Quotes About Strength

When I'm looking for a leader who's gonna sit across the negotiating table from a nuclear Iran, or who's gonna be intent on destroying ISIS, I couldn't care less about that leader's temperament or his tone or his vocabulary. Frankly, I want the meanest, toughest son of a gun I can find.

Tired is not a word in my vocabulary.

Being a mother gives you an incredible feeling of empowerment, you think if I can go through such pain and that level of sleep and still operate and not be grumpy you can do anything. It can be quite scary, you can't function your brain, forget your vocabulary.

A female vocal can lift a song.

'In My Hands,' the title track, is my very first vocal attempt, and I'm not a singer as such. But I've always wanted to express myself vocally on my albums, and I don't really have much of a capability for singing. The strength is in, I think, the lyrics and just speaking. It just comes from inside.

My mom is one of those women... she don't take no mess. She is very vocal about what she wants and what she doesn't want.

If someone doesn't want to hire me because they think I'm too vocal, fine. I will do a play. I will always find a job. Let them try to get me out of this industry. I am not going to be silenced!

My fear with 'Lear' was that I would not have the physical or vocal strength. But this play, it's all in your head. That was one of the really interesting things when we were rehearsing it: We were all exhausted because it was all up here.

The vocal chords are like most other muscles that need to be worked out.

My voice has definitely been my plus point and many compliment me for the power of my vocal chords.

I am vocal and I have had to pay a huge price for that.

Like my writing, my voice has been something I've worked at. I knew I had a good voice but it was a matter of time before it was what I've got now. I've had to build my vocal muscles up until they were like Arnold Schwarzenegger.

It's bleak behind the Iron Curtain, although they do have the strongest vodka I've ever had in my life.

Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind - even if your voice shakes.

I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It's a voice of pain and victory.

Sometimes the solitary voice can be the best one.

A few girls would be catty and say that my voice sounded really high, and I sang like a chipmunk, I got a few prank calls about that a few times. But it didn't really bother me that much. I think I was so focused on music that nothing could break me or get in my way.

I know God's voice. I've seen God's hand. If the Lord is my helper, why should I be afraid?

We can find our voice in the world again: a voice that is commensurate with the fifth-biggest economy on Earth.

Nothing can affect my voice, it's so bad.

My voice is stronger today than ever.

I had a galvanised voice: I could sing through a 105 fever or a flu or a root canal or anything that you could throw at me.

In childhood I developed a serious throat infection, and my heart stopped beating. I recovered from that illness with a voice that boomed forth like Kate Smith's!

What I look for in a partner is a skill, a voice of their own so I have a strength to go up against. They definitely have to be able to get out of their own way. I can't take somebody being precious about their work.