The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.
~By Samuel Butler ~
The Hamas has taken the path of avoiding causing harm to Zionist interests outside of Palestine, not from weakness or lack of ability to do so, but because Hamas does not wish for further fronts to be opened against it around the world.
~By Ahmed Yassin ~
Mr. Chairman, on September 11, we were attacked by terrorists who took advantage of weaknesses in our border security. After infiltrating our country, the terrorists were able to conceal their real identities, and thereby plot their attacks without fear of being apprehended.
~By Jim Ryun ~
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
~By Albert Einstein ~
People in very high places suddenly fall, and we are always surprised because we don't factor in the basic element that they're humans and, therefore, they are flawed and have weaknesses.
~By Carlisle Floyd ~
When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness.
~By James Allen ~
I'd have to acknowledge that I have a weakness for the fairer sex - and I hope I never get over it.
~By Chuck Robb ~
Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.
~By Jean de la Bruyere ~
You would be amazed how many important outs you can get by working the count down to where the hitter is sure you're going to throw to his weakness, and then throw to his power instead.
~By Whitey Ford ~
The very strength of a nation eventually proves to be its weakness.
~By Paul Harris ~
Only a kind person is able to judge another justly and to make allowances for his weaknesses. A kind eye, while recognizing defects, sees beyond them.
~By Lawrence G. Lovasik ~
The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them.
~By John Adair ~
All nations are more tolerant of their own mistakes and weaknesses than of the mistakes and weaknesses of others.
~By Arthur Hays Sulzberger ~
Curb Your Enthusiasm, is not so much about Hollywood. It's more about Larry's weaknesses.
~By Kevin Nealon ~
Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.
~By Voltaire ~
We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
~By Madame Swetchine ~
There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.
~By James Russell Lowell ~
You work enough with someone and you develop a shorthand. You know how he likes to work through the day and he knows where you're vulnerable and where your weaknesses and strengths are, so it makes for a good team, a team that knows who's over there behind your back.
~By David Strathairn ~
It would be really great if people would realize that stars are only people with the same weaknesses and flaws, not immaculate idols.
~By Meg Ryan ~
I think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that it became too money based and too controlling. It's just a weakness that we human beings have for control - we want one thing and then we want more and then we want more.
~By Dave Davies ~
The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.
~By Andrew Carnegie ~
Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.
~By Edward Young ~
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
~By Thomas A. Edison ~
If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
The key to any game is to use your strengths and hide your weaknesses.
~By Paul Westphal ~
Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.
~By Paul Brunton ~
Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
~By William Hazlitt ~
I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch.
~By George W. Bush ~
I don't flatter myself with much dependence upon the present disposition of the Eastern Indians, who are many ways liable to be drawn into a rupture with us by the artifices of the French, their own weakness and the influence which the French Missionary Priests have over them.
~By William Shirley ~
As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
If thou wouldn't conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it.
~By William Penn ~
Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
There would not be enough talent that's educated, developed and ready to take on the next leadership challenge, and it would cap our growth. Now we've put programs in place not to have that happen, but that could be a weakness.
~By Kevin Rollins ~
When you know your cast well and their strengths and weaknesses, you can start writing for them, just the way Shakespeare wrote for his actors.
~By Stephen Sondheim ~
Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
Death used to announce itself in the thick of life but now people drag on so long it sometimes seems that we are reaching the stage when we may have to announce ourselves to death. It is as though one needs a special strength to die, and not a final weakness.
~By Ronald Blythe ~
Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses.
~By Francois Mauriac ~
I feel real ownership in this show. I feel very invested in it. I care very much about it. I don't feel any more like a hired hand, you know? It's a strange feeling - I feel personally responsible for how the story goes. What happens. What the weaknesses are. And so in a way, some of the changes gave me an opportunity to have a voice in a different way.
~By Lauren Graham ~
When a Spanish man cries it's not a sign of weakness.
~By Geraldo Rivera ~
Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.
~By Dorothy Dix ~
It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
I think I'm good at amplifying an actor's strengths, and minimizing their weaknesses. And they all have strengths and weaknesses.
~By Steven Soderbergh ~
Let no one think that flexibility and a predisposition to compromise is a sign of weakness or a sell-out.
~By Paul Kagame ~
The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.
~By Orlando A. Battista ~
Never apologize, mister. It's a sign of weakness.
~By Frank S. Nugent ~
Flee an enemy who knows your weakness.
~By Pierre Corneille ~
My biggest weakness is my sensitivity. I am too sensitive a person.
~By Mike Tyson ~
There is something that falls short of perfection in every book, without exception, something influenced by the age, even something ridiculous; just like everyone, without exception, has weaknesses.
