12 Puny Quotes for You to Enjoy

The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great. Meister Eckhart

Work Great Will Puny Never Outward Inward

We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God. Kurt Vonnegut

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A puny body weakens the soul. Paul Cezanne

Soul Weakens Puny Body

My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become. Imelda Marcos

Life Dreams Reality My Life Become Puny

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

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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

One of the first coaches I worked with on the national team told me that I was too skinny, too puny, and had no natural acceleration. He said I'd be better off looking for another facet of sport to follow. That was a really, really bad moment. For a long time, I felt as if my dad was the only one who had faith in me. Victoria Pendleton

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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

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Some of the greatest shows in history - 'Seinfeld,' 'Everybody Loves Raymond' and 'House' - had puny starts but the benefit of schedule protection, increasingly scarce in today's DVR world. Cable nets can tolerate small ratings, building hits in progress like 'Breaking Bad,' or marathon their way to a 'Duck Dynasty.' Kevin Reilly

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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

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

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