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Quotes About Strength

Is love so small a pain,do you think, for a woman?
~ Euripides
necessity breaks even the strong.
~ Euripides
The man who would prefer great wealth or strength             more than love, more than friends, is diseased of soul.
~ Euripides
that shock of fear that runs right through an army before battle, that shock is Dionysos.
~ Euripides
Baik sekali menjadi kaya, baik sekali menjadi kuat, tetapi lebih baik lagi menjadi orang yang dicintai banyak kawan.
~ Euripides
Seni hak ettiÄŸin ÅŸekilde cezaland?rd?m ya, art?k bana diÅŸi aslan ya da Tyrheneli Skylla desen de hiç umurumda deÄŸil!
~ Euripides
Hector. My word is simple. Arm and face the foe.
~ Euripides
Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow, A herb most bruised is woman.
~ Euripides
Twould please me best to fight these Greeks alone.
~ Euripides
But I know that the body I inhabit will only take so much, can only go so far. Rocks, stones, even the leaning twisting trees, all are harder and more enduring. The stones have weight and mass, and agonised trees are rooted deep in the craggy soil.
~ Eva Figes
If we eat nutritious foods in moderation, and have a balanced diet of proteins, grains, and fruits, we will be physically strong and mentally clear.
~ Eva Wong
We're like America's little pit bull. They beat it, starve it, mistreat it, and once in a while they let it out to attack somebody.
~ Evan Wright
The heart is capable of sacrifice. So is the vagina. The heart is able to forgive and repair. It can change it's shape to let us in. It can expand to let us out. So can the vagina. It can ache for us and stretch for us, die for us and bleed and bleed us into this difficult, wondrous world. So can the vagina. I was there in the room. I remeber.
~ Eve Ensler
Good is towing the line, being behaved, being quiet, being passive, fitting in, being liked, and great is being messy, having a belly, speaking your mind, standing up for what you believe in, fighting for another paradigm, not letting people talk you out of what you know to be true.
~ Eve Ensler
It's okay, sweetheart," he said, smoothing his hand over her forehead. "I'll hold up the world for a while so you can rest. Don't worry; just sleep. I've got this.
~ Evelyn Adams
He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
~ Evelyn Waugh
I said to the doctor, who was with us daily. 'He's got a wonderful will to live, hasn't he?' 'Would you put it like that? I should say a great fear of death.' 'Is there a difference?' 'Oh dear, yes. He doesn't derive any strength from his fear, you know. It's wearing him out.
~ Evelyn Waugh
When people hate with all that energy, it is something in themselves they are hating. Alex is hating all the illusions of boyhood - innocence, God, hope. Poor Lady Marchmain has to bear all that. He loved me for a time, quite a short time, as a man loves his own strength; it is simpler for a woman; she has not all these ways of loving. Now Alex is very fond of me and I protect him from his own innocence.
~ Evelyn Waugh
Civilization – and by this I do not mean talking cinemas and tinned food, nor even surgery and hygienic houses, but the whole moral and artistic organization of Europe – has not in itself the power of survival. It came into being through Christianity, and without it has no significance or power to command allegiance…That is the first discovery, that Christianity is essential to civilization and that it is in greater need of combative strength than it has been for centuries.
~ Evelyn Waugh
The Chinese could also study the example of Japan's history in the first half of the twentieth century as a warning of what can happen as a country becomes richer and stronger, when support for military expansion becomes so strong that its leaders are unable to restrain superpatriotic
~ Ezra F Vogel
When you know why you will overcome any how
~ F. Nietzsche
He reached through a slit in his robe into a pouch strapped to his ample abdomen. From it he withdrew a small wineskin. Here, he said, pushing it between the bars. For strength. For courage. Adelard pulled the stopper and drank greedily. They don't feed me and give me very little water. How does it feel? Ramiro thought. How many have you treated the same to make them weak and more easily persuaded by your tortures?
~ F. Paul Wilson
I hope you live a life you're proud of. And if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again." - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
~ F. S. Fitzgerald
So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald