Weakness Quotes - Page 28

• [Reviewing the New York City Telephone Directory] But it is the opinion of the present reviewer that the weakness of plot is due to the great number of characters which clutter up the pages. The Russian school is responsible for this.

  Robert Benchley

  Funny, New York, Humorous

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• Progress is not possible without discipline. A nation, institution, family or individual can advance only by heeding the words of those who deserve respect and by obeying the appropriate rules and regulations. Children, obedience is not weakness. Obedience with humility leads to discipline.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Children, Humility, Discipline

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• Where faith is not continually kept in motion and exercised, it weakens and decreases, so that it must indeed vanish; and yet we do not see nor feel this weakness ourselves, except in times of need and temptation, when unbelief rages too strongly; and yet for that very reason faith must have temptations in which it may battle and grow.

  Martin Luther

  Faith, Temptation, Battle

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• Well, as a short-story writer, I don't think there are any weaknesses to the genre itself. I guess I would say that the difficulty of the form is that one must create an entire world in five to 30 pages, as opposed to 300. There is very little room for fat - you must be economical. And you must begin as close to the end as you possibly can.

  ZZ Packer

  Writing, Thinking, Story Writers

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• A good general always makes you search for his weaknesses.

  Woody Hayes

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• To discern what weaknesses and faults separate you from God, you must enter into your own inward ground and then confront yourself.

  Johannes Tauler

  Inward, Faults

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• If a man is devout, we accuse him of hypocrisy; if he is not, of impiety; if he is humble, we look on his humility as a weakness; if he is generous, we call his courage pride.

  Louis Bourdaloue

  Humble, Humility, Pride

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• 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.

  Lionel Blue

  Song, Suffering, Sides

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• What I have absolutely no sympathy with is the legislator, the man who seeks, for his own profit, to exploit the weaknesses of those who are unable to help themselves and then to fasten some moral superscription upon it. This I loathe so much that I cannot conceivably explain how much it is.

  Malcolm Lowry

  Men, Helping, Morality

  Malcolm Lowry (1965). “Selected letters”

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• I started lying about my age when I was 18 to be older. When I turned 21, I started lying that I was 18. It's a weakness in me.

  Rosie Perez

  Lying, Age

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• It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?

  Princess Diana

  Heart, My Heart

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• I do a lot of planning and plotting. That's my greatest weakness. If I'm not terribly careful, I'll plan to a point where it could come out cut and dried.

  Hume Cronyn

  Cutting, Planning, Careful

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• 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. I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

  Charles Handy

  Strong, Business, Men

  Charles Handy (1995). “The Age of Paradox”, p.90, Harvard Business Press

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• Cheese is one of my great weaknesses, I could eat the stuff by the pound.

  Helena Christensen

  Stuff, Pounds, Cheese

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Increasingly, the state system has been eroding. Terrorists have exploited this weakness by burrowing into the state system in order to attack it.

  George P. Shultz

  Order, States, Burrowing

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• You know, larger-than-life politicians have larger-than-life strengths and larger-than-life weaknesses.

  Joe Klein

  Larger Than Life, Politician, Life Strength

  "True colours" by Gaby Wood, www.theguardian.com. August 6, 2006.

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• I love all my characters. I love their weaknesses and flaws. I feel like they're all my best friends and I adore being with them.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Character, My Best Friend, Flaws

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• I think three or four years ago, people would have said my biggest weakness was that sometimes I was awkward on television, with my stammer, but I think they'd say that much less now.

  Ed Balls

  Thinking, Years, People

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• 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.

  Erskine Bowles

  Real, Want, Faculty

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• I don't worry about people misinterpreting my kindness for weakness.

  Jason Bateman

  Kindness, People, Worry

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• When you have to play a character that seems to be a relatively decent person and seems to be like yourself, I think the trick in that kind of character, so that you don't become a cliche, is to find where their weaknesses are.

  Jennifer Beals

  Character, Thinking, Play

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• I also believe that Hurricane Katrina did reveal a weakness in our energy supply systems, highlighting the reliance this country has on the gulf coast for our energy resources.

  Steve Buyer

  Country, Believe, Hurricanes

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• Planning is really the hallmark of any large military formation, and it's typically a weakness in new formations and new armies.

  John R. Allen

  Military, Army, Planning

  "Withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan halfway done, top commander says". www.foxnews.com. July 23, 2012.

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• 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.

  Dennis Cardoza

  Running, Cutting, Iraq

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• The economy has become seriously unbalanced. Its growth has not been driven by investment or by overcoming Britain's long-standing weaknesses in investment and productivity, particularly skills. Instead, there has been a binge of debt-financed consumer spending.

  Vince Cable

  Skills, Long, Growth

  "Full text: Vincent Cable's speech to the Lib Dem conference" by Vincent Cable, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2005.

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