Top 100 The Strong Quotes
#1. It's like Branson. When I went to Branson there was only 4 acts in there. Now, you can't count 'em. There's so many theatres now, that only the strong will survive.
Mickey Gilley
#2. The strong take from the weak, but the smart take from the strong.
Ian Caldwell
#3. The people with the strong, brave exteriors are just as weak and vulnerable as the rest of us. And of course they never admit to their childish practices, their moments of weakness or absurdity, and then the rest of us think that's how it should be.
Alexander McCall Smith
#4. Behold, on wrong Swift vengeance waits; and art subdues the strong.
Homer
#5. A cat is only itself, representative of the strong forces of life that won't let go.
Charles Bukowski
#6. In the enclave, the strong and the physically perfect survived, but if you were strong, you protected the weak until they had an opportunity to grow into their own power.
Ann Aguirre
#7. In love, it is the weak who strike and the strong who caress.
Jose Bergamin
#8. In the lab, we could not see or physically describe the mathematical objects that we called quarks, which we suspected were the key to unlocking the dynamics of the strong force that binds together the clump of protons and neutrons at the center of the atom.
David Gross
#9. Pity makes the world soft to the weak and noble to the strong.
Edwin Arnold
#10. In these times of Darkness, I keep dreaming of a better tomorrow, and praying my soul won't be corrupted.
These are Gudrun's words and thoughts. She is living in a troubled world, where only the strong can be free.
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Isis Sousa
#11. The strong are given more to bear than the weak and learn from the challenge.
Eli Gottlieb
#12. And how are the other weak ones to blame, because they could not endure what the strong have endured?
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#13. While feeling far less injured by toil than my friends took for granted I must be, I yet was always aware of the strong probability that my life would end as the lives of hard literary workers usually end, - in paralysis, with months or years of imbecility.
Harriet Martineau
#14. There can be no real fight between a tiger and a chicken; between the love and the man; between the strong and the weak!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#15. Only the strong and the hopeful are able to revolt.
Mason Cooley
#16. I'm not supposed to need fixing; I'm the strong one - the lookout.
Wally Lamb
#17. The truest picture of life in the past incorporated the interplay of all aspects of life, the good and the bad, the strong and the weak. It was no good pretending anything else.
Michael Crichton
#18. If there are gods, they made sheep so wolves could eat mutton, and they made the weak for the strong to play with.
George R R Martin
#19. The strong and the weak cannot keep company.
Aesop
#20. The strong survive, but the courageous triumph.
Michael Scott
#21. The strong is not the one who is physically powerful, but indeed, the one who controls himself when angry.
Muhammad
#22. The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate ... we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.
John F. Kennedy
#23. The strong need the weak as much as the weak need the strong
Jean Vanier
#24. The church always has need for prayer. There are always some in her midst who are declining, or falling into open sin. There are lambs to be prayed for, that they may be carried in Christ's bosom: the strong, lest they grow presumptuous; and the weak, lest they become despairing.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#25. Cruelty was the devil, and most people were, in one way or another, cruel. Tyranny, suppression, persecution, torture, slavery, war, neglect - all were cruel. The world was acid and sour with hate, fat with greed, yellow with the triumph of the strong and the rich.
Rose Macaulay
#26. The strong argument for Heaven as a place centers in and clusters about Jesus. The man Jesus, bearing a man's form, the body He wore on earth, has a place assigned Him - a high place.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#27. Kant ate but once a day, and drank no beer. Of this liquor, (I mean the strong black beer,) he was, indeed, the most determined enemy. If ever a man died prematurely, Kant would say - 'He has been drinking beer, I presume.
Thomas De Quincey
#28. And yet you're a knight. (Rowena)
Because I have seen the great evil that is done on this earth to those who can't fight for themselves. The meek only inherit the grave while the strong go on until someone stronger stops them. (Stryder)
Kinley MacGregor
#29. Never discuss the rights of the strong. You are too weak to do that,
Dmitry Glukhovsky
#30. To withdraw ourselves from the law of the strong, we have found ourselves obliged to submit to justice. Justice or might, we must choose between these two masters.
Luc De Clapiers
#31. The conscious need of the strong poet [defined broadly as the creator of new metaphors] ... to come to terms with the blind impress which chance has given him, to make a self for himself by redescribing that impress in terms which are, if only marginally, his own.
Richard M. Rorty
#32. As a comedian who's used to, like, punching the jokes, it's hard to teach yourself that that's not the strong choice in the sense that you have to really have to dial it back.
