Quotes About Strength

What I mean to say is no, I don't want her back, just words hanging like leaves from a tree limb, nothing can bring her back anyway; words wouldn't build her bit by bit, piece by piece, she's gone, and there is strength in knowing that. Maybe the longing will ease. Maybe the seconds will lapse into minutes. I'm not Christ – I can't raise the dead.

when it's time to break down and you're lying in bed fighting off the urge to scream, when you're lying there shivering, it's not the memories that keep you going. instead it's the dreams and the cats blaring evil and godlike into the blankness. at times like this, it's best just to sit back and let what is be.

I lay in bed absorbing fear, collecting strength, enjoying the slumberous sounds of solitude. To perish without love, I think, is a tragedy worth knowing.

If you don't have any fight in you, you might as well be dead.

Fear is not a bad thing, soldier. We all have fears. Fear only becomes bad when you become so afraid of that fear that you freeze, and you let that fear take control of you so much that you cannot fight.

The problem with feelings is not the warmth you feel in good times; it's the coldness you feel in the dark times.

creates synergies. It allows the whole to be more than the parts. And diversity between communities provides robustness to major changes.

Only when we cease to rely on our own strength can we discover that God's strength is always there for us.

Without strength and courage it's really hard to perform at the highest levels of international figure skating, because you're alone on the ice and you only have seven minutes over two nights to prove yourself.

Some bad things are going to happen, but more great things are going to happen. If you tend to see more bad than good, then you have to build that positive muscle in your brain much like an athlete does certain muscles to execute a certain move.

It always requires more strength to make someone free than it does to keep that person in bondage.

Of course I'm a threat. Why? Did you think for a moment that I wasn't?" - Emma Frost

I don't need to be reminded that we're up to our heads in dark water. I just want you boys to remember that we're the gods-damned sharks.

Until you finally lose the strength for sarcasm, Locke, I wouldn't hire any mourners.

Cold walls do not a prison make, nor iron bands a bondsman.

I have only two wishes," said Jean. "The first is for strong coffee, and the second is for stronger coffee.

Oh, you know me." Jean reached behind his neck, down behind the loose leather vest he wore over his simple cotton tunic. He withdrew a pair of matching hatchets, each a foot and a half in length, with leather-wrapped handles and straight black blades that narrowed like scalpels. These were balanced with balls of blackened steel, each as wide around as a silver solon. The Wicked Sisters—Jean's weapons of choice. "I never travel alone. It's always the three of us.

You know who waxes philosophical about the tiniest weaknesses of enemies? The powerless.

You're a difficult woman, Sabetha. But then, difficult women are the only ones worth falling in love with.

I have only two wishes," said Jean. "The first is for strong coffee, and the second is for stronger coffee.

I am utterly emboldened in my cowardice.

Endure for another day, Mister Tannen, and you'll have all the foul black misuse of water you can drink.

Can't fear the fire if you don't scald your fingertips.

I'm done losing. Do you fucking hear me? I am done losing. Spare me your precious self-pity, because this isn't a stage and I didn't pay two coppers to cry my eyes out over anyone's death speech. You don't fucking get one, understand? I don't care if you cough up buckets of blood. Buckets I can carry.