Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wes Borland

It's always a pleasure when you can compose guitar parts from a strong vocal and not just put the melody on top of guitar riffs.

Vladislav Surkov

Soviet-era nostalgia has strong support among the people. But not among the elite and, in my opinion, not with the president. We are not interested in keeping remnants of the communist era alive.

W. E. B. Du Bois

Out of the temptation of Hate, and burned by the fire of Despair, triumphant over Doubt, and steeled by Sacrifice against Humiliation, . . . He bent to all the gibes and prejudices, to all hatred and discrimination with that rare courtesy which is the armor of pure souls. . . . he simply worked, inspiring the young, rebuking the old, helping the weak, guiding the strong.

W. E. B. Du Bois

I believe in pride of race and lineage and self: in pride of self so deep as to scorn injustice to other selves; in pride of lineage so great as to despise no man's father; in pride of race so chivalrous as neither to offer bastardy to the weak nor beg wedlock of the strong, knowing that men may be brothers in Christ, even though they be not brothers-in-law.

W. C. Fields

I exercise strong self control. I never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast.

Zong Qinghou

In China, you have to have a strong leader for a business to get anything done.

Zola Budd

I have strong views about South African politics and I still don't feel I need to make public statements.

Zora Neale Hurston

I am the kind of a woman that likes to move on mentally from point to point, and I like for my man to be there way ahead of me. Then if he is strong and honest, it goes on from there. Good looks are not essential, just extra added attraction.

Zora Neale Hurston

I have a strong suspicion . that much that passes for constant love is a golded- up moment walking in its sleep.

Zora Neale Hurston

I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all. I do not belong to the sobbing school of Negrohood who hold that nature somehow has given them a lowdown dirty deal and whose feelings are all hurt about it. Even in the helter-skelter skirmish that is my life, I have seen that the world is to the strong regardless of a little pigmentation more or less. No, I do not weep at the world—I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

Zachary Taylor

A strong reputation is like a good bonfire. When you have one kindled it's easy to keep the flame burning, even if someone comes along and tries to piss on it. But if you fall asleep and neglect it...You'll wake up with ashes.

Zach Wamp

I believe the National Park Service has demonstrated strong partnerships geared towards respecting the private property of citizens in its administering of the current Trail of Tears National Historic Trail and will continue to do so upon the addition of the routes.

Zachary Levi

I don't believe in strong-arming people.

Yukio Mishima

The past does not only draw us back to the past. There are certain memories of the past that have strong steel springs and, when we who live in the present touch them, they are suddenly stretched taut and then they propel us into the future.

Zane Grey

I must go deeper and even stronger into my treasure mine and stint nothing of time, toil, or torture.

Zainab Salbi

Stronger women build stronger nations.

Zainab Salbi

Everything can be taken from you in a second, but the human spirit is so strong. War can teach you so much about evil, and so much about good.

Zayn Malik

Smile doesn't mean that someone is happy. Sometimes it just means that you're strong.

Yulia Tymoshenko

We will fight and defend my good name in the European court. We have to be strong and defend Ukraine from this authoritarianism.

Zig Ziglar

There will always be people in your life who treat you wrong. Be sure to thank them for making you strong.

Ziggy Marley

My father, we bumped heads when I was younger, much younger... I had different ideas that I shared with him. He didn't like them as much. He gets upset or whatever. I guess I had a strong opinion from when I was a little boy.

Ziggy Marley

The Rastafari culture has a very strong connection to Haile Selassie, a descendant of King Solomon.

Ziggy Marley

My father, my Rastafari culture, has a tight link to the Jewish culture. We have a strong connection from when I was a young boy and read the Bible, the Old Testament.

Sarah Lacy

I am honest enough with myself to admit it. I rarely offer strong opinions, I have a backbone like a pair of bifold doors, and I am terrified of not being approved of.

Sarah Kay

It does not matter how strong your gravity is, we were always meant to fly.

Sara Paxton

All the women in my family are extremely strong.

It's a community event. Community events create strong communities, and a strong community is a healthy community. A healthy community is a happy community.

Sandra Oh

We actors, we're a fragile bunch, and yet we need to be strong because 90% of our lives is rejection.

Samuel Rutherford

You shall by faith sustain yourself and comfort yourself in your Lord, and be strong in His power; for you are in the beaten and common way to heaven, when you are under our Lord's crosses. You have reason to rejoice in it, more than in a crown of gold; and rejoice and be glad to bear the reproaches of Christ.

Samuel Rutherford

The weightiest end of the cross of Christ that is laid upon you, lieth upon your strong Savior.

Samuel Johnson

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.

Samuel Johnson

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

Samuel Johnson

It was the peculiar artifice of Habit not to suffer her power to be felt at first. Those whom she led, she had the address of appearing only to attend, but was continually doubling her chains upon her companions; which were so slender in themselves, and so silently fastened, that while the attention was engaged by other objects, they were not easily perceived. Each link grew tighter as it had been longer worn; and when by continual additions they became so heavy as to be felt, they were very frequently too strong to be broken.