My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we didn’t have any money, because Africa was the ‘dark continent’, and because I was a girl.

I have a very strong sense of my own identity.

Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don’t judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family.

People cry, not because they’re weak. It’s because they’ve been strong for too long.

Stay strong. You never know who you are inspiring.

I think two people with strong points of view can appreciate each other even more.

Me Brock Lesnar. Here comes the pain. God built me strong. Forget to give me brain.

When my job isn’t performing in a WWE ring, my job is to get back performing in that ring. When I’m hurt, all I have to do all day is get strong and get better. I’m a very dedicated physical therapy patient, and that helps a lot.

Every climb is an opportunity to push beyond your limits and grow stronger.

America is strongest when we stand together.

To play against me, you have to be strong, and if you’re not, you’re going to get hurt.

You have to be mentally strong to succeed in football.

Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it – likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.

I’ve really been trying to go back to when I was 18 and rediscover the things that drove me, and my passions. How do I get back to being that strong? Because I feel like as I get older, I’m not as fearless as I was when I was 18.

A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away

To say America can have strong leadership without strong character is to say we can get water without the wet.

Any good defensive team has a strong anchor, because he cleans up mistakes.

If the noun is good and the verb is strong, you almost never need an adjective.

Logicians may reason about abstractions. But the great mass of men must have images. The strong tendency of the multitude in all ages and nations to idolatry can be explained on no other principle.

I’m not saying it’s wrong to have strong opinions, just that we should occasionally look at things from a different perspective

It is my strong conviction that a realist conception of human nature should be made a servant of an ethic of progressive justice and should not be made into a bastion of conservatism, particularly a conservatism which defends unjust privileges.

Man is both strong and weak, both free and bound, both blind and far-seeing. He stands at the juncture of nature and spirit; and is involved in both freedom and necessity.

Life was to him like strong, white light that hurts the tired eyes of a sick person.

The desire to do it was strong, but stronger still was the imperative command of his nature not to do it. In spite of himself he was still faithful to Love. The old days of license and easy living were gone. He could not bring them back, nor could he go back to them, He was changed – how changed he had not realized until now.

Surely there can be little in this world more awful than the spectacle of a strong man in the moment when he is utterly weak and broken.

Sometimes we fall, sometimes we stumble, but we can’t stay down. We can’t allow life to beat us down. Everything happens for a reason, and it builds character in us, and it tells us what we are about and how strong we really are when we didn’t think we could be that strong.

When families are strong and stable, so are children – showing higher levels of wellbeing and more positive outcomes. But when things go wrong – either through family breakdown or a damaged parental relationship – the impact on a child’s later life can be devastating.

Getting a family into work, supporting strong relationships, getting parents off drugs and out of debt – all this can do more for a child’s well-being than any amount of money in out-of-work benefits.

Get a job! Go to work! Poor, stupid slaves, he thought. Small wonder the world belonged to the strong. The slaves were obsessed by their own slavery. A job was to them a golden fetich before which they fell down and worshipped.

Drualt took Freya’s warm hand, Her strong hand, Her sword hand, And pressed it to his lips, Pressed it to his heart. Come with me,’ he said. Come with me to battle, My love. Tarry at my side. Stay with me When battle is done. Tarry at my side. Laugh with me, And walk with me The long, long way. Tarry with me, My love, at my side.

Occasions do not make a man either strong or weak but they show what he is

I don’t think young people are as demoralized as the media and government would like us to think. The obvious sign of that is how strong and how close personal connections are and how much people are able to build a life for themselves, despite all this stuff that’s been thrown at them.

Nietzsche was right. I won’t take the time to tell you who Nietzsche was, but he was right. The world belongs to the strong – to the strong who are noble as well and who do not wallow in the swine-trough of trade and exchange. The world belongs to the true nobleman, to the great blond beasts, to the noncompromisers, to the ’yes-sayers.

Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tide-water dog, strong of muscle and with warm, long hair, from Puget Sound to San Diego.

He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength and prowess, surviving triumphantly in a hostile environment where only the strong survive.”

The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.

White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.

We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.

When I arrived at Atletico, at that point they were not so strong.

If the coach on the sidelines is not that strong, transmitting the kind of spirit he has, players won’t always handle it well. Life becomes difficult. But, with Mourinho, everything is good. He knows when to be among his players, as ‘one of us’ making jokes as a friend, and when to be strong and distant, even severe

For Buffon, I hear he trains less on the field, and he is more focused on keeping his muscles strong

When I saw Iker play at the beginning, what most caught my attention is that a goalkeeper of 18 could stand the pressure of the Bernabeu. He had to be very strong.

I am strong, the crowd makes me even stronger when they are on fire, I love to be with them, they give me focus so I just relax and play.

When I speak everyone listens and that gives me pleasure – even Zlatan, who has got a strong personality. When I talk he listens to me and I explain why he has got to do this or that.s

I know I’m strong, and that’s good.

