The fact that people in Hollywood are open to what I teach is not because they're more desperate than anyone else, but because they're more touched by it. That's not their weakness. It's their strength!
For Mr. Putin, vacillation invites aggression. His world is a brutish, cynical place, where power is worshiped, weakness is despised, and all rivalries are zero-sum.
Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.
As much as I value an union of all the states, I would not admit the southern states into the union, unless they agreed to the discontinuance of this disgraceful trade, because it would bring weakness and not strength to the union.
Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.
To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.
Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.
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.
Behold how Christ is the foundation of the church and the apostles are the foundations! Christ is by a figure of speech - antonomastice - the foundation because the edifice of the church begins from him and is finished in him and through him. But the prophets and apostles are the foundations because their authority bears up our weakness.
For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.
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.
I grew up in an environment where being polite was taken as a weakness. So I just fought everybody.
We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.
I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.
It's important for me to exalt my players in their strengths and to try and cover their weakness, no?
We all can relate to people's weaknesses. We might put up a facade that everything is perfect but none of us are. When we see that weakness in somebody else, we understand or give ourselves a little bit of leeway.
Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation.
I want to improve my bunker, fairway and putting status because that's been my weakness over the last three years. If I can just focus on this, then everything else will come.
The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.