Allison Tolman
#33. It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#34. When I was at Berkeley, the framework of quantum field theory could calculate the dynamics of electromagnetism. It could roughly describe the motion of the weak nuclear force, radiation. But it hit a brick wall with the strong interaction, the binding force.
David Gross
#35. The rate of photosynthesis is the same for all the trees. The trees, it seems, are equalizing differences between the strong and the weak.
Peter Wohlleben
#36. 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.
Thomas B. Macaulay
#37. The strong do not hesitate. They settle down, they sweat, they go on to the end. They exhaust the ink, they use up the paper.
Jules Renard
#38. hadrons" - a collective term used by physicists for protons, neutrons and other particles governed by the strong nuclear force.
Bill Bryson
#39. I understand democracy as something that gives the weak the same chance as the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi
#40. These are only new devices for putting the weak at the mercy of the strong.
Nikola Tesla
#41. Where the strong are weak, and the noble all too mild - there it builds its disgusting nest: the parasite lives where the great have small wounded recesses.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#42. I stand today on this floor to appeal for protection from the strong arm of the government for her loyal children, irrespective of color and race, who are citizens of the southern states, and particularly of the State of Georgia.
Hiram Rhodes Revels
#43. It's not always the strong that survive. It takes brains, guts, tolerance and forward thinking.
Georges St-Pierre
#44. By labor and intent study (which I take to be my portion in this life), joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
John Milton
#45. I talk a lot about strength, faith and love, but I don't ever talk about the fact that I am one of the most sensitive people in my family. That might be the most shocking, because you always see me fighting the good fight, with the strong face on, but I am the most emotional.
Monica
#46. The battle is not to the strong alone. It is to the vigilant, the active, and the brave. A small, disciplined militia can not only hold out against a larger force, but drive it back, because what they're fighting for rightfully belongs to them.
Patrick Henry
#47. To survive, the weak must feed on the hearts of the strong.
Dee Brown
#48. The earth is not just for the clever and the strong.
Shusaku Endo
#50. The labor movement is organized upon a principle that the strong shall help the weak.
John L. Lewis
#51. The fairy tale belongs to the poor ... I know of no fairy tale which upholds the tyrant, or takes the part of the strong against the weak. A fascist fairy tale is an absurdity.
Erik Christian Haugaard
#52. With the strong bipartisan rejection of the Dorgan amendment today, the Senate cast a vote in favor of the U.S. working to knock down unfair trade barriers that hurt American business and farmers
Rob Portman
#53. Growing up in Miami, I had all these great, strong influences. You know, being Cuban and the Latin influence, but also the strong hip-hop influence.
Kat Dahlia
#54. Unless nonviolence of the strong is really developed among us, there should be no thought of civil disobedience for Swaraj, whether within the states or in British India.
Mahatma Gandhi
#56. The World is pretty much divided between the weak of mind & the strong- between those who can act & those who cannot, & it is the bounden Duty of the Capable to let no opportunity of being useful escape them.
Jane Austen
#57. The strong man, the positive, decisive man who has a program and is determined to carry it out, cuts his way to his goal regardless of difficulties. It is the discouraged man who turns aside and takes a crooked path.
Orison S. Marden
#58. Humanity has survived because the strong among us have, in the past, been obliged to help the weak. Without this, we would not survive.
Hany Abu-Assad
#59. O the joy of the strong-brawn'd fighter, towering in the arena in perfect condition, conscious of power, thirsting to meet his opponent.
Walt Whitman
#60. The screams failed to spread, as the strong hugged the weak and comforted them. That was something to be proud of, in the last moments of the old humanity.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#61. All the good things on this earth are trophy cups. The strong win them. The weak lose them.
from a speech by the Nazi Minister of Education
William L. Shirer
#62. Who knows whether, if I had given up smoking, I should really have become the strong perfect man I imagined? Perhaps it was this very doubt that bound me to my vice, because life is so much pleasanter if one is able to believe in one's own latent greatness
Italo Svevo
#64. Isaiah places his hands on the top of my car and leans over so that his head is level with mine. The strong scent of dark spices tickles my nose and I inhale deeply. A brief calm washes through me and somehow I know Isaiah will get me out of this.
Katie McGarry
#65. In a just cause the weak will beat the strong!
Sophocles
#66. But, Henry, this is wicked!' But, Adam, the world is wicked. Maoris prey on Moriori, Whites prey on darker-hued cousins, fleas prey on mice, cats prey on rats, Christians on infidels, first mates on cabin boys, Death on the Living. 'The weak are meat, the strong do eat.
