Quotes About Being Too Strong

#1. Mr. Casaubon had never had a strong bodily frame, and his soul was sensitive without being enthusiastic: it was too languid to thrill out of self-consciousness into passionate delight; it went on fluttering in the swampy ground where it was hatched, thinking of its wings and never flying. - Author: George Eliot

#2. The mother's love for her child is very strong in Korean society - almost on the borderline of being an obsession. - Author: Bong Joon-ho

#3. But after a while, she began to experience the new reality of each person as being as strong and as weak as anyone else. Slowly, she learned that each of us grown-ups has as much and as little power as the other, and that we had best learn to take care of ourselves.(83) - Author: Sheldon B. Kopp

#4. It's the easiest thing in the world for a man to deceive himself. - Author: Benjamin Franklin

#5. For strength to bear is found in duty alone, and he is blest indeed who learns to make the joy of others cure his own heartache. - Author: Drake

#6. He is Jason and Hercules and Perseus
a figure so strong and beautiful and heroic that the blood of the gods must flow through him, because how else could a being so fine exist in this world? - Author: J. Kenner

#7. Women have a faith in themselves that is unpragmatic and in each other that's just emotional and f - ing strong. Both of those characters are criticized for being weak, for being subject to a man, but I think that that's a really bold and natural thing that we all want. - Author: Kristen Stewart

#8. What makes me feel strong? Being in love and work. I must work. - Author: Susan Sontag

#9. Climbing is a full-body sport from your fingers to your toes, but at the same time, it's like a dance on the rock. It's about being strong and fit but also graceful and elegant and efficient on the rock. - Author: Chris Sharma

#10. Basically, women have to prove they are strong at all times. And then when they go on the attack, they have to not appear mean because those women often get the label of being catty. - Author: Julie Nixon Eisenhower

#11. Growing up in Oklahoma the way I did, and being raised the way I was raised by my parents, gave me such a strong foundation to go out into the world and fly, so to speak, the way I was able to do. - Author: Suzy Amis

#12. My heroes always are mostly my parents - my father especially, and my mom, who's passed on already. My dad is a very strong man, and by him being educated, and a principal and school superintendent over 37 years, he plays such a big role in my life. - Author: Dikembe Mutombo

#13. Being single doesn't mean you're weak, it means that you're strong enough to wait for the right person. - Author: Niall Horan

#14. (In response to a picture critic.)

I'm actually a very joyful person. But being a genius with a photographic memory mixed with a strong case of OCD makes for a difficult picture sometimes. - Author: Calvin W. Allison

#15. My lyrics say I have morals, I have confidence, I have weaknesses, I have strong points, that I am a human being. - Author: Kendrick Lamar

#16. remained though, strong as ever, despite them being apart for so long. He - Author: Gina Kincade

#17. 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. - Author: Melanie Martinez

#18. We seek the fulfilment of strong romantic relationships and friendships, yet striving too hard to achieve security in such relationships stifles them; their flourishing depends on a certain degree of not being protected, of being open to experiences both negative and positive. - Author: Oliver Burkeman

#19. You can't ever work too much because there's no such thing as being in too good condition. You can't ever lift too many weights because you can't ever get too strong. You can't ever wrestle too much because you can always do better. - Author: Dan Gable

#20. One is too taken up with all that one sees and hears in Paris, however strong one is, and what I do here [in Etretat] will at least have the merit of being unlike anyone else, at least I believe so, because it will simply be the expression of what I, and only I, have felt. - Author: Claude Monet

#21. First lady has been a thankless position. Eleanor Roosevelt was brilliant and had strong views. She was criticized for her politics and for her appearance. Mrs. Roosevelt was attacked for being too involved in politics. Bess Truman was criticized for being uninvolved in politics. - Author: Karen DeCrow

#22. I too have known the inward disturbance of exile,
The great peril of being at home nowhere,
The dispersed center, the dividing love;
Not here, nor there, leaping across ocean,
Turning, returning to each strong allegiance;
American, but with this difference - parting. - Author: May Sarton

#23. With young people, I always say, 'You're not doing anyone any favours by withholding your power.' As women, we do that a lot because we are afraid of being misunderstood or perceived as too strong. But the older I'm getting, the more I realise you have to let that go. - Author: Idina Menzel

#24. Despite being a denizen of the digital world, or maybe because he knew all too well its isolating potential, Jobs was a strong believer in face-to-face meetings. "There's a temptation in our networked age to think that ideas can be developed by email and iChat," he said. "That's crazy. - Author: Walter Isaacson

#25. Never ever go by the book. They will want you to, but you musn't. If the lust is too strong, tear one page from a hundred books and make your own way. There is no formula for life, no equation on how to be a human being. - Author: Christopher Poindexter

#26. Gabril's voice was strong and sure. I believe in you, and I've fought for you, because in a world full of people who crumble before an evil too terrifying to comprehend, you put up your fists and fight. - Author: C.J. Redwine

#27. When people talk of the economy being strong, they don't seem to feel that they, too, are better off. - Author: Daniel Kahneman

#28. He had never been involved with the mentally ill before, but he now felt more than ever that there should be strong international laws against them being too good-looking. - Author: Lorrie Moore

#29. Maybe 'loner' is too strong a word, but I've always enjoyed being on my own. - Author: George Best

#30. Strong views exist on both sides but I believe MPs voting for gay people being able to marry too, is a step forward for our country. - Author: David Cameron

