Fiona Apple Quotes

My message isn't perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.

Obviously, all of us have been influenced by those around us.

Peer pressure is just that: pressure.

I, of course, am not influenced by the television cameras, but some members are.

I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself.

By climbing mountains we were not learning how big we were. We were finding out how breakable, how weak and how full of fear we are.

People aren't autonomous creatures. They're under a lot of pressure themselves.

I think it would do a lot of people good just to realize how vulnerable they are.

We all pretend to be very strong, and then in a fraction, you can just break down, at least for me.

A breath thou art, Servile to all the skyey influences.

I use hate as a weapon to defend myself; had I been strong, I would never have needed that kind of weapon.

But in my heart I knew that just like the new grass, I wasn't strong enough yet to be walked on

There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood.

The people with the strong, brave exteriors are just as weak and vulnerable as the rest of us. And of course they never admit to their childish practices, their moments of weakness or absurdity, and then the rest of us think that's how it should be.

We are all men, feeble, frail, and apt to faint.

Even men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence of the physical charms of others. Modern, no less then Ancient History, supplies us with many most painful examples of what I refer to. If it were not so, indeed, History would be quite unreadable.

A man's strength is ultimately born of his knowledge of his own weakness.

Who shall dare to talk of strength when David can fall?

Yesterday he told me he thought I would have to pretend to be weak, but he was wrong. I am weak already. I brace myself against the wall and press my forehead to my hands. It’s difficult to take deep breaths, so I take short, shallow ones. I can’t let this happen. They attacked me to make me feel weak. I can pretend they succeeded to protect myself, but I can’t let it become true.

The soft and weak can overcome the hard and strong.

We are sad at home and blame the weather and the ugliness of the buildings, but on the tropical island we learn that the state of the skies and the appearance of our dwellings can never on their own underwrite our joy nor condemn us to misery.

At birth we are very much like a new hard drive - no viruses, no bad information, no crap that's been downloaded into it yet. It's what we feed into that hard drive that starts the corruption of the files.

Terrorism and deception are weapons not of the strong, but of the weak.

If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be of no help.

The strong are God's natural protectors of the weak.