Top 141 Weakening Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated on November 17, 2024.
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.
One problem with relying on existing concepts is that it could stifle innovation, weakening the film sector over time.
Israel is our greatest ally in the Middle East. And it's a relationship we should be strengthening, not weakening.
You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
Next to the wicked lives of men, nothing is so great a disparagement and weakening to religion as the divisions of Christians.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
Chopin's rubato possessed an unshakeable emotional logic. It always justified itself by a strengthening or weakening melodic line, by exaggeration or affectation.
People talk about the brain weakening as it ages. Mine feels stronger.
Let positive, strong, helpful thoughts enter into your brains from very childhood. Lay yourselves open to these thoughts, and not to weakening and paralysing ones.
One individual who lives and vibrates to the energy of pure love and reverence for all of life will counterbalance the negativity of 750,000 individuals who calibrate at the lower weakening levels.
Senator Obama's support among hardworking Americans - white Americans - is weakening.
All along the line, physically, mentally, morally, alcohol is a weakening and deadening force.
You cannot strengthen one by weakening another; and you cannot add to the stature of a dwarf by cutting off the leg of a giant.
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.
Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them.
The U.S. embargo imposed on Nicaragua, rather than weakening the Sandinistas, actually maintained them in power.
He that has his trust set upon God does not need to dread anything except the weakening or the paralyzing of that trust.
If your character is not strengthening, your future is weakening.
Russian President Vladimir Putin's traditionalist-nationalist rhetoric, which blames secularism, diversity and internationalism for the weakening of Western democracies, gives voice to the grievances that American hate groups have felt for so long.
No man ever yet thought whether he was preaching well without weakening his sermon.
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.
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.
Wherever you have weakening states and turmoil, you will have a fertile petri dish for terrorism.
This weakening is worsened by the widening distance between the governed and their governments.
Why cannot we correct the baneful passions, without weakening the good?
It [the internet] probably has the effect of weakening personal associations.
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.
Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.
Weakening the federal structure essentially hampers our unity in diversity, India's biggest strength.
We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.
I feel my body weakening but my spirit is fine, ready to go to war with devils at the drop of a dime
The True Person governs by emptying the heart of desire and filling the belly with food, weakening ambitions and strengthening bones.
It is never smart, even in a strong democracy, to declare some debate off limits. In a weakening democracy it is catastrophic.
Jobs have become more precarious and staff turnover has increased while union membership has plummeted, weakening workplace solidarity.
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.
For when I came into the silent assemblies of God's people I felt a secret power among them which touched my heart; and as I gave way unto it I found the evil weakening in me and the good raised up
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.
Utterance does not in principle mean a weakening of conviction--that would not be anything to be deplored--but a weakness of conviction.
This means that the search for a formula of European cooperation in connection with the League of Nations, far from weakening the authority of this latter must and can only tend to strengthen it, for it is closely connected with its aims.
I don't think it's at all weakening of the system if people with the same last name put themselves forward to the electorate, when their experiences, their character, and in my case, gender, may be different.
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.
Maintain that motivation to go from A to B and to keep your focus on that target without any weakening. That is called tenacity; stamina in your motivation.
Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.
I have a saddened and weakening attitude toward the media and press.
I don't want to see a weakening of guns laws or the relaxation of vaccinations.
What's troubling is that the Republicans to defend Mr. DeLay are weakening the ethics process.
Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy.
Contrary to common assumption, many of the wealthiest Americans aren't worried about the weakening economy at all. They are actually excited about it.
I think humor is a very serious thing. I use it as a way of weakening the reader's defenses so that I can more easily take him to something more.
Let's just keep asking ourselves this question: 'Is what I'm about to do strengthening the web of connections, or is it weakening it?'
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?
The world is constantly in a race to the top, in terms of there's a limited amount of capital and you've got to figure where it's going. And if your currency is weakening, that means you're paying a load.
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.
Socialism is simply a re-assertion of that tribal ethics whose gradual weakening had made an approach to the Great Society possible.
If poverty and underdevelopment are primarily consequences of poor institutions, then by weakening those institutions or stunting their development, large aid flows do exactly the opposite of what they are intended to do.
Nothing is so weakening as regret.
Halloween will be a slam-dunk for merchants despite the weakening consumer spending trends.
If Australia finds it has a strong Australian dollar, and it has higher unemployment, then it would have to respond, and that would either be by increasing domestic demand or by weakening its own currency.
Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.
Privatization radically alters power relations in our society by weakening groups like public employees and public school teachers.
