I would never say, to justify a lapse in principle, "I am only human"--as though that were some kind of justification for weakness, moral weakness. Flesh and blood is much, much stronger than fools believe.
- Jack Henry Abbott
And now at last it comes. You will give me the Ring freely! In place of the Dark Lord you will set up a Queen. And I shall not be dark, but beautiful and terrible as the Morning and the Night! Fair as the Sea and the Sun and the Snow upon the Mountain! Dreadful as the Storm and the Lightning! Stronger than the foundations of the earth. All shall love me and despair!
- J R R Tolkien
Seek for the Sword that was broken:
In Imladris it dwells;
There shall be counsels taken
Stronger than Morgul-spells.
There shall be shown a token
That Doom is near at hand,
For Isildur's Bane shall waken,
And the Halfling forth shall stand.
- J R R Tolkien
She didn't need to understand the meaning of life; it was enough to find someone who did, and then fall asleep in his arms and sleep as a child sleeps, knowing that someone stronger than you is protecting you from all evil and all danger
- Paulo Coelho
You still haven't managed to heal the scars left by some of the injustices committed against you in your life and it doesn't do you any good. All it does is feed a constant desire to feel sorry for yourself, because you were the victim of people stronger than you. Or else it makes you go to the other extreme and disguise yourself as an avenger ready to strike out at the people who hurt you. Isn't that a waste of time?...It is human, but it's not intelligent or reasonable.
- Paulo Coelho
How can we be so arrogant? The planet is, was, and always will be stronger than us. We can't destroy it; if we overstep the mark, the planet will simply erase us from its surface and carry on existing. Why don't they start talking about not letting the planet destroy us?
- Paulo Coelho
maybe there is more to a person than a body and a mind. maybe something else figures into the mix not a soul, exactly, but a spirit that hints you might one day be greater, stronger than you are now. a promise; a potential.
- Jodi Picoult
For in that sad yet happy hour, she had learned not only the bitterness of remorse and despair, but the sweetness of self-denial and self-control, and led by her mother's hand, she had drawn nearer to the Friend who always welcomes every child with a love stronger than that of any father, tenderer than that of any mother.
- Louisa May Alcott
I thought it was only a habit, easy to drop when I liked: But it is stronger than I; and sometimes I feel as if possessed of a devil that will get the better of me, try as I may
- Louisa May Alcott
Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill, and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.
- Muhammad Ali
Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.
- Jesse Jackson
Fate is never fair. You are caught in a current much stronger than you are, Jonathan; struggle against it and you'll drown not just yourself but those who try to save you. Swim with it, and you'll survive.
- Cassandra Clare
And now I'm looking at you," he said, "and you're asking me if I still want you, as if I could stop loving you. As if I would want to give up the thing that makes me stronger than anything else ever has. I never dared give much of myself to anyone before bits of myself to the Lightwoods, to Isabelle and Alec, but it took years to do it but, Clary, since the first time I saw you, I have belonged to you completely. I still do. If you want me.
- Cassandra Clare
Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is as strong as death'
"Ours is stronger than that," Clary whispered, remembering how she had brought him back. And this time, when his eyes darkened, she reached up and drew him down to her mouth.
- Cassandra Clare
As if I could stop loving you. As if I would want to give up the thing that makes me stronger than anything else ever has. Since the first time I saw you, I have belonged to you completely.
- Cassandra Clare
I always thought love made you stupid. Made you weak. A bad Shadowhunter. 'To love is to destroy.'I believed thatI used to think being a good warrior meant not caring,And then I met you. You were a mundane. Weak. Not a fighter. Never trainedLove didn't make you weak, it made you stronger than anyone I'd ever met. And I realized I was the one who was weak.
- Cassandra Clare
I'm here. I love you. I don't care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you. There's nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than Depression and I am braver than Loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
I am stronger than depression and I am braver than loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
To those I love:
I'm here. I love you. I don't care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you. There's nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you. I am stronger than Depression and I am braver than Loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
Yes, women are stronger than us. They face more directly the problems that confront them, and for that reason they are much more spectacular to talk about. I don't know why I am more interested in women, because I don't go to any psychiatrists, and I don't want to know why.
- Pedro Almodovar
What if I go in there and my whole life changes? I can't even feel my insides anymore. Beckett, I'm not strong enough." Livia didn't wipe her tears and instead let the hospital blur.
"Livia, I've never seen anything stronger than you tonight with my brother. You're the whole reason he's here." Beckett jabbed a finger at the building. "I'm not asking you to be strong by yourself. I'll be with you. Honestly? I'm not man enough to go in there alone either.
- Debra Anastasia
It is because good is always stronger than evil. Always remember that, Antonio. The smallest bit of good can stand against all the powers of evil in the world and it will emerge triumphant.
- Rudolfo Anaya
Faith is stronger than so-called reason.
- Hermann Hesse
You don't force him, beat him, and give him orders because you know that 'soft' is stronger than 'hard,' that water is stronger than the rocks, that love is stronger than compulsion.
- Hermann Hesse
...for you know that soft is stronger than hard, water stronger than rock, love stronger than force. Vesadeva to Siddartha
- Hermann Hesse
... gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
- Hermann Hesse
How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue.
- Jane Austen
No man can be stronger than his destiny.
- Mary Austin
We all screw up. We all wish we were stronger than we are, and not one of us will get through this life without regret.
- Swati Avasthi
Mercy is stronger than your sword.
- P C Cast
He made me see what Life is, and what Death signifies, and why Love is stronger than both.
- Oscar Wilde
Yes, death. Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forget life, to be at peace. You can help me. You can open for me the portals of death's house, for love is always with you, and love is stronger than death is.
- Oscar Wilde
I did not love you out or boredom or loneliness or caprice. I loved you because the desire for you was stronger than any happiness.
- Alessandro Baricco
And no, it wasn't shame I now felt, or guilt, but something rarer in my life and stronger than both: remorse. A feeling which is more complicated, curdled, and primeval. Whose chief characteristic is that nothing can be done about it: too much time has passed, too much damage has been done, for amends to be made.
- Julian Barnes
He's stronger than this. He's always been stronger... (Vane)
Even the mightiest oak can be felled by a whisper of a wind if it comes on the heels of a powerful enough storm. (Carson)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
America is stronger than ever. We will forever remember those we lost on September 11, 2001. In honoring their memory, we will remain true to our commitment to freedom and democracy.
- Evan Bayh
I think love is stronger than habits or circumstances. I think it is possible to keep yourself for someone for a long time and still remember why you were waiting when she comes at last.
- Peter S Beagle
I think that love is stronger than habits or circumstances. I think it is possible to keep yourself for someone for a long time, and still remember why you were waiting when she comes at last.... I would enter your sleep if I could, and guard you there, and slay the thing that hounds you, as I would if it had the courage to face me in fair daylight. But I cannot come in unless you dream of me.
- Peter S Beagle
Once, poets were magicians. Poets were strong, stronger than warriors or kings stronger than old hapless gods. And they will be strong once again.
- Greg Bear
I'm stronger than you are, Redd.
- Frank Beddor
Right, good temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
- Lemony Snicket
My father said she was a strong woman, and I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is almost indestructible.
- John Steinbeck
I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.
- John Steinbeck
Because theres one thing stronger than magic: sisterhood.
- Robin Benway
The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism -- ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.... Among us today a concentration of private power without equal in history is growing.
- Franklin D Roosevelt
The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.
- Franklin D Roosevelt
Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.
- Gary Ryan Blair
Kindness and good nature unite men more effectually and with greater strength than any agreements whatsoever, since thereby the engagements of men's hearts become stronger than the bond and obligation of words.
