701 private quotes tagged strength

“The best translations cannot convey to us the strength and exquisite delicacy of thought in its native garb, and he to whom such books are shut flounders about in outer darkness.” — Edwin Booth

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“They just didn't have the sense of the strength of their vote. Just thought it wasn't necessary.” — Charles Phillips

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“Part of my strength as an actor comes from what I've learned all these years: when you play a villain, you try to get the light touches when you play a hero, you try to get in some of the warts.” — John Forsythe

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“There was a perception of me, and I earned it because I was really intense, really gruff. I treated certain people poorly at times. It was because of who I was. It was almost my strength. I came in all business. I tried to find ways to fit in with that demeanor, but it's not easy.” — Kirk Gibson

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“I'm probably the least flexible athlete you'll find. When it comes to yoga, I can't get in the positions and I can't hold them. You have to be pretty flexible to do it. Once you get certain positions, you have to have the core strength to hold those positions. It's a pretty good workout.” — Steve Blake

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“'Swan Lake' is the most difficult thing to portray for a female ballet dancer it really requires such specific qualities of articulation, agility, strength, and the arm work is something that takes a lot of training.” — Benjamin Millepied

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“I've always been really athletic, which really helped, because when I first started doing the training for Bulletproof Monk, it required so much strength that if I didn't have a base I don't really know what I would have done.” — Jaime King

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“It is no use painting the foot of the tree white, the strength of the bark cries out from beneath the paint.” — Aime Cesaire

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“If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination of the whole nature to the one aim no trifling with time, which is passing, with strength which is only too limited.” — Beatrice Webb

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“Tonight I should like to thank all those who have shared my work and to acknowledge the debt that I owe to my wife whose encouragement to put research before all other things has been a great strength to me.” — George Porter

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“This is just what I have thought when I have seen slaves at work - they seem to go through the motions of labor without putting strength into them. They keep their powers in reserve for their own use at night, perhaps.” — Frederick Law Olmsted

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“The only reason I would stay away from a period piece is because sometimes the women are painted in a very stereotypical weakling, wallflower way - that's something I don't want to do. I want to show strength in the women I play, and a journey of some sort.” — Dagmara Dominczyk

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“Death used to announce itself in the thick of life but now people drag on so long it sometimes seems that we are reaching the stage when we may have to announce ourselves to death. It is as though one needs a special strength to die, and not a final weakness.” — Ronald Blythe

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“The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people.” — Claiborne Pell

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“I don't know if I'm an action star or if that's just how things are shaping up. I would hate to be boxed into that forever, but it's probably just a strength as far as my type goes, and I'm fine with that.” — Jai Courtney

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“The military might of a country represents its national strength. Only when it builds up its military might in every way can it develop into a thriving country.” — Kim Jong-un

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“What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion.” — Max Jacob

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“I give myself strength by staying away from any music.” — Alannah Myles

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“To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the philosopher and the religious teacher.” — Arthur Holly Compton

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“Well you know I'm very supportive of what the Tea Party is trying to do. They're very concerned with spending, the deficit, the bailouts, you know all of those kinds of things. But I really think that the strength of the Tea Party is being a grassroots movement.” — John Boozman

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“I am not yet born O fill me with strength against those who would freeze my humanity.” — Louis MacNeice

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“There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.” — Francis Jeffrey

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“I felt invincible. My strength was that of a giant. God was certainly standing by me. I smashed five saloons with rocks before I ever took a hatchet.” — Carry Nation

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“Ronald Reagan was a president of strength. His philosophy was a philosophy of strength - a strong military, a strong economy and strong families.” — Mitt Romney

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“Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.” — Karen Armstrong

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