Strong Quotes

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When we feel a strong desire to thrust our advice upon others, it is usually because we suspect their weakness; but we ought rather to… — Charles Caleb Colton
When the world is storm-driven and bad things happen, then we need to know all the strong fortresses of the spirit which men have built… — Edith Hamilton
I remember with strong feelings the families who joined our movement and paid dues long before there was any hope of winning contracts. Sometimes, fathers… — Cesar Chavez
We are tired of words, of betrayals, of indifference...they years are gone when the farm worker said nothing an did nothing to help himself...Now we… — Cesar Chavez
Morality and ethics are nothing but footballs, wherewith people, strong people play to win points. — Theodore Dreiser
All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete. — Robert Louis Stevenson
There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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… — Joseph Conrad
He was as noble and fair in face as an elf-lord, as strong as a warrior, as wise as a wizard, as venerable as a… — J.R.R. Tolkien
A man may have strong humanitarian and democratic principles, but if he happens to have been brought up as a bath-taking, shirt-changing lover of fresh… — Aldous Huxley
[The papists] ought to have sympathy with us weak, poor Christians, and not condemn us or make fun of us because we are learning so… — Martin Luther
The name of the Lord (says the Scripture) is a strong tower; thither the righteous flee and are safe (Proverbs 18:10). Let us secure His… — Samuel Adams
A strong memory is commonly coupled with infirm judgment. — Michel de Montaigne
Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice. — Abraham Lincoln
The many instances of forged miracles, and prophecies, and supernatural events, which, in all ages, have either been detected by contrary evidence, or which detect… — David Hume
You lay, a small knuckle on my white bed; lay, that fist like a snail, small and strong at my breast. Your lips are animals;… — Anne Sexton
Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace. — Adolf Hitler
It is the government's strong desire to empower this fabric, this social fabric of our society where faith-based programs large and small feel empowered, encouraged,… — George W. Bush
The national government...will maintain and defend the foundations on which the power of our nation rests. It will offer strong protection to Christianity as the… — Adolf Hitler
Our security is not a matter of weapons alone. The arm that wields them must be strong, the eye that guides them clear, the will… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning. — Charles de Gaulle
Ideology is not the product of thought; it is the habit or the ritual of showing respect for certain formulas to which, for various reasons… — Lionel Trilling
It is time to fill the world with strong and powerful deeds. It is common knowledge that no great captain in the world has ever… — Dalai Lama
If, however, there is to be a war of nerves let us make sure our nerves are strong and are fortified by the deepest convictions… — Winston Churchill
Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen… — Alice Meynell

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