“A lot of guys have muscles. A lot of strong men in this world. I think it's important to show that even under all this strength there's a fragile side, a side that can be affected.”
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“I know now what this meant, that the bison were the gift of a good spirit and were our strength, but we should lose them, and from the same good spirit we must find another strength.”
“Let a woman have her place, because as you provide foundation for her, she provides a foundation for you. And through that vulnerability comes strength.”
“I think that we had a different view of what the 21st century could be like, with much more of a sense, from our perspective, of trying to have an interdependent world: looking at solving regional conflicts, having strength in alliances, operating within some kind of a sense that we were part of the international community and not outside of it.”
“It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.”
“In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.”
“I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it.”
“Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.”
“There is always strength in numbers. The more individuals or organizations that you can rally to your cause, the better.”
“It's always difficult to play a scene of physical violence because you're always afraid that you don't know your own strength and might hurt someone.”
“From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.”
“I have arm-wrestled here and there... guys seem to want to test my strength.”
“I have the people behind me and the people are my strength.”
“People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of.”
“Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him.”
“People think of Latina women as being fiery and fierce, which is usually true. But I think the quality that so many Latinas possess is strength. I'm very proud to have Latin blood.”
“A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.”
“The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?”
“Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.”
“Our firm conviction that ours is a just cause and that we must find a peaceful way to attain our goals gave us the strength and the awareness of the limits beyond which we must not go.”
“Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense.”
“Thank you to all for your prayers and good wishes. It gave me the strength to persevere and warmed my heart.”
“As thy days, so shall thy strength be which, in modern language, may be translated as thy thoughts so shall thy life be.”
“Few men during their lifetime comes anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.”