My vibrato was my weakness. With romantic pieces, I could be a lot more schmaltzy. My wider vibrato fit that.
I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department. And I suppose because I am fairly well off and a famous musician, I’m up for grabs. And that makes me an eligible bachelor in the press.
A great number of the women are victims to falling of the womb and weakness in the spine; but these are necessary results of their laborious existence, and do not belong either to climate or constitution.
Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men’s stupidity, but your talent to their reason.
My weakness as an actor is that I think too much.
Any relationship has its strengths and weakness.
Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor’s trade.
It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.
If churches around the world would grasp the revolutionary truth that Christ’s transforming power always comes through sacrifice and weakness, it would dramatically alter the landscape of the global church.
Impulse decisions can often be our downfall when it comes to sticking to good habits. Do something to buy yourself some time when you’re experiencing those ‘moments’ of weakness, and often, the urge will pass. If you keep the cookies in a box in the basement, you might find it’s not worth the effort to go get them.
God’s grace is at its best in weakness, so we need never fear our weakness. In fact, these weaknesses will determine in what way we shall glorify God for all eternity.
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.
There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.
I always try to see my weakness, work on it, to be better as a person and a player, everything.
People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of.
President Obama and I disagree on policy with Israel. He seems to say… ‘We want peace, but we want to act like Switzerland. We’re going to be a neutral party to everyone.’ I think that’s negotiating from weakness.
Let no one think that flexibility and a predisposition to compromise is a sign of weakness or a sell-out.
I understand now that the vulnerability I’ve always felt is the greatest strength a person can have. You can’t experience life without feeling life. What I’ve learned is that being vulnerable to somebody you love is not a weakness, it’s a strength.
Politicians will be politicians, they will have a weakness at times for not seeing beyond their nose.
I think that our weakness is understanding that when we go to war, we go to war to win.
Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength. That’s success.
My weakness is hitting it straight under pressure.
Desperation, weakness, vulnerability – these things will always be exploited. You need to protect the weak, ring-fence them, with something far stronger than empathy.
I’ve never got into debt and I’ve always been in control of my taxes and VAT, but having four children costs a lot. They are my weakness.
I have this horrible weakness. I fall in love with my characters. ‘Suspect’ started as a one-shot, but I just love Maggie so much, and I love Maggie and Scott and what they have going.
I knew the day I left Newport that if I came back, I’d failed. The fear of losing the game, of having to go home and tell my family, ‘I tried but it didn’t work out,’ has haunted me. It is still there, and it is a strength and a weakness.
I think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that it became too money based and too controlling. It’s just a weakness that we human beings have for control – we want one thing and then we want more and then we want more.
One thing in common between politics and marketing is that your greatest strength can often be your greatest weakness.
There would not be enough talent that’s educated, developed and ready to take on the next leadership challenge, and it would cap our growth. Now we’ve put programs in place not to have that happen, but that could be a weakness.
My weakness is dark chocolate. I carry little tins of it in my purse.
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.
Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.
I have a few vintage furs and have a particular weakness for Mongolian lamb fur – it’s quite ’70s – and I like the volume fur gives.
