ~Janet Fitch
#quotes #janet-fitch #music

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
#quotes #friedrich-nietzsche #wisdom #philosophy #human

The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy. ~William Falconer
#quotes #william-falconer #navy #ships

The basic philosophy of stoicism is that you have nothing real external to your own consciousness, that the only thing real is in fact your consciousness. ~Roger Avary
#quotes #roger-avary #philosophy #stoicism #conscious

Funny, I don't feel any more powerful today than yesterday. ~Jerry B. Jenkins
#quotes #jerry-b-jenkins #power #feelings

You know, I think, I think the Palestinians are trying to get away without negotiating. They're trying to get a state to continue the conflict with Israel rather than to end it. They're trying to basically detour around peace negotiations by going to the U.N. and have the automatic majority in the U.N. General Assembly give them, give them a state. ~Benjamin Netanyahu
#quotes #benjamin-netanyahu #israel

I am having a good time doing nothing. ~Phylicia Rashad
#quotes #phylicia-rashad #happiness

The Masters is more like a vast Edwardian garden party than a golf tournament. ~Alistair Cooke
#quotes #alistair-cooke #the-masters

To the seeing eye life is mostly sparrows. ~Will Cuppy
#quotes #will-cuppy #life

It's hard to say that my twenties were the most miserable time in my life or that my first wife drove me crazy or that I hated the job that I had. You can say all of those things. But for the most part, people manage to have a good time when they're that age. ~Frank Stella
#quotes #frank-stella #adults #age #life

The struggle to maintain peace is immeasurably more difficult than any military operation. ~Anne O'Hare McCormick
#quotes #anne-o-hare-mccormick #peace #military

The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places, but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater. ~J.R.R. Tolkien
#quotes #j-r-r-tolkien #love #inspiration #darkness

My whole life has been stability. People who have worked with me have for a long time. Air Asia is the same people who started it. ~Tony Fernandes
#quotes #tony-fernandes #air-asia

We cannot come to honour under coverlet. ~George Herbert
#quotes #george-herbert #honor

Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune. ~Giuseppe Garibaldi
#quotes #giuseppe-garibaldi #alcohol

The healing of ourselves as healers has to take place first. Bringing ourselves to wholeness, we become more sensitive to other people. In the change of consciousness that happens within us, we bring about change of consciousness in those around us and in the planet itself. ~Marion Woodman
#quotes #marion-woodman #conscious

I have a folder of scraps and pieces of paper with stuff, ideas for songs from the last 25 years; just little things, maybe early songs that I finished, but didn't think they were good enough. ~Lucinda Williams
#quotes #lucinda-williams #past #music

In our changing world nothing changes more than geography. ~Pearl S. Buck
#quotes #pearl-s-buck #world #geography

No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin. ~Richard Owen
#quotes #richard-owen #nature #charles-darwin