#31. Being a mum is something that's never bothered me too much. I have never felt a strong need to have children, but I am not averse to it either. - Author: Julia Sawalha

#32. The silence of those in positions of influence in the church who know, or have a strong suspicion, that being gay is a nonpathological minority variant in the human condition drives me crazy, far crazier than I am driven by any loud-mouthed purveyor of hateful nonsense. - Author: James Alison

#33. Now we are proud that the government has moved from the class of the exploiters to the class of the people who were being exploited. And in the great name of the same class, I raise this nation's flag which is a strong symbol of this transfer. - Author: Nur Muhammad Taraki

#34. It's interesting how we often can't see the ways in which we are being strong - like, you can't be aware of what you're doing that's tough and brave at the time that you're doing it because if you knew that it was brave, then you'd be scared. - Author: Lena Dunham

#35. It sounds so cliched, but I've always been kind of different. I always liked being around weird kids. - Author: Cecily Strong

#36. Being both soft and strong is a combination very few have mastered. - Author: Yasmin Mogahed

#37. Young people discovering their sexuality must know they walk with a strong tradition and that they are not alone. They have a right to information without being pressured. - Author: Jasmine Guy

#38. 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. - Author: Mary Beth Chapman

#39. When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision. - Author: Ronald Reagan

#40. I represent more the healthy, happy, curvy, strong woman. And that sounds much healthier to me than being 80 pounds and skinny as a bean. - Author: Heidi Klum

#41. This is the law of the Yukon, that only the strong shall thrive; that surely the weak shall perish, and only the fit survive. - Author: Robert W. Service

#42. I think that being Jewish has generated an extremely strong sense of the importance of family. If I look at my Scandinavian colleagues, they don't have that urgency about family. All my movies are about that. - Author: Susanne Bier

#43. I'm not... I'm not without a heart,' he heard Sophia say, her chin raised, eyes straight ahead. 'I'm not. I just don't have the luxury of being soft. I am trying to survive. - Author: Alexandra Bracken

#44. I want to present a very strong and bold image, but with femininity. I love being sweet and salty all together. - Author: Keke Palmer

#45. She told me that she did not like the idea of your being in that house all by yourself, and that she thought you took too much strong tea. In fact she wants me to advise you if possible to give up the tea and the very late hours. - Author: Bram Stoker

#46. The wall of silence that had instantaneously sprung between us was strong, deafening. I could not concentrate, having a sudden surge of emotions about all relationships being mawkish and pointless. - Author: Kavipriya Moorthy

#47. I prefer working out of strict continuity, because no normal human being can have a firm grip on the constantly shifting bardo-like territory of a comics universe, where entire histories can be erased by a strong enough super-sneeze. - Author: Grant Morrison

#48. Of course she teased the girls, but it was not the same as having a grown man to work on - she had often felt like pinching Bob for being so stolid. July was no better - in fact, he and Bob were cut from the same mold, a strong but unimaginative mold. - Author: Larry McMurtry

#49. Women know no perfect love:
Loving the strong, they can forsake the strong;
Man clings because the being whom he loves
Is weak and needs him. - Author: George Eliot

#50. The cost of freedom is being strong enough to find the implement your own desires. - Author: Steven Redhead

#51. For once, I wished I wasn't so broken, so Rhian had a best friend who was strong and not afraid to love, to hold up as an example of what was possible. Instead, I was her excuse that she wasn't being irrational. I was her enabler. - Author: Samantha Young

#52. I'd say a man is someone who is honest, strong-minded, moral, genuine, just a good human being. - Author: Logan Lerman

#53. Being strong is not how hard you hit but its as hard you can get hit and keep going that is how winning is done. - Author: Rocky

#54. From this haunting feeling of being not wanted, which remained a recurrent haunt through life, I found two ways of escape, both of which in changing form also persisted. One was the invention of gods, the other was personal efficiency in work. - Author: Anna Louise Strong

#55. Most people can't truly conceive of being in a place where death might be preferable to life. Life is strong. It grips you in many ways, from the beating of your heart, to the sun on your face, to the feel of the ground beneath your feet. It grasps you. - Author: Cody McFadyen

#56. The tonal is so strong, that it even arranges a syntactical place for God and thus kills the mystery, the reality, and paralyzes the being. - Author: Frederick Lenz

#57. The nature of music is mysterious and so much so that it generates strong emotions within us. It moves along passages that reach the most intimate areas of our psyche without being tried by prejudices or influences of any kind. - Author: Andrea Bocelli

#58. Charters give public school teachers the flexibility to design programs to the individual student needs. They no longer have to go to a distant bureaucracy to ask for permission. By being allowed to make their own decisions the teachers are able to create strong partnerships with parents. - Author: Gary Larson

#59. When will being independent and strong and not following the pack and daring to be different and being brave in my opinions, my fashion choices and my hair colour be enough? - Author: Sarra Manning

#60. I can't seem to shake this perpetual awareness of being Molly. - Author: Becky Albertalli

#61. It was so much easier to be angry. Being angry made him feel strong, even though
and this contradiction did nothing to diminish his anger
he was angry only because his position was so weak. - Author: Lev Grossman

#62. I'm not an activist per se, but I have strong feelings about things. People can jump on celebrities for being ill-informed or naive, but I've got a right to say what I believe. - Author: Ed Harris