What is a truthful life? A life lived with deliberateness, a good, strong life.
I am a strong believer in the ability of human beings to change for the better. I am a strong believer in trying to change what we are dissatisfied with.
Puritanism, in whatever expression, is a poisonous germ. On the surface everything may look strong and vigorous; yet the poison works its way persistently, until the entire fabric is doomed.
Real wealth consists in things of utility and beauty, in things that help to create strong, beautiful bodies and surroundings inspiring to live in.
Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is...
Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.
The bow is tactically strong at the commencement of battle, especially battles on a moor, as it is possible to shoot quickly among the spearmen.
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.