Quotes About Strength

Sane is rich and powerful. Insane is wrong and poor and weak. The rich are free, the poor are put in cages. Res Ipsa Loquitur, amen. Mahalo.

Kill the body and the head will die.

When you bring an act into this town, you want to bring it in heavy. Don't waste any time with cheap shucks and misdemeanors. Go straight for the jugular. Get right into felonies.

Don't take any guff from these swine.

Assassins, like politicians and journalists, are not attracted to losers.

But instead of losing quietly, one by one, they have banded together with a mindless kind of loyalty and moved outside the framework, for good or ill. They may not have an answer, but at least they are still on their feet.

Sending Muskie against Nixon would have been like sending a three-toed sloth out to seize turf from a wolverine.

I hate pain, despite my ability to tolerate it beyond all known parameters, which is not necessarily a good thing.

I've always thought that the blue-collar vote had to be a source of his strength," said Frank Mankiewicz, McGovern's main strategist. "It always seemed to me that McGovern—not as the anti-war candidate but as the 'change' candidate—would appeal more to Middle America than he would to any other group. They're the ones with the most to gain from change and they're the ones who get screwed by the way we do business in this country.

Life should be made as difficult as possible... So that the victims might develop more character

Describing Hinduism] All of us dwell on the bring of the infinite ocean of life's creative power. We carry it within us: supreme strength, the fullness of wisdom, unquenchable joy. It is never thwarted and cannot be destroyed. But it is hidden deep, which is what makes life a problem. The infinite is down in the darkest, profoundest vault of our being, in the forgotten well-house, the deep cistern. What if we could bring it to light and draw from it unceasingly. p26

No interesa lo que me pasó, sino las cicatrices que me marcan y distinguen.

No! ¿Cuántas veces te he dicho que no des tu brazo a torcer? Lo más importante para ganar una discusión es no vacilar, aunque tengas dudas y mucho menos si estás equivocada.

All our lives are symbols. Everything we do is part of a pattern we have at least some say in. The strong make their own patterns and influence other people's, the weak have their courses mapped out for them. The weak are the unlucky, and the stupid.

La nostra vita è tutta fatta di simboli. Ogni cosa che facciamo è parte di un disegno dove abbiamo comunque voce in capitolo. I forti stabiliscono i propri percorsi e influenzano quelli degli altri, i deboli ce li hanno già segnati. I deboli e gli sfortunati. E gli stupidi. La Fabbrica della Vespa è parte del disegno perché è parte della vita e – a maggior ragione – della morte.

All our lives are symbols. Everything we do is part of a pattern we have at least some say in. The strong make their own patterns and influence other people's, the weak have their courses mapped out for them. The weak and the unlucky, and the stupid.

Still, beauty can flourish in even the most inhospitable terrain.

Even the highest tree has an axe waiting at its foot.

Clausewitz's first principle was to have a secure base. From there one proceeds to freedom of action.

asciende aproximadamente a un millón y medio de libras esterlinas en francos suizos y bolívares venezolanos, en los que, por razones de prudencia, pues siguen siendo las monedas más fuertes del mundo

You're a kite dancing in a hurricane, Mr. Bond.

Ogni persona è, tra le altre cose, un oggetto facile da rompere e difficile da riparare.

She had the power to remove a child from an unkind parent and she sometimes did. But remove herself from an unkind husband? When she was weak and desolate? Where was her protective judge?

See? Reading you all night has strengthened me. That's what God's love does. If you're beginning to feel uncomfortable now, it's because the changes in you are already beginning to happen and one day you'll be glad to say, Deliver me from meaninglessness.