Quotes About Strength

If you lead a country like Britain… you have to have a touch of iron about you.

If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

When I'm out of politics I'm going to run a business, it'll be called rent-a-spine

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

I'm back... and you knew I was coming. On my way here I passed a cinema with the sign 'The Mummy Returns'.

Any leader has to have a certain amount of steel in them, so I am not that put out being called the Iron Lady.

Defeat? I do not recognise the meaning of the word.

those who were born at the depths of one great crisis who would be able to cope with the next.

Being Prime Minister is a lonely job. In a sense, it ought to be: you cannot lead from the crowd. But with Denis there I was never alone. What a man. What a husband. What a friend.

My grandmothers were strong. They followed plows and bent to toil. They moved through fields sowing seed. They touched the earth and grain grew. They were full of sturdiness and singing. My grandmothers were strong. My grandmothers were full of memories Smelling of soap and onions and wet clay With veins rolling roughly over quick hands They have many clean words to say. My grandmothers were strong. Why am I not as they?

Sometimes she couldn't tolerate a man's physical superiority. No wonder they were so damned macho.

sink through the floor. Sonia, too, strove to control

Tall, elegant, vital, scornful. A man like that could rock a woman to her very core.

Women were the very devil, at the mercy of their frail strength.

I can kill with a single word. I can hurl a ball of fire into the midst of my enemies. I rule a squadron of skeletal warriors, who can destroy by touch alone. I can raise a wall of ice to protect those I serve. The invisible is discernible to my eyes. Ordinary magic spells crumble in my presence... But I bow in the presence of a master. -- Lord Soth to Raistlin Majere

The blade must past threw the fire, else it breaks.

If only the peace I feel right now could be stored up and released later when cruelty surrounds me in the dark during nightmares.

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My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.

She would not be robbed of her ability to support herself, to do good work in the world, justly, compassionately.

A strong woman is a woman who craves love like oxygen or she turns blue choking. A strong woman is a woman who loves strongly and weeps strongly and is strongly terrified and has strong needs. A strong woman is strong in words, in action, in connection, in feeling; she is not strong as a stone but as a wolf suckling her young. Strength is not in her, but she enacts it as the wind fills a sail.

A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done

In her bottled up is a woman peppery as curry, a yam of a woman of butter and brass