Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ouida

The joy of a strong nature is as cloudless as its suffering is desolate.

Otto von Bismarck

It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.

Otto von Bismarck

We live in a wondrous time in which the strong is weak because of his moral scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.

Oscar Wilde

In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor.

Kami Garcia

I grabbed Aunt Prue's tiny hand, her fingers as small as bare twigs in winter. I closed my eyes and took her other hand, twisting my strong fingers together with her frail ones. I rested my forehead against our hands and closed my eyes. I imagined lifting my head up and seeing her smiling, the tape and tubes gone. I wondered if wishing was the same thing as praying. If hoping for something badly enough could make it happen.

Kami Garcia

No, I'm too busy trying to deflect your Power of Stupidity. But I don't think I'm strong enough.

Junichiro Koizumi

On the strength of strong public support, I will have (the postal reform bills) passed within this session,

June Jordan

A democratic state is not proven by the welfare of the strong but by the welfare of the weak.

William Ellery Channing

To be prosperous is not to be superior, and should form no barrier between men. Wealth out not to secure the prosperous the slightest consideration. The only distinctions which should be recognized are those of the soul, of strong principle, of incorruptible integrity, of usefulness, of cultivated intellect, of fidelity in seeking the truth.

William Ellery Channing

The fewer the voices on the side of truth, the more distinct and strong must be your own.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

All that is good is not embodied in the law; and all that is evil is not proscribed by the law. A well-disciplined society needs few laws; but it needs strong mores.

William Faulkner

Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.

William Faulkner

People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do -after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.

William Faulkner

She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love. Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.

Willem Dafoe

When I give over to somebody's vision rather than have an idea of what I need to do, it takes me to places I wouldn't have got to by myself. I'm always attracted to a strong director.

Whitney M. Young

Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.

Ronald Reagan

A strong American economy is essential to the well-being and security of our friends and allies.

Ronald Reagan

Of the many messages found in the Hanukah story, the one that has always inspired me most is this: with a strong faith in the Almighty, nothing is impossible; and without the help of our Creator, we labor in vain.

Ronald Reagan

And how stands the city on this winter night? More prosperous, more secure, and happier than it was 8 years ago. But more than that: After 200 years, two centuries, she still stands strong and true on the granite ridge, and her glow has held steady no matter what storm. And she's still a beacon, still a magnet for all who must have freedom, for all the pilgrims from all the lost places who are hurtling through the darkness, toward home.

Ronald Reagan

A stronger defense is an investment in peace.

Ronald Reagan

I welcome this chance to further strengthen the unbreakable ties between the United States and Israel and to assure you of our commitment to Israel's security and well-being. Israel and America may be thousands of miles apart, but we are philosophical neighbors sharing a strong commitment to democracy and the rule of law. What we hold in common are the bonds of trust and friendship, qualities that in our eyes make Israel a great nation. No people have fought longer, struggled harder, or sacrificed more than yours in order to survive, to grow, and to live in freedom

Ronald Reagan

An America that is militarily and economically strong is not enough. The world must see an America that is morally strong with a creed and a vision. This is what has led us to dare and achieve. For us, values count.

Saint Francis de Sales

There is nothing as strong as tenderness, And nothing as tender as true strength.

Yasser Arafat

The obstacle is the USA administration. I know there is a strong Israeli lobby in America, no doubt of it.

Wladimir Klitschko

You can train your mental strength just like you train your body. If your body looks fit or ripped, it looks strong, and you can flex your muscles. So, physically, you have a certain strength. Mentally, it's the same thing. You can train your psychological strength.

Wole Soyinka

See, even despite pious statements to the contrary, much of the industrialized world has not yet come to terms with the recognition of the fallacy of what I call the strong man syndrome.

Wislawa Szymborska

God was finally going to believe in a man both good and strong, but good and strong are still two different men.

Winston Churchill

In battles two things are usually required of the Commander-in-Chief: to make a good plan for his army and, secondly, to keep a strong reserve.

Winston Churchill

We need to be strong in order to avoid war; and to win. A politician looks forward only to the next election. A statesman looks forward to the next generation. Any person who is over 30 and is not a conservative, has no brains...

Winston Churchill

To try to be safe everywhere is to be strong nowhere.

Wilt Chamberlain

I was played the villain so much because I was bigger and stronger than most, and they cast me as the villain everywhere I went.

Wilma Mankiller

Remember that I am just a woman who is living a very abundant life. Every step I take forward is on a path paved by strong Indian women before me.

Wim Wenders

The Cuban people have an amazingly strong and unbroken spirit.