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Syn had to take his hand off Furi’s thigh so he could answer his cell phone. He saw it was Day and put it on speakerphone.“Yeah, Day. What’s the word?” Syn greeted, cutting right to chase on the decision of Furi’s protective order.“It’s done and I had Ruxs and Green serve it this afternoon.” Day’s grin could be heard through the phone.Syn and Furi turned and smiled at each other, remembering how intimidating those two detectives looked. There was no way Patrick and Brenden would want to go up against them. They were the muscle of the taskforce so Syn could only imagine how they served that order. Surely Furi’s ex was on the first thing smoking back to Charlotte.“Ask Furi if he's gotten any phone calls from asshat today.”“Wait how’d you know he was even with me?” Syn glanced a look at the phone.Day pfftd. “Yeah right, just ask him.”Furi spoke up, his deep voice filling the small space of Syn’s truck. “No I haven’t. Thank you very much Day, I really appreciate your help man.”Day’s voice dropped a couple octaves and rumbled back through the speaker. “Call me Leo, darlin. And just how appreciative are you willing to be, Furious?”Click.Syn disconnected the call and tossed the phone into the console. Furi laughed so hard he had tears coming down his cheeks.
— A.E. Via
God could no longer see the faces of the men, only red and orange hazes. He heard taunting voices in his mind spurring him on, calling him a “pussy,” and old, hairy hands reaching out to grab him. His gripped tightened on the punk’s neck and he cocked his right arm back ready to do some serious damage.“Let him go.”God shook his head at the familiar deep voice.“I said, let him go now!”He felt two strong hands land on his shoulders and heat seeped its way into him from behind.“Put him down, God. Right now before you kill him. Listen to my voice.” Day was up on his tiptoes speaking into his ear. His breath was hot on his neck and it gave him a tingling in his spine. “Cashel, stop,” Day whispered.God put his right arm down and released the man from his grip. He didn’t wait to see the man’s body drop. He spun around and looked into his friend’s eyes, and was relieved when he didn’t see judgment, sorrow, or pity…all he saw was relief and then concern. Day grabbed him and held on to him tightly. His embrace was strong and confident…exactly what God needed to feel right then.“Come on, we gotta get out of here.” Day gripped the back of his arm and moved them quickly out of the alley and into a waiting taxi.“Wait…my truck.”“It’s taken care of.” Day kept him from getting out of the vehicle.“What do you mean?”“I mean you owe me two hundred dollars because that’s what I just paid the bartender to follow us back to my place in your truck.”God spun around and saw his huge truck’s headlights behind them.“You have a stranger driving my truck…my fucking guns are in there, Leo.”“You should’ve thought about that earlier, Cash,” Day growled right back.“If you’re going to lecture me, Leo…fucking save it.” God slid down farther and let his aching head rest on the back of the seat as the cab accelerated onto the highway.“You know me better than that, Cash. I’m not going to lecture you. I’m going to kick your ass,” Day said matter-of-factly and turned to look out the window. Neither one said anything else the rest of the ride.
— A.E. Via
Good afternoon, Detective Godfrey. I like your hair when you pull it back like that…it looks sexy.” She smiled and ran her thin fingers through God’s chestnut waves.Day didn’t give God a chance to respond. “Didn’t you say you had a follow-up to respond to, Vikki?” Day’s harsh tone startled her out of her lust.She frowned at him with confusion on her face before turning with Ronowski and walking off.God looked back at him. “You want to come cock your leg up and piss around my fucking desk too, Leo?”Day didn’t hesitate. “Maybe.
— A.E. Via
That’s cool, Leo.” Johnson was damn near standing on top of him as he spoke, but he’d be damned if he was going to back up.“So just talking would be nice…would you like to come over to my place tonight for a glass of wine?”“Not even if Jesus was pouring it,” Day responded quickly. He heard God let out a loud laugh and it made him turn up the corner of his mouth at the sound of it. God rarely laughed—hell the man rarely smiled—but somehow, Day could make him do both.
— A.E. Via
Fuck you. I know Day is just showing off for you.” Johnson turned back to look at Day. “I’ll be sure to catch you when you’re alone.”“I’ll be sure to have my rape whistle,” Day retorted
— A.E. Via
He slumped down in the command seat and shut off the irritating alarm. He sighed again. It seemed to be a wonderful day for Mykl d’Angelo, captain and owner of the ‘tramp’ freighter Pegasus. As wonderful days went on his personal scale, this one was rated one of the best.
— Christina Engela, Blachart
Sunday is God's day, and he was committed to honoring it. Just because he was in Paris to compete in the Olympics didn't justify changing his lifelong commitment.
— Craig Groeschel, Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working
Same time as every day, Fyl..." she fussed, the rest of the bridge crew seeming to hold their breaths. "TWELVE THIRTY!" came the chorus. The next hour dragged by, in about the same way as the hour before that. At twelve twenty-five, Commander Ortez found himself stepping out of an elevator into an equally mundane grey steel corridor on his way to the mess hall. Turning a corner, he met with a stream of crewmen milling around between shifts. Some off-duty personnel were lounging around in civvies, which consisted mostly of re-revamped 60's hippy fashions. Of all the places on the ship, the mess was the most spacious, (i.e.: it was a big mess.) The command officer’s balcony overhung the rest of the crew dining area. Ortez sat at his usual place, wincing as he remembered to get someone to fix the springs in his chair. An ensign, 3rd class dressed in chef’s white, served him with a plate of what either ended up feeding the chefs latest pet - or strangling it. Marnetti, Barnum and the sciences officer Commander Jaris Skotchdopole filed in, not necessarily in that order, and found seats. After a few bites, Marnetti -- who was the first officer and navigator, put up a hand and signalled a waiter. The lad approached fearfully, appreciating the highlight of his day.
