Quotes About Strength

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

Le vent déracina celui de qui le ciel était voisin et dont les pieds touchaient à l'empire des mots.

When the former attains to the supreme moment, and when the seed springs forth, at that moment the woman receives the strength of the male, while the male receives the strength of woman...It is because of this that the mystery of carnal union is practiced in secret, so that the conjunction of natures should not be degraded through being seen of the multitude who would despise that work.

Tradi?ia nu este numai amintire, ea este ?i obi?nuin?? ?i repetare, la urma urmelor a rutinei. De aceea, este o for?? ?i, în acela?i timp, o sl?biciune.

Fusesem mult? vreme de partea celor puternici. Acum eram învin?i. A?a c?, în mod obligatoriu, în locul abilit??ii de înving?tori preferam victimele fidelit??ii.

He lifted himself from a wheelchair to lift the nation from its knees.

The loneliness of command had made Eisenhower emotionally self-sufficient.

I cannot do this," she remembered thinking to herself, but she went anyway. "You must do the thing you think you cannot do," she wrote later, supplying her own emphasis.

Franklin crashed flat on the marble, his crutches clattering down beside him. Onlookers rushed in, then drew back, uncertain what to do. With an enormous effort Roosevelt wrestled himself into a sitting position. He laughed reassuringly. "There's nothing to worry about," he told anxious spectators. "We'll get out of this all right. Give me a hand there.

The United States was a third-rate military power when World War II began. When it ended, America was the most powerful nation in history.

Clearly, a civilization that feels guilty for everything it is and does will lack the energy and conviction to defend itself.

When this book [So Far From The Bamboo Grove] was accepted for publication, a writer friend told Yoko that now she would be competing with other writers. Yoko said, No, she would not compete with anyone for anything. "I competed with life and death when young," she said. "And I won." ... Here is the story of her victory.

When this book [So Far From The Bamboo Grove] was accepted for publication, a writer friend told Yoko that now she would be competing with other writers. Yoko said, No, she would not compete with anyone for anything. 'I competed with life and death when young,' she said. 'And I won.' ... Here is the story of her victory.

I love you because you're tender and sweet, you the hardest and sternest of men. And your sweetness and tenderness are such that they make you as light as a shred of tulle, subtle as a flake of mist, airy as a caprice. Your thick muscles, your arms, your thighs, your hands, are more unreal than the melting of day into night. You envelop me and I contain you.

For I do not love the oppressed. I love those whom I love, who are always handsome and sometimes oppressed but stand up and rebel

The most alive of worlds, human beings with the tenderest flesh, are made of marble.

Limited by the world, which I oppose, jagged by it, I shall be all the more handsome and sparkling as the angles which wound me and give me shape are more acute and the jagging more cruel.

When I beheld you, suddenly - for perhaps a second - I had the strength to reject everything that wasn't you and to laugh at the illusion. But my shoulders are very frail. I was unable to bear the weight of the world's condemnation. And I began to hate you when everything about you would have kindled my love and when love would have made men's contempt unbearable, and their contempt would have made my love unbearable. The fact is, I hate you.

je toucherais le corps d'un chêne.

This lady is strong medicine, for external use only.

sous le chêne

Elle se servait beaucoup de sa larme pour amollir son mal.

Panturle was a huge man. He looked like a piece of wood walking along.

Nous avons lutté contre le corps de la colline, il faut écraser la tête.