Best Weakening Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“When you're happy, your immune system is at its strongest point. And when you think negatively, or when you hate, or allow yourself to grow emotionally out of control, you are weakening your immune system.”

Thinking Hate Grows Health Buddhism Strongest Immune Athletics Immune System Weakening

Author:Frederick Lenz

“What's troubling is that the Republicans to defend Mr. DeLay are weakening the ethics process.”

Process Republican Ethics Delay Weakening

Author:Barney Frank

“Real art, like the wife of an affectionate husband, needs no ornaments. But counterfeit art, like a prostitute, must always be decked out. The cause of production of real art is the artist's inner need to express a feeling that has accumulated...The cause of counterfeit art, as of prostitution, is gain. The consequence of true art is the introduction of a new feeling into the intercourse of life... The consequences of counterfeit art are the perversion of man, pleasure which never satisfies, and the weakening of man's spiritual strength.”

“In an economy that already has lost some momentum, one must remain alert to the possibility that greater caution and weakening asset values in financial markets could signal or precipitate an excessive softening in household and business spending.”

Values Lost Economy Greater Possibility Financial Spending Assets Household Signals Caution Momentum Weakening Financial Markets

Author:Alan Greenspan

“Disarmament should be conducive to the enhancement of every country's general security instead of becoming the instrument and means for a few countries to strengthen their military superiority by weakening or restricting other countries.”

Should Mean Country Security Military Becoming Instruments Other Countries Superiority Disarmament Weakening Enhancement

Author:Sha Zukang

“After long centuries, agrarian civilization is weakening. Is sufficient attention being devoted to the arrangement and improvement of the life of the country people, whose inferior and at times miserable economic situation provokes the flight to the unhappy crowded conditions of the city outskirts, where neither employment nor housing awaits them?”

“As long as we are focusing on the breath we do not feed our mental, emotional, and physical patterns. By returning to the breath again and again we start to dissolve their power. We develop a space between experience and our identification with it, thereby weakening the process that creates habits in the first place.”

Firsts Long Process Space Emotional Habit Breaths Patterns Again And Again Identification Space Between Weakening

Author:Martine Batchelor

“You cannot further the Brotherhood of Man by encouraging class hatred.”

Men Class Hatred Brotherhood Rich And Poor Thrift Class Warfare Weakening Help The Poor Brotherhood Of Man

Author:Paul Getty

“There are signs, these days, that the cultural hegemony of postmodernism is weakening in the West. When even the developers tell an architect like Moshe Safdie that they are tired of it, then can philosophical thinking be far behind?”

Thinking Behinds Philosophical Tired West These Days Architect Postmodernism Developers Weakening Hegemony Philosophical Thinking

Author:David Harvey

“This [Magna Carta] has been forced from the King. It constitutes an insult to the Holy See, a serious weakening of the royal power, a disgrace to the English nation, a danger to all Christendom, since this civil war obstructs the crusade. Therefore?we condemn the charter and forbid the King to keep it, or the barons and their supporters to make him do so, on pain of excommunication.”

Has Beens War Pain Nations Danger Serious Kings Holy Civil War Insult Supporter Royal Disgrace Crusades Charter Weakening Christendom Magna Carta Excommunication

Author:Pope Innocent III

“Governments and politicians use the family as an indicator of the health and strength of social life. Politicians fear that any weakening of family life will in some way sap the vitality of national life.... The family is also important to businessmen. It is one of the major purchasing groups of our consumer society.”

Way Important Use Government Social Groups Politician Majors Consumers Businessman Vitality Family Life Social Life Sap Indicators Weakening Purchasing Health And Strength

Author:Adrian Wilson

“You know, we have moments of passion when we are in pain. And then of course the moment ends, and with it the passion and the pain, and we forgive and forget. But I think that every time you hurt somebody that you care for, a crack appears in your relationship, a little weakening - and it stays there, dangerous, waiting for the next opportunity to open up and destroy everything.”