- Thomas More
Feelings are much stronger than thoughts. We are all led by instinct, and our intellect catches up later
- Bono
Frostpine made a face. Lifting the cup, he dumped its contents down his throat. "Auugghh!" he yelled, his voice stronger than it had been since his return from the harbor. "Are you trying to kill me, woman?"
"If I mean to kill someone, I do it," Rosethorn told him. "I don't try.
- Tamora Pierce
Your love in me is stronger than the hatred.
- Corrie Ten Boom
How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower? - Sonnet LXV
- William Shakespeare
Think you I am no stronger than my own sex being so father'd and husbanded?
- William Shakespeare
The longing for destiny is nowhere stronger than in our romantic life.
- Alain De Botton
The desire for high status is never stronger than in situations where "ordinary" life fails to answer a median need for dignity and comfort.
- Alain De Botton
Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be.
- Kami Garcia
Lancelot: Morgaine, Morgaine - kinswoman, I have never seen you weep.
Morgaine: Are you like so many men, afraid of a woman's tears? (...)
Lancelot: No (...) it makes them seem so much more real, so much more vulnerable - women who never weep frighten me, because I know they are stronger than I, and I am always a little afraid of what they will do.
- Marion Zimmer Bradley
The world in which we live is held together by love.
The world in which we love is held together by fate.
The world in which we die is of our own making.
Death comes from hatred and man is the only creature who hates, stronger than he loves.
- Tara Brown
The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error.
- William Jennings Bryan
This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. I come to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty - the cause of humanity.
- William Jennings Bryan
Life is stronger than death.
- Pearl S Buck
Mr. Chamberlain desires to avert the threat to England's peace by making England, in alliance with Germany, stronger than her rivals and so to force them to renounce their hostile intentions against her.
- Bernhard Von Bulow
I have lightning and wind powers," Jason reminded him. "Piper can turn beautiful and charm people into giving her BMWs. You're no more a freak than we are. And, hey, maybe you can fly, too. Like jump off a building and yell 'Flame on!'"
Leo snorted. "If I did that, you would see a flaming kid falling to his death, and I would be yelling something a little stronger than 'Flame on!
- Rick Riordan
Kissing power is stronger than will power.
- Abigail Van Buren
She wrote, 'Dandelion, I love you.' And I thought that was magic. It's not in you, it's between you. It's bigger and stronger than you are
- Melvin Burgess
When you will not fly into a passion people know you are stronger than they are, because you are strong enough to hold in your rage, and they are not, and they say stupid things they wish they hadn't said afterward.
- Frances Hodgson Burnett
When people are insulting you, there is nothing so good for them as not to say a word -- just to look at them and think. When you will not fly into a passion people know you are stronger than they are, because you are strong enough to hold in your rage, and they are not, and they say stupid things they wished they hadn't said afterward. There's nothing so strong as rage, except what makes you hold it in -- that's stronger. It's a good thing not to answer your enemies.
- Frances Hodgson Burnett
I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
- Voltaire
A dog a dog teaches us so much about love. Wordless, imperfect love; love that is constant, love that is simple
goodness, love that forgives not only bad singing and embarrassments, but misunderstandings and harsh words.
Love that sits and stays and stays and stays, until it finally becomes its own forever. Love, stronger than death. A dog is a four-legged reminder that love comes and time passes and then your heart breaks.
- Deb Caletti
People can attach themselves to something--an idea, another person, a desire--with an impossibly strong grip, and in the case of restless ghosts, a grip stronger than death. Will is a powerful thing. Will--it's supposed to be a good treat, a more determined and persistent version of determination and persistence. But will and obsession--they sit right next to each other. They pretend to be strangers and all the while meet secretly at midnight. -
- Deb Caletti
I do not say that there are no stronger men than these; but will any one say that there are any men stronger than those men of old who were dominated by their philosophy and steeped in their religion? Whether bondage be better than freedom may be discussed. But that their bondage came to more than our freedom it will be difficult for any one to deny.
- Gilbert K Chesterton
Now in history there is no Revolution that is not a Restoration. Among the many things that leave me doubtful about the modern habit of fixing eyes on the future, none is stronger than this: that all the men in history who have really done anything with the future have had their eyes fixed upon the past.
- Gilbert K Chesterton
But we are alone, darling child, terribly, isolated each from the other; so fierce is the world's ridicule we cannot speak or show our tenderness; for us, death is stronger than life, it pulls like a wind through the dark, all our cries burlesqued in joyless laughter; and with the garbage of loneliness stuffed down us until our guts burst bleeding green, we go screaming round the world, dying in our rented rooms, nightmare hotels, eternal homes of the transient heart.
- Truman Capote
[F]or us, death is stronger than life, it pulls like a wind through the dark, all our cries burlesqued in joyless laugther; and with the garbage of liveliness stuffed down us untill our guts burst bleeding green, we go screaming round the world, dying, in our rented rooms, nightmare hotels, eternal homes of the transient heart.
- Truman Capote
From now on the enemy is more clever than you. From now on the enemy is stronger than you. From now on you are always about to lose.
- Orson Scott Card
Hope, it is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective, a lot of hope is dangerous.
- Suzanne Collins
Gale Hawthorne: Okay, listen to me, you're stronger than they are. You are. They just want a good show, that's all they want. You know how to hunt. Show them how good you are.
- Suzanne Collins
Hope is the only thing stronger than fear.
- Suzanne Collins
some books against Deism fell into my hands... it happened that they wrought an effect on me quite contrary to what was intended by them; for the arguments of the Deists, which were quote to be refuted, appeared to me much stronger than the refutations; in short, I soon became a thorough Deist.
- Benjamin Franklin
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
- William James
Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.
- William James
Everything growing wild is a hundred times stronger than tame things.
- Forrest Carter
What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn't think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.
- Bill Cosby
Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.
- Charles Dudley Warner
I believe it's time to put our best ideas on the table and work toward a bipartisan solution, with the single goal of leaving the Social Security system stronger than we found it.
- Chris Chocola
I'm a goody two-shoes who's never taken anything stronger than Tylenol.
- Erika Christensen
In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
However, there is something stronger than an unaccomplished future someone saw in a dream and that is a wish of a human heart.
- Clamp
Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry,
Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
- Arthur Rimbaud
I am stronger than words and I am bigger than the box I'm in, and then I see her in the crowd and I fall apart.
- David Levithan
he is much stronger than i think i am. he is
mischievous, outgoing, ready to soar
through the clouds while i often feel
like the cloud itself.
- David Levithan
Things fall apart, even when you think they're stronger than anything you could ever imagine.
- Susane Colasanti
Chase, I've tussled with vibrators stronger than your charge throwers.
- Kresley Cole
We were soul mates. Bound through time with a love stronger than steel. He was mine. And I was his. Unquestionably. Forever. Yet here we were. He was half-dressed and embracing my sworn enemy.
- Courtney Cole
Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe and stronger than you seem and smarter than you think.
- Walt Disney Company
The green reed which bends in the wind is stronger than the mighty oak which breaks in a storm.
- Confucius
No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.
- James F Cooper
As a producer, I probably am a little stronger than most, since I was a director originally.
- Roger Corman
Censure is a limp noodle across the wrist of the president. I think the way we vote on the articles will express the way we feel stronger than any censure vote.
- Larry Craig
Here is what unsayable about us: Jonathan and I are members of a team so old nobody else could join even if we wanted them to. What binds us is stronger than sex. It is stronger than love. We're related. Each of us is the other born into a different flesh.
