Top 231 Weakened Quotes & Sayings

David Cameron's approach has left Britain weakened and weary because to retreat from the world is as foolish as it is futile.

In my experience, I have found that creativity demands a vigilant mind, which is weakened by the influence of drugs.

When the filter is weakened by a powerful drug, what we see is not delusion but the truth.

My nervous system is very much weakened - nothing but painting in oil can keep me going.

As the representatives of the people we are here to declare that our resolve has not been weakened by these horrific and cowardly acts.

There are always in life countless tendencies for good and for evil, and each succeeding generation sees some of these tendencies strengthened and some weakened; nor is it by any means always, alas! that the tendencies for evil are weakened and those for good strengthened. But during the last few decades there certainly have been some notable changes for good in boy life. The great growth in the love of athletic sports, for instance, while fraught with danger if it becomes one-sided and unhealthy, has beyond all question had an excellent effect in increased manliness.

Strip away the usual hot air, and bin Laden's audiotape is the sign of a seriously weakened man.

A love of tradition has never weakened a nation.

Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth.

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

Strange how it was always the spoiled who weakened and cried first, and it was the injured, the maimed, the blind, and the poor who fought on alone.

The economic crisis has weakened the EU for years.

The soul has neither beginning nor end [They] come into this world strengthened by the victories or weakened by the defeats of their previous lives

A weakened sense of responsibility does not weaken the fact of responsibility.

I am convinced that our movement will be more demoralized and weakened by blind and uncritical admiration than by frank admission of past mistakes.

If you have a high evaluation of yourself then your ability to recognize new facts is weakened.

. . . I know, by sad experience, with what difficulty a mind, weakened by long and uninterrupted suffering, admits hope, much less assurance.

When a man says I cannot, he has made a suggestion to himself. He has weakened his power of accomplishing that which otherwise would have been accomplished.

When any of the four pillars of government-religion, justice, counsel, and treasure-are mainly shaken or weakened, men had need to pray for fair weather.

Multitasking divides your attention and leads to confusion and weakened focus.

Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.

We don't need a weakened government but a strong government that would take responsibility for the rights of the individual and care for the society as a whole.

More are weakened than strengthened by their troubles.

Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.

We have weakened the parties and strengthened all the special interests.

An underpaid man is a customer reduced in purchasing power. He cannot buy. Business depression is caused by weakened purchasing power. Purchasing power is weakened by uncertainty or insufficiency of income. The cure of business depression is through purchasing power, and the source of purchasing power is wages.

When regard for truth has been broken down or even slightly weakened, all things will remain doubtful.

If the United States loses the economic weapons of control, it is very much weakened.

The mind that engages in subjects of too great variety becomes confused and weakened.

A few regular troops from old France, weakened by hunger and sickness, who, when fresh, were unable to withstand the British soldiers, are their general's chief dependence.

We've weakened America's place in the world. It's been a combination of factors, but mostly a lack of leadership.

Our military has been greatly weakened by a lot of bad decisions and other things.

We want our children to live in an America that isn't burdened by debt, that isn't weakened by inequality, that isn't threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet.

What we have to stop and think about is that we have weakened ourselves militarily to such an extent that if affects all of our military policies.

In the United States, if 43 percent of eligible voters do not vote, then democracy is weakened.

It's a fact that people who are in a weakened position, whether physically or mentally, have this perception of the outer world as threatening. Everything that is unexpected or unknown is seen as a potential danger.

The major organizing centers, like the labor movement, have been severely weakened in the United States by policy.

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

But my shift to the serious study of economics gradually weakened my belief in Major Douglas's A+B theorem, which was replaced in my thought by the expression MV = PT.

Nobody should ever mistake and think that our country [USA] is weakened, or that authority is diffuse and unspecified, and that we are vulnerable.

We have weakened our economy in America. We need a strong economy.

When I came in, Haiti was not governed by Haitians anymore. Probably mostly by NGOs. And that has done what to Haiti? It has weakened our institution.

The implementation measures of both Covenants, but especially those of the Covenant concerning civil and political rights, were considerably weakened to the point where they assumed an optional character.

We are weakened and we are tired, but we are not done yet.

Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.

I mean, the Taliban, my view is that they have been weakened.

Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, persists after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.

Very few established institutions, governments and constitutions ...are ever destroyed by their enemies until they have been corrupted and weakened by their friends.

A piece of sculpture can have a hole through it and not be weakened if the hole is of a studied size, shape, and direction.

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

Our consciences are not infallible, and they can become warped or weakened if not kept aligned by the infallible Word of God.

The Syrian rebels, weakened by infighting, have also been victims of the growing rift between the U.S. and its closest Arab allies.

What we have to stop and think about is that we have weakened ourselves militarily to such an extent that it affects all of our military policies.

Ill health is also a blessing. The flesh and the ego are weakened and contemplation of God becomes easier.

We've weakened America's place in the world. It's been a combination of factors, but mostly it's been a lack of leadership.

When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened, not as full of dreams and excitement and ideas. I am then weakened and diminished, and made less rich.

White supremacy will be strengthened, not weakened, by women's suffrage.

In Britain the power of authority was weakened. There was much more individual freedom and there was great academic freedom.

A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.

Knowing too much about other people puts you in their power, they have a claim on you, you are forced to understand their reasons for doing things and then you are weakened.