Thinking Knows Littles Ends Moments Care Pain Passion Courses Next Opportunity Waiting Hurt Forget Dangerous Forgiving Cracks Our Relationship Weakening Forgive And Forget

Author:Edith Hahn Beer

“Ethical teaching is weakened if it is tied up with dogmas that will not bear examination.”

Ifs Atheism Teaching Bears Ethics Weakness Weak Positive Atheism Ethical Tied Dogma Examination Inventor Examining Weakening Tied Up

Author:Margaret E. Knight

“A bed or a chair will trick you if you stay still on them long at a time. They will draw out your strength and leave you weak as water.”

Ifs Long Stills Time Water Strength Bed Draws Weakness Weak Tricks Lazy Chairs Laziness Idleness Weakening Weak Minds

Author:Julia Peterkin

“All along the line, physically, mentally, morally, alcohol is a weakening and deadening force.”

Force Lines Drinking Alcohol Weakening

Author:Beatrice Webb

“Socialism is simply a re-assertion of that tribal ethics whose gradual weakening had made an approach to the Great Society possible.”

Made Approach Ethics Socialism Assertion Weakening Great Society

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“Lack of opportunity breeds dreams of escape. But professionals and managers who have invested in their careers do not leave the work force as frequently as discouraged workers in lower status occupations. Instead, they keep working, but they escape emotionally by defining achievement in professional, not company, terms. ... Thus, the potential for being stuck as career uncertainty grows takes its toll in weakening attachment to any particular employer.”

Source: Men and Women of the Corporation: New Edition

“The time the moon is going back, the blood that is in a person does be weakening, but when the moon is strong, the blood that moves strong in the same way. And it to be at the full, it drags the wits along with it, the same as it drags the tide.”

Way Persons Doe Moving Strong Blood Moon Wit Tides Drag Weakening

Book:New Irish Comedies

Source: New Irish Comedies

“[On Brazil:] In our country everything is weakening. The money is weak. Democracy is weak and the politicians are very weak. Everything that is weak dies one day.”

Country Dies Democracy Politician One Day Weak Our Country Brazil Weakening

Author:Carolina Maria de Jesus

“Ritual is a terribly important, binding cement in a society. If we abandon formality and rituals, we're actually weakening the relationships that exist between people that bind.”

People Ifs Important Abandon Ritual Binding Cement Weakening Formality

Author:Alexander McCall Smith

“Epidemiologists study patterns in order to combat infection. Stories about epidemics follow patterns, too. Stories arent often deadly, but they can be virulent: spreading fast, weakening resistance, wreaking havoc.”

Stories Order Study Patterns Resistance Combat Epidemics Infection Weakening Havoc

Author:Jill Lepore

“We believe that there is one economic lesson which our twentieth century experience has demonstrated conclusively-that America can no more survive and grow without big business than it can survive and grow without small business.... the two are interdependent. You cannot strengthen one by weakening the other, and you cannot add to the stature of a dwarf by cutting off the legs of a giant.”

“At last a vision has been vouchsafed to us of our life as a whole. We see the bad with the good.... With this vision we approach new affairs. Our duty is to cleanse, to reconsider, to restore, to correct the evil without impairing the good, to purify and humanize every process of our common life, without weakening or sentimentalizing it.”

Has Beens Whole Lasts Evil Process Common Vision Our Lives Duty Approach Affair Weakening Common Life

Author:Woodrow Wilson

“Utterance does not in principle mean a weakening of conviction--that would not be anything to be deplored--but a weakness of conviction.”

Mean Doe Principles Weakness Conviction Utterance Weakening

Book:The Blue Octavo Notebooks

Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks

“Without claiming superiority of intellectual over visual understanding, one is nevertheless bound to admit that the cinema allowsa number of æsthetic-intellectual means of perception to remain unexercised which cannot but lead to a weakening of judgment.”

