Quotes About Strength

Not of exhaustion, but surrender, as though he had given over and relinquished completely that grip upon that blending of pride and hope and vanity and fear, that strength to cling to either defeat or victory, which is the I-Am, and the relinquishment of which is usually death.

El hombre realiza, engendra más de lo que puede o de lo que debería soportar. Así es como descubre que puede soportarlo todo

because it takes an awful lot of character to quit anything when you are losing

He felt like an eagle: hard, sufficient, potent, remorseless, strong. But that passed, though he did not then know that, like the eagle, his own flesh as well as all space was still a cage.

The lowly and invincible of the earth—to endure and endure and then endure, tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow.

He was tough, faithful, brave and completely unreliable; he was six feet four inches tall and weighed two hundred and forty pounds and had the mentality of a child; over a year ago Father had already begun to say that at any moment now I would outgrow him.

Well, Kernel, they kilt us but they ain't whupped us yit, air they?

It's not men who cope with death; they resist, try to fight back and get their brains trampled out in consequence; where women just flank it, envelop it in one soft and instantaneous confederation of unresistance like cotton batting or cobwebs, already de-stingered and harmless, not merely reduced to size and usable but even useful like a penniless bachelor or spinster connection always available to fill an empty space or conduct an extra guest down to dinner.

Zaman zaman insan düÅŸünüyor. Bu dünyadaki üzüntüleri, tasalar?; ÅŸimÅŸek gibi herhangi bir yerden vurabileceklerini. San?r?m kiÅŸinin s???na?? ancak güçlü bir Tanr? inanc? olabilir, yaln?z kimi zaman Cora bunda fazla ileri gidiyor, hani baÅŸkalar?n? öte yana y???p da kendi herkesten daha yak?na sokulmak ister gibi.

ve çoktand?r öÄŸrenmiÅŸ ki insan özgür olamaz ve olsa da buna dayanamaz

Now and then you meet a man that ain't ever been afraid, not even of himself." –William Faulkner

Back when I could get away with it, I subscribed to Norman Mailer's view that exercise without excitement, without competition or danger or purpose, didn't strengthen the body but simply wore it out. Swimming laps always seemed to me especially pointless. But I can't get away with that attitude now. If I don't swim, I will be a pear-shaped pillar of suet.

We will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam.

If we believe that love is weakness? And people resent it, because they think it's an admission of weakness, they draw away from it… and that's why you kill the thing you love, because it's your weakness personified. If you kill it, you will kill your weakness before it kills you.

If we believe that love is weakness? And people resent it, because they think it's an admission of weakness, they draw away from it… and that's why you kill the thing you love, because it's your weakness personified. If you kill it, you will your weakness before it kills you.

This is without subtlety," he said, as if to himself. His voice was cool and pleasant. His every move was part of a dance, a dance that never ended, even when his body was still, at rest, but for all the power it suggested, there was also a humility, an open simplicity.

Foley, he began to suspect, studying the mouth under the black rectangle, might be the kind of scary that was about meanness, rather than strength. Though he'd also seen the two coexist, more or less, in the same individual, and that hadn't been good at all.

Angie called pause again, rose from the bed, went to the window. She felt an elation, an unexpected sense of strength and inner unity.

As long as there's light we're brave enough

Who would sharpen a point aginst the darkness of the world?

Of course we're frightened sometimes but we put up with being frightened.

I think women are foolish to pretend they're equal to men. They are far superior and always have been.

Bir hayvan olmad???n? biliyorum; yani öyle pençeleri filan olan bir hayvan demek istiyorum. Korkunun olmad???n? da biliyorum... ... Ancak insanlardan korkmad???m?z sürece.

Sen de en az benim kadar iyi biliyorsun, hayat katlan?lmaz uzunlukta, gelgelelim katlanmak zorunday?z