— Christina Engela, Space Sucks!
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
— Jim Rohn
On any given day, Ossifar Distana carried around 5000 passengers, the actual figure varying slightly depending on where she was on the vast elliptical cruise that took her around the Terran Empire. When she entered the system she carried 4984 passengers, 500 crew, one dead body and one very puzzled Captain.
— Christina Engela, Dead Man's Hammer
It’s you,” he whispers. There is wonder in his voice. “Is it?” I whisper back, my voice trembling with all the emotions I’ve kept hidden for so long
— Marie Lu, Champion
A crack of lightning, an explosion of thunder, the sound of pounding rain.
— Marie Lu, Legend
1 day left, today 16 years old tomorrow 17 years old... Just one DAY!
— Deyth Banger
Days are a finite resource and it's best to protect the ones you have.
— Catherine Lacey, Nobody Is Ever Missing
Each day is a dry leaf, which never comes back to life again.
— Shine Syamaladevi
The world is filled with colours galore, each day is a colourful festivity.
— Debasish Mishra
Everything has happen, will happen and it's going to happen in one moment. There isn't even and time, time is an illusion - get it?? It even doesn't exist, I'm here now, but even the word "now" doesn't exist. Everything has happen in one day, but people prefer to have some kind a time like day, date, year, century and time (under time, hours, minutes, seconds and so on and so on). Because you should know when you did that if you said in under one day it's kind a...
— Deyth Banger
I could take a shower every day in my own bathroom. I almost didn’t know what to do with such luxury. Other than, you know, not stink.
— Brandon Sanderson, Firefight
Probably... or maybe... one day!
— Deyth Banger
You still belong on the other side of the looking glass. Someday, when you're ready to take the step over to our side, I'll come see you again. Live well, Daniel. Make that final step count.
— Marie Lu, Champion
I want to fall into the purity that is Day, soaking in his simple honesty, his heart that sits open and beating on his sleeve.
— Marie Lu, Prodigy
DON'T BE A FOLLOWER,NOR TRY TO BE A BORROWER,MEND UR WAY,EVEN IT TAKE A DAY,IF U WISH TO BE A WINNER,UR DREAMS SHOULD BE BIGGER.
— merlin8thomas
Tomorrow is a parallel day.
— Khalid Masood
It is the quietening of the day that most appeals.
— Fennel Hudson, A Meaningful Life - Fennel's Journal - No. 1
Day, the boy from the streets with nothing except the clothes on his back and the earnestness in his eyes, owns my heart.
— Marie Lu, Prodigy
Champagne morning, sleepless grin, setting off and settling in. Today feels good.
— Alex Gaskarth
Day will move on and live his life. So will I. We will be okay. Someday, perhaps in the far and distant future, we'll find each other again.
— Marie Lu, Champion
I've never thought of describing her beauty as delicate, because delicate just isn't a word that fits June... but here, now that she's sick, I realize just how fragile she can be.
— Marie Lu, Prodigy
Someone's going to be very pleased to see you.""I don't think the Elector will be as excited as you think.""I wasn't talking about the Elector."My heart jumps at that.
— Marie Lu, Champion
June will break your heart. I can see it already. She'll shatter you into a million pieces.
— Marie Lu, Prodigy
Stay safe. I want to see you again when all this is done.
— Marie Lu, Prodigy
I'd forgotten that a boy from the streets is no match for the future Princeps.
— Marie Lu, Champion
I need to let him go.
— Marie Lu, Prodigy
You led the soldiers right to my family's door. You're the reason they're dead.
— Marie Lu, Prodigy
I'm so sorry. I am so sorry for everything.
— Marie Lu, Prodigy
I certainly don't understand all these strange new feelings inside me--am I here because I love him, or because I owe him?
— Marie Lu, Prodigy
Goodnight, June.
— Marie Lu, Prodigy
Money is the most important thing in the world, you know. Money can buy you happiness, and I don't care what anyone else thinks.
— Marie Lu, Legend
My heart's been torn wide open, just like I feared it would be, and I have no willpower to close it back up. Any barrier I might've succeeded in putting up around myself, any resistance I might've built up against my feelings for her, is now completely gone. Shattered.
— Marie Lu, Champion
June," Day murmurs. I feel a strange warmth at the sound of my name on his lips.
— Marie Lu, Legend
Thus far, the best that could be said for the day was that it was half over.
— Daniel Polansky, Low Town
I find myself pausing to admire her face.For a brief moment, I'm lost to my surroundings.
— Marie Lu, Legend
He returns my smile. His teeth are beautiful, the loveliest I've seen so far on these streets.
— Marie Lu, Legend
In morning Don't go out of bed with dirty thoughts. As new day begins first thing God do is "bless our thoughts.
— Kishore Bansal
The Republic is weak and broken." I narrow my eyes. "But it is still your country. Fight for it. This is your home, not theirs.
