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Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak.
Walter Lippmann

Ignore, Once, Progress

When I was sixteen or seventeen, I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a playwright. But everything I wrote, I thought, was weak. And I can remember falling asleep in tears because I had no talent the way I wanted to have.
Francis Ford Coppola

Everything, Thought, Remember

If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak.
William Godwin

Strong, Doubt, Against

We are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake I do not regret this journey, which has shown that Englishmen can endure hardships, help one another, and meet death with as great a fortitude as ever in the past.
Robert Falcon Scott

Great, Death, Past

Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
Sallust

Feelings, Word, Tears

I have bad feet and I have weak ankles.
Katherine Heigl

Bad, Feet, Ankles

Brooke and I share some similarities. We're both passionate, fiercely loyal people. But she is far more outlandish than I'd ever be, particularly with her body and her sexuality. Brooke has made herself weak for men - she only gained self-confidence from their attention.
Sophia Bush

Occasions do not make a man either strong or weak but they show what he is.
Thomas a Kempis

Strong, Show, Either

I think it is the weak and the young and the minorities that you need to look after to get a healthy creative environment - to get a lot of choices, a lot of different styles of music, a lot experimental stuff that everyone else feeds off.
Peter Gabriel

Music, Different, After

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.
Rita Mae Brown

Successful, Strong, Action

Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.
Franz Grillparzer

Knowledge, Small, Cannot

Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.
Mao Zedong

Head, Tongue, Empty

It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Best, Strong, Done

My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak.
John le Carre

Society, Care, Losers

Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
Barbara Sher

Resentment, Lowers

The struggles waged by nations are weak only when they lack support in the hearts of their women.
Jose Marti

Women, Support, Nations

Melanie is more of a disciplinarian with the little girl than me, probably because it's my first baby. She gets everything easy from Papa. I am more weak. She takes advantage of me.
Antonio Banderas

Girl, Everything, Easy

If you ask, do you like strong men or weak men, I'd say, I like who I like.
Miuccia Prada

Men, Strong, Ask

Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.
Madame de Stael

Women, Men, Err

The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss.
Edward Young

Wisdom, Wise, Bliss

Sometimes, because of my success, I am afraid that I was not a good father. With the first two I was too strong, and with the other three I was too weak.
Roberto Cavalli

Success, Good, Strong

Insomniacs tend to fall into two general categories - those who give up and those who don't. I don't. I refuse to admit defeat by turning on the light. I will not try to read or watch a movie, thank you. Productivity is a crutch of the weak.
Sloane Crosley

We find ourselves in a difficult situation in Europe. There's a crisis, weak growth, unemployment... my duty is to ensure that by the end of my mandate France is in a better state than it was at the beginning.
Francois Hollande

Crisis, End, Find

What the poor, the weak, and the inarticulate desperately require is power, organization, and a sense of identity and purpose, not rarefied advice of political scientists.
Paul Wellstone

Power, Political, Advice

Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer.
Jack Henry Abbott

Deep, Innocent, Ways

We aren't leveraging this great economic engine, the strongest economy in the world. And yet we have this totally weak response. We import $500 billion a year more in products than we export.
Jennifer Granholm

Great, Year, Economic

Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
G. Gordon Liddy

Home, Strong, Young

Republicans always try to paint Democrats as weak on defense. This time, they can't. After all, Mitt Romney's idea of an overseas accomplishment is sending U.S. jobs there.
Charles Schumer

Time, After, Try

Regulators are a backstop: they don't own banks. The governance at the top of our leading banks has been shown to be lamentably weak. No one at the top of Barclays will take responsibility for systemic abuse.
Vince Cable

Top, Abuse, Governance

I saw Ellen and my knees were weak. It was amazing. And it was very hard for me to get her out of my mind after that. Then when I saw her that night, we started talking, and that's that.
Portia de Rossi

Amazing, Mind, Hard

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