Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is the nature of strong people that they can bring out crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

But thy strong Hours indignant work’d their wills, And beat me down and marr’d and wasted me, And tho’ they could not end me, left me maim’d To dwell in presence of immortal youth, Immortal age beside immortal youth, And all I was, in ashes. - Tithonus

Albert Einstein

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character; it becomes lack of power to act with courage proportionate to danger. All this must lead to the destruction of our intellectual life unless the danger summons up strong personalities able to fill the lukewarm and discouraged with new strength and resolution.

Doug E. Fresh

I'm coming up with new music, I'm in the best shape of my life, I'm real sharp, my energy is strong. I look at it as: I'm just following the energy. That's how I sum that up.

Anne Bancroft

I had no doubts I could go to the pole. I may not be as strong, but I make up for physical strength in other areas, like steadiness and not panicking under stress.

Angelina Jolie

I went through what I imagine thousands of other women have felt. I told myself to stay calm, to be strong, and that I had no reason to think I wouldn't live to see my children grow up and to meet my grandchildren.

Amy Carmichael

If I belittle those whom I am called to serve, talk of their weak points in contrast perhaps with what I think of as my strong points; if I adopt a superior attitude, forgetting "Who made thee to differ? and what hast thou that thou hast not received?" then I know nothing of Calvary love.

Amy Carmichael

The word comfort is from two Latin words meaning “with” and “strong” – He is with us to make us strong. Comfort is not soft, weakening commiseration; it is true, strengthening love.

Amy Carmichael

Let us not be surprised when we have to face difficulties. When the wind blows hard on a tree, the roots stretch and grow the stronger, Let it be so with us. Let us not be weaklings, yielding to every wind that blows, but strong in spirit to resist.

Bobby Robson

We haven't paid 25 million and 10 million and all the dazzling figures you see being banded about for strikers at the moment. We've been very clever and frugal in our dealings. He's not cheap, he's not for nothing, but we're very happy with the deal.

Kin Hubbard

Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid.

Lech Walesa

Obviously people want social calm, but if you do not let clever and ingenious people to participate, obviously there must be some dormant volcano that will erupt, sooner or later.

Lance Armstrong

If you're trying to hide something, you wouldn't keep getting away with it for 10 years. Nobody is that clever.

Laini Taylor

When it turned out that he could, Karou dropped to her knees to genuflect. "Gods of math and physics," she intoned, "I accept your gift of this clever fair-haired boy

James Lee Burke

Age is a clever thief. It takes a little from you each day, so you're not aware of your loss until it'd irreversible.

Martin Mull

Human beings are 70% water and with some the rest is colagen

Mark Thomas

We tend to think of politicians as time-servers and slackers. But on those committees they usually have an interest in the subject. And they're quite clever. I've seen them pick people apart.

Mariella Frostrup

I wasn't allowed to be clever when I was young and blonde, but now I am 50 and an old blonde, I am allowed to have gravitas. With wrinkles comes wisdom.

Peter Thiel

What nerds miss is that it takes hard work to make sales look easy.

Karl Popper

[Great scientists] are men of bold ideas, but highly critical of their own ideas: they try to find whether their ideas are right by trying first to find whether they are not perhaps wrong. They work with bold conjectures and severe attempts at refuting their own conjectures.