~By Josef Skvorecky ~
My biggest weakness as a endurance athlete has been in not drinking enough water after training, thereby racing sometimes while dehydrated.
~By Bill Rodgers ~
Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise; be wise and thou art happy.
~By Akhenaton ~
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.
~By Tina Brown ~
My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.
~By Marge Piercy ~
Usually that's going into biology in a certain way. There's certain strengths and weaknesses to both of the sexes. And I'm not against employing those nor am I against denying those, what I am looking for is a very large array of options.
~By Mark Morris ~
There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.
~By Kin Hubbard ~
If the United States were to cut and run from Iraq, we would send a message of weakness that would embolden our terrorist enemies across the globe. A failed Iraq would destabilize the entire region and undermine U.S. national security for decades to come.
~By Dennis Cardoza ~
I think that maybe that's my weakness, in that I don't know how to do it, so I just do what I do and try to do it as passionately and as well as I can.
~By Aaron Eckhart ~
Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.
~By Lao Tzu ~
It's more important to know your weaknesses than your strengths.
~By Ray Lee Hunt ~
According to this way of arguing, there will be no true principles in the world; for there are none but what may be wrested and perverted to serve bad purposes, either through the weakness or wickedness of men.
~By Jonathan Mayhew ~
Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses.
~By Marilyn vos Savant ~
Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.
~By Fulton J. Sheen ~
Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
~By Boris Pasternak ~
I was serving good but was returning especially well, which was a weakness in my game. So not only was I serving well, but I was also breaking these other guys, and they felt the pressure.
~By Richard Krajicek ~
Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.
~By John Keats ~
My family is my strength and my weakness.
~By Aishwarya Rai ~
Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.
~By Mikhail Bakunin ~
Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade.
~By Miranda Richardson ~
Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.
~By Edmund Waller ~
But the weakness comes from these Westernised co-opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in the eyes of the West and Western media.
~By Abu Bakar Bashir ~
My weaknesses... I wish I could come up with something. I'd probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they're the same thing.
~By Al Pacino ~
Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.
~By George Santayana ~
Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness.
~By James Goldsmith ~
Coffee and cigarettes, that's one of my weaknesses.
~By Jason Behr ~
You always have certain strengths and certain weaknesses, and you want to compensate for your weaknesses... I have a real duty to earn the trust of the faculty. I don't just deserve it. I have to earn it.
~By Erskine Bowles ~
Try to help others. Consult their weaknesses, relieve their maladies; strive to raise them up, and by so doing you will most effectually raise yourself up also.
~By Joseph Barber Lightfoot ~
I did not want to be depressed by the gap existing between my weakness and my ambition.
~By Ella Maillart ~
If you're not going to tell something if you're not going to expose something it's real easy to go in and photograph from behind the camera and not expose any of your weaknesses.
~By Kim Weston ~
The weakness in the company is if we fail to execute.
~By Kevin Rollins ~
Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.
~By Hubert H. Humphrey ~
Unfortunately, the food industry has not yet faced this situation and begun taking measures to avoid exploiting our weakness for not knowing when we have had enough.
~By Marvin Harris ~
Beer is the Danish national drink, and the Danish national weakness is another beer.
~By Clementine Paddleford ~
They all in general had putrid gums, the spots and lassitude, with weakness of their knees.
~By James Lind ~
Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you.
~By Mike Murdock ~
A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.
~By Sidonie Gabrielle Colette ~
Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
~By Amos Bronson Alcott ~
Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.
~By Charles Lamb ~
I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
~By Edgar Allan Poe ~
Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.
~By Georg C. Lichtenberg ~
Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.
~By William Howard Taft ~
The incorrectness and weaknesses of a theory cause other minds to formulate the problems more exactly and in this way scientific progress is made.
~By Robert Barany ~
What played to what had been a relative weakness for us-this was exploding overseas as well, and we had to scramble to mount some reach and get into places and be competitive on the ground.
~By Brit Hume ~
I am tired. My arm aches. My head boils. My feet are cold. But I am not aware of any weakness.
~By Zane Grey ~
Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.
~By Georges Bataille ~
I didn't want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didn't want any more Jewish sentimentality and Jewish suffering. I was sickened by our sad songs.
~By Lionel Blue ~
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order.
~By Dolly Parton ~
Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.
~By Robert Peel ~
Sometimes a great wound or concussion of the head, especially which happens by falling headlong from an high place, brings a prejudice and weakness to the animal faculty, dulling the understanding.
~By Thomas Willis ~
Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers.
~By Swami Sivananda ~
I would be surprised to see the White House scaling back on anything. That would be an admission they are operating from a position of weakness.
~By Rich Galen ~
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