— Marie Lu, Champion
You have a clean slate every day you wake up. You have a chance every single morning to make that change and be the person you want to be. You just have to decide to do it. Decide today’s the day. Say it: this is going to be my day.
— Brendon Burchard
New year is a day, to tune the rhythm called SOUL, with best chords called EXPERIENCES and play the guitar called LIFE.
— Vikrmn, 10 Alone
The day is ending
—  it's not coming back.
Every day is a new beginning. Take a deep breath and start again
— Ain Eineziz
You can have a better tomorrow if you don't stop thinking about yesterday
— Ain Eineziz
Never, do you hear me? I will give up my friends, my country, my duty, and even my honor—but never you.
— Alyssa Day, Heart of Atlantis
That seems to be another habit of yours. I get broken, and you fix it.
— Alyssa Day, Atlantis Unleashed
I am needed here. Atlantis can burn in the nine hells for all I care. I have sacrificed enough to Poseidon. My days as high priest are done.
— Alyssa Day, Heart of Atlantis
Finally, she looked up at him and met his gaze, and she gasped. He knew what must be visible on his face and therefore did not try to deny it. “You know,” he rasped out. “You have always known, and you will always know that I am yours, and yet never can be. I am the most powerful high priest Poseidon has ever appointed, and yet I am too weak to hide the depths of my feelings for you.
— Alyssa Day, Atlantis Unleashed
Wishes have voices sometimes.
— Alyssa Day, Atlantis Redeemed
I’ve trusted human women before. Twice. The first died, and the second paid a terrible price and despises me. Never, ever again.
— Alyssa Day, Atlantis Redeemed
With Quinn, safety wasn’t even an illusion. It was an impossibility
— Alyssa Day, Atlantis Unmasked
Except for Quinn, a dark voice whispered in his mind. A smile from her would be a gift beyond price.
— Alyssa Day, Atlantis Unmasked
No. Merely a trick of the light. But I had the impression you were seeking something more formal than‘Okay, go for it,’ as Ven would say,” Alaric said, a hint of a smile surfacing. “Looked pretty impressive,didn’t it? It’s a priest thing.
— Alyssa Day, Atlantis Unmasked
I would give a century of my life for a single taste of your lips
— Alyssa Day, Atlantis Unleashed
Translation: I’m an idiot.
— Alyssa Day, Atlantis Unleashed
Yet where Denal had prayed to Poseidon for death, Alaric was praying to the same god for life.
— Alyssa Day, Atlantis Unmasked
Alaric, go after her. Since Daniel forced the blood bond on her, Quinn has been different. Lost. She deserves better than for you to abandon her and, priest or no, you know it.
— Alyssa Day, Atlantis Unleashed
Always you, since the moment I first lay my hands on you to heal that bullet wound. SinceI fell inside your soul. Don’t you know that by now, Quinn?
— Alyssa Day
Quinn,” Alaric said quietly. “His aim is to ignite your temper. Perhaps you might allow me the chance to assist you this one time?” “Fine, but you seem to be making a habit of it,” she shot back. “We can discuss that later, too. Be my guest.” 
— Alyssa Day, Atlantis Unleashed
He shot across the dark and dank room and gently lowered her slight body, which seemed to weigh almost nothing, until she stood with her back to the wall, as he called a shield of water to block her from any danger.
— Alyssa Day, Atlantis Unleashed
The rebel leader and the priest.
— Alyssa Day, Atlantis Rising
Emotion kicked logic’s ass. He was going after Quinn. 
— Alyssa Day, Atlantis Unleashed
I don’t care about his quest for redemption. I don’t want him anywhere near Quinn,” Alaric snarled. “I will leave for St. Louis as soon as we adjourn this meeting.” 
— Alyssa Day, Atlantis Unleashed
She’s alive, Alaric. She was wounded, but it was minor,” Alexios said, a rough compassion in his voice. A strange weakness raced through Alaric and he had to fight his own lungs to draw breath. Quinn was wounded. “How minor?” he snarled. “Tell me, now.
— Alyssa Day, Atlantis Unleashed
Something in Alaric’s chest tightened painfully at the thought of Quinn, but he refused to allow it to overcome him. She would be fine. She had to be fine. If Quinn were to die, he would have no reason to continue existing.
— Alyssa Day, Atlantis Unleashed
There is always somebody about to ruin your day, if not your life.
— Charles Bukowski, Pulp
Lucky for you, since you’re the most dangerous man I’ve ever met. Asane woman would run away from you, not toward you.
— Alyssa Day, Heart of Atlantis
You don’t always have to take it all on, either, you know. The weight of the world. The responsibility for everyone else’s problems. Sometimes it’s okay to let somebody else worry about you.
— Alyssa Day, Heart of Atlantis
So he was frustrated with her. Most people rolled their eyes when they got frustrated. Alaric made dolphins do ballet.
— Alyssa Day, Heart of Atlantis
Much can be accomplished if you seek a heart of wisdom and walk diligently with God each and every day.
— Elizabeth George, A Woman's Daily Walk with God
I'm one day closer…!
— James A. Murphy, The Waves of Life Quotes and Daily Meditations
Day, the champion of the people, the one who can't bear to see those around him suffer on his behalf, who would gladly give his life for those he loves.
— Marie Lu, Champion
The first few moments of the day are some of the most important as they can determine the mood for the rest of the day.
— Daniel Willey
Kyoya: A single day can make all the difference.
