“Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character; it becomes lack of power to act with courage proportionate to danger. All this must lead to the destruction of our intellectual life unless the danger summons up strong personalities able to fill the lukewarm and discouraged with new strength and resolution.” CharacterAbleStrongAttitudeDangerPersonalityIntellectualWeaknessDestructionResolutionDiscouragedLukewarmIntellectual LifeStrong PersonStrong PersonalityWeakness Of Character Author:Albert Einstein
“This other war, the war upon destruction of natural assets is one that will never be finished. Our weakness in this vast war is largely ignorance, that most of our citizens do not realize what is going on under their very feet.” WarRealizingNaturalFeetIgnoranceCitizensWeaknessDestructionFinishedAssets Author:Louis Bromfield
“It is due to neither impotence nor ignorance on God’s part that evils occur in the world, but it is owing to the order of his wisdom and to the greatness of his goodness, whence come the many and divers grades of goodness in things, many of which would be lacking were he to allow no evil to exist. Thus there would be no good of patience without the evil of persecution, nor the good of the preservation of its life in a lion, without the evil of the destruction of the animals on which it lives.” IfsWorldWould BeOrderEvilAnimalGreatnessIgnoranceGoodnessWeaknessDestructionAccountsDuesGradesLionsDiverseLackingPreservationPersecutionPreservation Of Life Author:Thomas Aquinas
“Ministers who threaten death and destruction employ weapons of weakness. Argument and kindness are alone effectual, flavored by the principles of Divine love.” PrinciplesKindnessDivineWeaponsWeaknessArgumentDestructionMinistersDivine Love Author:Hosea Ballou
“The weakness of modern tragedy[is that] transgression against the social code is made to bring destruction, as though the social code worked our irrevocable fate.” MadeLiteratureSocialFateModernWeaknessDestructionTragedyCodeTransgressionIrrevocableModern Tragedy Book:Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays Source: Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays
“I'm sick and tired of people saying that taking drugs is a sickness. When you put something of your own free will in your own body knowing that it's harmful against the body, it's against the law and all it will do is lead you down the path of destruction, that is a weakness.” PeopleBodyLawKnowingPathDrugWeaknessDestructionSickTiredSicknessFree Will Author:Tommy Lasorda
“The suffering of sickness and the suffering of persecution have this in common: they are both intended by Satan for the destruction of our faith, and governed by God for the purifying of our faith... Christ sovereignly accomplishes His loving, purifying purpose, by overruling Satan's destructive attempts. Satan is always aiming to destroy our faith; but Christ magnifies His power in weakness.” PurposeSufferingChristCommonWeaknessDestructionAccomplishSatanSicknessDestructivePersecutionPurifying Author:John Piper
“We will build our defenses beyond challenge, lest weakness invite challenge. We will confront weapons of mass destruction, so that a new century is spared new horrors.” ChallengesCenturyHorrorWeaponsMassWeaknessDestructionDefenseInvitesWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass Destruction Author:George W. Bush
“Bring the absolute power to destroy other nations under the absolute control of all nations. Weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us...No longer is the quest for disarmament a sign of weakness, (nor) the destruction of arms a dream - it is a practical matter of life or death. The risks inherent in disarmament pale in comparison to the risks inherent in an unlimited arms race.” WarMatterDreamNationsRaceRiskArmsWeaponsWeaknessDestructionAbsolutesPracticalsComparisonQuestsPaleInherentUnlimitedAbolishDisarmamentAbsolute PowerArms RaceLife Or Death Author:John F. Kennedy
“I believe until fairly recently our destructions of nature were more or less unwitting -- the by-products, so to speak, of our ignorance or weakness or depravity. It is our present principled and elaborately rationalized rape and plunder of the natural world that is a new thing under the sun.” WorldBelieveSpeakI BelieveNaturalSunIgnoranceProductsWeaknessDestructionNew ThingsNatural WorldDepravityPlunderPrincipledDestruction Of Nature Book:What Matters?: Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth Source: What Matters?: Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth
“I feel a little more tired than usual, ... Ive had to recover from everything, my illnesses and things this summer. Its not perfect circumstances, but Im definitely going to be out there and hopefully have my letdown after the Open ... I think Ill go in mentally a lot better. When it comes down to it I dont think anyone really wants to play me because I have a lot of weapons and not a ton of weaknesses. My main weakness would probably be an occasional self-destruction mode. So Ill try not to touch that red button accidentally.” ThinkingWantFeelsTryingLittlesSelfPlayPerfectCircumstancesSummerWeaponsWeaknessRedDestructionTiredIllIllnessHopefullyUsualButtonsOccasionalNot PerfectSelf DestructionLetdowns Author:Venus Williams
“Liberty without discipline cannot survive. Without order and authority in the spirit of man the free way of life leads through weakness, disorganization, self-indulgence, and moral indifference to the destruction of freedom itself. The tragic ordeal through which the Western world is passing was prepared in the long period of easy liberty during which men forgot the elementary truths of human existence. They forgot that their freedom was achieved by heroic sacrifice.” MenWorldWayLifeLongSelfSpiritOrderEasyLibertyMoralRightsSacrificeDutyPeriodsAuthorityWeaknessDestructionPreparedWesternCleverPassingPassingsPreparationIndifferenceTragicEnlightenedHeroicSensibleCynicalCynicismIndulgenceWestern WorldOrdealsSelf IndulgenceDisorganization Author:Walter Lippmann
“The powerful have invoked God at their side in this war, so that we will accept their power and our weakness as something that has been established by divine plan. But there is no god behind this war other than the god of money, nor any right other than the desire for death and destruction... Today there is a “NO” which shall weaken the powerful and strengthen the weak: the “NO” to war.” Has BeensWarTodayDesireSidesPowerfulBehindsAcceptingPlansDivineWeaknessWeakDestructionThere Is No God Author:Subcomandante Marcos