Weakness Quotes - Page 28

I believe that in a good collaboration, the authors bring their strengths to the story; one author's strength cancels the other author's weakness, and back and forth it goes.

Power was my weakness and my temptation.

In ways and thoughts of weakness and of wrong, Threads turn to cords, and cords to cables strong.

Nothing so sharpens the thought process as writing down one's arguments. Weaknesses overlooked in oral discussion become painfully obvious on the written page.

Ministers who threaten death and destruction employ weapons of weakness. Argument and kindness are alone effectual, flavored by the principles of Divine love.

Ah, beer, my one weakness. My Achille's heel, if you will.

Subjection to fear is weakness, bondage, feverish unrest. To be afraid is to have no soul that we can call our own; it is to be at the beck and call of alien powers, to be chained and driven and tormented; it is to lose the life itself in the anxious care to keep it.

Credulity is perhaps a weakness almost inseparable from eminently truthful characters.

You don't have to explain yourself. Let your weakness be yours. Let your strength be everybody's. You understand the principle?

Ambition is not a weakness unless it be disproportioned to the capacity. To have more ambition than ability is to be at once weak and unhappy.

Weakness is oftentimes so palpable as to be equivalent to wickedness.

All haste implies weakness.

The highest point to which a weak but experienced mind can rise is detecting the weakness of better men.

Vladimir Putin has this animalistic instinct of all dictators: He smells weakness. To quote Winston Churchill's definition of appeasement: "An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."

Utterance does not in principle mean a weakening of conviction--that would not be anything to be deplored--but a weakness of conviction.

Strength and weakness of mind are misnomers; they are really nothing but the good or bad health of our bodily organs.

Weakness is the only fault that is incorrigible.

How strong sometimes is weakness!

You know, the whole philosophy of ad hoc combinations has its strengths and its weaknesses.

Traditional British desserts with lots of custard are my biggest weakness - I particularly love the puds at St. John restaurant in East London.

Weakness indicates dependence, and there is a degree of trust and tenderness also in it.

Finishing a painting demands a heart of steel: everything requires a decision, and I find difficulties where I least expect them... It is at such moments that one fully realizes one's own weaknesses.

But surely Adam cannot be excused; Her fault though great, yet he was most to blame; What weakness offered, strength might have refused, Being lord of all, the greater was the shame.

Strength that goes wrong is even more dangerous than weakness that goes wrong.

Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.