When you are accustomed to winning, when you are used to winning, then afterwards you tend not to have the same level of concentration. Sometimes you go into the games thinking you have already won because you are so strong

God watch over us. Keep us strong and lifted.

Life certainly points it out to you – ‘you can go this way or the other way.’ You have to decide and it’s a very strong decision because, would you sleep well knowing that you’re living in the best place, but you’re letting the place where you should live alone?

I’m attracted to films that have strong female characters because there are strong female characters in my life.

Hollywood usually doesn’t have strong woman in films like that, and it’s stupid, so for the most part they’re usually being directed and written by men.

I owe a lot to my family; we’re a strong unit.

I like strong women. Strong women characters have always existed in the movies of directors such as K. Balachander and Mani Ratnam

You need to be mentally and physically very strong to go and perform in Australia.

The great thing about visual horror films is there’s real potential for strong, beautiful imagery. It’s the one genre that really lends itself to creating strong images. And I’ve always loved that idea of windmills – your mind aimlessly spinning.

I have a strong passion for the game and always look forward to playing.

It’s important to have a strong work ethic to succeed, and even more important to stay hungry for more.

Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data

Love is pretty important. It’s like wearing a suit of armor. It makes you strong.

Yes,” he said. “You were strong. You were brave. You were good. You mattered.

The balance of power is the scale of peace. The same balance would be preserved were all the world not destitute of arms, for all would be alike; but since some will not, others dare not lay them aside… Horrid mischief would ensue were one half the world deprived of the use of them… the weak will become prey to the strong

You are braver than you believe, Stronger than you seem, And smarter than you think.

Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity.

When we are strong, we are always much greater than the things that happen to us

It was one of the most memorable experiences of my life. I got to see firsthand the sacrifices that Israelis make in the name of security because of the dangerous state of affairs there. I will always be a strong supporter of Israel.

Our country must be strong enough to solve problems, and that means we must learn how to work together again.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the governmen

We’re stronger in the places that we’ve been broken.

I may not be as stong as I think, but I know many tricks and I have resolution.

A strong belief in fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand, there is a comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.

All people see fires, storms, explosions, or landscapes; but how many feel the flames, the lightnings, the whirlwinds, or the harmony? How many have an inner beauty that tinges their melancholy?

The strong take from the weak, but the smart take from the strong.

To win Olympic gold, it takes a lot of hard work, a lot of passion, and a lot of sacrifices.

Nothing sweeter than to drag oneself along behind events; and nothing more reasonable. But without a strong dose of madness, no initiative, no enterprise, no gesture. Reason: the rust of our vitality. It is the madman in us who forces us to adventure; once he abandons us, we are lost; everything depends on him, even our vegetative life; it is he who invites us, who obliges us to breathe, and it is also he who forces our blood to venture through our veins. Once he withdraws, we are alone indeed! We cannot be normal and alive at the same time.

Don’t be afraid to speak up for yourself. Keep fighting for your dreams!

I struggled with feeling confident for a long time, but I think it’s important to be strong and not compromise for anyone or a relationship – I’m drawn to that.

I had my chances. I didn’t have my putts on the last few holes and I am disappointed. I knew I needed to play strong today and didn’t play well.

True love is not a strong, fiery, impetuous passion. It is, on the contrary, an element calm and deep. It looks beyond mere externals, and is attracted by qualities alone. It is wise and discriminating, and its devotion is real and abiding.

The strongest argument in favor of the gospel is a loving and lovable Christian.

Success is built upon a strong foundation of hard work and dedication.

With a strong heart and a good mind, you can do it.

This day I ceased to plead. I was no longer capable of lamentation. On the contrary, I felt very strong. I was the accuser, God the accused.

Be wary of strong drink, it can make you shoot at the tax collector…and miss.

A woman is like a tea bag – you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

Strong men can always afford to be gentle. Only the weak are intent on giving as good as they get.

I would rather have a big burden and a strong back, than a weak back and a caddy to carry life’s luggage.

I can take them off, but they’re pretty strong

Your love makes me strong, your hate makes me unstoppable.

Your love makes me strong, Your hate makes me unstoppable.

He is as tough as anything. You can crack him once, but he won’t let it bother him. He’s back on his feet in no time and getting on with it. He is a strong character and a great sight when he’s heading for goal.

He’s six-foot two, brave as a lion, strong as an ox and quick as lightning. If he was good looking, you’d say he has everything.

The government is not your friend. The government is an entity that wants to control you, that wants to tell you what to do, that wants to take away your freedoms.

I’m proud to be called a conservative. I believe in limited government, strong national defense, and personal responsibility.

Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.

If God sends us on strong paths, we are provided strong shoes.

People will hate you, rate you, shake you, and break you. But how strong you stand is what makes you.

You can’t build a great building on a weak foundation. You must have a solid foundation if you’re going to have a strong superstructure.

The ties that bind us are stronger than the occasional stresses that separate us.

I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor.

I consider myself a moderate Republican. I have very, very moderate social views, and I’m pretty strong on, on defense matters.

