Quotes About Strength

Yes, the blood thirst rose, but I knew well how to control it. I filled my nostrils with the smell of his youthful flesh.

Let me cry for it. It was all my doing. Because I didn't slay the one who despised me. And they have taken Amadeo prisoner. Me, they burnt because I was too strong for their designs, but Amadeo they took!

He considered us not worthy of his attentions, and look, how he lavished all his strength of a boy. But I must say you are a most beautiful boy.

I had to dream, dream of the old Venetian days when I had been a beauty well known to myself from the tailor's glass, and project that vision right into their minds even if it took all the strength I possessed; yes, that, and I must give them some instructions.

Her lean face, with its well-shaped pale lips, broke into the freshest and most robust smile, as if neglect and pain had never gnawed at her.

He vivido muchas mentiras porque no soporto la debilidad que engendra la ira y no puedo aceptar la irracionalidad del amor.

The thirteenth is simply the strongest, Rowan, the one who can be the doorway for this thing to come through. You are the doorway, Rowan. That is why there were twelve crypts, and not thirteen, in the tomb. The thirteenth is the doorway.

Don't be a pawn in somebody's game," she said. "Find the attitude which gives you the maximum strength and the maximum dignity, no matter what else is going on." "You mean strive to be perfect," he said.

How obdurate and strong he seemed, how seductive; how completely mine.

Life is too strong to be contained. It is never destroyed. Divorced from the flesh, it moves through all matter and form to find flesh again.

There is no weakness in grief. There is no weakness in love.

Chloe took a sip of her coffee. Strong as faith, sweet as love, black as sin.

He was human, he was warm and strong and ready to kill to keep her safe. What more could a girl want in a man?

Come along, my brave one. Your wife and son want to see you.

She came at him sideways, away from his legs, reaching down to pull the duct tape away. He didn't even notice the pain, spitting out the rag someone had put in his mouth earlier. She turned, and handed him a bottle of water. You're probably thirsty. The drug I gave you tends to make your mouth dry. No, I think that was caused by the sock someone stuffed in there, he said. Your work?

Lady Miranda Rohan struck him as someone extremely difficult to crush. Thus, the challenge was immediately appealing.

Wasn't it amazing how resilient people were, how they persisted, how they kept trying to connect!

It was ridiculous of her to feel so wounded.

One sad thing about this world is that the acts that take the most out of you are usually the ones that people will never know about.

But what helped more was to walk down a crowded sidewalk sometimes, or through a busy shopping mall, and reflect that almost everyone there had suffered some terrible loss. Sometimes more than one loss. Many had lost their dearest loves, but look at them: they were managing. They were putting one foot in front of the other. Some were even smiling. It could be done.

he thought now that his mother's staunch sprightliness had been braver than he had appreciated in his youth. (Last summer, laid up for a week with a wrenched back, he had suddenly wondered how Bee had endured the chronic pain of her arthritis all those years. He suspected that had taken a good deal more strength than the brief, flashy acts of valor you see in the movies.)

If she was easily swayed, she thought, at least she had chosen who would sway her. If she was locked in a pattern, at least she had chosen what that pattern would be. She felt strong and free and definite.

Marianne Faithful

If the sore spot is not fatal, if it does not grow and block something, you can use its power for many years, until the heart resorbs it.