A sneer is the weapon of the weak.
James Russell Lowell
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A sneer is the weapon of the weak
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Force is the weapon of the weak.
AMMON HENNACY I always say that non-violence is not the weapon of the weak. It is the weapon of the strong.
BETTY WILLIAMS I've spent a life-time attacking religious beliefs and have not wavered from a view of the universe ...
PHILLIP ADAMS Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING O chime of sweet Saint Charity, Peal soon that Easter morn When Christ for all shall risen be, And i...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.
ALICE MILLER You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feeling...
ALICE MILLER As bright examples of great qualities are but too uncommon among Christians, so are they singular an...
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER Mother Superior jump the gun...
-The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun
LAUREN MYRACLE The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong.
GEORGE BIDAULT The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong.
GEORGE BIDAULT The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong.
GEORGES BIDAULT She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite
STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st...
STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I believe in the doctrine of non-violence as a weapon of the weak. I believe in the doctrine of non-...
MAHATMA GANDHI A great future starts with what you can see
SOTONYE ANGA I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI He rarely saw a doorway without advancing through it as if he owned it. Since he owned a good many d...
ELOISA JAMES I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM And having wisdom with each studious year, in meditation dwelt, with learning wrought, and shaped hi...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON And having wisdom with each studious year, in meditation dwelt, with learning wrought, and shaped hi...
LORD BYRON I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON Your mind is a Microcosm of strength and power. There’s all the magic you need in it. When all els...
CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE Nice to meet ya, shank," the boy said. "Welcome to the Glade.
JAMES DASHNER Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an ...
MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an ...
MARTIN TUPPER The secret of my success is my hairspray.
RICHARD GERE Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS I was suddenly very aware of the fact it was me standing up in that tunnel with the wind over my fac...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY The only perspective is to really be there.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I didn't feel like reading that night, so I went downstairs and watched a half-hour long commercial ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Why is England manufacturing bigger and better airplanes and bombs and at the same time churning out...
ANNE FRANK I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib...
C. JOYBELL C. The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapo...
NIELS BOHR The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapo...
NIELS BOHR She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.
DIANA WYNNE JONES The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
NEIL GAIMAN What is the Other?" they ask.
The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ...
PAULO COELHO To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ...
GARY F EVANS... Newt was sitting on the ground with Frypan and Minho, all three looking as if they were waiting for ...
JAMES DASHNER Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
SOTONYE ANGA With another shock of excitement, Harry saw Sirius give James the thumbs-up.
Sirius was loungin...
J.K. ROWLING We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements.
LAURA DOCKRILL Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it wer...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself
LOIS LOWRY It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Grief is the price we pay for love.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a...
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The ...
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He's been on all sides that give places or pelf;
But consis...
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Toil with rare triumph, ease with safe disgrace,
The...
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The Magi mused, "more bright than morn!"
And voices ch...
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For one transcendent moment.
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And wandered hither, so his stay
With us was short, an...
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When falling leaves falter through motionless air
Or nu...
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Hev one glory an' one shame;
Ev'ything thet's done inhuman
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A right to be his own oppressor.
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Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past.
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Then Heaven tries eart...
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Is mighty, but a mother's heart is weak,
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Contrive to spend the longest time in doing it.
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To lengthen to the last a sunny mood.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Tiny Salmoneus of the air
His mimic bolts the firefly threw.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Listen! O, listen!
Here come the hum the golden bees
Underneath full blossomed trees,
A...
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And regards ...
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For the fallen and the weak;
. . . .
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Earth whirls, and all b...
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Are they wet
Even yet
With ...
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To keep thy muscle trained: knowst thou when Fate
...
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many.
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JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Daily with souls that cringe and plot,
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Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best o...
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In pulses come and go.
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JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people.
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JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the f...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Nursed by stern men with empires in their brains.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Of my merit
On that pint you yourself may jedge:
All is, I never drink no sperit,
Nor I ...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed;
Man is more than Constitutions; better rot b...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Oh, Washington! thou hero, patriot sage,
Friend of all climes, and pride of every age!
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL The purely Great
Whose soul no siren passion could unsphere,
Thou nameless, now a power and mi...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL O chime of sweet Saint Charity, Peal soon that Easter morn When Christ for all shall risen be, And i...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and ...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL All kin' o' smily round the lips, / An' teary round the lashes.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which n...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope and peace
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this - that you are dreadfully like other people
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Light is the symbol of truth
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Be noble! and the nobleness that lies
In other men, sleeping, but never dead,
Will rise in ma...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Thet tells the story! Thet's wut we shall git
By tryin' squirtguns on the burnin' Pit;
For th...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Sence I've ben here, I've hired a chap to look about for me,
To git me a transplantable an' thrift...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called
the savior of society by the next...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great
occasions.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Behind the dim unknown,
Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Not caring, so that sumpter-horse, the back
Be hung with gaudy trappings, in what course
Yea, ...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL The very room, coz she was in,
Seemed warm f'om floor to ceilin'.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL No man is born into the world whose work
Is not born with him: there is always work,
And tool...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious
liberty, laid, without knowing it, th...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Endurance is the crowning quality,
And patience all the passion of great hearts.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only
argument available with an east wind is ...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth;
They must upward still and onward...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL From lower to the higher next,
Not to the top, is Nature's text;
And embryo good, to reach ful...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL This goin' ware glory waits ye haint one agreeable feetur.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL With bated breath we offer wicked vows.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Who will think that the gods can be insulted with impunity?
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Villany reduces those whom it defiles to the same level.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL The shadow of a mighty name.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Regarding nothing as done, while ought remained to be done.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Patience revels in misfortunes.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL