Top 100 Good Strong Sayings
#1. My wife, who does not like journalizing, said it was leaving myself embowelled to posterity
a good strong figure. But I think itis rather leaving myself embalmed. It is certainly preserving myself.
James Boswell
#2. Integrity, firmness, and perseverance are qualities that all should seek earnestly to cultivate; for they clothe the possessor with a power which is irresistible - a power which makes him strong to do good, strong to resist evil, strong to bear adversity.
Ellen G. White
#3. I think the genre of comics sometimes overtakes the medium, and people assume that they are kind of frivolous. If you have a good, strong story teller, they can be as affecting as any character in literature. Period.
Chip Kidd
#4. There is no body cavity that cannot be reached with a number fourteen needle and a good strong arm.
Samuel Shem
#5. Randy Edsall is a good, strong, decent man who is working his tail off on behalf of the University of Maryland. And there are more people that want to spend their days burning things down than building it up. At least just stop rooting against him. You know, give the guy a chance.
Kevin Plank
#6. There is evidence for the deity of Jesus
good, strong,
historical , cumulative evidence; evidence to which an honest
person can subscribe without committing intellectual suicide.
John R.W. Stott
#7. When we've decided to tell the truth in a story, we should tell good, strong versions of it, proper versions that kids can do something with.
Celine Kiernan
#8. What's rare is to have a good, strong man, as opposed to a good, weak man. Those are the ones who ruin the world. Men who mean well, but buckle under others' opinions until their good intentions destroy an untold number of lives." My
Sara Raasch
#9. There is really nothing so comforting to the beaten of spirit or the broken of skull than a good strong dose of 'Thy will be done.
Stephen King
#10. Good strong hair,' he was fond of saying, 'means there's a good strong brain underneath.' 'Like Shakespeare,' Matilda had once said to him. 'Like who?' 'Shakespeare, Daddy.' 'Was he brainy?' 'Very, Daddy.' 'He had masses of hair, did he?' 'He was bald, Daddy.
Roald Dahl
#11. What harm would it do, if a man told a good strong lie for the sake of the good ...
Martin Luther
#12. A real active music set, based and really concentrated on what the music's all about. That's what I'm all about - singing and a really good strong music set.
Jon Secada
#13. Sport that consumed me for over two decades ... is now gone. Now it's just me. No pressure, no expectations, no need to be fast, good, strong or to even improve. Yet I can't let go of this idea that I always need to be more than I am. And it is eating me alive.
Clara Hughes
#14. Too many pitchers, that's all, there are just too many pitchers Ten or twelve on a team. Don't see how any of them get enough work. Four starting pitchers and one relief man ought to be enough. Pitch 'em every three days and you'd find they'd get control and good, strong arms.
Cy Young
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Jim Barksdale
#16. If there's good, strong evidence from science that such and such is the case and this is contrary to Buddhism, then we will change.
Dalai Lama XIV
#17. Raising three boys is a huge responsibility for me, especially in this day and time when I look around and there's a lack of good, strong, upstanding Christian men who are not afraid to be men and just own up to their responsibility.
Josh Turner
#18. Great persons are great because of good, strong foundations on which they were able to build a character ...
Alfred Armand Montapert
#19. It's another myth that dancing distorts or destroys your feet. If you have the right shaped foot to start and a good, strong technique, your feet should be fine.
Deborah Bull
#20. Did you know that Lincoln liked popcorn, and oysters, and a good strong cup of coffee?
Joshua Wolf Shenk
#21. Saints and ordinary folks are the same from the start. Inquiring about a difference is like asking to borrow string when you've got a good strong rope. Every Dharma is known in the heart.
Hsu Yun
#22. I used to think that it didn't make any difference how far you ran if you had a good, strong musculoskeletal system and no underlying cardiovascular problems.
Kenneth H. Cooper
#23. We need a good strong opposition and I don't know whether it's any coincidence that we need Angela Eagle in Labour and we need Theresa May to lead the Conservative party, both of whom of course are women.
