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Puny human body, my ass! -- Margaret Weis
Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Strong as it looks at the outset, State-agency perpetually disappoints every one. Puny as are its first stages, private efforts daily achieve results that astound the world. -- Herbert Spencer
The name of the new religion, said Rumfoord, is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent. . . The two chief teachings of this religion are these: Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God. -- Kurt Vonnegut
A puny body weakens the soul. -- Paul Cezanne
My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become. -- Imelda Marcos
The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great. -- Meister Eckhart
We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to right and left, but the puny boatmen do not know how to fish for it. -- Alexander Herzen
Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a greater average age, and our greater protection from contagious and germ diseases. -- G. Stanley Hall
I know my own soul, how feeble and puny it is: I know the magnitude of this ministry, and the great difficulty of the work; for more stormy billows vex the soul of the priest than the gales which disturb the sea. -- John Chrysostom
Even the largest of my dreams and ambitions, I realize with increasing dismay, were puny, measly, compared to the object of my dreaming. I would not say my life to date has been built overmuch of compromise, but still, it surrounds me. -- Rick Bass
Relative to most of the energy and material flows on Earth, the machinations of humankind are puny. The planet's powers are much, much bigger than our own. But in a few sensitive places, we're making an impact on a planetary scale, and that impact is not a good one. -- Donella Meadows
My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the sea. Little did I know that I would live in Malacanang Palace for 20 years and visit all the major palaces of mankind. And then also meet ordinary citizens and the leaders of superpowers. -- Imelda Marcos
Sometimes I think that our laboratories are but little earthworks which men build about themselves, and whose puny tops too often conceal from view the Olympian heights; that we who work in these laboratories are but skilled artisans compared with the man who is able to observe and to draw accurate deductions from the world about him. -- Gilbert Newton Lewis
Our tree was so puny we used orthopedic bulbs. -- Milton Berle
Now, let's hear some properly terrified screaming, puny humans! -- Howard Tayler
Flies? Flies? Poor puny things. Who wants to eat flies? -- Dwight Frye
Death alone discloses how insignificant are the puny bodies of men. -- Juvenal
My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become -- Imelda Marcos
Only puny secrets need protection. Big discoveries are protected by public incredulity. -- Marshall McLuhan
Think you two puny Druids can hold this keep for a single night? -- Karen Marie Moning
Your faith depends on the strength of its object...a puny god just won't do. -- Steven J Lawson
Suatu kehidupan yang terbagi atas kelas-kelas, kasta-kasta, dan golongan yang-puny dan yang-tidak-punya akan menghasilkan perbudakan. -- Cindy Adams
The new always looks so puny-so unpromising-next to the reality of the massive, ongoing business. -- Peter Drucker
It's the great soul that surrenders itself to fate, but a puny degenerate thing that struggles. -- Seneca the Younger
Princeton is a wonderful little spot. A quaint and ceremonious village of puny demigods on stilts. -- Albert Einstein
Meditation is the ultimate selfless act, because when you meditate you are sacrificing your puny personality for the universal reality. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Don't ask God to cram His plan into your puny little mind, because then God would be limited by your understanding. -- Adrian Rogers
The world is a demon. It is a kingdom of which the puny ego is king. Put it away and stand firm. -- Swami Vivekananda
Jesus is not some puny religious teacher begging for an invitation from anyone. He is the all-sovereign Lord who deserves submission from everyone. -- David Platt
If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day. -- Emily Bronte
The Now, that indivisible point which studs the length of infinite line Whose ends are nowhere, is thine all , the puny all thou callest thine. -- Richard Francis Burton
Alas, our rulers are not gods, but puny, fallible men, like the kings who constantly forget their parts, and we common men should be their prompters. -- Lin Yutang
I felt puny and absurd, a ludicrous midget. Easy enough to talk of soul and spirit and essential worth, but not when you're three feet tall. -- Richard Matheson
If God cares about our puny species, then disasters prove that he is not all-powerful; and if he is all-powerful, then clearly he doesn't give a damn. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
By science calmed, over the peaceful soul, Bright with eternal Wisdom's lucid ray, Peace, meek of eye, extends her soft control, And drives the puny Passions far away. -- Humphry Davy
How small the cosmos (a kangaroo's pouch would hold it), how paltry and puny in comparison to human consciousness, to a single individual recollection, and its expression in words! -- Vladimir Nabokov
Tragedy is dead! Poetry itself died with it! Away, away with you, puny, stunted imitators! Away with you to Hades, and eat your fill of the old masters' crumbs! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Let us not have puny thoughts. Let us think on a greater scale. Let us not have those of the future decry our smallness of concept and lack of foresight. -- Adolph Murie
In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad-Gita, in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seems puny and trivial. -- Henry David Thoreau
The theories and speculations of men concern us more than their puny accomplishment. It is with a certain coldness and languor that we loiter about the actual and so-called practical. -- Henry David Thoreau
Oh fer Christ's bloody sake Martha I didna' raise ye to be well regarded. To be liked. Any puny weak-waisted slut can be liked. I raised ye to be reckoned with. -- Kathleen Kent
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Logic was puny in the face of my wrath. Logic was puny and magic was mighty: I had just gotten rebirthed, refilled and renewed, and was fast on my way to resentful. -- C.E. Murphy
Hell is not filled with people who are deeply sorry for their sins. It is filled with people who for all eternity still shake their puny fist in the face of God Almighty. -- D. A. Carson
I'd sell my soul to the devil if he'd buy such a weakly, puny, piffling little soul, just really to live and be something besides a "thoroughly nice girl" for one short year. -- Samuel Hopkins Adams
I thought my mountain was coming this morning. It was near to speaking when suddenly it shifted, sulked, and returned to smallness. It has eluded me again and sits there, puny and dull. Why? -- Emily Carr
I am amused to see from my window here how busily a man has divided and staked off his domain. God must smile at his puny fences running hither and thither everywhere over the land. -- Henry David Thoreau

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