This wasn’t strong-willed, fly-by-the-seat-of-her-miniskirt Kate that I’d befriended last year. You think you know a girl- and then she goes and loses her virginity at a Mardi Gras party and goes soft.
I have a very strong sense of architecture in my novels. But at first it’s sometimes like building a doorknob before you have a door, and a door before you have a room.
I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer.
How sure I feel, how warm and strong and happy For the future! How sure the future is within me; I am like a seed with a perfect flower enclosed...
An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality – same stuff, same make up, only more force. And the strong driving force usually finds his weak spot, and he goes cranked, or goes under.
The only rule is, do what you really, impulsively, wish to do. But always act on your own responsibility, sincerely. And have the courage of your own strong emotion.
Tragedy is like strong acid – it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
Among many of my friends and acquaintances, I seem to be one of the very few individuals who felt or feels no ambivalence about my mother. All my feelings for my mother were positive, very strong and abiding.
I wouldn’t want to live without strong misgivings.
The Lord gave us farmers two strong hands so we could grab as much as we could with both of them.
A strong imagination begetteth opportunity.
Anyone who does not feel sufficiently strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
It takes so much to be a king that he exists only as such. That extraneous glare that surrounds him hides him and conceals him from us; our sight breaks and is dissipated by it being filled and arrested by this strong light.
Experience teaches that a strong memory is generally joined to a weak judgment.
3. There are bears and there are small dogs. Be strong like bear! If they take out your teeth, sit on the dogs. Bears always forget they can just sit on the dogs. Sit on the dogs.
Be strong, be brave, be true. Endure.
I think men who can cry are strong men.
I feel strong. Not strong enough to face myself, but strong enough to keep going.
Authority, as you usually think of it, is merely the excuse the strong use to make others conform to what they want.
We are made strong by what we overcome.