Quotes About Strength

Doesn't it bother you, being out in that cottage all alone? Especially with Theo Harp as your only neighbor." "I'm pretty fearless," Annie replied. The puppets in her head fell all over themselves laughing.

I'm stronger than I look, and I'll work harder than any man you'll ever find. Besides, I can also provide psychiatric counseling for that troublesome personality disorder of yours.

De qué va esto, Alex? ¿Humillación? Ya he tenido bastante por esta noche. ¿Desprecio? También he tenido suficiente. ¿Odio? No, eso no funcionará; estoy demasiado entumecida para sentirlo. —Hizo una pausa, vacilando—. Me temo que tendrás que recurrir a algo distinto.

She wasn't going to let them make her cry. She'd cried enough self-pitying tears in her life to drown a goat, and all it had gotten her was a big fat nothing. She made herself take a deep breath, but it didn't help break the traffic jam in her throat. Might as well call a spade a spade. That traffic jam came from shame. There was a big difference between knowing people still hated your guts and seeing it in their faces.

People try to bail out without a fight, and too often people take the easy way out. Doesn't anybody have backbone anymore?" -- Dr. Isabel Favor, America's diva of self-help.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

She was a gift—a gift he nearly hadn't found the guts to claim. Now, as he watched her standing fearless against the elements, her power stole his breath.

Nunca sabía cuál sería la próxima ocurrencia de su esposa. Lo hacía sentirse como el niño que nunca había sido. ¿Qué haría cuando ella se fuera? Se negaba a pensar en ello. Lo superaría y punto, tal como había hecho con todo lo demás. La vida lo había convertido en un solitario, y era así como le gustaba vivir.

She rose from the desk, looking much tougher than someone wearing plastic dinosaur sandals should.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

She saw a world so terrified of Woman's mystical power that nothing would do but to obliterate the very source of that power—the natural shape of her body.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

sometimes knowing when to give up is the real test of character... -annabelle granger

Pride had kept her running when love had betrayed her.

Are you still as angry as you used to be?' Julia, the World War II resistance fighter, asked Lillian Hellman in the biographical [movie] Julia. "I like your anger…. Don't you let anyone talk you out of it.

Imagine it. Use all your strength and imagine it exactly. And it will happen that way.

Dunyazad was right about Princess Budur- and all the rest of those story women who dress up as men and do man things perfectly well. One thing those tales are saying underneath is that women aren't inferior. They're equal to men.

As long as you continue to react so strongly to them, you give them the power to upset you, which allows them to control you.

Sometimes you don't realize your own strength until you come face to face with your greatest weakness.

Where there's life, there's hope," I said. Hope. How I'd needed it, in those dark days when it seemed that Papa would never be found, dead or alive. I thought of Alexander again. "Thank you," I whispered.

Father O'Sullivan.

A girl doesn't need a guy in her life in order to act like a complete idiot. Certainly I, at least, never have.

age is so humiliating, darlings. After a while, there is simply no camouflaging your deterioration, and no one ever sees all the strengths you've acquired along the way.

If the lion knew his true strength it were hard for any man rule him.