Feeble Quotes

Who is against democracy? Is it the one who calls for peaceful resistance, or the one who bombs people, sheds their blood and leads them away from the leaders under feeble and dirty pretexts?

A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government.

A feeble body weakens the mind.

I won it, at least five million times. Men who were stronger, bigger and faster than I was could have done it, but they never picked up a pole, and never made the feeble effort to pick their legs off the ground and get over the bar.

Sanctions against polluters are feeble and out of date, and are rarely invoked.

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning.

The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.

History shows how feeble are barriers of paper.

Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang's feeble imagination.

It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine.

In 1996, I was in was in an acoustic kind of rock band, we were called Feeble. We were just playing locally.

I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.

A man may be variously accomplished, and yet be a feeble poet.

The sediments of the past are many miles in collective thickness: yet the feeble silt of the rivers built them all from base to summit.

The feeble soul merely whines and complains.

'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.

An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting.

I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.

It accumulates over the years and I've led so many bands of my own now and forced myself into new situations... You would hope that you play better and better - until you just get too feeble to do it anymore.

Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice.

I know my own soul, how feeble and puny it is: I know the magnitude of this ministry, and the great difficulty of the work; for more stormy billows vex the soul of the priest than the gales which disturb the sea.

God is waiting eagerly to respond with new strength to each little act of self-control, small disciplines of prayer, feeble searching after him. And his children shall be filled if they will only hunger and thirst after what he offers.

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.

A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must, in practice, be a bad government.

Of my own spirit let me be in sole though feeble mastery.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.