— Bisco Hatori, Ouran High School Host Club, Vol. 2
Every day is a chance to start over. Any day can be bad, surely, but any day can be good, can be great, and that promise, that potential, is a beautiful thing indeed.
— R.A. Salvatore, The Stowaway
The day was so wonderful that Bonaventure thought it would taste like cherry pie if he took a bite of it.
— Rita Leganski, The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow
A day is too precious a treasure to forfeit.
— Eric Samuel Timm, Static Jedi: The Art of Hearing God Through the Noise
Night is the sleep of seven wax mothsDawn is the singing of five mermaidsNoon is the scratching of three field miceDusk is the shadow of a crow
— Xi Chuan, Notes on the Mosquito: Selected Poems
With full mugs and expectant hearts-Acknowledge His presence.Listen.Give Him your day, each day.Every day.
— Eric Samuel Timm, Static Jedi: The Art of Hearing God Through the Noise
We born on date we ll die on date but not the same date or same day never.
— thobias claudy
The Republic's most wanted criminal is just a boy, sitting before me, suddenly vulnerable, laying all his weaknesses out for me to see.
— Marie Lu, Prodigy
Pay attention! At all moments of the day you are either leading or being led.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Time wastes too fast… the days and hours of it… are flying over our heads like little clouds on a windy day, never to return more – everything presses on – whilst thou art twisting the lock, - see! it grows grey… and every time I kiss thy hand to bid adieu, and every absence which follows it, are preludes to that eternal separation which we are shortly to make!
— The Life And Opinions of Tristram Shandy
Every weakness contains within itself a strength.
— Shūsaku Endō
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.
— Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind: And Other Aphorisms
People with weaknesses get killed by the people who lack them. Notice I'm not dead.
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.
— Agatha Christie, The Seven Dials Mystery
Never apologize, mister, it’s a sign of weakness.
— John Wayne
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.
— Jodi Picoult, Perfect Match
Anything cracked will shatter at a touch.
— Ovid
It was vertigo. A heady, insuperable longing to fall. We might also call vertigo the intoxication of the weak. Aware of his weakness, a man decides to give in rather than stand up to it. He is drunk with weakness, wishes to grow even weaker, wishes to fall down in the middle of the main square in front of everybody, wishes to be down, lower than down." -Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, p. 76
— Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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.
— Julie Garwood, Ransom
That's the thing about being a victim; you start to think it'll happen to you on a regular basis. It's living with the reality of your own vulnerability, and it sucks.
— Dennis Lehane, A Drink Before the War
I think in a moment of weakness, you might surprise yourself.
— Lisa Kleypas, Mine Till Midnight
They said love made you strong, but in Louise's opinion it made you weak. It corkscrewed into your heart and you couldn't get it out again, not without ripping your heart to pieces.
— Kate Atkinson, One Good Turn
And yet I wasn't sure what his weakness was. We all do that as we get to know someone. Like a tabloid editor, we search for both greatness and weakness, jotting down notes in our heads for future exploitation. We are never comfortable with those who have no visible flaw.
— Wayne Elise, The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists
A sneer is the weapon of the weak.
— James Russell Lowell
Every man has a weakness," he patiently explained. "I'll find theirs, I promise you.""Every man?""Yes," he answered emphatically.His hand moved to the back of her neck. Twisting her curls around his fist, he jerked her head back. His face loomed over hers, his breath warm and sweet as he stared down into her eyes."What is your weakness, Brodick?" she asked."You.
— Julie Garwood, Ransom
In order to pile weakness upon weakness he was trying to drag others along the path that he himself had walked.
— Shūsaku Endō, Silence
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.
— Joyce Carol Oates, Wild Nights!: Stories About the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway
There is a pleasant firmness of tone when one is in harmony with oneself. Even when it's a weak ethic one is resonating with.
— Peter Høeg, The Quiet Girl
But I say that even as the holy and the righteous cannot rise beyond the highest which is in each one of you,So the wicked and the weak cannot fall lower than the lowest which is in you also.
— Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
But if the strength ain't real, I recall thinking the very last thing that day, before I finally passed out, then the weakness sure enough is. Weakness is true and real. I used to accuse the kid of faking his weakness. But faking proves the weakness is real. Or you wouldn't be so weak as to fake it. No, you can't ever fake being weak. You can only fake being strong. . .
— Ken Kesey, Sometimes a Great Notion
Referencing 2 Corinthians 4:6, Robert Hewitt compares jars of clay in the first century to the same value we would put on a cardboard box. Joni Eareckson Tada queries whether we would question God's right to leave some holes in the box in order to give glimpses of the treasure inside
— Joni Eareckson Tada, A Place of Healing: Wrestling with the Mysteries of Suffering, Pain, and God's Sovereignty
The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner.
— Charles Portis, True Grit
Anne’s is a world very like this one, and you can move about in it with familiarity - but not freedom: it is a place of rigorous consequence, where the weak have to give way to the strong, where her governess heroine Agnes must walk as best she can in the cold shade of money and masculinity.
— Jude Morgan, The Taste of Sorrow
What is really not fair about life is the fact that we have to pay the cost of our weaknesses which we didn't chose nor we had the option to refuse. Apart from that life is very fair.
— Sameh Elsayed
if people weren't sinners, every intelligence network would be out of business
— David Morrell, The Fraternity Of The Stone
To separate yourself from your weakness and look at it objectively is a very powerful thing.