- Michael Cunningham
Let there be no doubt: the state of our union is strong - stronger than the terrorists who seek to harm us and stronger than the challenges that confront us. At the same time, we know that our union can be stronger still.
- Tom Daschle
Our faith is stronger than death, our philosophy is firmer than flesh, and the spread of the Kingdom of God upon the earth is more sublime and more compelling.
- Dorothy Day
Principled hate is a hell of a lot stronger than "Boy, I wish you hadn't mummified me and thrown me into the lake" hate.
- John Green
Believe in yourself up here and it will make you stronger than you could ever imagine.
- Sarah Dessen
It's all about you, Colie." She touched one finger to her temple, tap tap tap. "Believe in yourself up here and it will make you stronger than you could ever imagine." There is something infectious about confidence. And for that one moment, with my eyebrows burning and my eyes watering, I believed. "And good hair never hurt either.
- Sarah Dessen
Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.
- Charles Dickens
Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be.
- Charles Dickens
I was very glad afterwards to have had the interview; for, in her face and in her voice, and in her touch, she gave me the assurance, that suffering had been stronger than Miss Havisham's teaching, and had given her a heart to understand what my heart used to be.
- Charles Dickens
I'm wishing he could see that music lives. Forever. That it's stronger than death. Stronger than time. And that its strength holds you together when nothing else can.
- Jennifer Donnelly
Hold on to this life, Emma," he whispered. "You're so much stronger than you think you are.
- Rebecca Donovan
Democracy is stronger than terrorism, and we will not cower to the terrorists' campaign of fear.
- John Doolittle
Father,' he asked, 'are rich people stronger than anyone else on earth?' 'Yes Ilusha,' I said, 'there are no people on earth stronger than the rich.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.
- Wayne Dyer
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
- Martin Luther King Jr
Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.
- George Orwell
That the Party did not seek power for its own ends, but only for the good of the majority. That it sought power because men in the mass were frail cowardly creatures who could not endure liberty or face the truth, and must be ruled over and systematically deceived by others who were stronger than themselves. That the choice for mankind lay between freedom and happiness, and that, for the great bulk of mankind, happiness was better.
- George Orwell
Breed is stronger than pasture.
- George Eliot
There may be coarse hypocrites, who consciously affect beliefs and emotions for the sake of gulling the world, but Bulstrode was not one of them. He was simply a man whose desires had been stronger than his theoretic beliefs, and who had gradually explained the gratification of his desires into satisfactory agreement with those beliefs. If this be hypocrisy, it is a process which shows itself occasionally in us all...
- George Eliot
Fear was stronger than the calculation of probabilities.
- George Eliot
I was more than this meek, defenseless victim. I had something within me that was stronger than the sum of all my unacceptable parts.
- Jeff Erno
Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.
- Euripides
I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils.
- Euripides
The threat of terrorism is not stronger than the will of the American people.
- Chaka Fattah
She turned to Vetch and he caught her hands as they reached out for him. "I wanted power, I always wanted it, but it's stronger than I am! I can't control the Unworld, Vetch, or the real world either. I can't make it do what I want! The forest is too strong."
Vetch crouched, his narrow face close to hers. "You will, Chloe. I promise you." He glanced at Mac. "Ask him. God gives no one a gift he cannot master. Right, Priest?
- Catherine Fisher
There are things stronger than the strongest man..
- Victor Hugo
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
- Victor Hugo
Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it is. It is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.
- Victor Hugo
Love is like a tree: it shoots of itself; it strikes it's roots deeply into our whole being, and frequently continues to put forth green leaves over a heart in ruins. And there is this unaccountable circumstance attending it, that the blinder the passion the more tenacious it is. Never is it stronger than when it is most unreasonable.
- Victor Hugo
Suddenly Yankel was overcome with a fear of dying, stronger than he felt when his parents passed of natural causes, stronger than when his only brother was killed in the flour mill or when his children died, stronger even than when he was a child and it first occurred to him that he must try to understand what it could mean not to be alive -- to be not in darkness, not in unfeeling -- to be not being, not to be.
- Jonathan Safran Foer
The power of women! I've never felt so full of mysterious power. Men are a joke.
We're so weak physically, so helpless with things. Still, even today. But we're stronger than they are. We can stand their cruelty. They can't stand ours.
- John Fowles
There is nothing stronger than gentleness.
- John Wooden
I am cruel and I am selfish, but this need I have inside me, this need for you and no other, is stronger than anything else I've ever encountered. I doubt two years of lockup would dull it in the slightest.
- Gena Showalter
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.
- Robert Fulghum
The ties of blood," said Spider, "are stronger than water."
Water's not strong," objected Fat Charlie.
- Neil Gaiman
There is nothing greater than love; it is stronger than any evil, any darkness.
Show me the way, Jesus!
Love is the answer. If we love one another, then we need not fear anything else. Love is everything.
- Cecilia Galante
We come together, we create our families, we chose our mates out of the desire to form a life together. Love takes many forms, wears many faces, but when it's real, when it touches your heart, you will know it and--with hope--embrace it. Love is stronger than hate, love is stronger than anger. Love is stronger than all artificial divisions that exist n our world.
- Yasmine Galenorn
everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait... there is nothing stronger than these two: patience and time, they will do it all.
- Leo Tolstoy
Hearts united in pain and sorrow
will not be separated by joy and happiness.
Bonds that are woven in sadness
are stronger than the ties of joy and pleasure.
Love that is washed by tears
will remain eternally pure and faithful.
- Kahlil Gibran
Right reason is stronger than force.
- James A Garfield
Kindness is stronger than iron bars.
- Margaret George
I could wake her up and ask have you ever been to the ocean? but I already know that answer. She has not. You can tell. It would humble you I whisper to her sleeping if you for one time stood by something stronger than yourself.
- Kaye Gibbons
I'm stronger than I think I am. Mentally, physically.
- Misty Maytreanor
A concept is stronger than a fact.
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
- Abraham Lincoln
When you put your hand on the Bible, you are saying something much stronger than just telling your peers that you're going to tell the truth.
- Lee Greenwood
Common aim is stronger than blood.
- G I Gurdjieff
You're...very resilient, for someone who's dead." Her voice was a little steadier.
"And I think you're far stronger than any of us were prepared to give you credit for." I kept shooting my mouth off like an idiot, telling her things I'd been ordered not to, and she kept going with it. I was impressed, honestly.
- Lia Habel
Love's stronger than fear and death.
- Steve Hackett
Like any show, I think some episodes are going to be stronger than others, but I think it's a good show that people enjoy and I hear the reactions too.
- Anthony Michael Hall
Generally, I end up being the one thrown against the wall, because Zach is the drummer. He's stronger than me.
- Isaac Hanson
The music is in the lead here, and a large part of this, I have no idea what I'm doing. I feel a closer bond with the craft of songwriting, stronger than I ever have.
- Ben Harper
and even when I was broken the way sometimes one can be broken, and even though I had fallen, I found upon arising that I was stronger than before, that the glories, if I may call them that, which I had loved so much and that had been darkened in my fall, were shinning even brighter and nearly everytime subsequently I have fallen and darkness has come over me, they have obstinately arisen, not as they were, but brighter.
- Mark Helprin
Even the poorest House can be rich in loyalty. Allegiance that must be purchased by bribes or wages is hollow and flawed, and could break at the worst possible moment. Allegiance that comes from the heart, though, is stronger than adamantium and more valuable than purest melange.
- Brian Herbert
When I am Weaker Thn You, I ask you for Freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am Stronger than you, I take away your Freedom Because that is according to my principles.
- Frank Herbert
Nobody in school is stronger than me. But when Sally Holmes kissed me, I never felt so weak in all my life.
