Weakness Quotes - page 22

After all, what was adult life but one moment of weakness piled on top of another? Most people just fell in line like obedient little children, doing exactly what society expected of them at any given moment, all the while pretending that they'd actually made some sort of choice. (Tom Perrotta)
An intimate relationship is one in which neither party silences, sacrifices, or betrays the self and each party expresses strength and vulnerability, weakness and competence in a balanced way. View quote
Harriet Lerner
At some point, if you're changing a really deep-seated behavior, you're going to have a moment of weakness. View quote
Charles Duhigg
The only concept or experience or core belief that I can attribute my other-ness to is that I just started out a weirdo and I stayed a weirdo. And it took me a long time to embrace my outsidership and see it as a strength rather than a weakness. View quote
Aisha Tyler
You're free to dream however you wish,” Nollin teased. "But don't ask the rest of us to share your unrealistic-” "Then don't ask us to share your weakness!” Jason interrupted. View quote
Brandon Mull
I think that the way that Ahmadinejad is talking now shows quite clearly his contempt for the Western world in general and the United States in particular. They feel they are dealing with, as Osama bin Laden put it, an effete, degenerate, pampered enemy incapable of real resistance. And they are proceeding on that assumption. Remember that they have no understanding or experience of the free debate of an open society. Where we see free debate and criticism, they see fear, weakness and division; they proceed accordingly, and every day brings new evidence of that from Iran. View quote
Bernard Lewis
I felt the weakness of these books, their immateriality, how they had failed to change the world, and I didn't want to sully myself with their weakness anymore. View quote
Gary Shteyngart
When you go looking for rescue, you end up trapped in your own weakness. View quote
Deb Caletti
Because there's no bouncing, jarring, or stress to your body, Pilates offers the ideal form of exercise for people who, because of joint pain or muscle weakness, shy away from exercise. View quote
Denise Austin
Fear of change was a weakness. View quote
J.R. Ward
John Matthew was her well of soul, as the symphaths called it,or her pyrocant, to the vampires. Her essential weakness. (J.R. Ward)
All we have is the story we tell. Everything we do, every decision we make, our strength, weakness, motivation, history, and character-what we believe-none of it is real; it's all part of the story we tell. But here's the thing: it's our goddamned story! View quote
Jess Walter
Guilt and rage, hatred and fear were pathways to weakness and clumsy choices. View quote
Jonathan Maberry
Traditional British desserts with lots of custard are my biggest weakness - I particularly love the puds at St. John restaurant in East London. View quote
Eva Green
We need to deal with the economy and the moral weakness of the country. View quote
Emmanuel Macron
His weakness was his belief that evil had boundaries. View quote
Erik Larson
In both cases, weakness and scruples had defeated strength and ruthlessness. View quote
Ken Follett
I think in a moment of weakness, you might surprise yourself. View quote
Lisa Kleypas
If your concern is that I may be overcome with manly ardor and ravish you in a moment of weakness... I may. If you ask nicely. View quote
Lisa Kleypas
He had found my worst weakness: I was one of those people who was desperate to be needed, to matter to someone. View quote
Lisa Kleypas
Caution is an important quality in a leader, but it has to be caution followed by decision. Caution followed by ambivalence can be a weakness. (Leon Panetta)
The one thing that I remember from all of my intelligence briefings and my dealings with the Russians is that when you deal with the Russians, you have to deal with them from strength, not from weakness. View quote
Leon Panetta
So it is the fear, weakness, selfishness, and cowardice of onlookers that permit evil behavior to persist. View quote
Laura Schlessinger
I've been treating you with courtesy and respect because that's the way I choose to treat everyone. But never, ever mistake kindness with weakness. View quote
Louise Penny
Some of us are born with a weakness for music. As a baby, music would stop whatever thought I was having. If I was worried, it would stop me worrying; if I was crying, it would stop me crying. Music was a healing thing for me. View quote
Andrea Bocelli