Quotes About Strength

Now there was this scarcely saved waif of disaster bringing him the essence of a continent...

Yet her tired heart, beating until it shook her breasts, made her sure that there was still life in her, desperately shaken, threatened…

Professor Dohmler raised himself like a legless man mounting a pair of crutches.

It was a body capable of enormous leverage - a cruel body.

No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man can store up in his ghostly heart

contempt in it, even toward people he liked—and there were men at New Haven who had hated his guts. 'Now, don't think my opinion on these matters is final,' he seemed to say, 'just because I'm stronger and more of a man than you are.' We were in the

I've never met a man who led a rotten life and didn't have a weak will.

Though she thought of her body as a mass of frailties, she considered her soul quite as ill, and therefore important in her life.

It was good to be hard, then; all nice people were hard on themselves.

And his mind strong and subtle like the mind of Cuchulin

Courage—just that; courage as a rule of life, and something to cling to always.

Not even the effeminate swank of his riding clothes could hide the enormous power of that body—

So we beat on, boats against the current.

I was entirely unconvinced about anything, except that some people were strong and attractive and could do what they wanted, and others were caught and disgraced.

Non c'è fuoco o gelo che possa sfidare ciò che un uomo arriva a custodire tra i fantasmi del proprio cuore.

It's the whole thing,' he asserted. 'It's the one dividing line between good and evil. I've never met a man who led a rotten life and didn't have a weak will.

It was a stretch to imagine that Barbara Walters might want to give it all up for Ed Couch, but Evelyn tried her hardest. Of course, even though she was not religious, it was a comfort to know that the Bible backed her up in being a doormat.

but she never did cry. She was too hurt to cry.… You know, a heart can be broken, but it keeps on beating, just the same.

a heart can be broken, but it keep on beating, just the same.

Quienes más sufren son quienes menos lo dicen.

she had learned that being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome.

You never know what's in a person's heart until they're tested, do you?

She was too hurt to cry….You know, a heart can be broken, but it keeps on beating, just the same.

When she finally was able to order a martini, the first sip nearly knocked her head off. It was so strong. And how surprised she was that scotch tasted more like iodine than butterscotch candy. Two of the great disappointments in her life.