Machiavelli taught me it was better to be feared than loved. Because if you are loved they sense you might be weak. I am a man of the people and help them but it is important to do so through strength.
Our television transmitters leak out from the Earth. And actually, there’s a sphere surrounding the Earth from the earliest television signals, maybe 70 years ago, that’s going out one light year per year. But it’s really weak.
I think the simplest way to put it is to say that Donald continues to need to prove to his father that he’s the tough guy, the killer, the best, you know, that he’s winning all the time, and above all, that he’s not weak. And the ways to be weak in my family were to be kind, to admit mistakes, and to apologize.
You can be only a modest distance away from the gravity brane, and gravity will be incredibly weak.
My words have always either attracted a strong mind or offended a weak one.
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
Writers need to be tough. This is not for the weak of will. And we have to realize that, yeah, it’s never good enough. It’s not like fixing a car where it’s precise and we know what the end result will be definitively.
I once told a white South African woman that her food was as weak as the Rand, and she complained of racism. Now I watch what I say.
What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.
Censorship is saying: ‘I’m the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine.’ But the internet is like a tree that is growing. The people will always have the last word – even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper.
To the question how one kind of labor can be measured against another, how the labor of the artisan can be measured against the labor of the artist, how the labor of the strong can be measured against the labor of the weak, the communists can give no answer.
By monitoring the activity taking place on social networks, retailers can amplify successful marketing and sales strategies and avoid weak tactics which can later be tied back to organizational objectives.
Anyone can look big and strong and fast against weak opponents.
When governments become weak, troubles are certain to erupt.
Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?
Shoving with K-Q is a tactic that does work well for Internet players and weak players. In the old days, though, grizzled pros would have eaten up those guys by utilizing the traditional, more conservative style of poker that emphasizes play on the flop.
In many countries, the authority of the state is weak and openly defied by militias and terrorist groups. In others, state forces themselves act with impunity.
I always wanted to make sure that within my unit that I was never the weak person. So I made sure that my physical fitness was top.
For six years, from 1985 to 1991, I felt pretty weak and useless.
Great comforts do, indeed, bear witness to the truth of thy grace, but not to the degree of it; the weak child is oftener in the lap than the strong one.
What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
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.
To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
