I’m very weak in a sense. I’m very tiny and I am very emotional, and that is not something people usually associate with strength.

Life is tragic. You are tiny and flawed and ignorant and weak, and everything else is huge, complex, and overwhelming.

It’s hard work making movies. It’s like being a doctor: you work long hours, very hard hours, and it’s emotional, tense work. If you don’t really love it, then it ain’t worth it.

I do like Burial; he’s so curiously clumsy, you can’t help but be moved. It’s so un-Hollywood, and the rhythms are so un-danceable.

My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I’m so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don’t have the guts to take their names out of the book.

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

I still close my eyes and go home – I can always draw from that.

Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.

I can’t read the newspaper without crying. I’m easily affected by horrible events, you see.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

I’ve been writing poems since I was in the Navy – to Rosalynn. I found I could say things in poems that I never could in prose. Deeper, more personal things. I could write a poem about my mother that I could never tell my mother. Or feelings about being on a submarine that I would have been too embarrassed to share with fellow submariners.

After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory.

People from North India are generally known to be aggressive and emotional.

Anger is certainly a kind of baseness, as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns: children, women, old folks, sick folks.

I’m such an emotional and sensitive person, so it only makes sense that my songs are as well.

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.

A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.

The Iranians have shot down drones. They tried to destroy the Saudi oil fields. They tried to storm our embassy. So, when my Democratic friends say we need appeasement, well appeasement hasn’t worked. And I think that we’ve learned, with respect to Iran, that weakness invites the wolves.

It’s true; once you are a father, there’s no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.

Even if my songs are quite sad or quite dark, I don’t want my songs to make people sad. It’s very important for me that all my songs have some kind of hope or light.

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I’m willing to show you. In you, it’s courage and daring. In me, it’s weakness.

It’s tough to negotiate from a position of weakness.

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

I was brought up as an only child, and we were very close. But when I was 14, we got evicted. We came home to a padlock, and I looked up at my mom and she was crying, and there was nothing to do.

Bob Dylan is like an alien on this earth, and I love him! I cried when I saw him play live because I was so close to him.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Unrestrained liberalism only makes the strong stronger and the weak weaker and excludes the most excluded.

I grew up in an environment where being polite was taken as a weakness. So I just fought everybody.

I am a very emotional guy. What I love, I do with all I have.

I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.

There have been times that I’ve wept as I’ve gone from city to city and I’ve seen how far people have wandered from God.

I hate smiling. It makes me feel weak and powerless and small. I’ve always been like that; I don’t smile in any pictures.

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

All cruelty springs from weakness.

I have always enjoyed watching my songs make people cry.

I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

I’ve always been a fan of melody and emotional melancholy, whether it was Rites of Spring or Tears for Fears or Neil Young. If I hear a song that has a sweet melody, I’m a sucker for it, whether it’s Linkin Park or Little Richard.

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.

You’ll never have any trouble with Mr. T, I’m just a big, calm teddy bear kind of guy. Mr. T ain’t ashamed to cry. When I go out and I meet people who are suffering and they come and talk to me, Mr. T cries, Mr. T who could break a man’s jaw with his fist.

Prayer is a confession of one’s own unworthiness and weakness.

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

The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

When I listen to ‚Nevermind,‘ I hate the production, but there’s something about it that almost makes me cry at times.

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.

Oh, I’ve always been very… Emotional. ‚Hypersensitive‘ is what they call it, I think.

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies – it is the first law of nature.

People haven’t always been there for me, but music always has.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

When you walk out onstage in front of 65,000 people, it can bring you to tears.

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

My weak spot is laziness. Oh, I have a lot of weak spots: cookies, croissants.

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.

I get a little bit emotional during a game!

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

I am a tender-hearted person, and I feel everything to the ninth degree.