Time and place often give advantage to the weak over the strong.
The strong and the weak cannot keep company.
Each person has his strong point.
United we stand, divided we fall.
An oak and a reed were arguing about their strength. When a strong wind came up, the reed avoided being uprooted by bending and leaning with the gusts of wind. But the oak stood firm and was torn up by the roots.
I find my greatest strengths in wanting ti be strong. I find my greatest bravery in deciding to be brave.
The word I think of is precarious. I am struck by how precarious it all is. How the things that hold us are only as strong as the faith we have in them.
Strong Son of God, immortal Love, Whom we, that have not seen thy face, By faith, and faith alone, embrace, Believing where we cannot prove.
What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow men’s existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of imagined life clearer than reality and whose accumulated verisimilitude of selected episodes puts to shame the pride of documentary history.
Strong women are absolutely unpredictable.
And when a strong man is sweet, even Goddesses look down from Mount Olympus.
The truth is most women are weak, be they mortal or immortal. But when they are strong, they are absolutely unpredictable.
Like all strong people, she suffered always a measure of loneliness; she was a marginal outsider, a secret infidel of a certain sort.
Be sure to wear a good cologne, a nice aftershave lotion, and a strong underarm deodorant. And it might be a good idea to wear some clothes, too.
People can say what they want, but historically, feminism in the Dominican Republic has been extremely strong.
I was really drawn to thinking about the women in my life. Thinking about my mother, who’s a very powerful force on me. And I have these two very strong sisters who took up a lot of imaginary space in my life.
You got to tell me the brave captain Why are the wicked so strong? How do the angels get to sleep When the devil leaves the porch light on?
I love the old way best, the simple way of poison, where we too are strong as men.
That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation; since our fortune’s course of action is the reeling way a madman takes, and no one person is ever happy all the time.
It is a good thing to be rich and strong, but it is a better thing to be loved.