Like a turnip such a head could be blown away very easily. For where a man was weak, a woman has unmanned him. It would be a mercy to blow such a man away.
Every weakness contains within itself a strength.
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Anonymous
You are only as invincible as your smallest weakness, and those are tiny indeed - the length of a sleeping baby's eyelash, the span of a child's hand. Life turns on a dime, and - it turns out - so does one's conscience.
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Jodi Picoult
Anything cracked will shatter at a touch.
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Ovid
Every man has a weakness! ” he patiently explained. “I'll find theirs, I promise you.” “Every man?”“ Yes, ” he answered emphatically....“What is your weakness, Brodick?” she asked. “You.
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Julie Garwood
In order to pile weakness upon weakness he was trying to drag others along the path that he himself had walked.
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Anonymous
More Quotes By Joyce Carol Oates
The worst thing: to give yourself away in exchange for not enough love.
In love there are two things - bodies and words.
A daydreamer is prepared for most things.
If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.
And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive; that it has the power to make of us not simply victims, as nature and accident do, but active accomplices.