- Steven Herrick
There was a reason these boys were still alive, though. Something made them stronger than the other kids, the ones who had died in the early days, who had simply lain down and given up, unable to cope with the terrible things that were happening in the world. These boys were survivors. The will to live was stronger than any other feelings.
- Charlie Higson
You can't let doubt or fear or guilt eat away at you. You are good and you need to remember that above all else. Love is stronger than hatred, and you are made of love.
- Amanda Hocking
You're stronger than you believe. Don't let your fear own you. Own yourself.
- Michelle Hodkin
God wants us to be stronger than we are--more fixed in our purpose, more certain of our commitments, eventually needing less coddling from Him, showing more willingness to shoulder some of the burden of His heavy load. In short, He wants us to be more like He is and, if you haven't noticed, some of us are not like that yet.
- Jeffrey R Holland
You said that death was not the end; most true.
Death was not stronger than my love for you.
But since sweet love so lightly gives, my friend,
We are not dead, and yet - this is the end.
- Winifred Holtby
He loved Nirvana, but at his age they were kind of a guilty pleasure. All that rage and pain and self-hatred! Will got a bit...fed up sometimes, but he couldn't pretend it was anything stronger than that. So now he used loud angry rock music as a replacement for real feelings, rather than as an expression of them, and he didn't even mind very much. What good were real feelings anyway?
- Nick Hornby
Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world; it has proved itself stronger than death.
- Dean Inge
God will not give you more than you can bear. Just when it feels like your back is breaking...the weight is lifted & you can stand straight again. He knows just how much you can carry & you find out that you are stronger than you thought. You have also built muscles for the future.
- Sanjo Jendayi
I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.
- Ma Jian
There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.
- Muhammad Ali Jinnah
I need someone physically stronger than me.... I am always on top. It's really unfortunate. I am begging for the man that can put me on the bottom. Or the woman. Anybody that can take me down.
- Angelina Jolie
I knew by then that I would never have my mother back, not in the way I had known her all my life. When you have seen your mother shattered, there's no putting her back together. There will always be seams, chipped edges, and clumps of dried glue. Even if you could get her to where she looks the same, she will never be stronger than a cracked plate.
- Tayari Jones
So there were people who got up at noon, pared their toenails, and sat naked in hotel rooms without regarding each day as an apocalypse. Amazing! If someone had burst into my room and found me naked and paring my nails, I would have died of shock. Or would I? Maybe I was stronger than I thought.
- Erica Jong
I'll never forget the first time Davram took me by the scruff of my neck and showed me he was the stronger of us. It was magnificent! If a woman is stronger than her husband, she comes to despise him. She has the choice of either tyrannizing him or else making herself less in order not to make him less. If the husband is strong enough, though, she can be as strong as she is, as strong as she can grow to be.
- Robert Jordan
I've had a stressful day, and I need something stronger than beer. Somebody fetch me a bodybuilder. Check the cooler in the garage.
- Jarod Kintz
I'm stronger than a pack of crackers and a pack of midgets, but not the PAC 12. PAC 11, maybe, but not 12.
- Jarod Kintz
She was here, and she was stronger than this, harder than this. They could make her hate herself, make her doubt herself, but they couldn't take away her deepest instinct. Not just the need to survive, but the need to survive long enough and strong enough to tell them to go fuck themselves.
- Stacia Kane
You are stronger than me," Asa says. "And in bravery and strength, there is a kind of beauty.
- Matthew J Kirby
Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do it's bidding.
- Pablo Picasso
It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.
- Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
Yes, my boy, you are indeed much faster, bigger, and stronger than me and an altogether superior speciman of God's creation, but I have seen your like before. Only one of us can be master, and it won't be you.
- Emery Lee
She knew full well the enormity of her offense, but because her desires were stronger than the code she was breaking, she persisted in breaking it.
- Harper Lee
To what will you look for help if you will not look to that which is stronger than yourself?
- C S Lewis
Closed his mouth. Then pressed a kiss on Oskar's lips. For a few seconds Oskar saw through Eli's eyes. And what he saw was... himself. Only much better, more handsome, stronger than what he thought of himself. Seen with love.
- John Ajvide Lindqvist
For a few seconds Oskar saw through Eli's eyes. And what he saw was...himself. Only much better, more handsome, stronger than what he thought of himself. Seen with love. (Let the Right One In)
- John Ajvide Lindqvist
Never was the victory of patience more complete than in the early church. The anvil broke the hammer by bearing all the blows that the hammer could place upon it. The patience of the saints was stronger than the cruelty of tyrants.
- Charles Spurgeon
Take pride in your pain. You are stronger than those who have none. - Katrina to Kira, explaining a benefit of Kira's handicap.
- Lois Lowry
Be proud of your pain, for you are stronger than those with none.
- Lois Lowry
Be very careful what you try with that. I'm not as strong as I should be." His breath was ragged, and irregular. "And you are stronger than you know.
- Tyra Lynn
But I think anybody who believes I could force coach Sloan to resign is crazy. He's stronger than that and personally if I said that to him, he'd probably go tell me to go do something.
- Karl Malone
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
- Thomas Mann
Stronger than iron
crueler than death
sweeter than springtime
it lives beyond breath
- Juliet Marillier
Once upon a time there was a girl."
"Not a princess?!"
"No, definitely not! She was too smart to be a princess. Tough too...Stronger than anyone realized."
"Does she live happily ever after?"
"Shouldn't there be something in the middle?"
"I like to read the ending first." (Wicked Lovely)
- Melissa Marr
Few things build a person up like affirmation. According to Webster's New World Dictionary, Third College Edition (Simon and Schuster, 1991),
the word affirm comes from ad firmare, which means "to make firm." So when you affirm people, you make firm within them the things you see about them. Do that often enough, and the belief that solidifies within them will become stronger than the doubts they have about themselves.
- John C Maxwell
Some people in LA are addicted. They have to be here. My personal life is stronger than my professional life, in terms of priorities.
- Debi Mazar
At that moment, the urge to be writing was stronger than any notion she had of what she might write.
- Ian Mcewan
Elizabeth's entire body started to tremble as his lips began descending to hers. and she sought to forestall what her heart knew was inevitable by reasoning with him. "A gently bred Englishwoman," she shakily quoted Lucinda's lecture. "feels nothing stronger than affection. We do not fall in love."
His warm lips covered hers. "I'm a Scot," he murmured huskily. "We do.
- Judith Mcnaught
There were a lot of bad feelings when Lindsey first left the band. But there's been a lot of healing going on, growing up, maturing. The bond is a great deal stronger than what we first thought.
- Christine Mcvie
Perhaps I am stronger than I think.
- Thomas Merton
People have no idea what one saint can do: for sanctity is stronger than the whole of hell.
- Thomas Merton
I was stronger than Edward. I'd made him say ow.
- Stephenie Meyer
To prevent the weaker members of the community from being preyed upon by innumerable vultures, it was needful that there should be an animal of prey stronger than the rest, commissioned to keep them down. But as the king of vultures would be no less bent upon preying upon the flock than any of the minor harpies, it was indispensable to be in a perpetual attitude of defense against his beak and claws.
- John Stuart Mill
She was glad that she had not let on to Lonzo how she felt; a woman has business to be as strong as a man. No, a woman has to be stronger than a man. A man don't mind laying the ax between a calf's eyes; a woman does mind, and has to stand by and watch it done. A man fathers a little un, but a woman feels it shove up against her heart, and beat on her body, and drag on her with its weight. A woman has to be stronger than a man.
