Quotes About Strength

And I'd said, wouldn't it be easier if you just hit me once in the face, and got it over with?

Somebody called me a 'bruised romantic' once, and I like that.

There were things women were better at than men; home was one of them. They carried it with them like an ancestral perfume.

An ox is born and bred to carry our burdens. A saint is like an ox.

O, thou beautiful damsel, may the four oceans Of the earth contribute the secretion of milk In thy breasts for the purpose for improving The bodily strength of the child O, thou with the beautiful face, may the child Reared on your milk, attain a long life, like The gods made immortal with drinks of nectar

Quando non si ha scelta almeno si abbia coraggio

Dare to be as physically robust and varied as you always were.

What else could a person do, she thought, staring hard at the darkness, but try to be happy? However confused and wrong-looking the attempt might be. And then whatever happened afterward all you could do was bear it, because whatever you could not bear you had to carry.

You automatically lose when you give up.

Dr. Heissman laughed and immediately apologized, "I'm sorry, I'm just so used to what I think of as squeezing water from a stone syndrome. SpecWar operators are not big on admitting to what they perceive to be a weakness. Even though awareness of vulnerability ultimately leads to strength. Either from directly dealing with the issue or learning to work around it.

God knows without hope, very few could survive.

She felt like a real bitch. But that was a good thing. Bitch was a good word. Women who were aggressive and strong were tagged as bitches. She should buy herself a T-shirt that read "Proud to be called a bitch.

You know, it's not about not being afraid—it's about taking action despite the fear," he pointed out. "That's called courage.

Suzanne Brockmann

Dare, dream, dance, smile, and sing loudly! And have faith that love is an unstoppable force!

Suzanne Brockmann

If you want, I can carry you—" "I'm fine," she said shortly. "Let's go." He'd said that wrong. He should have said, "I want to carry you.

Recovering from a gunshot wound is not a vacation. You need to, like, write that on your hand or something.

When I was growing up, Lieutenant Uhura was a major role model for me, a strong black woman on the bridge of a starship… -In a miniskirt, answering the interplanetary telephone?

It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.

You're still trying to protect me. Real or not real," he whispers. "Real," I answer. "Because that's what you and I do, protect each other.

I don't want to lose the boy with the bread.

You here to finish me off, Sweetheart?

Sometimes when I'm alone, I take the pearl from where it lives in my pocket and try to remember the boy with the bread, the strong arms that warded off nightmares on the train, the kisses in the arena.