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stronger
It would be much stronger if it was a law. Terry Tamminen
stronger overcoming emotion
Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion. Baruch Spinoza
stronger dies
The more we die, the stronger we will become Azar Nafisi
strong mean support
Balance for me now means seeing myself as a tree, being strong enough in my roots and trunk to not be a pushover, but being flexible enough in every circumstance not to break. I am continuing to expand, but not any faster than my roots can support me. Brenda Strong
strong boys voice
Shortly after this I was made a member of the boys choir, it being found that I possessed a clear, strong soprano voice. I enjoyed the singing very much. James Weldon Johnson
strong men long
Time says hush: by the gong of time you live. Listen and you hear time saying you were silent long before you came to life and you will again be silent long after you leave it, why not be a little silent now? Hush yourself, noisy little man. Time hushes all: the gong of time rang for you to come out of the hush and you were born. The gong of time will ring for you to go back to the same hush you came from. Winners and losers, the weak and the strong, those who say little and try to say it well, and those who babble and prattle their lives away, time hushes all. Carl Sandburg
strong believe life-and-death
You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth of falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong and sound as long as you are merely using it to cord a box. But suppose you had to hang by that rope over a precipice. Wouldn't you then first discover how much you really trusted it? C. S. Lewis
strong betrayal tired
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 have new faith. Through our strong will, our movement is changing these conditions...We shall be heard. Cesar Chavez
strong kings people
Saudi Arabia has stability. The social contract and the political contract between the king and the rulers and the royal family and the ruled people in Saudi Arabia is very strong and the bondage is so solid. Al-Waleed bin Talal
mentally
That's just the way he pitches. I think it has more to do with him mentally concentrating really well. He hasn't let anything get away from him. Tony Russa
mention mere smile smiles
You smile with just the mere mention of his name. John Sullivan
men iron envy
As rust corrupts iron, so envy corrupts man. Antisthenes
men life-is hanging-out
Life is too large to hang out a sign: 'For Men Only. Barbara Jordan
men religion useless
Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune's greedily coveted favours, they are consequently for the most part, very prone to credulity.
men desire tongue
Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more easily than their words.
men simplicity fame
The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men. Augustus Hare
men evil neighbor
A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself.
men thinking principles
Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them.
wife married my-wife
My wife's married. I'm not. Charles Barkley
wife betrayed teeth
If only one tooth aches, rejoice that not all of them ache.... If your wife betrays you, be glad that she betrayed only you and not the nation. Anton Chekhov
wife pockets my-wife
My wife is very happy about me keeping all my music in my pocket. Craig Finn
wife black loyal
Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups. Ben Horowitz
wife former stills
I still love my former wife, I won't call her my ex-wife. Dave Pelzer
wife heaven tears
I walked out of the theater and started crying. My wife asked me, 'Why are you crying?' I said, 'Because I can't do that.' I didn't know how he did it. I've never seen anything like that. It's like this feat, this Rodin sculpture to me. It's like hearing an opera singer and the tears go down your face because it's not human what they're doing. It's like sounds of heaven. Dustin Hoffman
wife looks remember
I remember during my lifetime I would meet women, and it was almost like God would say to me, 'Now, this woman here is not the one you are going to end up with, but she is going to be a lot like this woman; look at this woman, study this woman.' And when my wife showed up, He was like, 'You recognize her now?' Alec Baldwin
wife long ease
The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife, / To help me through this long disease, my life. Alexander Pope
wife location film
I love grabbing my wife and going to a distant location to film. Donald Sutherland