- Caroline Miller
If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together... there is something you must always remember. you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart... I'll always be with you."
"It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?
- A A Milne
- Jack Henry Abbott
And now at last it comes. You will give me the Ring freely! In place of the Dark Lord you will set up a Queen. And I shall not be dark, but beautiful and terrible as the Morning and the Night! Fair as the Sea and the Sun and the Snow upon the Mountain! Dreadful as the Storm and the Lightning! Stronger than the foundations of the earth. All shall love me and despair!
- J R R Tolkien
Seek for the Sword that was broken:
In Imladris it dwells;
There shall be counsels taken
Stronger than Morgul-spells.
There shall be shown a token
That Doom is near at hand,
For Isildur's Bane shall waken,
And the Halfling forth shall stand.
- J R R Tolkien
She didn't need to understand the meaning of life; it was enough to find someone who did, and then fall asleep in his arms and sleep as a child sleeps, knowing that someone stronger than you is protecting you from all evil and all danger
- Paulo Coelho
You still haven't managed to heal the scars left by some of the injustices committed against you in your life and it doesn't do you any good. All it does is feed a constant desire to feel sorry for yourself, because you were the victim of people stronger than you. Or else it makes you go to the other extreme and disguise yourself as an avenger ready to strike out at the people who hurt you. Isn't that a waste of time?...It is human, but it's not intelligent or reasonable.
- Paulo Coelho
How can we be so arrogant? The planet is, was, and always will be stronger than us. We can't destroy it; if we overstep the mark, the planet will simply erase us from its surface and carry on existing. Why don't they start talking about not letting the planet destroy us?
- Paulo Coelho
maybe there is more to a person than a body and a mind. maybe something else figures into the mix not a soul, exactly, but a spirit that hints you might one day be greater, stronger than you are now. a promise; a potential.
- Jodi Picoult
For in that sad yet happy hour, she had learned not only the bitterness of remorse and despair, but the sweetness of self-denial and self-control, and led by her mother's hand, she had drawn nearer to the Friend who always welcomes every child with a love stronger than that of any father, tenderer than that of any mother.
- Louisa May Alcott
I thought it was only a habit, easy to drop when I liked: But it is stronger than I; and sometimes I feel as if possessed of a devil that will get the better of me, try as I may
- Louisa May Alcott
Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill, and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.
- Muhammad Ali
Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.
- Jesse Jackson
Fate is never fair. You are caught in a current much stronger than you are, Jonathan; struggle against it and you'll drown not just yourself but those who try to save you. Swim with it, and you'll survive.
- Cassandra Clare
And now I'm looking at you," he said, "and you're asking me if I still want you, as if I could stop loving you. As if I would want to give up the thing that makes me stronger than anything else ever has. I never dared give much of myself to anyone before bits of myself to the Lightwoods, to Isabelle and Alec, but it took years to do it but, Clary, since the first time I saw you, I have belonged to you completely. I still do. If you want me.
- Cassandra Clare
Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is as strong as death'
"Ours is stronger than that," Clary whispered, remembering how she had brought him back. And this time, when his eyes darkened, she reached up and drew him down to her mouth.
- Cassandra Clare
As if I could stop loving you. As if I would want to give up the thing that makes me stronger than anything else ever has. Since the first time I saw you, I have belonged to you completely.
- Cassandra Clare
I always thought love made you stupid. Made you weak. A bad Shadowhunter. 'To love is to destroy.'I believed thatI used to think being a good warrior meant not caring,And then I met you. You were a mundane. Weak. Not a fighter. Never trainedLove didn't make you weak, it made you stronger than anyone I'd ever met. And I realized I was the one who was weak.
- Cassandra Clare
I'm here. I love you. I don't care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you. There's nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than Depression and I am braver than Loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
I am stronger than depression and I am braver than loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
To those I love:
I'm here. I love you. I don't care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you. There's nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you. I am stronger than Depression and I am braver than Loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
Yes, women are stronger than us. They face more directly the problems that confront them, and for that reason they are much more spectacular to talk about. I don't know why I am more interested in women, because I don't go to any psychiatrists, and I don't want to know why.
- Pedro Almodovar
What if I go in there and my whole life changes? I can't even feel my insides anymore. Beckett, I'm not strong enough." Livia didn't wipe her tears and instead let the hospital blur.
"Livia, I've never seen anything stronger than you tonight with my brother. You're the whole reason he's here." Beckett jabbed a finger at the building. "I'm not asking you to be strong by yourself. I'll be with you. Honestly? I'm not man enough to go in there alone either.
- Debra Anastasia
It is because good is always stronger than evil. Always remember that, Antonio. The smallest bit of good can stand against all the powers of evil in the world and it will emerge triumphant.
- Rudolfo Anaya
Faith is stronger than so-called reason.
- Hermann Hesse
You don't force him, beat him, and give him orders because you know that 'soft' is stronger than 'hard,' that water is stronger than the rocks, that love is stronger than compulsion.
- Hermann Hesse
...for you know that soft is stronger than hard, water stronger than rock, love stronger than force. Vesadeva to Siddartha
- Hermann Hesse
... gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
- Hermann Hesse
How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue.
- Jane Austen
No man can be stronger than his destiny.
- Mary Austin
We all screw up. We all wish we were stronger than we are, and not one of us will get through this life without regret.
- Swati Avasthi
Mercy is stronger than your sword.
- P C Cast
He made me see what Life is, and what Death signifies, and why Love is stronger than both.
- Oscar Wilde
Yes, death. Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forget life, to be at peace. You can help me. You can open for me the portals of death's house, for love is always with you, and love is stronger than death is.
- Oscar Wilde
I did not love you out or boredom or loneliness or caprice. I loved you because the desire for you was stronger than any happiness.
- Alessandro Baricco
And no, it wasn't shame I now felt, or guilt, but something rarer in my life and stronger than both: remorse. A feeling which is more complicated, curdled, and primeval. Whose chief characteristic is that nothing can be done about it: too much time has passed, too much damage has been done, for amends to be made.
- Julian Barnes
He's stronger than this. He's always been stronger... (Vane)
Even the mightiest oak can be felled by a whisper of a wind if it comes on the heels of a powerful enough storm. (Carson)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
America is stronger than ever. We will forever remember those we lost on September 11, 2001. In honoring their memory, we will remain true to our commitment to freedom and democracy.
- Evan Bayh
I think love is stronger than habits or circumstances. I think it is possible to keep yourself for someone for a long time and still remember why you were waiting when she comes at last.
- Peter S Beagle
I think that love is stronger than habits or circumstances. I think it is possible to keep yourself for someone for a long time, and still remember why you were waiting when she comes at last.... I would enter your sleep if I could, and guard you there, and slay the thing that hounds you, as I would if it had the courage to face me in fair daylight. But I cannot come in unless you dream of me.
- Peter S Beagle
Once, poets were magicians. Poets were strong, stronger than warriors or kings stronger than old hapless gods. And they will be strong once again.
- Greg Bear
I'm stronger than you are, Redd.
- Frank Beddor
Right, good temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
- Lemony Snicket
My father said she was a strong woman, and I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is almost indestructible.
- John Steinbeck
I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.
- John Steinbeck
Because theres one thing stronger than magic: sisterhood.
- Robin Benway
The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism -- ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.... Among us today a concentration of private power without equal in history is growing.
- Franklin D Roosevelt
The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.
- Franklin D Roosevelt
Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.
- Gary Ryan Blair
Kindness and good nature unite men more effectually and with greater strength than any agreements whatsoever, since thereby the engagements of men's hearts become stronger than the bond and obligation of words.
