701 private quotes tagged strength

“We get strength and encouragement from watching children.” — Hayao Miyazaki

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“The strength in our third-quarter financial results is cause for excitement. I'm particularly pleased that we continue to demonstrate impressive growth at the same time we are engaged in important merger discussions.” — Bernard Ebbers

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“First I shall name the eagle, of which there are three species: the great grey eagle is the largest, of great strength and high flight he chiefly preys on fawns and other young quadrupeds.” — William Bartram

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“My father was the son of immigrants, and he grew up bilingual, but English is what my father taught me and what he spoke to me. America's strength is not our diversity it is our ability to unite around common principles even when we come from different backgrounds.” — Ernest Istook

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“My knee is as strong as it was before, if not stronger, and it's a matter of getting my leg strong. I lost six years of strength in about six month's time, so it's going to take another year or two to get that leg back up to full strength, but I'm good to go so far.” — Picabo Street

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“Chicago's neighborhoods have always been this city's greatest strength.” — Jane Byrne

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“I like writing for children. It seems to me that most people underestimate their understanding and the strength of their feelings and in my books for them I try to put this right.” — Nina Bawden

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“America is moving forward and gaining strength. We have been tested, and we have proven ourselves to be a tough, resilient and resourceful nation.” — Bill Frist

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“You must in all Airs follow the strength, spirit, and disposition of the horse, and do nothing against nature for art is but to set nature in order, and nothing else.” — William Cavendish

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“Our role in Israel is a pioneering one, and we need people with certain strength of fiber.” — Moshe Sharett

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“The strength of any weakness within us is the degree to which it is feared.” — Guy Finley

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“The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to a rigid discipline, and to feel that in that submission lay their strength.” — Goldwin Smith

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“What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.” — Harold Bloom

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“That's one strength that Stevie has. She's really not a strong instrumentalist in any way. Her instrument is her voice and her words. And it keeps her focused on the very center of that.” — Lindsey Buckingham

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“Strength was the virtue of paganism obedience is the virtue of Christianity.” — David Hare

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“From this process has emerged a parallel process of translating traditional working and living values into a new political and economic power - a power increasingly based upon the strength of money and those material things money can purchase.” — Alex Campbell

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“Although housing sales and starts have cooled to more typical levels, the housing market remains strong and sound. Without the expansion of homeownership and the strength of our housing market, our nation would not have the economic growth we are experiencing today.” — Randy Neugebauer

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“How one stands up to any sort of allegation in the heat of political battle reveals the strength and nature of your character. It's one of the reasons we have campaigns.” — Tammy Bruce

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“In view of China's growing military strength and intentions, the best way to safeguard Asia's permanent peace and prosperity is to have all Asian countries join forces with other democratic countries in the world to form a global community of democracies.” — Jim Costa

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“The glimpses of human strength and frailty that a physician sees are with me still.” — Daniel Nathans

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“The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.” — Felix Frankfurter

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“I have my own strength.” — Nina Hagen

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“The strength of the Democratic Party of Cook County is not something that just happened.” — Richard J. Daley

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“We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.” — Madame Swetchine

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“Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster - children into strength and athletic proportion.” — William C. Bryant

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