I imposed black; it’s still going strong today, for black wipes out everything else around.

I have strong feelings about gun control. If there’s a gun around, I want to be controlling it.

The greatest error of a man is to think that he is weak by nature, evil by nature. Every man is divine and strong in his real nature. What are weak and evil are his habits, his desires and thoughts, but not himself.

The stronger the participation of the female characters, the better the movie. They knew that in the old days, when women stars were equally as important as men.

Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity and uplift, competing as they do in a marketplace. But we have a right to remember how barbarically they behaved when they were strong and were making an offer that people could not refuse.

A strong spirit transcends rules.

We refuse to disappear, no matter how strong and brutal and ruthless the forces against us might be.

I’m cool. I don’t need to be skinny. I like to be strong.

I like feeling strong. It keeps my mental floor higher.

I’ve been on my arse before, but I have a lot of determination, and I’m not weak.

Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

You need to be f*cking stubborn to get to the top. I don’t give a sh*t who you are. It doesn’t just land in your lap. You just put your head down and become incredibly selfish.

The pressure on young chefs today is far greater than ever before in terms of social skills, marketing skills, cooking skills, personality and, more importantly, delivering on the plate. So you need to be strong. Physically fit. So my chefs get weighed every time they come into the kitchen.

Tana and I have a great marriage, even though we spend very little time together. The time we have together is quality, rather than quantity.

When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

If I can give you one strong piece of advice, when you go away for that romantic weekend, whatever you do, do not accept or take the upgrade to the honeymoon suite.

Kitchens are hard environments and they form incredibly strong characters.

It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind.

No executive has ever suffered because his subordinates were strong and effective.

The task of leadership is to create an alignment of strengths so strong that it makes the system’s weaknesses irrelevant.

I was raised by strong women, and that DNA is in my daughter and wife.

Love is an unconditional commitment to an imperfect person. To love somebody isn’t just a strong feeling. It is a decision, a judgment, and a promise.

God said, I need somebody with arms strong enough to rustle a calf and yet gentle enough to deliver his own grandchild.

Love, that exempts no one beloved from loving, seized me with pleasure of this man so strongly, that, as thou seest, it doth not yet desert me.

Conscience, that boon companion who sets a man free under the strong breastplate of innocence, that bids him on and fear not.

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.

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

We cannot all argue, but we can all pray. We cannot all be leaders, but we can all be pleaders. We cannot all be mighty in rhetoric, but we can all be prevalent in prayer.

You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss and failure into success.

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.

The best strategy is always to be very strong.

If you entrench yourself behind strong fortifications, you compel the enemy seek a solution elsewhere.

Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.

Man strives toward reason only so that he can make rules for himself.

When you’re strong and good, then you’re Bad.

I definitely have worked trying to create music that inspires girls to feel confident and strong, and feel like they can do anything.

I think, being emotional is this thing that people think you’re not strong. They don’t look at you as a strong person, and it’s weird ‘cuz honestly being emotional has nothing to do with your strength.

Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong

A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is… A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in

It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased

Maybe “lonely” is too strong a word, but I’ve always enjoyed being alone.

Take a cat, nourish it well with milk And tender meat, make it a couch of silk, But let it see a mouse along the wall And it abandones milk and meat and all.

By and by Tom’s reading wrought such a strong effect upon him that he began to act the prince, unconsciously. His speech and manners became curiously ceremonious and courtly, to the vast admiration and amusement of his intimates. But Tom’s influence among these young people began to grow, now, day by day; and in time he came to be looked up to, by them, with a sort of wondering awe, as a superior being.

By and by Tom’s reading wrought such a strong effect upon him that he began to act the prince, unconsciously. His speech and manners became curiously ceremonious and courtly, to the vast admiration and amusement of his intimates. But Tom’s influence among these young people began to grow, now, day by day; and in time he came to be looked up to, by them, with a sort of wondering awe, as a superior being.

There is nothing more threatening to Democrats than strong Republican women!

When the root is strong, the fruit is sweet

You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice.

Money is a strange business. People who haven’t got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles.

Hard people are weak people whom nobody wants, and the strong, caring little whether they are wanted or not, have alone that meekness which the common herd mistake for weakness.

When you’re not happy, you need to be strong to change, resisting the temptation of turning back.

You come to realize that life is short, and you have to step up. Don’t feel sorry for me. Much is expected of those who are strong

The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.

Just like in bodybuilding, failure is also a necessary experience for growth in our own lives. For if we’re never tested to our limits, how will we know how strong we really are? How will we ever grow?

I never felt that I was good enough, strong enough, smart enough. He let me know that there was always room for improvement. A lot of sons would have been crippled by his demands, but instead the discipline rubbed off on me. I turned it into drive

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn’t think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.

Say “Thank You” because your faith is so strong that you don’t doubt that what ever the problem, you’ll get through it. You’re saying thank-you because you know that even in the eye of the storm, God has put a rainbow in the clouds.

Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong.