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Quotes About Strength

At the sting in her eyes, she remembered for him that there must be no tears in his.
~ Eudora Welty
She (my mother) stood always prepared in herself to challenge the world in our place. She did indeed tend to make the world look dangerous, and so it had been to her. A way had to be found around her love sometimes, without challenging that, and at the same time cherishing it in its unassailable strength. Each of us children did, sooner or later, in part at least, solve this in different, respectful, complicated ways.
~ Eudora Welty
He's blind, and nearly deaf in the bargain," Mrs. Martello said proudly. "And he's going in surgery just as soon as they get him all fixed up for it. He's got a malignancy.
~ Eudora Welty
Nefericire cel ce vrea s?-ÅŸi p?streze originalitatea! Ei bine, asta e. Am sa ma apar impotriva tuturor! PuÅŸca, unde mi-e puÅŸca? (Se întoarce cu faÅ£a c?tre capetele de rinoceri din fundal ÅŸi strig?) Am s? m? ap?r împotriva lumii întregi, m? voi ap?ra! Sunt ultimul om ÅŸi voi r?mîne aÅŸa pîn? la cea din urm? suflare! Nu m? dau b?tut!
~ Eugene Ionesco
I'll take on the whole lot of them! I'll put up a fight against the lot of them, the whole lot of them! I'm the last man left, and I'm staying that way until the end. I'm not capitulating!
~ Eugene Ionesco
LAVINIA: I love everything that grows simply-- up toward the sun-- everything that's straight and strong! I hate what's warped and twists and eats into itself and dies for a lifetime in shadow...
~ Eugene O'Neill
Provare dolore è naturale. Superarlo è una questione di scelta.
~ Eugenides, Jeffrey
in questo seguitare una muraglia che ha in cima cocci aguzzi di bottiglia
~ Eugenio Montale
Hãy nói n?u b?n có nh?ng l?i l? m?nh hÆ¡n. N?u không, hãy im l?ng.' (_Euripide_)
~ Euripide
I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils.
~ Euripides
One man with courage makes a majority.
~ Andrew Jackson
Our Federal Union - It Must Be Preserved
~ Andrew Jackson
Our government sprang from and was made for the people -- not the people for the government. To them it owes an allegiance from them it must derive its courage, strength, and wisdom.
~ Andrew Johnson
Do right. Fear Nothing.
~ Andrew Klavan
Good things might happen in your life or bad things might happen, sometimes terrible things, but no matter what happens, your soul is your own. And no one and nothing can stop you.
~ Andrew Klavan
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach...but you've got to make them fly in formation.
~ Andrew Klavan
I'll be fine. My fear will keep me warm." She laughed. I think it was the first time I'd heard her laugh, and I looked at her in surprise. "You're funny," she said. "Oh yeah, I'm a laughing riot.
~ Andrew Klavan
Never give in; never give in—never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force: never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
~ Andrew Klavan
those strains that can imagine women's "empowerment" only in traditionally male terms of physical strength, career success, and work in scientific professions centered on things rather than the professions centered on people that women all over the world prefer. The antifeminine cohort recoil at such Mary-Shelleyan qualities as "submission, love, tenderness, self-sacrifice, devotement, sympathy.
~ Andrew Klavan
I guess you don't always have to be a nice guy to be a good man.
~ Andrew Klavan
Assume that every problem in your life is a lesson to make you stronger. Then you never feel like a victim.
~ Andrew Matthews
The difference between a wolf and a sheep is that a sheep will stand by and watch a wolf devour its own lambs. If you threaten a wolf's pup, it'll rip your throat out. Wolves are foul, vicious creatures. But it's better to be a wolf pup than a dead lamb. Now good night.
~ Andrew Mayne
a hurricane.
~ Andrew Mayne
Vital organs and arteries matter, but so does the will to live.
~ Andrew Mayne