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Quotes About Stalwart

Maybe a captain more obsessed with strict protocol and formality would have been stalwart in hiding his feelings, but Riker didn't subscribe to such emotionally stunted ideals of manhood.
~ David W. Mack
In Washington, Prescott Bush voted consistently with the liberal wing of the Republican Party. He was stalwart on civil rights and a staunch advocate of repealing the discriminatory provisions of the McCarran-Walter Immigration Act. Prescott
~ Jean Edward Smith
North Carolinians are determined, tough people.
~ Roy Cooper
I'm a strong fellow.
~ Albert Brooks
People keep saying Balachander discovered me. I differ. He invented me. When a stalwart like him suggests that I act in films, who am I to refuse?
~ Kamal Haasan
Jaap Stam is a man-mountain of a footballer.
~ Edgar Davids
Truth must be stalwart, Loyalty absolute, Generosity unstinting, while Appearance and Convention were children of the giant Hyprocrisy and must be put to flight".
~ Marilynne Robinson
Petr Yan's a tough dude.
~ Aljamain Sterling
I think I'm a little tougher than I am smart.
~ The Undertaker
Useless the Elder was looking at me in amusement. "Not exactly stalwart, are you?" he said.
~ Megan Whalen Turner
They would rampage up and down the island, terrorizing step-granddaughters and traumatizing even the most stalwart goons, and no one
~ Melissa de la Cruz
Sitting Bull is known today for stalwart resistance, for being the last of his tribe to surrender to the U.S. government. But at the Little Bighorn, he did not want to fight. He wanted to talk. This may be his most important legacy. As he recognized when he instructed his nephew to approach Reno's skirmish line with a shield instead of a rifle, our children are best served not by a self-destructive blaze of glory, but by the hardest path of all: survival and accommodation.
~ Nathaniel Philbrick
All that remained of the protesters were the few stalwart enough to have survived watching two women kiss. I guess they were afraid if enough people saw how much fun we were having, they would all convert to being queer. Well, it seemed like a good way to prevent abortions to me.
~ J.M. Redmann
I am here to tell you We are all of us just as mighty as planets—and you too, We'll let you in, we've got stalwart to spare— But you might have to sleep on the floor.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Chaos claims the unwary or the incomplete. A true man may flinch away its embrace, if he is stalwart, and he girds his soul with the armour of contempt.
~ Dan Abnett
When we read certain portions of "Leaves of Grass" we seem to see a vast phalanx of Great Companions passing for ever along the cosmic roads, stalwart Pioneers of the Universe. There are superb young men, athletic girls, splendid and savage old men—for the weak seem to have perished by the roadside.
~ H. Havelock Ellis
Idleness makes people feeble and peevish. Work makes them stalwart and prone to anger.
~ Mason Cooley
I want that at my funeral," said Pam. "I want to be carried out on the shoulders of six stalwart young men. Preferably in loincloths.
~ Leslie Meier
Businessmen are notable for a peculiarly stalwart character, which enables them to enjoy without loss of self-reliance the benefits of tariffs, franchises, and even outright government subsidies.
~ Herbert J. Muller
Chaos claims the unwary or the incomplete. A true man may flinch away its embrace, if he is stalwart, and he girds his soul with the armour of contempt.
~ Dan Abnett
To put the matter bluntly, U.S. soldiers on Bataan and Corregidor showed themselves more stalwart than British imperial forces in Malaya and at Singapore, albeit likewise in a doomed cause. Brigadier
~ Max Hastings
What you mean? Whaih you think Gawd is?' Joe remained sullenly silent. His mother's faith was too stalwart for his comprehension. There was nothing like it in his own soul to interpret it.
~ Paul Laurence Dunbar