Were not this desire of fame very strong, the difficulty of obtaining it, and the danger of losing it when obtained, would be sufficient to deter a man from so vain a pursuit.
The taboos that constitute a man’s intellectual stature, often sedimented experiences and unarticulated insights, always operate against inner impulses that he has learned to condemn, but which are so strong that only an unquestioning and unquestioned authority can hold them in check.
To be a mother you must be strong. Even if you don’t feel it, you have to pretend.
For there below ground sits the Dark God, strong to call men to judgment; he sees all, and writes it in his memory.
A strong body listens. It obeys. A weak body commands. If your body is weak it tells you what to do. If your body is strong it’ll actually listen to you when you tell it to do something. If you build it right you can overcome some of the obstacles of age and recovery.
There are many ways of getting strong, sometimes talking is the best way.
Men aren’t as strong and capable as we are. We’re machines.
It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.
If the pull of the outside world is strong, there is also a pull towards the human. The cat may disappear on its own errands, but sooner or later, it returns once again for a little while, to greet us with its own type of love.
As the physically weak man can make himself strong by careful and patient training, so the man of weak thoughts can make them strong by exercising himself in right thinking.
He who would be useful, strong, and happy must cease to be a passive receptacle for the negative, beggarly, and impure streams of thought.
A strong man cannot help a weaker unless the weaker is willing to be helped, and even then the weak man must become strong of himself; he must, by his own efforts, develop the strength which he admires in another. None but himself can alter his condition.
I really don’t feel any strong allegiance to any country.
I sort of feel sorry for the next man who gets me. I may just kill him with passion. He’d better be strong and have a good heart!
Your soul should be as strong as possible when it leaves here for whatever comes next.
I did not begin with craft, I began with strong feelings and worked toward craft.
If you feel you have a strong constituency among the young, you can really die happy, because the great unanswered question, the only valid value judgment is whether you’re going to last, and that tells you that you are, for a bit at least.
I don’t think I’m really a rude person, but now I see myself on television, I think, ‘Oh, God, that is a bit strong.’ And I wonder if I’ve always been like that and I haven’t been aware of it.
Sometimes when you smile, it’s not because you’re happy. It’s because you’re strong.
Whether our task is fighting poverty, stemming the spread of disease or saving innocent lives from mass murder, we have seen that we cannot succeed without the leadership of the strong and the engagement of all.