You think that compromise is weakness. It’s not. It’s survival.
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Quotes tagged ‘Weakness’
The appearance of weakness is the greatest advantage.
— Alfred Gough, Miles Millar, The Widow, Emily Beecham, imdb.com
Sharing weakness is a sign of strength.
I do. Yes, I do. Sick have I become, old and weak... When nine hundred years old you reach, look as good you will not, hmm?
To want is to have a weakness.
— Margaret Atwood, Offred (June Osborne), Elisabeth Moss, imdb.com
My greatest weakness? Occasionally, I give a damn.
You don't get it. All you've got to do is nudge humans in the right direction. Some whiskey here, a hooker there, and they'll walk right into Hell with big, fat smiles on their faces. Your kind is corrupt, Dean. Weak. Our will's stronger. That's why we'll win.
— Robert Singer, Jeremy Carver, Casey, Sasha Bareese, imdb.com
You have summoned me in my weakness. You must sustain me by your strength.
The more people you love, the weaker you are. You'll do things for them that you know you shouldn't do. You'll act the fool to make them happy, to keep them safe. Love no one but your children.
— David Benioff, D. B. Weiss, Cersei Lannister, Lena Headey, imdb.com
You're weak, and God would never let you pass on that weakness.
— Margaret Atwood, Bruce Miller, Nina Fiore, Serena Joy Waterford, Yvonne Strahovski, imdb.com
Never mistake a woman's meekness for weakness.
— Margaret Atwood, Wendy Straker, Mrs. Castillo, Zabryna Guevara, imdb.com
People underestimate the power of nostalgia. Nostalgia is truly one of the greatest human weaknesses, second only to the neck.
To receive compassion means I am weak. And I am terrified of being weak.
Each time I look at you I'm limp as a glove And feeling like someone in love
Nobody is strong and nobody is weak if he conceives of the body, from the head to the sole of the foot, as a unity in which a living mind circulates everywhere equally.
I am struck by how sharing our weakness and difficulties is more nourishing to others than sharing our qualities and successes.
At each stage I reach a balance, a conclusion. At the next sitting, if I find that there is a weakness in the whole, I make my way back into the picture by means of the weakness — I re-enter through the breach — and I reconceive the whole. Thus everything becomes fluid again.
You gain power by pretending to be weak. By contrast, you make people feel so strong. You save people by letting them save you.
Sometimes I grow so tired of speaking my emotions to you. I open my mouth and dust spills out instead of feelings.
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the…