Mean Understanding Numbers Judgment Perception Intellectual Bounds Cinema Visuals Nevertheless Superiority Weakening

Author:Johan Huizinga

“The NSA was actually concerned back in the time of the crypto-wars with improving American security. Nowadays, we see that their priority is weakening our security, just so they have a better chance of keeping an eye on us.”

War Eye Chance Security Concerned Priorities Improving Nsa Weakening

Author:Edward Snowden

“Recognition for a job well done is high on the list of motivating influences for all people; more important in many instances than compensation itself. When someone is promoted, a promotion that everyone could see coming because of an excellent record, the entire department is stimulated. For it is clear, then, that promotions are based on merit. A promotion that seems to come out of the blue, which is always the case when no one knows what the next fellow is doing, causes nothing but resentment and a further weakening of the will to work.”

“While ants exist in just the right numbers for the rest of the living world, humans have become too numerous. If we were to vanish today, the land environment would return to the fertile balance that existed before the human population explosion. Only a dozen or so species, among which are the crab louse and a mite that lives in the oil glands of our foreheads, depend on us entirely. But if ants were to disappear, tens of thousands of other plants and animal species would perish also, simplifying and weakening land ecosystems almost everywhere.”

“Lust is a monstrous sin which altereth, marreth, and drieth the body, weakening all the joints and members, making the face bubbled and yellow, shortening life, diminishing memory, understanding, and the very heart.”

Heart Body Faces Understanding Memories Sin Members Lust Yellow Joints Monstrous Weakening

Author:Claude C. Hopkins

“I feel my body weakening but my spirit is fine, ready to go to war with devils at the drop of a dime”

Feels War Body Spirit Ready Fine Devil Technique Dimes Weakening

Author:Immortal Technique

“New technologies will always demand and deserve careful navigation and difficult readjustments. But the weakening or de facto abolition of copyright will not merely roil the seas, it will drain them dry. Those who would pirate what you produce have developed an elaborate sophistry to convince you that they are your victim. They aren't. Fight back.”

Fighting Difficult Technology Sea Produce Demand Deserve Victim Careful Dry Convince Pirate Drains New Technology Abolition Copyright Weakening Navigation Sophistry

Author:Mark Helprin

“We need an adequate defense, but every arms dollar we spend above adequacy has a long-term weakening effect upon the nation and its security.”

Needs Long War Nations Term Effects Security Arms Dollars Defense Long Term Adequate Weakening Adequacy

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“All the electronic devices are weakening the social bonds. Sociologists and psychologists should study this serious threat instead of repeating that communication is the cement of society.”

Should Social Study Serious Communication Threat Devices Psychologist Cement Weakening Sociologists Electronic Devices Social Bonds

Author:Mario Bunge

“I love my nation, I cannot see you degraded, weakened any more than you are now. Therefore I am bound for your sake and for truth's to cry, "Hold!" and to raise my voice against this degradation of my race. Give up these weakening mysticism and be strong.”

Giving Motivational Strong Nations Voice Race Cry Giving Up Raises Bounds Sake Mysticism Degradation Weakening

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“We cannot weaken or destroy political parties in ther United States without weakening or destroying the rule of the people.... Those who support party organization and submit to party discipline are supporting the only course yet discovered for orderly government by the people.”

People States Government Political Courses United Party United States Support Discipline Organization Destroying Submit Political Parties Orderly Weakening

Author:Calvin Coolidge

“No country or continent can open its borders to all comers without fundamentally weakening itself and this is the risk that the countries of Europe run through misguided altruism.”

Country Running Risk Europe Borders Continents Altruism Misguided Weakening

Author:Tony Abbott

“If your character is not strengthening, your future is weakening.”

Ifs Character Our Future Your Future Strengthening Weakening

Author:Craig Groeschel

“Sanctification has a double aspect. Its positive side is vivification, the growing and maturing of the new man; its negative side is mortification, the weakening and killing of the old man.”

