Quotes About Strength

Babylon endured century after century because it was fully protected. It could not afford to be otherwise.

It is just as strong today as it ever was

The walls of Babylon were an outstanding example of man's need and desire for protection.

How can you call yourself a free man when your weakness has brought you to this?

in spite of his misfortune?

There are limits to my time. There are limits to my strength.

I thrilled with the great resolve.

When mental [illness] increases until it reaches the danger point, do not exhaust yourself by efforts to trace back to original causes. Better accept them as inevitable and save your strength to fight against the effects.

Nunca me ha ocurrido; no sé llorar. En cuanto las lágrimas acuden a mis ojos, los sollozos anudan mi garganta, me ahogo, mi respiración se mezcla con gritos y gemidos; y, como aborrezco dar espectáculos de dolor, he pensado en quedarme muerta; y así he de morir probablemente algún día, si alguna desgracia me sorprende estando sola.

Some blows fall too heavy upon those too fragile.

A bad thing happened to you kids, Dad said. But it could have been worse. So much worse, Mom said. But because of you kids, Dad said, it wasn't. You did so good, Mom said. Did beautiful, Dad said.

Our country is big, let us be big.

So say you are charged with, you and some of your colleagues, lifting a heavy dead whale carcass onto a flatbed.

But all that power has culminated in gentleness. It is as if that is the point of power: to allow one to access the higher registers of gentleness.

the nature of that unfairness perhaps being just that they had been born stronger, more clever, more energetic than others), and who, having seized the apple, would eat it so proudly, they seemed to think that not only had they grown it, but had invented the very idea of fruit, too, and the cost of this lie fell on the hearts of the low (Mr.

Our grief must be defeated; it must not become our master, and make us ineffective, and put us even deeper into the ditch.

We are ready, sir; are angry, are capable, our hopes are coiled up so tight as to be deadly, or holy: turn us loose, sir, let us at it, let us show what we can do.

Ruinmore, ruinmore, we felt, must endeavor not to ruinmore.

Our path is not for everyone. Many people—I do not mean to disparage them? Lack the necessary resolve.

Our grief must be defeated; it must not become our master, and make us ineffective, and put us even deeper into the ditch. roger bevins iii

courage is the bridge between our minds and our bodies.

difficulté d'être.

George Steiner

Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream.