William James Quotes

The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it.

A list is only as strong as its weakest link.

An alliance is like a chain. It is not made stronger by adding weak links to it.

Each person is a link, weak or strong, in an endless chain.

When we have nothing to cling to as our own and cease thinking of ourselves as people who must defend privileges, we can open ourselves freely to others with the faithful expectation that our strength will manifest itself in our shared weakness.

There is no distinction, no echelon of actors within a company. A company is only as strong as its weakest link.

I always feel your movie will be as strong as your weakest link.

You realize that life is short and fragile; and when you are facing walls of water, you understand your own mortality can change and how quickly things could change.

In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest.

Life is a frail moth flying Caught in the web of the years that pass.

... life is a flickering candle we all carry around. A gust of wind, a meaningless accident, a microsecond of carelessness, and it's out. Forever.

Life is a toy made of glass; it appears to be of inestimable price, but in reality it is very cheap.

The cord breaketh at last by the weakest pull.

I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.

The least strength suffices to break what is bruised.

To be alive is to be vulnerable.

Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.

The dignity of man was everywhere tissue-paper thin.

Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.

No man may be completely invulnerable.

The thread breakes, where it is weakest.

Whatever is weak, avoid! It is death.

Slowly, very slowly, he sat up, and as he did so he felt more alive, and more aware of his own living body than ever before. Why had he never appreciated what a miracle he was, brain and nerve and bounding heart? It would all be gone...or at least, he would be gone from it. His breath came slow and deep, and his mouth and throat were completely dry, but so were his eyes.

Broken things are powerful."Things about to break are stronger still.The last shot from the brittle bow is truest.