Quotes About Strength

There is the humility of being a father to someone so powerful, as if he were only a narrow conduit for another, greater thing. That's how it feels right now, he thinks, kneeling beside her, rinsing her hair: as though his love for his daughter will outstrip the limits of his body. The walls could fall away, even the whole city, and the brightness of that feeling would not wane.

Prosperity depends on ferocity. The only thing that keeps your precious grandmothers in their tea and cookies are the fists at the end of your arms.

We live in exciting times, says the radio. We make no complaints. We will plant our feet firmly in our earth, and no attack will move us.

We are a volley of bullets, we are cannonballs. We are the tip of the sword.

We are a volley of bullets, sing the newest cadets, we are cannonballs. We are the tip of the sword.

Prosperity depends on ferocity. The only things that keep your precious grandmothers in their tea and cookies are the fists at the end of your arms.

The) Gray wagtail...doesn't look like much, does he? Hardly a couple of ounces of feathers and bones. But that bird can fly to Africa and back. Powered by bugs and worms and desire.

but it was also something in Sandy herself, an unwillingness to allow anything more to upset the realm of her understanding.

We are a volley of bullets, we are cannonballs.

Dentro de su pecho late algo enorme, algo lleno deseo, algo que ya no siente temor.

Prosperity depends on ferocity.

Somewhere, someone is figuring out how to push back the hood of grief, but Marie-Laure cannot. Not yet.

We are young, they sing, we are steadfast, we have never compromised, we have so many castles yet to storm.

You will strip away your weakness, your cowardice, your hesitation. You will become like a waterfall, a volley of bullets—you will all surge in the same direction at the same pace toward the same cause. You will forgo comforts; you will live by duty alone. You will eat country and breathe nation.

A warrior, truly engaged, does not experience guilt, fear, or remorse. A warrior, truly engaged, becomes something more than human.

A way for a small thing to destroy a much larger thing.

Why bother to make music when the silence and wind are so much larger? Why light lamps when the darkness will inevitably snuff them? When Russian prisoners are chained by threes and fours to fences while German privates tuck live grenades in their pockets and run?

Hope is the pillar that holds up the world.'

the remedy to every woe is prayer

We shall march onwards, Even if everything crashes down in pieces; For today the nation hears us, And tomorrow the world!

An hour passed and another and then, like a glass of water overfilled - the meniscus inverting, going convex, gravity pulling at the edges, the overflow finally giving way - he could not longer suffer his own cowardice.

There was, she was learning, strength hidden at the center of weakness, ground at the bottom of the deepest pit.

Doesn't look like much, does he?" murmurs Fredrick. "Hardly a couple of ounces of feathers and bones. But that bird can fly to Africa and back. Powered by bugs and worms and desire.

When I lost my sight, Werner, people said I was brave. When my father left, people said I was brave. But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don't you do the same?