Being harmless means being so strong, so empowered, that the idea of showing power through harm is not even a part of your consciousness.
Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her.
Not everybody is strong enough to endure life without an anesthetic. Drink probably averts more gross crime than it causes.
But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things.
You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable.
And when a woman’s will is as strong as the man’s who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.
It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.
It’s rather a strong check to one’s self-complacency to find how much of one’s right doing depends on not being in want of money.
It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one’s own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care.
In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves ignorance from any painful sense of limpness.
Strong souls Live like fire-hearted suns to spend their strength In farthest striving action; breathe more free In mighty anguish than in trivial ease.
It belongs to every large nature, when it is not under the immediate power of some strong unquestioning emotion, to suspect itself, and doubt the truth of its own impressions, conscious of possibilities beyond its own horizon.
When the soul is just liberated from the wretched giant’s bed of dogmas on which it has been racked and stretched ever since it began to think, there is a feeling of exultation and strong hope.
To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.
All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year that passes.
Rifles, muskets, long-bows and hand-grenades are inherently democratic weapons. A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon – so long as there is no answer to it – gives claws to the weak.
The urge to shout filthy words at the top of his voice was as strong as ever.
Make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up.
Im a strong proponent of the restoration of the wetlands, for a lot of reasons. Theres a practical reason, though, when it comes to hurricanes: The stronger the wetlands, the more likely the damage of the hurricane.
King Fahd was a man of wisdom and a leader who commanded respect throughout the entire world. He was a friend and strong ally of the United States for decades.