— Russell Simmons, Success Through Stillness: Meditation Made Simple
Men’s strengths go hand in hand with their weaknesses. That is why there is no such thing as an invincible warrior, and why heroes die.
— Shan Sa, Empress
Do not indulge your weaknesses!
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
Every weakness is a place to slide a knife.
— Victoria Schwab, Our Dark Duet
Weakness is acceptable, forgivable, around family. But not when lives and wars hang in the balance.
— Victoria Aveyard, King's Cage
Weakness is an irresistible lure.
— Kiersten White, And I Darken
No one wants to believe they are weak, but we all have weakness inside us. We have strength, too, but there are times when the circumstances in our lives are so overwhelming that we easily succumb to that weakness
— Sarah A. Denzil, Silent Child
Everyone has a weakness but I have two, everything you say and everything you do.
— Unknown
Why am I so weak, why do I care so much?What is holding on, what's wrong with me..
— Maite
Her weakness was aggressive and kept forcing him to capitulate until eventually he lost his strength and was transformed into the rabbit in her arms .
— Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
We must minister out of weakness. The reason we help others is not because we are strong and they need us; it is because if we don't help them, we will end up a hopeless relic.
— John Ortberg, The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People
The Weak Point Dealer is an ideal man fighting his inner himself who is drowned by the outer himself, desperate to deal with the weak points. The man who is wildly in love with what he wants and madly hates for what he has to wait for.
— Bhavik Sarkhedi, The Weak Point Dealer
As you can see, I keep my word,” I call to the rest of the crowd. “Do not take advantage of my generosity, and I will not take advantage of your weakness.
— Marie Lu, The Midnight Star
Then he launches himself at me with a roar, and I let him take his shot. It’s weak, like he is. Like all bullies really are. That’s why they’re bullies. Because they’re insecure idiots who try to make themselves feel better.
— Erin Watt, Broken Prince
Weak people never put an end to things themselves. They always wait for the end.
— Ivan Turgenev, Spring Torrents
Your only chance of survival, if you are severely smitten, lies in hiding this fact from the woman you love, of feigning a casual detachment under all circumstances. What sadness there is in this simple observation! What an accusation against man! Love makes you weak, and the weaker of the two is oppressed, tortured, and finally killed by the other, who in his or her turn oppresses, tortures, and kills without having evil intentions, without even getting pleasure from it, with complete indifference; that's what men, normally, call love.
— Michel Houellebecq, The Possibility of an Island
You can't kill me. Even if you could, you can't bring yourself to do it. You'll hesitate. Again.
— Richelle Mead, Spirit Bound
I like people with weak will and bad taste.It feels like anything is possible.
— Kris Kidd, Down for Whatever
Weakness : Hang on To Your Worst Nightmares.Petra Hermans
— Petra Hermans
Be the fish that discovers the water and don't let the moment exceed her weakness
— K.J. Kilton, Trophy Life
If you are too weak to stand being hit and too stupid to avoid it, then you deserve more pain.
— Kiersten White, And I Darken
other people's weakness can destroy you just as much as their strength can. Weak people are not harmless. Their weakness can be their strength.
— Philip Roth, Indignation
Love is only available to those willing to be continually brave in weakness.
— Waylon H. Lewis, Things I Would Like To Do With You
You’re only as strong as your biggest weakness.
— Jill Shalvis, Animal Attraction
It is a scholar's weakness, to run narrow and deep.
— Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Avatar
Getting one of the weakness points of your enemies, could be your winning and your enemies' destruction
— Abdulsalam Unshur
I hate when being kind and silly is mistaken for weakness. Then I have to correct them and it's a lot of hassle and I can't be nice to them again.
— L.B.  Scott
The Best Denial Is The Very Best Confirmation.P. Hermans
— Petra Hermans
Blaming our past for not taking action to change our destiny for good is taken from a weak man’s playbook...
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
The weak thrive on indulgence.
— Dan Groat, A Punctual Paymaster
if you show me how strong you are, i just exactly see your weakness.
— Tamas Lakometz
God does not look to find those who are the elites and those who are the most skilled. Rather He looks for the weak and insignificant who trust in Him. God uses broken pots and vessels, He uses imperfect people who trust in a perfect God. Thus all men will know that it is God who has manifested His power and glory through a brother or sister. It is realized then that it was not the work of men but the work of God.
— Greg Gordon, Principles for the Gathering of Believers Under the Headship of Jesus Christ
Everyone is vulnerable in some places! To don't be such person, make sure that you don't have weak places!
— Deyth Banger
Weakness shown is worse than weakness felt.
— Peter V. Brett, The Desert Spear
The weaker the argument the louder and more frequent the rhetoric.
— Ken Poirot
When the week begins, try your best to let your best overcome your worst and that is the best. Do your best to have a good week and never be weak in the week.
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
If some talents were withheld, the Withholder knows why. He has done all things well.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students
You're not to be around people who understand your weaknesses, but rather those will not put you in circumstances that bring out your weaknesses. It's basic logic that your weakness is another person's strength or opportunity.
— Nyona Matende
What you love the most always finds a way to become your biggest weakness,
— A.M.L
What you love most always finds a way to also become your biggest weakness.
— A.M.L.
Knowing that your weakness could be another person's strength or opportunity, it follows that you're not to be around people by virtue of them understanding your weaknesses, but rather by virtue of them not creating circumstances that bring out your weaknesses.
