One of the important things about temptation is, if I’m going to deal with it I’m going to have to recognize, this is an area of weakness in my life. I have been tempted here before and before and before.
But the weakness comes from these Westernised co-opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in the eyes of the West and Western media.
We live in a world where to admit anything negative about yourself is seen as a weakness, when it’s actually a strength. It’s not a weak move to say, ‘I need help.’ In the long run, it’s way better, because you have to fix it.
We’re trained from a very young age not to show weakness. And I was very good at that throughout my career.
It’s not a weakness to admit that you’re wrong.
According to the Stoics, all vice was resolvable into folly: according to the Christian principle, it is all the effect of weakness.
When it comes to Iran, we must not accept Obama’s inconsistencies and weakness.
Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
If I have a weakness, it’s for timepieces – if I see one I like and can afford it, I’ll buy it.
We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies – it is the first law of nature.
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.
As for my looks, if I didn’t look the way I do, I would probably be one of those many faces doing a romcom, which I detest. The way I look has somewhere defined the characters I played. My weakness has become my strength.
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.
Credulity is the man’s weakness, but the child’s strength.
I was too kind of brave and proud to want a dialect coach because I thought that showed weakness in my armor. But then you just learn it’s a more efficient way of doing it. A dialect coach is really important because it takes a certain technical responsibility off your shoulders.
This claustrophobia was the only weakness I had. It’s not my fault. It’s just in my mind.
With Masvidal, I dropped him and it’s the first time I’d ever dropped anyone in my life. I kind of started to turn the corner after that, and it was just a realization that if my hands were a weakness, it was only because I didn’t believe in them. I had the talent to do it.
Prayer is a confession of one’s own unworthiness and weakness.
We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss.
In Arab capitals, the failure of the United States to stop Iran’s nuclear program is understood as American weakness in the struggle for dominance in the Middle East, making additional cooperation from Arab leaders on Israeli-Palestinian issues even less likely.
I’m a decent cook, and I will try to cook anything. My only weakness is that I don’t know servings – I only know how to make a lot.
The simple fact is that Donald is fundamentally incapable of acknowledging the suffering of others. Telling the stories of those we’ve lost would bore him. Acknowledging the victims of COVID-19 would be to associate himself with their weakness, a trait his father taught him to despise.
I have to admit that I have a massive weakness for Italian food, which is not very light but so good!
It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.
What I liked of Mourinho is his work ethic and the way he organizes his team against the opponent. He knows the strength and weakness of the opponent, and he will give the details for what he wants. And for me, that was impressive.
Haiti is always talking about decentralization and nothing has been so obvious, perhaps a weakness, as the centralized nature of Haitian society as being revealed by the earthquake. I mean, they lost all these medical training programs because they didn’t have them anywhere else.
This is Romney’s biggest political weakness. His policy flip-flops and the general sense that he’s not comfortable in his own skin leads voters, including many supporters, wondering about his core values.
Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
Call it weakness if you will, but even the toughest individuals need assistance getting back on track.
Forgiveness is hard for me, man. It is for most American-Western males. It’s a sign of weakness.
I have ever been the queerest mixture of weakness and strength, and have paid heavily for the weakness.
When you go looking for rescue, you end up trapped in your own weakness.
To be loved is a strength. To love is a weakness.
The fact that societies are becoming increasingly multi-ethnic, multicultural, and multi-religious is good. Diversity is a strength, not a weakness.
I’m very domestic; I love cleaning. I love cooking. I like waiting on people. I just like to make things. I don’t break that down to be weakness, or the only things women can do, or putting me back 20 years.
A shinobi embodies an archetype that is able to use everything at their disposal. They don’t pick a fighting style; they use every means and everything they can get their hands on. They exploit every weakness.
Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
Indian cricket fans are manic-depressive in their treatment of their favorite teams. They elevate players to god-like status when their team performs well, ignoring obvious weaknesses; but when it loses, as any team must, the fall is equally steep, and every weakness is dissected.
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.
To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.
It takes strength to be kind; it’s not a weakness.
I don’t want to build any image for myself. I don’t want people to say, ‘He does only a certain type of role.’ I don’t want only to be the hero of the story. An actor’s weakness is the different roles that he can’t do. But I am keen to grab only those roles as I am here to challenge myself.
Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.
It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.
‘Mrs Funnybones’ is based and structured around my columns, and it’s about how a modern woman looks at India and how India looks right back at her. Since I have a weakness for illustrations, there are also a few funny illustrations in there as well.
People are realising that vulnerability isn’t a weakness, and the rise of mental health-related humour is making vulnerability feel like a strength.
King v. Burwell pointed at but did not directly challenge the ACA’s most essential weakness: Government-mandated participation in health insurance exchanges as a precondition to receiving a subsidy is not the best or most effective means of achieving its goal of expanded access to health coverage.
Terrorists remain determined to find a weakness in our defence… To stay ahead of the terrorists, I call on the international community, the private sector, and academia to share knowledge, expertise, and resources to prevent new technologies becoming lethal terrorist weapons.
To have any doubt in your body is the biggest weakness an athlete can have. There are times when I physically can’t get myself to go for a skill because I’m thinking, ‘My knee hurts really bad.’
The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I’m willing to show you. In you, it’s courage and daring. In me, it’s weakness.
My weakness is chocolate – especially butterscotch and nut varieties.
President Obama’s biggest weakness is weakness.
We often refer to loneliness as something negative. And we look at it as a weakness.
We’re raised to believe that asking for help – that not having all the answers – is a sign of weakness, somehow challenging our manhood.
Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.
Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.
Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.
I have a constitutional weakness in which I am very easily distracted by flashing lights. If there is a TV on in the room, I can’t have a conversation with you. I won’t eat, I won’t sleep, I’ll just meld with my couch.
You are right, but the weakness does not come from the millions of Muslims in the world. They do not mind being radical, they have no fear to speak out and to protest and to jihad.
