Quotes About Strength

People always think that we're the dregs and we're the trash and we're the bottoms of the pickle barrel, but we do all right!

Character is what we are in the dark

I ignore polling as a method of government. I think that shows a certain weakness of mind - an inability to chart a course whichever way the wind blows, whichever way the media encourages the people to go, you follow. If you can't force or are unwilling to force your people to follow you, with or without threats, you are not a leader.

Supposing Catherine Lim was writing about me and not the prime minister...She would not dare, right? Because my posture, my response has been such that nobody doubts that if you take me on, I will put on knuckle-dusters and catch you in a cul de sac...Anybody who decides to take me on needs to put on knuckle dusters. If you think you can hurt me more than I can hurt you, try. There is no other way you can govern a Chinese society.

Whoever governs Singapore must have that iron in him. Or give it up. This is not a game of cards! This is your life and mine! I've spent a whole lifetime building this and as long as I'm in charge, nobody is going to knock it down.

Etsuko held the watch case in her hands and wondered how they'd stayed together with him not giving up and her not giving in.

She smiled at him, not knowing how to say - you saved me. Instead, she said, "You must get well." Book 2, p188

Man, life's going to keep pushing you sround, but you have to keep playing Book 3, p378

Man, life's going to keep pushing you around, but you have to keep playing Book 3, p378

Including myself, the majority of the Korean people believe in this staunch alliance between Korea and the United States and all of us hope that our traditional alliance will be further strengthened in the future.

The beauty of this country and what people participate in is the competitive nature that we allow to exist and the fact is that we are better because we have great competitors.

Achilles, without his heel, you wouldn't even know his name today.

I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. And all the variants of men and women, beasts and demons.

Your recovery is going to be painstaking, like the way the ants are building the tunnels, one grain at a time. But you will get there. I just know it.

Fear, the strength of earth's religions, gripping every living soul, Was a monstrous human error for the making of men whole.

We and the world, my children, will always be at war. Retreat is impossible. Arm yourselves.

It is one thing to say you're at war with this whole world and stick your chest out believing it, but when the world shows up with it's crushing numbers and its predatory knowledge, it is another thing completely.

A hard-boiled little lamb going to talk a lot of lions out of their dinner, Comyn told himself grimly.

Girls without Pasts don't keep guns in their dressing rooms.

Better to know defeat from courage

Better to know defeat from courage than safety through chickenheartedness.

Moms are, in my opinion, the wonders of the universe. They can leap tall buildings in a single bound, they can go where no person has gone before, and they can somehow get toddlers to eat. The problem is that mothers are also some of the most stressed people on the planet. There's just so much to do and not enough of them.

Look what was sown by the stars At night across the fields I am not defined by scars But by the incredible ability to heal

Right, good temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.