David Mitchell
#67. I am thankful for all the hard times I've been through and all the tears I've cried because that has put me as closer to God and made me the strong woman I am today!
Angela Merkel
#68. The Great and the Least, The Rich and the Poor, The Weak and the Strong, In Joy and Sorrow, In Tragedy and Triumph, You are ALL MY CHILDREN
Agnes Nixon
#69. The oppressor has always indoctrinated the weak with his interpretation of the crimes of the strong.
Carter G. Woodson
#70. Conscience is but a word that cowards use, devised at first to keep the strong in awe
William Shakespeare
#71. The faults of women, of children, of the feeble, the indigent, and the ignorant, are the fault of the husbands, the fathers, the masters, the strong, the rich, and the wise.
Victor Hugo
#72. In a lot of TV shows out there, the women are the weak ones, and the men are the strong ones.
Sophie Turner
#73. The first of 'Goose's Two Laws of Survival.' It runs thus, 'The weak are meat the strong do eat.' " ... Henry grinned in the dark & cleared his throat. "The second law of survival states that there is no second law. Eat or be eaten. That's it.
David Mitchell
#75. This is life ... Not a peace treaty, not an idealistic dream, but a grim dance of death and survival. The strong live on while the weak
the ones too small or too foolish to fight back
die in agony and blood.
Dan Wells
#77. 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.
Marcel Proust
#78. Christian hope does not promise successful days to the rich and the strong, but resurrection and life to those who must exist in the shadows of death. Success is no name of God. Righteousness is.
Jurgen Moltmann
#79. Don't be crushed under the oncoming tide of adversity that moves in to test your faith. Make sure that your foundation is built on the solid rock of Jesus Christ. Be ready for the storms of life and move forward in a confidence that cannot be shaken by the strong winds of hardship.
Calvin W. Allison
#80. I couldn't stand back and watch the strong economy that my father envisioned go to ruins.
Park Geun-hye
#81. Oh, diplomacy," said M.D., in his element, "it mops up war's spillages; legitimizes its outcomes; gives the strong state the means to impose its will on a weaker one, while saving its fleets and battalions for weightier opponents.
David Mitchell
#82. If ever tears and pleadings have served the weak to fight the strong, let them do so now!
Thomas Hardy
#83. Women who insist upon having the same options as men would do well to consider the option of being the strong, silent type
Fran Lebowitz
#85. Too much has been said of the heroes of history-the strong men, the troublesome men; too little of the amiable, the kindly, the tolerant.
Stephen Leacock
#86. I threw everything we had together - the strong roots and stems and leaves and beautiful soft blossoms of sisterhood - into the earth with you. And I was left standing on the edge, so diminished by the loss that I thought I could no longer be there.
Rosamund Lupton
#87. Is the point of all this. To make you terrified of a world where you do not rule. Security and justice aren't given. They are made by the strong.
Pierce Brown
#88. The strong ones among humans do nothing. They talk and talk again.
Muriel Barbery
#89. The charm of horror only tempts the strong
Jean Lorrain
#90. I don't want to be the strong one, but I don't want to be the weak one, either.
David Levithan
#91. Ronald Reagan's era can be defined, number one in most people's minds, by the Cold War and by the end of it - and by the strong principles he stood for.
Marco Rubio
#92. Courage injures the strong ones who have no wisdom, but it motivates the brave ones, to always win.
Auliq Ice
#93. Fear is like the strong medicine used to fight serious diseases; it purges, but it also alters your temperament and wears out the body organs. A person who is driven by fear will always be the weaker for it
Francois Fenelon
#94. A democratic state is not proven by the welfare of the strong but by the welfare of the weak.
June Jordan
#95. Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#96. The angel's lower body was covered by a pair of faded jeans that showcased the strong muscles in his thighs ... along with a few other things she'd only dared dream about. His upper body was bare, showing off honeyed skin, washboard abs, and a killer set of pecs.
Rosalie Lario
#97. How can those who are invested with the power of government be prevented from the abuse of those powers as the means of aggrandizing themselves? ... Without a strong constitution to counteract the strong tendency of government to disorder and abuse there can be little progress or improvement.
John C. Calhoun
#98. All our lives are symbols. Everything we do is part of a pattern we have at least some say in. The strong make their own patterns and influence other people's, the weak have their courses mapped out for them. The weak and the unlucky, and the stupid.
Iain Banks
#99. The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge.
Lord Acton
#100. The world is the house of the strong. I shall not know until the end what I have lost or won in this place, in this vast gambling den where I have spent more than sixty years, dice box in hand, shaking the dice.
Denis Diderot