— Nyona Matende
Only the weak hit the fly with a hammer
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
Weakness derives from the soul. Most everyone has one, which gives a woman like me leverage. Leverage to play people to my liking, and so I do.
— E.K. Blair, Bang
I was always moved when mean people were suddenly nice to me. It was a weakness that would lead me into some bad relationships later in life.
— Heather O'Neill, Lullabies for Little Criminals
She was going to be my downfall. She was going to be my corruption and my vice. She was going to be my addiction and my compulsion and I was still going to fall headlong into her knowing the landing was going to be rough for both of us.
— Jay Crownover, Better When He's Brave
[Rinda] often worried how she might make the coward she saw [in Remus] into a brave warrior, and someday, a king -- a task which she felt was her responsibility. Rinda had not yet realized that sometimes courage is the same thing as folly and that sometimes a skepticism bordering on her blindness to her brother's strengths was a result of her own sensitivity.
— Kaoru Kurimoto, The Battle of Nospherus
Religion is an outcome of the human weakness, or The limitation of human knowledge, or the fear.
— Anonymous
Weakness is not a characteristic you want to share with the world
— Jen Calonita, Flunked
Consider that fact that, being nothing in ourselves, we cannot, without divine assistance, accomplish the smallest good or advance the smallest step toward Heaven.
— Lorenzo Scupoli
God is too great to be glorified only through the lives of His victorious children. He is glorified by our suffering and even by our sin. His sustaining strength is glorified when we walk through the furnace of affliction.
— Elyse M. Fitzpatrick, Give Them Grace: Dazzling Your Kids with the Love of Jesus
I missed you." I didn't mean to tell him so, even if it was true. Admitting need felt like weakness; it demonstrated dependence and vulnerability.
— Ann Aguirre, Outpost
There is so little in the New Testament about sexual love, and most of it consists of Paul heaving a deep sigh and tolerating it like a weakness.
— Michel Faber, The Book of Strange New Things
Even the littlest things were now a challenge, one I didn't understand.
— Sarah Todd Hammer
Popcorn! Our fatal weakness!
— Hazel Levesque
There were good and bad kinds of weakness in men, and she had come to the conclusion that the key was to know which kind you were dealing with.
— Zadie Smith
The weakest would be put out of service rather than be allowed to compromise the whole system.
— Frances McCall Rosenbluth, Japan Transformed: Political Change and Economic Restructuring
One's greatest happiness is also his greatest weakness.
— Joe Mari Fadrigalan
I know exactly what I'm doing, but I just can't stop. That's my greatest weakness.
— Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
He refused to believe in his own weaknesses, and with her he had not found a weakness to fit himself against.
— Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
May my weakness not drive me to my knees in despair, but raise me up to You, Lord.
— Norma Gail
You may look tough, but being weak-hearted still makes you weak.
— Sandra Swartz
It’s my experience that a weakness understood is no weakness. If you know you have it, even if you can’t control it, you can make allowances for it. It is those who ignore or don’t understand their weaknesses who are wasted by them.
— Kristen Ashley, Broken Dove
What can you do when everyone around you is strong and clever?
— Tarjei Vesaas, The Birds
No god craves weaklings.
— Daniel Woodrell, Winter's Bone
Achieving success is your ability to eliminate the weakness and biases that are inherent within yourself
— Julian Pencilliah, The Jetstream of Success
She had always suffered from a curious fear of what was going to happen round the next corner. Even when life went smoothly and nothing occurred to justify her vague apprehensions, they did not altogether disperse. She had tried to face these fears and conquer them, but she could never do so entirely, she could only strain forward into the darkness of the future, expecting and fearing the unknown. She was brave in the face of dangers she could see, but she could not arm herself against shadows. These fears were her weakness.
— D.E. Stevenson, Smouldering Fire
The profound paradox is that the great man became more confident in his approach to others, including the man of his own Cabinet, but he recognized that his major confidence was not himself but in Another.
— Elton Trueblood, Abraham Lincoln: Lessons in Spiritual Leadership
Love is for the weak!
— Daren J. Crone
What we had actually demonstrated was our cowardice, but there is fellowship in that too.
— Clifford Geertz
Tears do not signal your weakness. Tears testify that you are alive.
— Toni Sorenson
it is contrary to our natural logic that God would choose to use the foolish and the weak to show himself to be wise. We have difficulty seeing how God is praised through our insufficiencies
— Gloria Furman, Glimpses of Grace: Treasuring the Gospel in Your Home
Many people still feel so scared about spirit or ghost, not yet realizing that there are so many unidentified living creatures on this planet earth which might be even more dreadful.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
he spoke of what he called the "inner history of weakness, of what disappoints us in leaders, the timidity of thought, the hesitancy and the drift." In these cases imagination and will are often blinded by "constructed evils," he wrote. "We falter from childhood amidst shames and fears, we move in closed spaces where stale tradition enervates, we grow hysterical over success and failure, and so by surrounding instinct with terror, we prepare the soul for weakness.
— Ronald Steel, Walter Lippmann and the American Century
Sometimes, it takes more courage to be weak.
— Tom Courter
The price we paid was the price men have always paid for achieving a paradise in this life--we went soft, we lost our edge.