- Thomas More
Feelings are much stronger than thoughts. We are all led by instinct, and our intellect catches up later
- Bono
Frostpine made a face. Lifting the cup, he dumped its contents down his throat. "Auugghh!" he yelled, his voice stronger than it had been since his return from the harbor. "Are you trying to kill me, woman?"
"If I mean to kill someone, I do it," Rosethorn told him. "I don't try.
- Tamora Pierce
Your love in me is stronger than the hatred.
- Corrie Ten Boom
How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower? - Sonnet LXV
- William Shakespeare
Think you I am no stronger than my own sex being so father'd and husbanded?
- William Shakespeare
The longing for destiny is nowhere stronger than in our romantic life.
- Alain De Botton
The desire for high status is never stronger than in situations where "ordinary" life fails to answer a median need for dignity and comfort.
- Alain De Botton
Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be.
- Kami Garcia
Lancelot: Morgaine, Morgaine - kinswoman, I have never seen you weep.
Morgaine: Are you like so many men, afraid of a woman's tears? (...)
Lancelot: No (...) it makes them seem so much more real, so much more vulnerable - women who never weep frighten me, because I know they are stronger than I, and I am always a little afraid of what they will do.
- Marion Zimmer Bradley
The world in which we live is held together by love.
The world in which we love is held together by fate.
The world in which we die is of our own making.
Death comes from hatred and man is the only creature who hates, stronger than he loves.
- Tara Brown
The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error.
- William Jennings Bryan
This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. I come to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty - the cause of humanity.
- William Jennings Bryan
Life is stronger than death.
- Pearl S Buck
Mr. Chamberlain desires to avert the threat to England's peace by making England, in alliance with Germany, stronger than her rivals and so to force them to renounce their hostile intentions against her.
- Bernhard Von Bulow
I have lightning and wind powers," Jason reminded him. "Piper can turn beautiful and charm people into giving her BMWs. You're no more a freak than we are. And, hey, maybe you can fly, too. Like jump off a building and yell 'Flame on!'"
Leo snorted. "If I did that, you would see a flaming kid falling to his death, and I would be yelling something a little stronger than 'Flame on!
- Rick Riordan
Kissing power is stronger than will power.
- Abigail Van Buren
She wrote, 'Dandelion, I love you.' And I thought that was magic. It's not in you, it's between you. It's bigger and stronger than you are
- Melvin Burgess
When you will not fly into a passion people know you are stronger than they are, because you are strong enough to hold in your rage, and they are not, and they say stupid things they wish they hadn't said afterward.
- Frances Hodgson Burnett
When people are insulting you, there is nothing so good for them as not to say a word -- just to look at them and think. When you will not fly into a passion people know you are stronger than they are, because you are strong enough to hold in your rage, and they are not, and they say stupid things they wished they hadn't said afterward. There's nothing so strong as rage, except what makes you hold it in -- that's stronger. It's a good thing not to answer your enemies.
- Frances Hodgson Burnett
I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
- Voltaire
A dog a dog teaches us so much about love. Wordless, imperfect love; love that is constant, love that is simple
goodness, love that forgives not only bad singing and embarrassments, but misunderstandings and harsh words.
Love that sits and stays and stays and stays, until it finally becomes its own forever. Love, stronger than death. A dog is a four-legged reminder that love comes and time passes and then your heart breaks.
- Deb Caletti
People can attach themselves to something--an idea, another person, a desire--with an impossibly strong grip, and in the case of restless ghosts, a grip stronger than death. Will is a powerful thing. Will--it's supposed to be a good treat, a more determined and persistent version of determination and persistence. But will and obsession--they sit right next to each other. They pretend to be strangers and all the while meet secretly at midnight. -
- Deb Caletti
I do not say that there are no stronger men than these; but will any one say that there are any men stronger than those men of old who were dominated by their philosophy and steeped in their religion? Whether bondage be better than freedom may be discussed. But that their bondage came to more than our freedom it will be difficult for any one to deny.
- Gilbert K Chesterton
Now in history there is no Revolution that is not a Restoration. Among the many things that leave me doubtful about the modern habit of fixing eyes on the future, none is stronger than this: that all the men in history who have really done anything with the future have had their eyes fixed upon the past.
- Gilbert K Chesterton
But we are alone, darling child, terribly, isolated each from the other; so fierce is the world's ridicule we cannot speak or show our tenderness; for us, death is stronger than life, it pulls like a wind through the dark, all our cries burlesqued in joyless laughter; and with the garbage of loneliness stuffed down us until our guts burst bleeding green, we go screaming round the world, dying in our rented rooms, nightmare hotels, eternal homes of the transient heart.
- Truman Capote
[F]or us, death is stronger than life, it pulls like a wind through the dark, all our cries burlesqued in joyless laugther; and with the garbage of liveliness stuffed down us untill our guts burst bleeding green, we go screaming round the world, dying, in our rented rooms, nightmare hotels, eternal homes of the transient heart.
- Truman Capote
From now on the enemy is more clever than you. From now on the enemy is stronger than you. From now on you are always about to lose.
- Orson Scott Card
Hope, it is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective, a lot of hope is dangerous.
- Suzanne Collins
Gale Hawthorne: Okay, listen to me, you're stronger than they are. You are. They just want a good show, that's all they want. You know how to hunt. Show them how good you are.
- Suzanne Collins
Hope is the only thing stronger than fear.
- Suzanne Collins
some books against Deism fell into my hands... it happened that they wrought an effect on me quite contrary to what was intended by them; for the arguments of the Deists, which were quote to be refuted, appeared to me much stronger than the refutations; in short, I soon became a thorough Deist.
- Benjamin Franklin
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
- William James
Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.
- William James
Everything growing wild is a hundred times stronger than tame things.
- Forrest Carter
What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn't think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.
- Bill Cosby
Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.
- Charles Dudley Warner
I believe it's time to put our best ideas on the table and work toward a bipartisan solution, with the single goal of leaving the Social Security system stronger than we found it.
- Chris Chocola
I'm a goody two-shoes who's never taken anything stronger than Tylenol.
- Erika Christensen
In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
However, there is something stronger than an unaccomplished future someone saw in a dream and that is a wish of a human heart.
- Clamp
Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry,
Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
- Arthur Rimbaud
I am stronger than words and I am bigger than the box I'm in, and then I see her in the crowd and I fall apart.
- David Levithan
he is much stronger than i think i am. he is
mischievous, outgoing, ready to soar
through the clouds while i often feel
like the cloud itself.
- David Levithan
Things fall apart, even when you think they're stronger than anything you could ever imagine.
- Susane Colasanti
Chase, I've tussled with vibrators stronger than your charge throwers.
- Kresley Cole
We were soul mates. Bound through time with a love stronger than steel. He was mine. And I was his. Unquestionably. Forever. Yet here we were. He was half-dressed and embracing my sworn enemy.
- Courtney Cole
Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe and stronger than you seem and smarter than you think.
- Walt Disney Company
The green reed which bends in the wind is stronger than the mighty oak which breaks in a storm.
- Confucius
No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.
- James F Cooper
As a producer, I probably am a little stronger than most, since I was a director originally.
- Roger Corman
Censure is a limp noodle across the wrist of the president. I think the way we vote on the articles will express the way we feel stronger than any censure vote.
- Larry Craig
Here is what unsayable about us: Jonathan and I are members of a team so old nobody else could join even if we wanted them to. What binds us is stronger than sex. It is stronger than love. We're related. Each of us is the other born into a different flesh.
- Michael Cunningham
Let there be no doubt: the state of our union is strong - stronger than the terrorists who seek to harm us and stronger than the challenges that confront us. At the same time, we know that our union can be stronger still.
