#weak

There is something that falls short of perfection in every book, without exception, something influenced by the age, even something ridiculous; just like everyone, without exception, has weaknesses. ↗

— Josef Skvorecky

#book #even #every #everyone #exception

Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak. ↗

— Madame de Stael

#err #men #selfishness #weak #women

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. ↗

— Charles Stanley

#area #been #before #deal #going

It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#disappeared #earth #ever #face #quarrelsome

Now the thing is not to get into unnecessary quarrels by talking too much and not to indicate any weakness by talking too much; let our actions speak for themselves. ↗

— Henry L. Stimson

#actions speak #any #get #indicate #into

Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

#highest #ideas #moral #music #namely

It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

#always #best #done #matter #people

You work enough with someone and you develop a shorthand. You know how he likes to work through the day and he knows where you're vulnerable and where your weaknesses and strengths are, so it makes for a good team, a team that knows who's over there behind your back. ↗

— David Strathairn

#behind #day #develop #enough #good

People just take your kindness for weakness sometimes, and that's just the bottom line. ↗

— Ruben Studdard

#bottom line #just #kindness #line #people

We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more. ↗

— Madame Swetchine

#fancy #far #more #needs #only