— Frank Herbert, Dune
For me that's the only way of understanding a particular term that everyone here bandies about quite happily, but which clearly can't be quite that straight forward because it doesn't exist in many languages, only in Italian and Spanish, as far as I know, but then again, I don't know that many languages. Perhaps in German too, although I can't be sure: el enamoramiento--the state of falling or being in love, or perhaps infatuation. I'm referring to the noun, the concept; the adjective, the condition, are admittedly more familiar, at least in French, although not in English, but there are words that approximate that meaning ... We find a lot of people funny, people who amuse and charm us and inspire affection and even tenderness, or who please us, captivate us, and can even make us momentarily mad, we enjoy their body and their company or both those things, as is the case for me with you and as I've experienced before with other women, on other occasions, although only a few. Some become essential to us, the force of habit is very strong and ends up replacing or even supplanting almost everything else. It can supplant love, for example, but not that state of being in love, it's important to distinguish between the two things, they're easily confused, but they're not the same ... It's very rare to have a weakness, a genuine weakness for someone, and for that someone to provoke in us that feeling of weakness.
— Javier Marías, Los enamoramientos
While appearing weak is okay, giving in to weakness is definitely not.
— Alyson Noel, Blue Moon
Jesus beckons me to follow him to that place of weakness where I risk the vulnerability of a child so that I might know how strong my Father is and how much he loves me. But truth be told, I would rather be an adult. I'd rather be in a place where I can still pull things together if God doesn't show up, where I risk no ultimate humiliation, where I don't have to take the shallow breaths of desperation. And as a result, my experience of my heavenly Father is simply impoverished.
— Gary Haugen
Maybe I lacked coping skills. Maybe I was weak. I cared for people for no better reason than they seemed to care for me, acknowledge me. It didn’t seem so dangerous at the time.
— Mark Slouka, Brewster
If she were honest, weakness should be masked at all times. Any weakness could, and would be exploited.
— Callie Hunter, The Artist
The greatest weakness of all is the great fear of appearing weak.
— Jacques Benigne Bossuel
Don’t let them see you weak.
— Ann Aguirre, Enclave
Women destroy me. I allow them to.
— Raquel Cepeda, Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina
In the midst of wanting to be powerful, I found a weakness.
— baka_usagi, Forbidden Apple
Sanity is for the weak
— Uke family motto
I was wrong to insult you, and not only because you are my hosts. I am afraid that I mistook kindness for weakness. My apologies. I stand - only with your aid - profoundly corrected.
— Beth Fantaskey, Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side
How can we who are so weak in ourselves, so inferior in power to the enemies confronting us, bear up under our trials which are so numerous, so protracted, so crushing? We could not, and therefore Divine grace has provided for us an all-sufficient Helper. Without His aid we had long since succumbed, mastered by our trials. Hope looks forward to the Glory to come; in the weary interval of waiting, the Spirit supports our poor hearts and keeps grace alive within us.
— Arthur W. Pink
Your greatest area of leadership often comes out of your greatest area of pain and weakness.
— Wayde Goodall, Why Great Men Fall: 15 Winning Strategies to Rise Above It All
As our faith grows and we come to know more about the attributes of God and his role in our lives and our obedience, we learn to see our weakness in light of these words, "For is it God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure" (Phil. 2:13).
— Hayley DiMarco
Fallen man is both terrified of vulnerability and committed to maintaining independence.
— Kay Warren, Choose Joy: Because Happiness Isn't Enough
Keep her downstairs a minute!' I breathed desperately. I don't know why; you don't want your agonies of soul witnessed by a woman. ("Nightmare")
— Cornell Woolrich, Baker's Dozen: 13 Short Mystery Novels
Sadness doesn't equal weakness, sweetheart. If anything, it shows the love you have inside of you, and nothing stronger in this world exists.
— Aimee Carter, The Goddess Inheritance
I traded cowardice for cruelty
—  I traded weakness for ferocity.
And always, I could see that, despite his weakness for her or because of it, he seemed uncatchable, as if he might slip away at any moment.
— Jodi Lynn Anderson, Tiger Lily
It's the people who seem weak who are always suprisingly strong, and the ones who seem strong who are unexpectledly weak.
— Lisa Jewell, Ralph's Party
All wickedness comes from weakness. The child is wicked only because he is weak. Make him strong
—  he will be good. He who could do everything would never do harm.
No matter what challenges or obstacles we experience, we must make a CHOICE to become better or bitter because of it. Will and pray your way through it. In my opinion, the difference between those who are considered strong and those who are seen as weak are what they DECIDE to focus on. But, having down moments don't make someone weak, it makes them human. We wouldn't be human if we don't "feel", but at some point we MUCH force ourselves to get up!
— Yvonne Pierre, The Day My Soul Cried:  A Memoir
There is weakness in pretending to know more than you know or in stating less than you know.
— Robert Henri, The Art Spirit: Notes, Articles, Fragments of Letters and Talks to Students, Bearing on the Concept and Technique of Picture Making, the Study of Art
The Western world has lost its civil courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, each government, each political party and of course in the United Nations. Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling groups and the intellectual elite, causing an impression of loss of courage by the entire society.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
It is strange how love is a source for power––can spur the desire to fight to the death, or to fight back from something that seems like death for long enough to write a coherent note––but also of weakness.
— Beth Fantaskey, Jessica Rules the Dark Side
The body is not a task to be completed but a gift we receive from God himself.
