It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their habitat, breeding and multiplying, and clearly lacking any strong hand to keep them down.
There is no greater bugbear than a strong willed relative in the circle of his own connections.
I love my mother, but there has been, ever since my boyhood, a sort of coldness of intercourse between us, such as is apt to come between people of strong feelings.
I never thought of myself as being a genius. I don’t know what genius is. I think a far better expression is a retriever, a lovely strong golden retriever that brings things back from the past, or retrieves things from our common blood memory.
Fear is the strong passion; it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living.
To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete.
Extreme busyness is a symptom of deficient vitality, and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.
It isn’t often that Aunt Dahlia lets her angry passions rise, but when she does, strong men climb trees and pull them up after them.
Another of these strong silent men. The world is full of us.
We’ll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail.
Editorials are written by people who have agreed to have several strong opinions a day and to write them down, provided they do not have to sign their names.
Whoever invented marriage was an ingenious tormentor. It is an institution committed to the dulling of the feelings. The whole point of marriage is repetition. The best it aims for is the creation of strong, mutual dependencies.
What makes me feel strong? Being in love and work. I must work.
The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.
One can know worlds one has not experienced, choose a response to life that has never been offered, create an inwardness utterly strong and fruitful.
We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up or fight like hell.
You can teach someone how to control their strength, but you can’t teach them to be strong.
My mom was such a strong character. I don’t want to say she was like a man, but she was tough.
We sped on, across the plains, toward Metz. I hung back, saving myself. It is called the Race of Truth. The early stages separate the strong riders from the weak. Now the weak would be eliminated altogether.