Weakness Quotes - page 4

If we choose a weak and foolish speculation as a primary textbook illustration (falsely assuming that the tale possesses a weight of history and a sanction of evidence), then we are in for trouble - as critics properly nail the particular weakness, and then assume that the whole theory must be in danger if supporters choose such a fatuous case as a primary illustration. (Stephen Jay Gould)

To want is to have a weakness.

Margaret Atwood

We could not guard every water pipeline from being blown up and every tree from being uprooted. We could not prevent every murder of a worker in an orchard or a family in their beds. But it was in our power to set high price for our blood, a price too high for the Arab community, the Arab army, or the Arab governments to think it worth paying... It was in our power to cause the Arab governments to renounce 'the policy of strength' toward Israel by turning it into a demonstration of weakness.

Moshe Dayan

My greatest strength is the love for my people, my greatest weakness is that I love them too much.

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

I've always had a weakness for foreign affairs.

Mae West

After all, it is a common weakness of young authors to put too much into their papers.

Ronald Fisher

I think that a good person can sometimes do wrong out of ignorance or weakness or wrong thinking, but when hard times come, the goodness wins out after all. And a bad person can often seem good and trustworthy for a long time, but when hard times come, the evil in him gets revealed.

Orson Scott Card

A man's strength is ultimately born of his knowledge of his own weakness ...

David Gemmell

You saw his weakness, and he will never forgive you.

Friedrich Schiller

Darkness as well as light. Or do I mean darkness, another kind of light? Lucifer would say so, and I have a weakness for fallen angels.

Jeanette Winterson

Had Adam tenderly reproved his wife, and endeavored to lead her to repentance instead of sharing in her guilt, I should be much more ready to accord to man that superiority which he claims; but as the facts stand disclosed by the sacred historian, it appears to me that to say the least, there was as much weakness exhibited by Adam as by Eve. They both fell from innocence, and consequently from happiness, but not from equality. (Sarah Grimké)

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.

Anton LaVey

And thou, who didst the stars and sunbeams know, Self-school'd, self-scann'd, self-honour'd, self-secure, Didst tread on earth unguess'd at. - Better so! All pains the immortal spirit must endure, All weakness which impairs, all griefs which bow, Find their sole speech in that victorious brow.

Matthew Arnold

Physician of the Iron Age, Goethe has done his pilgrimage. He took the suffering human race, He read each wound, each weakness clear - And struck his finger on the place, And said - Thou ailest here, and here.

Matthew Arnold

Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

François de La Rochefoucauld

Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature.

Max Brooks

Our enemies - whether Shiite or Sunni - are followers of a totalitarian ideology based on Islam, which tells them that Allah wishes to rule the world through them. Israel is a central front in this war. Given the weakness of Western support for the Jews, jihadists see attacking Israel as a strategic tool for eroding the West's ideological defenses and shoring up their supporters throughout the world.

Caroline Glick

The greatest weakness of all weaknesses is to fear too much to appear weak.

Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old.

Oscar Wilde

Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness.

James Goldsmith

I only fear God, know the weapons of the weak, the weakness of the heart, and never fall asleep... (Lupe Fiasco)

I have also been saddened, though hardly surprised, by the weakness of the EU's reaction to the criminal attack on the Danish embassy in Syria, which seems to have been permitted, if not actively encouraged, by the Syrian regime.

Timothy Garton Ash

Vanity is a weakness. I know this. It's a shallow dependence on the exterior self, on how one looks instead of what one is. I know this well...Vanity and dishonesty may be vices, but they're also the first forms of protection I ever knew.

Dennis Lehane

The individual act of obedience is the cornerstone not only of the strength of authoritarian society but also of its weakness.

Robert Anton Wilson

Now the thing is not to get into unnecessary quarrels by talking too much and not to indicate any weakness by talking too much; let our actions speak for themselves.

Henry L. Stimson

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