- Tom Daschle
Our faith is stronger than death, our philosophy is firmer than flesh, and the spread of the Kingdom of God upon the earth is more sublime and more compelling.
- Dorothy Day
Principled hate is a hell of a lot stronger than "Boy, I wish you hadn't mummified me and thrown me into the lake" hate.
- John Green
Believe in yourself up here and it will make you stronger than you could ever imagine.
- Sarah Dessen
It's all about you, Colie." She touched one finger to her temple, tap tap tap. "Believe in yourself up here and it will make you stronger than you could ever imagine." There is something infectious about confidence. And for that one moment, with my eyebrows burning and my eyes watering, I believed. "And good hair never hurt either.
- Sarah Dessen
Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.
- Charles Dickens
Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be.
- Charles Dickens
I was very glad afterwards to have had the interview; for, in her face and in her voice, and in her touch, she gave me the assurance, that suffering had been stronger than Miss Havisham's teaching, and had given her a heart to understand what my heart used to be.
- Charles Dickens
I'm wishing he could see that music lives. Forever. That it's stronger than death. Stronger than time. And that its strength holds you together when nothing else can.
- Jennifer Donnelly
Hold on to this life, Emma," he whispered. "You're so much stronger than you think you are.
- Rebecca Donovan
Democracy is stronger than terrorism, and we will not cower to the terrorists' campaign of fear.
- John Doolittle
Father,' he asked, 'are rich people stronger than anyone else on earth?' 'Yes Ilusha,' I said, 'there are no people on earth stronger than the rich.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.
- Wayne Dyer
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
- Martin Luther King Jr
Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.
- George Orwell
That the Party did not seek power for its own ends, but only for the good of the majority. That it sought power because men in the mass were frail cowardly creatures who could not endure liberty or face the truth, and must be ruled over and systematically deceived by others who were stronger than themselves. That the choice for mankind lay between freedom and happiness, and that, for the great bulk of mankind, happiness was better.
- George Orwell
Breed is stronger than pasture.
- George Eliot
There may be coarse hypocrites, who consciously affect beliefs and emotions for the sake of gulling the world, but Bulstrode was not one of them. He was simply a man whose desires had been stronger than his theoretic beliefs, and who had gradually explained the gratification of his desires into satisfactory agreement with those beliefs. If this be hypocrisy, it is a process which shows itself occasionally in us all...
- George Eliot
Fear was stronger than the calculation of probabilities.
- George Eliot
I was more than this meek, defenseless victim. I had something within me that was stronger than the sum of all my unacceptable parts.
- Jeff Erno
Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.
- Euripides
I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils.
- Euripides
The threat of terrorism is not stronger than the will of the American people.
- Chaka Fattah
She turned to Vetch and he caught her hands as they reached out for him. "I wanted power, I always wanted it, but it's stronger than I am! I can't control the Unworld, Vetch, or the real world either. I can't make it do what I want! The forest is too strong."
Vetch crouched, his narrow face close to hers. "You will, Chloe. I promise you." He glanced at Mac. "Ask him. God gives no one a gift he cannot master. Right, Priest?
- Catherine Fisher
There are things stronger than the strongest man..
- Victor Hugo
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
- Victor Hugo
Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it is. It is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.
- Victor Hugo
Love is like a tree: it shoots of itself; it strikes it's roots deeply into our whole being, and frequently continues to put forth green leaves over a heart in ruins. And there is this unaccountable circumstance attending it, that the blinder the passion the more tenacious it is. Never is it stronger than when it is most unreasonable.
- Victor Hugo
Suddenly Yankel was overcome with a fear of dying, stronger than he felt when his parents passed of natural causes, stronger than when his only brother was killed in the flour mill or when his children died, stronger even than when he was a child and it first occurred to him that he must try to understand what it could mean not to be alive -- to be not in darkness, not in unfeeling -- to be not being, not to be.
- Jonathan Safran Foer
The power of women! I've never felt so full of mysterious power. Men are a joke.
We're so weak physically, so helpless with things. Still, even today. But we're stronger than they are. We can stand their cruelty. They can't stand ours.
- John Fowles
There is nothing stronger than gentleness.
- John Wooden
I am cruel and I am selfish, but this need I have inside me, this need for you and no other, is stronger than anything else I've ever encountered. I doubt two years of lockup would dull it in the slightest.
- Gena Showalter
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.
- Robert Fulghum
The ties of blood," said Spider, "are stronger than water."
Water's not strong," objected Fat Charlie.
- Neil Gaiman
There is nothing greater than love; it is stronger than any evil, any darkness.
Show me the way, Jesus!
Love is the answer. If we love one another, then we need not fear anything else. Love is everything.
- Cecilia Galante
We come together, we create our families, we chose our mates out of the desire to form a life together. Love takes many forms, wears many faces, but when it's real, when it touches your heart, you will know it and--with hope--embrace it. Love is stronger than hate, love is stronger than anger. Love is stronger than all artificial divisions that exist n our world.
- Yasmine Galenorn
everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait... there is nothing stronger than these two: patience and time, they will do it all.
- Leo Tolstoy
Hearts united in pain and sorrow
will not be separated by joy and happiness.
Bonds that are woven in sadness
are stronger than the ties of joy and pleasure.
Love that is washed by tears
will remain eternally pure and faithful.
- Kahlil Gibran
Right reason is stronger than force.
- James A Garfield
Kindness is stronger than iron bars.
- Margaret George
I could wake her up and ask have you ever been to the ocean? but I already know that answer. She has not. You can tell. It would humble you I whisper to her sleeping if you for one time stood by something stronger than yourself.
- Kaye Gibbons
I'm stronger than I think I am. Mentally, physically.
- Misty Maytreanor
A concept is stronger than a fact.
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
- Abraham Lincoln
When you put your hand on the Bible, you are saying something much stronger than just telling your peers that you're going to tell the truth.
- Lee Greenwood
Common aim is stronger than blood.
- G I Gurdjieff
You're...very resilient, for someone who's dead." Her voice was a little steadier.
"And I think you're far stronger than any of us were prepared to give you credit for." I kept shooting my mouth off like an idiot, telling her things I'd been ordered not to, and she kept going with it. I was impressed, honestly.
- Lia Habel
Love's stronger than fear and death.
- Steve Hackett
Like any show, I think some episodes are going to be stronger than others, but I think it's a good show that people enjoy and I hear the reactions too.
- Anthony Michael Hall
Generally, I end up being the one thrown against the wall, because Zach is the drummer. He's stronger than me.
- Isaac Hanson
The music is in the lead here, and a large part of this, I have no idea what I'm doing. I feel a closer bond with the craft of songwriting, stronger than I ever have.
- Ben Harper
and even when I was broken the way sometimes one can be broken, and even though I had fallen, I found upon arising that I was stronger than before, that the glories, if I may call them that, which I had loved so much and that had been darkened in my fall, were shinning even brighter and nearly everytime subsequently I have fallen and darkness has come over me, they have obstinately arisen, not as they were, but brighter.
- Mark Helprin
Even the poorest House can be rich in loyalty. Allegiance that must be purchased by bribes or wages is hollow and flawed, and could break at the worst possible moment. Allegiance that comes from the heart, though, is stronger than adamantium and more valuable than purest melange.
- Brian Herbert
When I am Weaker Thn You, I ask you for Freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am Stronger than you, I take away your Freedom Because that is according to my principles.
- Frank Herbert
Nobody in school is stronger than me. But when Sally Holmes kissed me, I never felt so weak in all my life.
