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Tag Name "Weakens" (77)

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Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties, and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul.
Joseph Addison
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Too much polishing weakens rather than improves a work.
Pliny the Younger
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While privacy strengthens all our bonds, secrecy weakens and damages connection. Lerner points out that we do not usually know the emotional costs of keeping a secret until the truth is disclosed. Usually, secrecy involves lying. And lying is always the setting for potential betrayal and violation of trust.
Bell Hooks
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One of the things I really love about 3D is that because as we grow older on eye weakens more than the other, 3D becomes more difficult for adults to watch than it is for children who have very balanced eyes often.
Joe Wright
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A lack of restful sleep disrupts the body's innate balance, weakens our immune system, and speeds up the aging process.
Deepak Chopra
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Any excuse for non-performance, no matter how valid, weakens character.
Spencer W. Kimball
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The power of love itself weakens and gradually becomes lost with age, like all the other energies of man.
Anatole France
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Our senses will not admit anything extreme. Too much noise confuses us, too much light dazzles us, too great distance or nearness prevents vision, too great prolixity or brevity weakens an argument, too much pleasure gives pain, too much accordance annoys.
Blaise Pascal
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An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.
Edgar Quinet
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Printing money creates inflation, which weakens an economy. Unfortunately, this kind of common-sense thinking never seems to penetrate academic circles.
Peter Schiff
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Governmental defense of any theology necessarily weakens the legitimacy of both the government and the theology.
Taslima Nasrin
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Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.
Wayne Dyer
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When a court goes too far, it actually weakens our respect for judicial institutions.
Newt Gingrich
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Lower your cortisol level. The happiest people have the lowest level of cortisol, a stress hormone that raises blood pressure and weakens the immune system. Cut the stress-more yoga, less road rage-and you'll cut your cortisol production.
Daniel Gilbert
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Cheating is not the American way. It is small, while we are large. It is cheap, while we are richly endowed. It is destructive, while we are creative. It is doomed to fail, while our gifts and responsibilities call us to achieve. It sabotages trust and weakens the bonds of spirit and humanity, without which we perish.
Terrence McNally
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He who has it in his power to commit sin, is less inclined to do so. The very idea of being able, weakens the desire.
Ovid
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We need to get rid of the growing army of temporary workers now filling the ranks of academy. This is scandalous it weakens both the power of the faculty and exploits these workers.
Henry Giroux
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In skydiving, it is the fear response that gradually weakens. During the precipitous descent, the amply tested parachutist can savor the thrill rather than endure the panic.
Dean Keith Simonton
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I have learned from Nature that dependence on unnatural beliefs weakens us in the struggle and shortens our breath for the race.
Luther Burbank
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Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that 'the buck stops here.' Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership.
Barack Obama
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Lust weakens both body and mind.
Pythagoras
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Luxury, that alluring pest with fair forehead, which, yielding always to the will of the body, throws a deadening influence over the senses, and weakens the limbs more than the drugs of Circe's cup.
Claudius Claudianus
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Every moment of worry weakens the soul for its daily combat.
Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay
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Every instance of obedience, from right motives, strengthens us spiritually, whilst every act of disobedience weakens us.
George Muller
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