Quotes About Strength

Or maybe she will keep it a garden. An anchor in the vicious waters of the plantation to prevent her from being carried away. Until she chose to be carried away.

The moon grew fat and thin, there were solstices, first frosts and spring rains. All these things proceeded without the interference of men. She tried to imagine what the tide looked like, coming in and going out, nipping at the sand like a little dog, heedless of people and their machinations. Her strength returned.

My first fight made me cockeyed," he said, "and my farewell fight set my eyes right again, so trust me when I say this sport will break you down to make you better, and that's a fact.

Colson Whitehead

If you weren't a little dirty at the end of the day, you weren't much of a man.

Her new life required a different sort of strength. She was meticulous in her posture, a walking spear, in the manner of those who'd been made to bend and will bend no more.

Archimedes, one of his first encyclopedia finds. Violence is the only lever big enough to move the world.

Time enough for Cora to take stock of her journey from Randall and make a thick braid of her misfortunes.

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

Watch and think and plan. Let the world be a mob—Elwood will walk through it. They might curse and spit and strike him, but he'd make it through to the other side. Bloodied and tired, but he'd make it through.

She took her hatchet. She took flint and tinder. And like her mother she dug up her yams.

She pushed the plantation from her again. She was getting better at it. Her mind was wily though, twisty. Thoughts she did not like wormed in from the sides, from beneath, through the cracks, from places she had battened down.

Nie chodzi tylko o to, ?eby przetrwa?, ale aby ?y?.

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

Taken individually, the link was not much. But in concert with its fellows, a mighty iron that subjugated millions despite its weakness.

A??r iÅŸe dayanmak ve bizi daha da yükseltmek için güçlü olmam?z gerekiyor. Domuzlar? ÅŸiÅŸmanlat?yorsak bunu hayatta kalmak için domuzlara ihtiyac?m?z olduÄŸundan yap?yoruz, hoÅŸumuza gittiÄŸinden deÄŸil. Ama sizin fazla ak?llanman?za izin veremeyiz. Bizden h?zl? koÅŸacak kadar zinde olman?za izin veremeyiz.

The world may be mean, but people don't have to be, not if they refuse. Mabel

Belki kendi kalbi bile onun kötülüÄŸünden b?km??t?r...

Cora thought he had a mean face, like a burl sprouting from a squat, sweaty trunk.

Ormandan nas?l ç?kaca??m?z? bilemeyebiliriz ama düÅŸtüÄŸümüz zaman birbirimizi kald?rabiliriz ve varaca??m?z yere ancak birlikte varabiliriz.

The boy made a fist. He knew what he'd do if the man put his hand on his leg or tried to touch his thing. He'd vowed to sock Freddie Rich in the face many times and then stood paralyzed when the time came, but this day he felt he could actually do it. Drawing strength from the free world.

Also, Archimedes, one of his first encyclopedia finds. Violence is the only lever big enough to move the world.

She was a survivor but the world took her in bites.

Harriet Johnson was a slight hummingbird of a woman who conducted herself in everything with furious purpose.