— Matthew Lee Anderson, Earthen Vessels: Why Our Bodies Matter To Our Faith
Caring is weakness, and weakness is death.
— Adrienne deWolfe, Texas Outlaw
You know all the ways you can kill a girl?God, there are so many.
— Courtney Summers, All the Rage
The thinness of contemporary life. I can poke my finger through it.
— Don DeLillo, Zero K
Sometimes our balance has to be upset and our course reset in order to help us navigate to our final destination. This is my final destination and where I was meant to be.
— Ella Dominguez, Becoming Sir
I’m looking to make a miracle
— Dana Reinhardt
While you’re alive there’s no time for minor amazements.
— Alice Fulton
Some guys get fifteen years, others get life.So death for Edbut not for everyone.Cos it all depends on who you kill and where you kill them too.Like,don't shoot a white cop in Walker Country, Texas. If that's your plan, do it in Arlington, New York- no needles of electric chairs there.Just doesn't seen fair to me.
— Sarah Crossan, Moonrise
The almost biological certainty that the more often you checked your cell phone, the more likely you were to find that one wondrous message or notification that would improve your entire life.
— Courtney Maum, Touch
Perhaps all adult life was an attempt to keep alight the fires that burned when you were young.
— Barney Norris, Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain
The world is full of things put off for the wrong reasons, which can suddenly become impossible without any warning. They hang in the air like ghosts, their mouths sewn up forever. They will never be able to speak, but if it was you who put them there, you will always be forced to see them.
— Barney Norris, Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain
One thing a death will do is make you reflect on how many kinds of love there are to be experienced in the world.
— Barney Norris, Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain
The old are a regular subject for sympathy.
— Barney Norris, Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain
The world holds no trace of what happens in it unless we carve it in with violence or concrete.
— Barney Norris, Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain
Every bar in the scores of ourselves is already into memory into imagination, even as we play it out. We might as well listen.
— Barney Norris, Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain
From my new release, Cry for Me.This is Bryen talking."Stop it, T! I knew; my God I predicted you would do this! Start blaming yourself for the sins of my sick brother. He's left a stench of rottenness from here to Illinois!
— Toni Mariani
That's how it is with a thing like grief as well. It lies oil slick over everything you do. It will pour out through the gaps in the most ordinary afternoons.
— Barney Norris, Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain
The thing about stone is you don't get to the heart of it. It stares back into you, its secret intact and inviolable.
— Barney Norris
Grief's not like a cancer, doesn't go when the operation's done and the darkness is out. It's a knife wound. Take out the blade and you still go the bleeding, wait long enough, and it turns to a scar, but it's always with you the rest of your life.
— Barney Norris, Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain
I want her to engulf me in her blaze & scorch me until my darkness lies in ashes.
— Dani René, Crave
It’s like your whole life you’ve been falling toward the earth, until the moment someone catchesyou. And you realize that somehow you’ve caught her at the same time. And together, instead offalling, you might be able to fly.” The ghost went to the discarded clipping and stared down at thephoto, riveted. “She’s a beaut, isn’t she?”“Sure,” Alex said automatically, although there was nothing of Zoë’s sparkling allure in thephoto, only a hint of resemblance.
— Lisa Kleypas, Dream Lake
As for learning to wear high heels, no need to worry. I've got no tolerance for those dreadful things. If God wanted us girls tottering around like a bunch of drunken sailors, we'd have been born wearing stilts!
— Jenny Lundquist, The Charming Life of Izzy Malone
I have certainly heard of the Subtle Art of Shutting Up, but I can't say I've practiced it all that much. I greatly prefer the underappreciated genius of Speaking My Mind. I figure if someone doesn't like what I have to say, they shouldn't put their ears in close proximity to my mouth.
— Jenny Lundquist, The Charming Life of Izzy Malone
What's all this nonsense about odd vision and not fitting in? There are plenty worse things in this world than not fitting in--like fitting in way too much. You strike me as a real original, Izzy Malone, in a world that loves carbon copies. If you think you beautified something, I believe you. I've never understood why folks love safe, neutral colors so much. Colors are what make this world worth living in.
— Jenny Lundquist, The Charming Life of Izzy Malone
Sometimes I think teachers like Ms. Harmer view creativity as something dirty and slightly embarrassing, and would prefer to turn kids into people who color inside the lines.Generally speaking, I don't care much for lines.
— Jenny Lundquist, The Charming Life of Izzy Malone
P.S. Please don't call me Isabella. That name belongs to a really pretty girl who never wrecks her clothes and who never gets dirt under her fingernails. That's definitely not me. My name is Izzy.
— Jenny Lundquist, The Charming Life of Izzy Malone
Your mother would have more luck winning her election than teaching you how to be charming. Izzy Malone, going to charm school! Are you going to walk across the room with a book stuck on your head?""No, it's not like that at all," I said as he doubled over with laughter. "And I really don't see what's so funny.""It's just that"--he gasped--"it would be like teaching a hippo to wear high heels!
— Jenny Lundquist, The Charming Life of Izzy Malone
Words are a weapon, and rotten kids like Tyler Jones get a free pass when it comes to using them because the marks they leave are invisible. Why don't more adults realize that?
— Jenny Lundquist, The Charming Life of Izzy Malone
Turns out, most girls would rather put on lip gloss than play with sand toads.
— Jenny Lundquist, The Charming Life of Izzy Malone