Quotes About Strength

I know you're the only pistol champion we have, but I'd rather they no see enough of you to hit. You're also the only wife I have... You're so sweet.' ...at the moment.

It's like asking a gang of kids to lift a Patton tank out of Lake Erie with a few ropes and a raft.

I'm all right," she murmured. Talan

Take away the clothes of the greatest living man, his father once told him, and you behold a very embarrassed, naked and defenseless animal. Pitt

As much as we might like to break, we're really only made to bend.

Most people can't truly conceive of being in a place where death might be preferable to life. Life is strong. It grips you in many ways, from the beating of your heart, to the sun on your face, to the feel of the ground beneath your feet. It grasps you.

If we force ourselves to press on, a surprising thing happens. The fatigue gets worse, up to a point, then suddenly vanishes, and we feel better than before.

Più grande è la sfida, migliori sono gli uomini che la affrontano.

fear can be the most powerful of weapons.

I never expected to be as challenged as I've been with you and Miss Stoker. The two of you make a formidable team... Though I suppose I shouldn't be surprised, knowing from whence you spring. - Lady Cosgrove-Pitt

The capacity to suffer. Elwood--all the Nickel boys--existed in the capacity. Breathed in it, ate in it, dreamed in it. That was their lives now. Otherwise they would have perished. The beatings, the rapes, the unrelenting winnowing of themselves. They endured. But to love those who would have destroyed them? To make that leap? We will meet your physical force with soul force. Do to us what you will and we will still love you.

Throw us in jail, and we will still love you. Bomb our homes and threaten our children, and, as difficult as it is, we will still love you. Send your hooded perpetrators of violence into our communities after midnight hours, and drag us out onto some wayside road, and beat us and leave us half-dead, and we will still love you. But be ye assured that we will wear you down by our capacity to suffer, and one day we will win our freedom.

There are big forces that want to keep the Negro down, like Jim Crow, and there are small forces that want to keep you down, like other people, and in the face of all those things, the big ones and the smaller ones, you have to stand up straight and maintain your sense of who you are.

But it's like riding a bike. A hell-bike, made out of hell.

It was not enough to survive, you have to live—

Black people always found a way in the most miserable circumstances. If we didn't, we'd have been exterminated by the white man long ago.

He was all of them in one black body that night in the ring, and all of them when the shite men took him out back to those two iron rings.

How to get through the day if every indignity capsized you in a ditch? One learned to focus one's attention.

Violence is the only lever big enough to move the world.

Stubborn breaks when it don't bend

Her price fluctuated. When you are sold that many times, the world is teaching you to pay attention. She learned to quickly adjust to the new plantations, sorting the nigger breakers from the merely cruel, the layabouts from the hardworking, the informers from the secret-keepers.

This isn't going to un-fuck itself.

The peculiar institution made Cora into a maker of lists as well. In her inventory of loss, people were not reduced to sums, but multiplied by their kindnesses.

them from the ruthless mechanism of the world.