Anytime you’re with somebody, you become a reflection of that person. I believe the first five years of our relationship was me grooming her, getting her tough and getting her ready for all of this and how to deal with it. The last was just her being a strong Black woman who has her man’s back.
I’m named after Jane Austen’s Emma, and I’ve always been able to relate to her. She’s strong, confident but quite tactless.
I can describe, and I’ve always been able to describe, what Republicans stand for in eight words, and the eight words are lower taxes, less government, strong defense and family values.
I’m a strong believer that you should practice like you play. Little things make big things happen.
Hard days are the best because that’s when champions are made.
Always be courageous and strong, and don’t fear.
If we set our minds to it, we can achieve anything.
The natural response of the old-timers is to build a strong moral wall against the outside. This is where the world starts to be painted in black and white, saints inside, and sinners outside the wall.
The strong man wants to be allowed to DO; the little man wants to stop him.
Morality and ethics are nothing but footballs, wherewith people, strong people play to win points.
Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
Thou strong seducer, Opportunity!
Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
On a personal level, I’m proud of Grace Dunham for being so staunchly in her identity. It’s a very unusual thing for a young person. I think she’s been very strong about it.
It’s interesting how we often can’t see the ways in which we are being strong – like, you can’t be aware of what you’re doing that’s tough and brave at the time that you’re doing it because if you knew that it was brave, then you’d be scared.
Writing children’s books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive.
In the end I would always pull up with a sense of glory, that loving is the strong side. It’s feeble to be an object. What’s the point of being loved in return, I’d ask myself.
Mullets are still going strong in the south and places like St Louis or the Carolinas.
The victors called the revolution a triumph of liberty; but now and then liberty in the slogans of the strong means freedom from restraint in the exploitation of the weak.
A mind that questions everything, unless strong enough to bear the weight of its ignorance, risks questioning itself and being engulfed in doubt.