A Quote by Ovid

In an easy cause anyone can be eloquent; the slightest strength is enough to break what is already shattered.

Ovid

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Anyone Break Cause Easy Eloquent Enough Shattered Slightest Strength

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Ovid
Roman - Poet
43 BC - 17 AD

In an easy cause any man may be eloquent.

Ovid

Strength enough to build a home, Time enough to hold a child, Love enough to break a heart

Terry Pratchett

Happy men are grave. They carry their happiness cautiously, as they would a glass filled to the brim which the slightest movement could cause to spill over, or break.

Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly

It is easy to defend the innocent; but who is eloquent enough to defend the guilty?

Publilius Syrus

I still feel as if I weren't a good enough mother. I didn't break any rules. I didn't cause my son any pain. But I did bring to my life some of my father, who was very controlling and very remote. I was working a lot. I wasn't there enough.

Mary Tyler Moore

If you are harboring the slightest bitterness toward anyone, or any unkind thoughts of any sort whatever, you must get rid of them quickly. They are not hurting anyone but you. It isn't enough just to do right things and say right things - you must also think right things before your life can come into harmony.

Peace Pilgrim

As for myself and for the Secretary of State and others involved, including those in the Legislature, we stand ready to do anything, to meet with anyone, anywhere, as long as we may do so in self-respect, demanding the respect due this Nation, and there is any slightest idea or chance of furthering this great cause of peace.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent.

Ovid

There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will.

Albert Einstein

When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.

Dennis Quaid

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

Helen Keller

If I am good enough and quiet enough, perhaps after all they will let me go; but it’s not easy being quiet and good, it’s like hanging on to the edge of a bridge when you’ve already fallen over; you don’t seem to be moving, just dangling there, and yet it is taking all your strength.