Anna Soubry
#24. I am a good, strong word giver; I am a jealous guard of my own secrets. Freedom is the rule; I am hungry for one good thing I can do.
Rachel Corrie
#25. I wish everybody finds the serenity that good, strong faith brings.
Ann Jillian
#26. I would love to do anything involving a good strong character, whether it's in film, TV or theatre. My dream role's already been taken by Keira Knightley in 'Pride and Prejudice.' Growing up, I really wanted to be Lizzie Bennett.
Roxanne McKee
#27. You're real pretty. Got good strong thighs. And you've got oral skills most men would kill for." Now everyone turned and looked at Sissy Mae. "That's lovely, Sissy," Marty sighed out. "I was only complimenting her." "Compliments like that create hookers.
Anonymous
#28. I want to do a little bit of everything. I want to play a good, strong female character.
Shannon Elizabeth
#29. a country can be too small, too socially knitted, too tightly tied for its own good. Strong social networks can, in certain circumstances, turn to incestuous corruption and the shutting down of democratic discourse. You
Michael Booth
#30. The very phrase 'Oscar night' used to accelerate my pulse. For one thing - dating myself - it meant Bob Hope. He always had good, strong jokes, that faultless delivery, and always a new joke about his own films' failure - once again - to be honored.
Dick Cavett
#31. What we lack is a good, strong business climate with lower taxes, fairer regulation.
Kevin Brady
#32. Good strong banks are essential for every family and for every business in the country and extraordinary times call for the bold and far-reaching solutions that the Treasury has announced today.
Gordon Brown
#34. Filled with a new sense of purpose, I downed half my coffee at one draught. It was good, strong stuff, the kind that Louis L'Amour used to say could float a horseshoe. Nobody ever drank weak coffee in his books. It was probably why they were so anxious to shoot people at high noon.
Kevin Hearne
#35. If she has a good, strong, reliable father image, which is hard to find these days, that will be her image of men, probably for the rest of her life. She'll look for a husband who embodies those qualities.
Robert Johnson
#36. I have learned that there is more power in a good strong hug than in a thousand meaningful words.
Ann Hood
#37. What one leads on-sight, in good, strong style, safely, is what one's ability is.
Pat Ament
#38. And if I fight, then for what?"
"For nothing easy or sweet, and I told you that last year and the year before that. For your own challenge, for your own mistakes and the punishment for them, for your own definition of love and of sanity - a good strong self with which to begin to live.
Joanne Greenberg
#39. She had a good, strong voice. She smiled with her voice, too. This, he thought, was the magic that had drawn him to her.
Carolyn Jewel
#40. So now is an opportunity for us to stand up and have a good, strong immigration policy to make sure that E- Verify becomes mandatory and we have got to train and properly equip our Border Patrol.
Allen West
#41. I took no part in the ceremony. Many declared we were angels from heaven. I told them I thought we were better than angels for this occasion, as we were good strong men come to help them into the valley . . . " p. 45
Daniel W. Jones
#42. Not in a dog's age. Not since that Dorothy. And you and the others. Did Dorothy ever stop whimpering so? She'll grow up to require the convent, mark my words. Or a husband with a good strong backhand. Her fanny wants spanking badly.
Gregory Maguire
#44. I grab his forearm. I love a good, strong forearm on a man and his forearm game is on point.
Karina Halle
#45. Go through the world with the grace of God in your heart, and a good, strong hickory club in your hand.
William Walker Atkinson
#46. The only worthwhile constant in human existence is our heart which can only be nourished by sincere love. A good strong heart radiates love in all directions perpetually. The heart is also the most fragile of human existence. Therefore, take good care of it. Give it constant love.
Sohail Mahmood
#47. The World's Fair audience tended to think of the machine as unqualifiedly good, strong, stupid and obedient. They thought of it as a giant slave, an untiring steel Negro, controlled by Reason in a world of infinite resources.
Robert Hughes
#48. What is a truthful life? A life lived with deliberateness, a good, strong life.
