Strong Quotes

8666 Strong quotes by 4867 unique authors

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… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
One cannot be strong without love. For love is not an irrelevant emotion; it is the blood of life. — Paul Tillich
Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are… — Roland Barthes
I feel a strong immortal hope, which bears my mournful spirit up beneath its mountain load; redeemed from death, and grief, and pain, I soon… — Charles Wesley
MEMORIES OF MY FAMILY MEETINGS still are a source of strength to me. I remember we'd all get into the car - I forget what… — Jack Handey
The great and amorous sky curved over the earth, and lay upon her as a pure lover. The rain, the humid flux descending from heaven… — Aeschylus
I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable, Patient to some degree,… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
There is no greater bugbear than a strong willed relative in the circle of his own connections. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
The strong man wants to be allowed to DO; the little man wants to stop him. — Theodore Dreiser
The commerce of the world is conducted by the strong, and usually it operates against the weak. — Henry Ward Beecher
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

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