Men Sides Growing Negative Aspect Killing Mature Old Man Sanctification Weakening Mortification

Author:J. I. Packer

“But the very act of pausing in a busy day to pray is an act of weakening pride in my life, acknowledging that I am a dependent creature. I am not self sufficient.”

Self Pride Praying Creatures Busy Sufficient Dependent Self Sufficient Weakening Pausing Busy Day

Author:C. J. Mahaney

“The five C's of expanding your capacity. 1. Build your confidence. 2. Expand your connections. 3. Improve your competence. 4. Strengthen your character. If character is not strengthening your capacity is weakening. We need to check our leadership for leaks. 5. Increase your commitment.”

Ifs Needs Character Five Commitment Capacity Connections Increase Checks Expanding Competence Strengthening Leaks Weakening

Author:Sheila Heen

“We see that there are two worms that eat the fabric of the Church, weakening Her. Rivalry and vainglory go against this harmony, this agreement.”

Two Church Harmony Agreement Fabric Worms Rivalry Weakening

Author:Pope Francis

“A Russian should rejoice if Poland, the Baltic Provinces, Finland, Armenia, should be separated, freed from Russia; so with an Englishman in regard to Ireland, India and other possessions; and each should help to do this, because the greater the state, the more wrong and cruel is its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded. Therefore, if we really wish to be what we profess to be, we must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening, and help this forward with all our might.”

Source: Leo Tolstoy: Letters and Papers

“Listen Jesus to the warning I give. Please remember that I want us to live. But it's sad to see our chances weakening with every hour. All your followers are blind, too much heaven on their minds. It was beautiful, but now it's sour. Yes, it's all gone sour.”

Want Giving Mind Beautiful Remember Jesus Heaven Hours Chance Gone Too Much Please Blind Followers Warning Want U Sour Weakening

Author:Tim Rice

“As boom- and bust-prone as high finance always has been and remains, the greatest systemic risk to our economy is not Wall Street. It's the growing federal debt (and weakening dollar) being enacted by those Washington politicians - the ones who want to protect us from Wall Street.”

Want Has Beens Economy Growing Risk Streets Wall Politician Protect Remains Dollars Debt Finance Weakening

Author:Tony Blankley

“The most incredible thing is that so much happens outside of the will. You can't will anything. Not even solitude is an act of will. You simply endure it. You must hold on until the very end, without weakening. You can do nothing else. But you must not believe that because you accept being nothing, you are anyone special.”

Believe Ends Happens Can Do Accepting Special Solitude Endure Incredibles Weakening

Author:Bram van Velde

“There is also a concern that there is a lack of demand of oil. And so when commodity prices fall, it's good if you happen to be a consumer, but it's sometimes seen as symptom of a weakening economy.”

Ifs Sometimes Happens Fall Economy Demand Concern Oil Consumers Commodity Symptoms Weakening Commodity Prices

Author:David Wessel

“The brain likes to be efficient and so even as its strengthening the pathways you're exercising, it's pulling - it's weakening the connections in other ways between the cells that supported old ways of thinking or working or behaving, or whatever that you're not exercising so much.”

Thinking Way Brain Exercise Connections Likes Cells Efficient Pulling Way Of Thinking Pathways Strengthening Weakening Old Ways

Author:Nicholas G. Carr

“Senator Obama's support among hardworking Americans - white Americans - is weakening.”

White Support Senators Hardworking Weakening

Author:Hillary Clinton

“Separation of church and state in Virginia, instead of weakening Christianity, as the conservatives of the Revolution had feared, really aided it in securing a power over men far greater than it had known in the past.”

Men States Past Church Known Christianity Greater Atheism Revolution Positive Atheism Separation Church And State Virginia Separation Of Church And State Weakening

Author:H. J Eckenrode

“It [the internet] probably has the effect of weakening personal associations.”

Effects Internet Association Weakening

Author:Noam Chomsky

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