701 private quotes tagged strength

“I admired in others the strength that I lacked myself.” — Georg Brandes

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“We managed to hang in there. Today when people get married there's a tendency to run away when things get tough. There is a lot of strength in hanging together.” — Jerry Stiller

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“Terrorists have failed to trigger mass conflict between Muslims and non-Muslims in Europe. We should draw strength from that fact.” — Gijs de Vries

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“Now, I am about to be nailed as the man who disliked 'Howl's Moving Castle.' Lord, give me strength! Also, IT, please disconnect the e-mail thing.” — Stephen Hunter

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“While other industries have suffered, the nonprofit arts world continues to build in strength while it encourages the growth of innumerable small businesses on its periphery, thereby creating more jobs.” — Louise Slaughter

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“When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness.” — Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

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“Naturally we are aware of the strength of our economy and naturally we don't want to downplay it.” — Gerhard Schroder

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“I mean I'm not smarter than the market, but I can recognize a good tape and a bad tape. I recognize when it's right and when it's wrong and that's what my strength is.” — Jim Cramer

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“With a houseful of kids you give each other strength.” — Michael Landon

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“The President has not created any Ford constituency, unique from that of any Republican President. The one exception to this is that he does show unique strength with young voters for a Republican.” — Robert Teeter

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“The weapon of the Republic is terror, and virtue is its strength.” — Georg Buchner

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“The grandeur and strength or our people and democracy are as big as a forest.” — Chen Shui-bian

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“The fact that we're going through a crisis is an opportunity for Europe to be more coordinated and more integrated. We're actually talking about a European Monetary Fund or euro bonds, about guarantees for countries, about economic governance in the European Union. That shows the strength of Europe.” — George Papandreou

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“Military strength in reserve is better than military strength being reigned upon the other side including all of its innocent civilians.” — Theodore C. Sorensen

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“I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world.” — Ruth Benedict

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“With such thoughts in your mind, now that you have resolved to love Him and please Him with all your strength, your only fear should be to fear God too much and to place too little confidence in Him.” — Alphonsus Liguori

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“At their core, when things really matter, people see a need to turn to God for strength and protection.” — Lee Greenwood

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“But I really like hosting, I think it's a strength of mine. It allows me to improvise, and I love the spontaneity of that, and I think I'm funny behind the desk when interviewing someone.” — Garry Shandling

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“The only concept or experience or core belief that I can attribute my other-ness to is that I just started out a weirdo and I stayed a weirdo. And it took me a long time to embrace my outsidership and see it as a strength rather than a weakness.” — Aisha Tyler

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“I had no doubts I could go to the pole. I may not be as strong, but I make up for physical strength in other areas, like steadiness and not panicking under stress.” — Ann Bancroft

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“My wife and I have always trusted each other, and I have to thank her strength.” — Anthony Anderson

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“The serve, I was too young and too small and... not enough powerful to have a good serve when I was young, so my forehand was always my signature shot. So I used to always run around my backhand, you know, use my forehand as much as I could, and so that's why I think it's my strength also today, you know.” — Roger Federer

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“The first thing is that we're being attacked by both the Writers Guild and the Producers Guild. Both of these groups are trying to diminish the importance and strength of the director. They're trying to do it through both frontal and side attacks.” — John Frankenheimer

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“America's downgrade may serve as a wakeup call for its policymakers. It is an unambiguous and loud signal of the country's eroding economic strength and global standing. It renders urgent the need to regain the initiative through better economic policymaking and more coherent governance.” — Mohamed El-Erian

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“You are talking to a man who can only play a plastic keyboard. Give me anything weighted and I've had it. I haven't got the strength in my fingers to push them down. So I don't get a lot of expression on the keyboard.” — Midge Ure

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