Weakness Quotes
All my artistic response comes from American things, and I guess I've always had a weakness for heroic imagery.
Hatred is not contained in political thinking. Any hatred worked up against the public enemy is non-political, and always shows some weakness in the internal political situation.
Belief may be a regrettably unavoidable biological weakness to be kept under the control of criticism: but commitment is for Popper an outright crime.
True charity consists in putting up with all one's neighbors fault's; never being surprised by his weakness, and being inspired by the least of his virtues.
It's a funny thing about weaknesses....Most people will tell you they know their weaknesses. When asked, they'll tell you, 'Well for one thing, I'm overgenerous.' ... that's what innkeepers are for.
We are so inculcated with guilt that we think that weakness is a sin or that it is some crime against nature to be submissive.
There are weaknesses that you have to understand and it takes a lot of discipline for the players to be able to play it effectively and have confidence in what they're doing.
This is a great fact: strength is life; weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal; weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.
God does not reveal himself in strength or power, but in the weakness and fragility of a newborn babe.
There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another name for willing bondage to irremediable weakness.
. . . the Christian Mind has succumbed to the secular drift with a degree of weakness unmatched in Christian History.
Weakness is something we don't like to admit we have. We hold it against people, until we experience it, and then we feel more compassion for it.
Convalescence. Such an utter weakness that you lie like an animal hibernating, playing possum. You float. You are adrift. Every current is stronger than you.
Admitting weakness seems to be such a severe psychic threat for Bush that when he makes a mistake it's safer just to reinforce it. The strategy creates a perverse system of rewards and punishments
The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.
Where might is, the right is: Long purses make strong swords. Let weakness learn meekness: God save the House of Lords!
No more gods, no more faith, no more timid holding back. Let us blast out of our old forms, our ignorance, our weakness, and our mortality. The future belongs to posthumanity.
In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy, which cunning will discover, and wickedness insensibly open, cultivate and improve.
Some of us are inclined to look to the weaknesses and shortcomings of others in order to expand our own comfort zone.
Anything that you cannot sacrifice pins you. Makes you predictable, makes you weak.
Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature.
Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation.
But borrowing strength builds weakness.
Fallen man is both terrified of vulnerability and committed to maintaining independence.
...as man under pressure tends to give in to physical and intellectual weakness, only great strength of will can lead to the objective.
Some of our weaknesses are born in us, others are the result of education; it is a question which of the two gives us most trouble.
I am tired. My arm aches. My head boils. My feet are cold. But I am not aware of any weakness.
Cicero said loud-bawling orators were driven by their weakness to noise, as lame men to take horse.
Some weak people are so sensible of their weakness as to be able to make a good use of it.
I don't really tell a joke, I react to situations. The whole thing is just looking at somebody and showing all our weaknesses and exaggerating them, and that's how it becomes funny.
More men are guilty of treason through weakness than any studied design to betray.
The dependence of one people upon another, even for the benefits of legislation, is the deepest source of national weakness.
Sincerity is a great but rare virtue, and we pardon to it much complaining, and the betrayal of many weaknesses.