Fortifying Quotes

#1. Disasters happen. We still have no way to eliminate earthquakes, wildfires, hurricanes, floods or droughts. We cope as best we can by fortifying ourselves against danger with building codes and levees, and by setting aside money to clean up afterwards.

Seth Shostak

#2. I took a fortifying breath, stood, and made my way out to the living room. Clay waited for me by the kitchenette. He had a glass of orange juice ready for me. He knew me well. I smiled my thanks and gulped it down. It felt good and gave me a tiny energy boost. "I

Melissa Haag

#3. As a civil rights leader, Mrs. King's vision of racial peace and nonviolent social change was a fortifying staple in advancing the civil rights movement.

James T. Walsh

#4. Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.

George Santayana

#5. My art speaks and will continue to speak, transcending barriers of nationality, language and other forces that may be divisive, fortifying the greatness of the spirit that has always been the foundation of the Ojibwa people.

Norval Morrisseau

#6. Waking, after all, was an almost natal state. You surfaced without history, then spent the blinks and yawns reassembling your past, shuffling the shards into chronological order before fortifying yourself for the present.

Dennis Lehane

#7. I don't think tea will quite do, we need something a little more fortifying on such an auspicious occasion. Hot chocolate with fresh cream, that's the thing.

Menna Van Praag

#8. All that a good government aims at ... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities.

James F. Cooper

#9. I had a moral opposition to eating before dawn on the grounds that I was not a nineteenth-century Russian peasant fortifying myself for a day in the fields.

John Green

#10. Nothing is more fortifying than learning that you have a real reader, a reader who truly responds both accurately and actively. It gives you courage, and you feel, I can crawl out on the branch a little further. It's going to hold.

Deborah Eisenberg

#11. Even Meredith's attraction to Freddy had paled when compared to the real love of Meredith's life. The steady, unconditional, fortifying love of Meredith's father was gone forever.

Elin Hilderbrand

#12. The hour of reformation is always delayed; every delay gives vice another opportunity of fortifying itself by habit.

Samuel Johnson

#13. A dull, decent people, cherishing and fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayonets.

George Orwell

#14. From reinforcing beaches in the Rockaways to installing generators at the Coney Island Houses and sealing holes in the subway system, New York is fortifying our ability to withstand future storm surges.

Frances Beinecke

#15. Suppose I criticise Iran. What impact does that have? The only impact it has is in fortifying those who want to carry out policies I don't agree with, like bombing.

Noam Chomsky

#16. Edwin's creations landed hit or miss on the board and one miss a year ago ended with us heaving overboard for a week. Fortifying meal solutions, my ass.

Katherine McIntyre

#17. I don't really have dream roles. Every single time I've gotten a great job, it's far exceeded my expectations and my dreams.

David Oakes

#18. Live tomorrow as the One Day that would get you into Heaven.

George E. Brown

#19. A man feels impelled to do something to keep awake.

William Mulock

#20. Africa will thrive.

Bono

#21. However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that we may be writing what we need to write in some way, albeit unconsciously.

Wally Lamb

#22. Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.

Bela Lugosi

#23. The act of writing is either something the writer dreads or actually likes, and I actually like it. Even re-writing's fun. You're getting somewhere, whether it seems to move or not.

James Thurber

#24. Let's see if I can tear that cocoon wide open and let my Mara fly.

Kristen Ashley

#25. If measuring by this earthly realm's time then it's been years but in the unseen realm above known as Vehaven, it has been but a moment.

Madison Thorne Grey

#26. Funny way to get to a wizards' school, the train. Magic carpets all got punctures, have they?

J.K. Rowling

#27. I'm probably not going to get married unless I live with somebody for 10 or 20 years. But these people (Romeo and Juliet) took a chance and they did it. We don't have the balls that Romeo did.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#28. When you begin to think about the past, you realize how much of it is lost to us.

Natasha Trethewey