Quotes About Strength

She loved him, in fact; his violence and strength appealed to some deep part of her. He in turn grew to love her, so far as such a violent brute was capable of the emotion. Love and war, Venus and Mars, have always had a strong affinity. No one quite knows why, but plenty of money has been made trying to find an answer.

Life, that can shower you with so much slendour, is unremittingly cruel to those who have given up.

Anger fed him and clothed him and he owed it much.

You may be gold, and we poor ordinary men may be of bronze, but ask any solier out there which metal they'd rather have for a sword blae or a spearpoint

his healing skills] ..lay in the ability to comfort, to comfort in the proper sense, to make strong, to fortify

To expect a convict to have the strength to give up smoking is to expect a leopard to change his spots, become vegetarian and learn to knit, all on the same day.

wisdom is the ability to cope

Even as he breathed his last breath he killed more Trojans. Terrified by the sight of a mortally wounded man with such implacable strength and will, most held back, unsure that such a man could really die.

For a year she taught him how to look into the hearts and judge the intentions of others. How to imagine and how to reason. How to find the strength to let passions cool before acting. How to make a plan and how to know when a plan needed to be changed or abandoned. How to let the head rule the heart and the heart win the affection of others.

Everyone else new you ever meet, and this continues through life, is stronger than you are, knows the system better and sees right through to the back of your brain and finds what they see to be wholly inadequate. Everyone you encounter carries, as it were, a huge club behind their back, while all you hold behind yours is a weedy cotton-bud.

No, blasphemy only threatens those whose faith in their religion is weak

taught him how to look into the hearts and judge the intentions of others. How to imagine and how to reason. How to find the strength to let passions cool before acting. How to make a plan and how to know when a plan needed to be changed or abandoned. How to let the head rule the heart and the heart win the affection of others.

We're from where we're from," she says back. "Scars are part of the deal, aren't they?

Some girls just don't know how to die.

And, if I'm to be honest here, yes, I did indeed stop trying, finally. But the body breathes whether you want it to or not. The heart keeps beating. Perhaps because it knows more than you do--knows that, past this experience, a whole new life will open up, and whatever infirmities persist, they can be dealt with one by one.

Sometimes they need help in the form of a furie running at them, her mouth open in a scream, her eyes white hot, her heart forever pure.

When the whole world hurts, you bite it. Don't you?

It matters if you just don't give up.

If one is physically disabled, one cannot afford to be *psychologically* disabled as well.

if you feel you are in a black hole, don't give up: there is a way out!

You can't afford to be disabled in spirit as well as physically. People won't have time for you.

Most bad things don't happen.

Stephen Hunter

Richard, you got to be a man today.