There are things of which I may not speak; There are dreams that cannot die; There are thoughts that make the strong heart weak, And bring a pallor into the cheek, And a mist before the eye.
Wondrous strong are the spells of fiction.
Sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great.
Sail on ship of state, sail on, I union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, with all its hopes of future years, is hanging on thy fate!
Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.
Make men large and strong and tyranny will bankrupt itself in making shackles for them.
Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.
The strong are God’s natural protectors of the weak.
It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.
The commerce of the world is conducted by the strong, and usually it operates against the weak.
It is trial that proves one thing weak and another strong. A house built on the sand is in fair weather just as good as if builded on a rock. A cobweb is as good as the mightiest cable when there is no strain upon it.
Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.
A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life. I have a mad impulse to smash something, a warehouse perhaps, or a cathedral, or myself, to committ outrages...
Our country deserves no less, because all of the other issues we want to deal with depend upon us being secure and strong.
I want a strong military. But I do not believe, among other things, that without an audit, we should be throwing tens of billions of dollars more into the Department of Defense.
When families are strong, America is strong.
If we’re going to be successful in taking on the billionaire class, we need a strong national grassroots movement.
Well, I think both Russia and China have a very strong aversion to interference in internal affairs.
We cannot eradicate violence if we do not build strong, inclusive communities.
It is easier for a woman to be a good wife than a good mother. A widow has two duties with contrary obligations: she is a mother and she must exercise paternal authority. Few woman are strong enough to understand and to play this role.