- Steven Herrick
There was a reason these boys were still alive, though. Something made them stronger than the other kids, the ones who had died in the early days, who had simply lain down and given up, unable to cope with the terrible things that were happening in the world. These boys were survivors. The will to live was stronger than any other feelings.
- Charlie Higson
You can't let doubt or fear or guilt eat away at you. You are good and you need to remember that above all else. Love is stronger than hatred, and you are made of love.
- Amanda Hocking
You're stronger than you believe. Don't let your fear own you. Own yourself.
- Michelle Hodkin
God wants us to be stronger than we are--more fixed in our purpose, more certain of our commitments, eventually needing less coddling from Him, showing more willingness to shoulder some of the burden of His heavy load. In short, He wants us to be more like He is and, if you haven't noticed, some of us are not like that yet.
- Jeffrey R Holland
You said that death was not the end; most true.
Death was not stronger than my love for you.
But since sweet love so lightly gives, my friend,
We are not dead, and yet - this is the end.
- Winifred Holtby
He loved Nirvana, but at his age they were kind of a guilty pleasure. All that rage and pain and self-hatred! Will got a bit...fed up sometimes, but he couldn't pretend it was anything stronger than that. So now he used loud angry rock music as a replacement for real feelings, rather than as an expression of them, and he didn't even mind very much. What good were real feelings anyway?
- Nick Hornby
Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world; it has proved itself stronger than death.
- Dean Inge
God will not give you more than you can bear. Just when it feels like your back is breaking...the weight is lifted & you can stand straight again. He knows just how much you can carry & you find out that you are stronger than you thought. You have also built muscles for the future.
- Sanjo Jendayi
I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.
- Ma Jian
There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.
- Muhammad Ali Jinnah
I need someone physically stronger than me.... I am always on top. It's really unfortunate. I am begging for the man that can put me on the bottom. Or the woman. Anybody that can take me down.
- Angelina Jolie
I knew by then that I would never have my mother back, not in the way I had known her all my life. When you have seen your mother shattered, there's no putting her back together. There will always be seams, chipped edges, and clumps of dried glue. Even if you could get her to where she looks the same, she will never be stronger than a cracked plate.
- Tayari Jones
So there were people who got up at noon, pared their toenails, and sat naked in hotel rooms without regarding each day as an apocalypse. Amazing! If someone had burst into my room and found me naked and paring my nails, I would have died of shock. Or would I? Maybe I was stronger than I thought.
- Erica Jong
I'll never forget the first time Davram took me by the scruff of my neck and showed me he was the stronger of us. It was magnificent! If a woman is stronger than her husband, she comes to despise him. She has the choice of either tyrannizing him or else making herself less in order not to make him less. If the husband is strong enough, though, she can be as strong as she is, as strong as she can grow to be.
- Robert Jordan
I've had a stressful day, and I need something stronger than beer. Somebody fetch me a bodybuilder. Check the cooler in the garage.
- Jarod Kintz
I'm stronger than a pack of crackers and a pack of midgets, but not the PAC 12. PAC 11, maybe, but not 12.
- Jarod Kintz
She was here, and she was stronger than this, harder than this. They could make her hate herself, make her doubt herself, but they couldn't take away her deepest instinct. Not just the need to survive, but the need to survive long enough and strong enough to tell them to go fuck themselves.
- Stacia Kane
You are stronger than me," Asa says. "And in bravery and strength, there is a kind of beauty.
- Matthew J Kirby
Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do it's bidding.
- Pablo Picasso
It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.
- Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
Yes, my boy, you are indeed much faster, bigger, and stronger than me and an altogether superior speciman of God's creation, but I have seen your like before. Only one of us can be master, and it won't be you.
- Emery Lee
She knew full well the enormity of her offense, but because her desires were stronger than the code she was breaking, she persisted in breaking it.
- Harper Lee
To what will you look for help if you will not look to that which is stronger than yourself?
- C S Lewis
Closed his mouth. Then pressed a kiss on Oskar's lips. For a few seconds Oskar saw through Eli's eyes. And what he saw was... himself. Only much better, more handsome, stronger than what he thought of himself. Seen with love.
- John Ajvide Lindqvist
For a few seconds Oskar saw through Eli's eyes. And what he saw was...himself. Only much better, more handsome, stronger than what he thought of himself. Seen with love. (Let the Right One In)
- John Ajvide Lindqvist
Never was the victory of patience more complete than in the early church. The anvil broke the hammer by bearing all the blows that the hammer could place upon it. The patience of the saints was stronger than the cruelty of tyrants.
- Charles Spurgeon
Take pride in your pain. You are stronger than those who have none. - Katrina to Kira, explaining a benefit of Kira's handicap.
- Lois Lowry
Be proud of your pain, for you are stronger than those with none.
- Lois Lowry
Be very careful what you try with that. I'm not as strong as I should be." His breath was ragged, and irregular. "And you are stronger than you know.
- Tyra Lynn
But I think anybody who believes I could force coach Sloan to resign is crazy. He's stronger than that and personally if I said that to him, he'd probably go tell me to go do something.
- Karl Malone
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
- Thomas Mann
Stronger than iron
crueler than death
sweeter than springtime
it lives beyond breath
- Juliet Marillier
Once upon a time there was a girl."
"Not a princess?!"
"No, definitely not! She was too smart to be a princess. Tough too...Stronger than anyone realized."
"Does she live happily ever after?"
"Shouldn't there be something in the middle?"
"I like to read the ending first." (Wicked Lovely)
- Melissa Marr
Few things build a person up like affirmation. According to Webster's New World Dictionary, Third College Edition (Simon and Schuster, 1991),
the word affirm comes from ad firmare, which means "to make firm." So when you affirm people, you make firm within them the things you see about them. Do that often enough, and the belief that solidifies within them will become stronger than the doubts they have about themselves.
- John C Maxwell
Some people in LA are addicted. They have to be here. My personal life is stronger than my professional life, in terms of priorities.
- Debi Mazar
At that moment, the urge to be writing was stronger than any notion she had of what she might write.
- Ian Mcewan
Elizabeth's entire body started to tremble as his lips began descending to hers. and she sought to forestall what her heart knew was inevitable by reasoning with him. "A gently bred Englishwoman," she shakily quoted Lucinda's lecture. "feels nothing stronger than affection. We do not fall in love."
His warm lips covered hers. "I'm a Scot," he murmured huskily. "We do.
- Judith Mcnaught
There were a lot of bad feelings when Lindsey first left the band. But there's been a lot of healing going on, growing up, maturing. The bond is a great deal stronger than what we first thought.
- Christine Mcvie
Perhaps I am stronger than I think.
- Thomas Merton
People have no idea what one saint can do: for sanctity is stronger than the whole of hell.
- Thomas Merton
I was stronger than Edward. I'd made him say ow.
- Stephenie Meyer
To prevent the weaker members of the community from being preyed upon by innumerable vultures, it was needful that there should be an animal of prey stronger than the rest, commissioned to keep them down. But as the king of vultures would be no less bent upon preying upon the flock than any of the minor harpies, it was indispensable to be in a perpetual attitude of defense against his beak and claws.
- John Stuart Mill
She was glad that she had not let on to Lonzo how she felt; a woman has business to be as strong as a man. No, a woman has to be stronger than a man. A man don't mind laying the ax between a calf's eyes; a woman does mind, and has to stand by and watch it done. A man fathers a little un, but a woman feels it shove up against her heart, and beat on her body, and drag on her with its weight. A woman has to be stronger than a man.
- Caroline Miller
If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together... there is something you must always remember. you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart... I'll always be with you."
"It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?
- A A Milne
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