Carlos Castaneda
#49. Just because one of your films does well at the box office, that doesn't make you a good person. It doesn't make you strong, smart, or secure, either.
Tina Majorino
#50. 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.
Cristiano Ronaldo
#51. If you have a big destiny, you're going to have to meet and face some big demons. But the good news is that your strength and power is big enough to conquer them all. You are strong enough to overcome all obstacles in your way and to fulfill your Destiny.
Jeanette Coron
#52. That headlong ivy! not a leaf will grow But thinking of a wreath, ... I like such ivy; bold to leap a height 'Twas strong to climb! as good to grow on graves As twist about a thyrsus; pretty too (And that's not ill) when twisted round a comb.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#53. Without death, there is hardly any threat strong enough to truly appreciate human life. He thinks: I am as good as dead
too afraid to live, only waiting, never taking a risk
I am as good as dead already.
Joe Meno
#54. Wisdom says we should try to make a relationship work not because we have strong feelings but because it's a good match.
Gary L. Thomas
#55. Do you even know how strong God has made you? she said. How strong and good He has made you?
Khaled Hosseini
#56. Real success in the kingdom of God is not about being strong and looking good and knowing all the right answers. It's about continually yielding oneself to Jesus and determining to take purposeful little steps of obedience, and the ragged reality that it's all about God and His grace at work in us.
Mary Beth Chapman
#57. Dietz and Schwartz have sort of fallen by the wayside a little bit, and they are up there with Rodgers and Hart and Irving Berlin and Cole Porter. They are the finest of the revue composers - their stuff is so good and so strong.
Douglas Carter Beane
#58. It is a good thing to be rich and strong, but it is a better thing to be loved.
Euripides
#59. I don't think I'm going to like it at all. I think it's going to hurt. But after the hurt I think maybe something good and strong and beautiful will come out of it.
Kathryn Erskine
#60. It's highly virtuous to say we'll be good, but we can't do it all at once, and it takes a long pull, a strong pull, and a pull all together before some of us even get our feet set in the right way
Louisa May Alcott
#61. I've been a Democrat, I've been a Republican, and I eventually became an independent because I don't believe either party has a monopoly on good ideas or strong leadership.
Michael Bloomberg
#62. Besides, if he wants kids, Gale won't have any trouble finding a wife. He's good-looking, he's strong enough to handle the
Suzanne Collins
#63. Rwanda really did take very strong steps towards development. I mean, this place is unrecognizable. There's a very good management of economy and resources - it's a success story, and that's great.
Mo Ibrahim
#64. God was finally going to believe in a man both good and strong, but good and strong are still two different men.
Wislawa Szymborska
#66. For there were good men. As long as we women remembered to be strong. As long as we remembered to be ourselves
Mindy Klasky
#67. The 20th-century ulcer epidemic was a sign of good health in American people - good diet, strong acidity and healthy immune response actually make ulcers more likely. That's why businessmen eating giant T-bone steaks were prone to ulcers.
Barry Marshall
#68. Music is such a good way to resist. It keep you strong, it has dignity.
Amy Ray
#69. I would say I have sort of a natural gift for character, and following one person's point of view at a time, and dialogue, but I'm not naturally good at strong plot.
Emma Donoghue
#70. When one comes to think of it, there are no such things as divine, immutable, or inalienable rights. Rights are things we get when we are strong enough to make good our claim on them.
Helen Keller
#71. We got ratings. It isn't that they won't quarrel with you, or say you're always right. But as long as you stay strong and the ratings are good and you're reasonable - I don't think we fought unreasonably. We basically won that right.
Norman Lear
#72. The honest and good man ought to be exactly like a man who smells strong, so that the bystander as soon as he comes near him must smell whether he choose or not.
Marcus Aurelius
#73. It is a strength of character to acknowledge our failings and our strong points, and it is a weakness of character not to remain in harmony with both the good and the bad that is within us.
Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...
#74. The God we serve does not seek out the perfect, but instead uses our imperfections and our shortcomings for his greater good. I am humbled by my own limitations. But where I am weak, He is strong.
