Quotes About Strength

the rotten tree-trunk, until the very moment when the storm-blast breaks it in two, has all the appearance of might it ever had.

In themselves, harmless. As a group, incredibly dangerous.

But he no longer feared the fear! It was not something to run from, that fear, but something to fight.

Stoop, then, or you will be beaten to your knees. Stoop voluntarily, and you may save a remnant. You have depended on metal and power and they have sustained you as far as they could. You have ignored mind and morale and they have failed you.

He would do worse than his worst if he had to.

To [the government] it didn't matter what happened to the American people as long as america in the abstract was kept strong.

We abandoned the appearance of power to preserve the essence of it.

A happy wall is a long-lived wall, a practical wall, a useful wall.

Come, captain, we had no leadership worthy of the name then, and we faced the cleverest opponent, the heaviest armor, the strongest force of all. Yet we won by the inevitability of history.

He's but a windlet that blows the dust about my ankles. There is another that I flee, and he is a storm that sweeps the worlds aside and throws them plunging at each other.

They are useful, but they are too strong—and too uncontrolled. They are Outlanders, educated apart from religion. On the one hand, we put knowledge into their hands, and on the other, we remove our strongest hold upon them.

A strong offensive is indicated. The stalemate you seem to be satisfied with is fatal. It would be a confession of weakness to all the worlds of the Periphery, where the appearance of strength is all-important, and there's not one vulture among

So it is only the combination of strong Emperor and strong general that can harm the Foundation; for a strong Emperor cannot be dethroned easily, and a strong general is forced to turn outwards, past the frontiers.

Battling a sickness of the spirit was like standing in a quickstand and beating it with a stick.

What kind of a ridiculous animal are we to be lords of the world after the dinosaurs had failed? Sure, we're intelligent, but what's intelligence? We think it is important because we have it. If the Tyrannosaurus could have picked out the one quality that he thought would ensure species domination, it would be size and strength. And he would make a better case for it. He lasted longer than we're likely to.

Being helpless is one of the things that isn't altogether amusing. - Gilbert

He was thirty-two. Not old—but he felt old. His body, whatever its mutant mental powers, was physically weak. Every star! Every star he could see—and every star he couldn't see. It must all be his! Revenge on all. On a humanity of which he wasn't a part. On a Galaxy in which he didn't fit.

Proti hlouposti ani sami bohové nic nezmohou.

There's no merit in discipline under ideal circumstances. I'll have it in the face of death, or it's useless.

We can't give up just because the Universe does.

The men in this station survive by virtue of their jellyfish quality. There isn't one who would stand against him. Trying to rally the others to put pressure on Hallam would be like asking strands of cooked spaghetti to come to attention.

La violencia es el último recurso del incopetente

And a woman striding among them like an equal.

difficulties vanish when faced boldly