Quotes About Strength

Making whiteness American culture, the nation has forgone other possibilities. The hybridity that could have been our greatest strength has been made into a means of playing across the color line, with its rotting distance of voyeurism and partisanship, a confirmation of social and psychological division.

He struck her so hard he broke her ribs and gave her scars for life.

International politics is not unlike the jungle: smaller and weaker animals require acute intelligence, sensitive antennae, and nimbleness of footing to assure their own self-preservation; the strong—such as elephants—need pay less attention to ambient conditions and can often do as they wish, and others will get out of the way.

It's a good world if you don't weaken.

Terror was always just behind her shoulder: she was wasted by the effort of not turning round.

Presumably she had an idea--women were appallingly practical: they built new plans at once out of the ruins of the old.

If I could suffer like you, I could heal like you.

Suffering is not increased by numbers: one body can contain all the suffering the world can feel.

peine forte et dure.

When you are strong, appear weak. The first warmaster

And how can anyone say they are strong if they have never been tested? It's easy to be strong when everything is going well. It's when things go to hell that true character emerges.

Ferrus opened his eyes, and the fire of the sword was alive in the silver coins of his eyes.

A feeble fire is worse than an empty grate.

At the time of great loss, people who have a mature faith give evidence of an uncommon relationship with God. And they demonstrate an uncommon inner sense of strength and poise that grows out of their confidence that such a relationship with God can never be taken away from them. Accepting loss is a slow and gradual process with steps backward as well as forward.

I will rise from the darkness, shining like the morning star. Illuminated woman am I.

Somewhere in our Darkest Nights we made up a story about a Man who will never let us down.

You're much stronger than you think you are. Trust me.

Don't patronize me or I'll break your face - Damian Wayne (Prime Earth)

When the odds are impossible -- do the impossible.

So this additional indignity will be inflicted upon you. It means, I believe, that humans will not end here, but may rise again—fight again. Humans are always warriors.

Faith in Life.

Breakups hurt like a motherf*#ker, but they are not the end of the world. The pain is temporary, and if handled properly, they can even be life-changing.

Machine guns, missile launchers, grappling hooks and cables—what more could a girl want?

Peace has cost you your strength," Bane declared. "Victory has defeated you.