#weakness

The dependence of one people upon another, even for the benefits of legislation, is the deepest source of national weakness. ↗

— Thomas Francis Meagher

#benefits #deepest #dependence #even #legislation

I understand why creative people like dark, but American audiences don't like dark. They like story. They do not respond to nervous breakdowns and unhappy episodes that lead nowhere. They like their characters to be a part of the action. They like strength, not weakness, a chance to work out any dilemma. ↗

— Leslie Moonves

#american #american audiences #any #audiences #chance

My weaknesses... I wish I could come up with something. I'd probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they're the same thing. ↗

— Al Pacino

#come #could #i #i wish #maybe

Capitalism has its weaknesses. But it is capitalism that ended the stranglehold of the hereditary aristocracies, raised the standard of living for most of the world and enabled the emancipation of women. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#emancipation #enabled #ended #hereditary #living

Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs. ↗

— Robert Peel

#feeling #folly #newspaper #obstinacy #opinion

My biggest weakness as a endurance athlete has been in not drinking enough water after training, thereby racing sometimes while dehydrated. ↗

— Bill Rodgers

#athlete #been #biggest #drinking #endurance

We grow a little every time we do not take advantage of somebody's weakness. ↗

— Bern Williams

#every #every time #grow #little #somebody

The MC has to be just that, a master in control. They can show no signs of weakness. ↗

— Saul Williams

#just #master #show #signs #weakness

Well, shoes, bags and clutches are usually my big weaknesses - my husband always laughs when I call them 'investment pieces.' ↗

— Emily Giffin

#bags #big #call #clutches #husband

Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view. ↗

— Walter Gilbert

#doing #establishment #into #modes #move