We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies – it is the first law of nature. – Voltaire
‘Mrs Funnybones’ is based and structured around my columns, and it’s about how a modern woman looks at India and how India looks right back at her. Since I have a weakness for illustrations, there are also a few funny illustrations in there as well. – Twinkle Khanna
I have also been saddened, though hardly surprised, by the weakness of the EU’s reaction to the criminal attack on the Danish embassy in Syria, which seems to have been permitted, if not actively encouraged, by the Syrian regime. – Timothy Garton Ash
The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness. – Virginia Woolf
Desperation, weakness, vulnerability – these things will always be exploited. You need to protect the weak, ring-fence them, with something far stronger than empathy. – Zadie Smith
Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view. – Walter Gilbert
I want to improve my bunker, fairway and putting status because that’s been my weakness over the last three years. If I can just focus on this, then everything else will come. – Yani Tseng
Christ’s strength is manifest in our weakness, so if we had everything together there would be no need for Him. – Yvette Nicole Brown
We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more. – Sophie Swetchine
Admitting weakness seems to be such a severe psychic threat for Bush that when he makes a mistake it’s safer just to reinforce it. The strategy creates a perverse system of rewards and punishments. – Tina Brown
I also believe that Hurricane Katrina did reveal a weakness in our energy supply systems, highlighting the reliance this country has on the gulf coast for our energy resources. – Steve Buyer
The final cover for ‘Heroes Are My Weakness’ feels exactly right. It reflects the cold, wintry setting of an isolated island off the coast of Maine and the feisty spirit of a heroine who refuses to give up, even when the odds are stacked against her. – Susan Elizabeth Phillips
The dependence of one people upon another, even for the benefits of legislation, is the deepest source of national weakness. – Thomas Francis Meagher