Rick Perry
#75. I'd say a man is someone who is honest, strong-minded, moral, genuine, just a good human being.
Logan Lerman
#76. Good characters in fiction are the very devil. Not only because most authors have too little material to make them of, but because we as readers have a strong subconscious wish to find them incredible.
C.S. Lewis
#77. A strong drink can numb the soul as good as any prayer
Erin Bowman
#78. I do Twitter, but I'm still not great on it - I'm not good at writing short little jokes, so my Twitter's not really a jokey thing.
Cecily Strong
#79. A good dose of fantasy is exercise for your sensibilities; it keeps your avatar strong.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#80. Strong and rare natures are thus created; misery, almost always a stepmother, is sometimes a mother; privation gives birth to power of soul and mind; distress is the nurse of self-respect; misfortune is a good breast for great souls.
Victor Hugo
#81. I welcome the autumnal chill in the air. There is a stimulation about it. Life moves to a different rhythm. There is a sense of change in the atmosphere and change is good inasmuch as it prevents stagnation. We should grow weary of a summer that never ended.
Patience Strong
#82. Strong and brave, Frank could believe. Picturing Grandmother as good or beautiful was more difficult.
Rick Riordan
#83. You would think,' Aedan said, 'that I'd feel good about this-I've grown while he, my old enemy, has shrunk. Yet all I feel is a terrible ache. I pity him, that he has been called by age to surrender his strength.
Jonathan Renshaw
#84. I've been used to consider poetry as the food of love " Mr.Darcy
Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what is strong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, I am convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away." Eliza
Jane Austen
#85. Nobody wants to die!
So why do people let themselves go?
Why kill yourself off?
Stop and think, get fit and strong!
Even a good shag will burn the calories off and pump your heart!
There is no excuse - you know it!
Charles Bronson
#86. The last thing we need to do, relating to teachers, is the key to a good education in this country is a strong teacher. I would have a minimum wage for all our teachers, $40,000 per year.
Bill Richardson
#87. The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.
Bob Lemon
#88. My mother's not a political person. She just doesn't want me to be mean ... sometimes I have to be mean. It's like a parent or a teacher. Sometimes for the good of everybody you have to be a little bit strong, a little bit confrontational.
Bill O'Reilly
#89. Things can change only through strong personalities. I am not very good at supporting ignorance and mediocrity, so maybe this leads to arrogant gestures and arrogant responses. So, nobody's perfect.
Edi Rama
#90. Be strong and of good courage. do not fear of be afraid of them ; for the Lord your God, He is the One who goes with you. he will not leave you or forsake you. Deut.31:6.
Anonymous
#91. The feelings are overwhelming, but they're not you. They're the feelings. You are separate, and you are strong and amazing and good.
Heather Sellers
#92. Only a strong economy can create higher asset values and sustainably good returns for savers.
Ben Bernanke
#93. If somebody is strong and showing good performances and perfect in the thing you are doing, there are people who want to disturb you.
Tina Maze
#94. Women are all so far Machiavellians that they are never either good or bad by halves; their passions are too strong, and their reason too weak, to do anything with moderation.
Lord Chesterfield
#95. Alas for him who seeks salvation in good only! Balanced on God's strong shoulders, Good and Evil flap together like two mighty wings and lift him high.
Nikos Kazantzakis
#96. Remember nobody is good or bad. They are either strong or weak. Strong people stick to their morals, no matter what the trials and tribulations. Weak people,
Amish Tripathi
#97. Democrats with a good understanding of the need for strong energy policy in our country, especially in these difficult economic times, recognized the importance of the Keystone XL pipeline.
John Hoeven
#98. God has entrusted us with his most precious treasure - people. He asks us to shepherd and mold them into strong disciples, with brave faith and good character.
John Ortberg
#99. That's the news from Lake Woebegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.
Garrison Keillor
#100. Strong Reason and good fancy, joyn'd with experience and tryalls, so that we are assured of the good effects of it.
Nicholas Hawksmoor
