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Quotes About Strong

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A flower's appeal is in its contradictions — so delicate in form yet strong in fragrance, so small in size yet big in beauty, so short in life yet long on effect.
~ Terri Guillemets
The thing that impressed me then as now about New York… was the sharp, and at the same time immense, contrast it showed between the dull and the shrewd, the strong and the weak, the rich and the poor, the wise and the ignorant… the strong, or those who ultimately dominated, were so very strong, and the weak so very, very weak - and so very, very many.
~ Theodore Dreiser
Love is swift, sincere, pious, pleasant, gentle, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, manly and never seeking her own; for wheresoever a man seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.
~ Thomas a Kempis
Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.
~ Thomas a Kempis
The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
~ Thomas Carlyle
I've always made it clear that I do not believe that global government is either necessary or feasible.
~ Maurice Strong
I think I am aggressive, I think I am critical when it's necessary.
~ Jane Harman
Even when I was calling myself the Microphones I only really ever played new songs... because I feel, like, a pretty strong connection to the song when I'm performing it.
~ Phil Elverum
I don't feel like I have to be the nice girl.
~ Cher Lloyd
poetry is motion graceful as a fawn gentle as a teardrop strong like the eye finding peace in a crowded room
~ Nikki Giovanni
AÈ™a cum îmi ap?rea acest peisaj cretan, aveam impresia c? seam?n? cu o proz? bun?: bine lucrat?, schiÈ›at? în puÈ›ine vorbe, f?r? înflorituri inutile, puternic? È™i reÈ›inut?.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
Popular fiction's a strong and viable force in literature. That's why it's popular.
~ Nora Roberts
Hugh thought the women were as graceful as ballerinas, as strong as lumberjacks, as focused as scientists.
~ Nora Roberts
Me produce un gran placer estar sola […] elimino el dolor que me produce la gente. Quizás sea el placer más fuerte que conozco.
~ Virginia Woolf
noteworthy feature of the NT references to the Spirit is the strong connection with Jesus.
~ Larry W. Hurtado
lost its way in the strong current while ferrying conspiratorial messages between the rebel ships
~ Laurence Bergreen
It makes everyone nervous, smelling," he says re the vial, "because smell is such a strong sense.
~ Chandler Burr
Home is a name, but a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to...
~ Charkes Dickens
Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.
~ Charles Dickens
King Richard, who was a strong, restless, burly man, with one idea always in his head, and that the very troublesome idea of breaking the heads of other men, was mightily impatient to go on a Crusade to the Holy Land, with a great army.
~ Charles Dickens
I said I could not deny that this was a strong point. I said it (people often do so, in such cases) like a rather reluctant concession to truth and justice; - as if I wanted to deny it!
~ Charles Dickens
March, when days are getting long, Let thy growing hours be strong To set right some wintry wrong.
~ Caroline May, 1887
The purpose of the bayonet training, Sergeant Gerheim explains, is to awaken our killer instincts. The killer instinct will make us fearless and aggressive, like animals. If the meek ever inherit the earth the strong will take it away from them. The weak exist to be devoured by the strong. Every Marine must pack his own gear. Every Marine must be the instrument of his own salvation. It's hard, but there it is.
~ Gustav Hasford