Quotes About Strength

She'd need to

Oh bugger it. You want fancy words? Maybe I could pull some Yeats out or something." "No, no, no." Laughing, she got to her feet, and felt stronger and surer than she'd ever felt before. "I meant it. This is romance, for me, from you. If you could say it just one more time. The three words, the word that matters more than others.

Hugh thought the women were as graceful as ballerinas, as strong as lumberjacks, as focused as scientists.

was more precious than gold. And some, like those who found and formed New Hope, rebuilt.

Were we able to release it?" "It's still gimpy. Matt doesn't think it'll make it out there in the world. She's an old girl. We're calling her Xena, because she looks like a warrior.

Your gift, your power comes from your heart and your belly as much as your mind. Your belly holds the anger, your heart the compassion. Your mind the will.

And I have a mighty and fatally accurate bitch slap

you stepped back, you squared your shoulders, and you showed you were willing to face what life had dealt you. That takes courage, Margo—much more—than leaping into the void. I had people to turn to. So do we all. It's only fools and egotists who think no one will be there to lend a hand. And bigger food and bigger egotists who don't reach out.

Choice turns out to be duty for both of us. But I'm here, and I'll wait. That's a choice, too, but it's not duty. I love you. It makes me afraid, and it makes me strong, but either way, I love you. So I'm here, and I'll wait.

Nothing's more powerful than a woman at that instant before she gives herself.

even high," she said with a roll

Being a peaceful people isn't the same as being a defenseless one.

to her. "You

Beauty, strength, youth are flowers but fading seen; Duty, faith, love, are roots, and ever green.

It's why they can't beat us. I don't know why they want to kill us, destroy everything that's good. I can feel what they feel, but I can't understand it. I know they can hurt us, take from us, but they can't beat us because we can love a good dog enough to let him go even when it hurts. They can burn the land, but we'll plant it. They can burn it again, but we'll plant it again. They can't stop us. They can't win.

Every day. Some days, the music is not in tune, but it's always a song worth singing.

Fear can be a weapon just as courage. Without fear there is no prudence. Without prudence there is recklessness. With recklessness, defeat.

Roarke is her everything, as she is his. It matters, I think, that these two people who came from abuse and viciousness found each other, helped make each other into better people. Love opened them to more.

He told you not to cry, but tears keep leaking out of your eyes. And you're glad, because those tears belong to you. They're yours. Your tears. He can't have them. He can't touch them. They're all yours. (182)

you can do is nothing." (T. Roosevelt) Berlin, 1945

you can do is nothing." (T. Roosevelt)

she was running because she still could.

The strength of your memory dictates the size of your reality

Styx and The Stones may break my bones but 'More than Words' will never hurt me