Strong Quotes

• The whole macho thing has to be reexamined. Because in my view, the Bush administration was weak, not strong. To engage in a policy of torture is a weak policy. Because ultimately, it encourages the terrorists. It undermines our own values. It corrupts our system. And it doesn't get good intelligence.

  

  Alex Gibney
  • Good
  • Strong

• Though inclination be as sharp as will, My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent, And, like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Business
  • Guilt

• I'm very comfortable being married to an extremely strong, opinionated, and driven woman. But I also sit at the head of the table. I have both of those sides to me.

  

  Kevin Bacon
  • Strong

• Virtual reality is a truly immersive medium and the level of graphics, already quite strong, will only continue to get better and better. You really feel like you are someplace else...and what you see, what you experience, it impacts your brain. So there are major implications here, to societal structure, to democracy to the way in which we interact with each other. To the nature of love, to the nature of sexuality.

  

  Brett Leonard
  • Reality
  • Brain
  • Democracy

• I come from a strong woman who believed - and my father believed - that anything a man could do, a woman could do better.

  

  Kimberly Guilfoyle
  • Father
  • Strong

• There are differences in the world community. But we have a common interest in a strong multilateral system.

  

  Joschka Fischer
  • World
  • Strong
  • Community

• My emotions are strong when I start the season.

  

  Claudio Ranieri
  • Strong

• If the character is really well-rounded, and it's a really strong character, and if the writing is just fantastic, that's the thing that will hook me in, certainly.

  

  Amanda Abbington
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Strong

• I can see now that I should have been strong enough to conquer myself.

  

  Conrad Veidt
  • Strong

• I feel a strong bond with Chile and Argentina.

  

  Douglas Tompkins
  • Strong

• I love the deadpan. It's such a strong go-to. It lets the audience make their own decisions about what you're thinking.

  

  Craig Robinson
  • Thinking
  • Strong

• A few strong instincts and a few plain rules.

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Strong
  • Intuition
  • Instinct

• Trauma creates one of four types of people: victims, rescuers, or perps - and if you're really lucky and really strong and very willing and brave, survivors.

  

  Allison Anders
  • People
  • Strong
  • Brave

• I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Strong
  • Change
  • Pleasing

• I was a bit of a tomboy when I started modeling. And I've always felt athletic and strong.

  

  Elaine Irwin
  • Strong

• I was the girl who got out of my athletic requirement by managing the boys' sports teams. Which is pretty ingenious, because when I was a sophomore, I got a prom date out of it. That was really strong planning on my part.

  

  Ari Graynor
  • Pretty
  • Girl
  • Sports

• Surely the test of a novel's characters is that you feel a strong interest in them and their affairs-the good to be successful, the bad to suffer failure. Well, in John Ward, you feel no divided interest, no discriminating interest-you want them all to land in hell together, and right away.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Together

• My mum had a very strong moral code, which I kind of came with. I never really had to be told what was right or wrong - I knew. I was very mature from early on and I was a very good girl, so she never had any trouble with me.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Good
  • She
  • Girl

• When adversity strikes, that's when you have to be the most calm. Take a step back, stay strong, stay grounded and press on.

  

  LL Cool J
  • Calm
  • Strength
  • Adversity

• Women somehow get portrayed as one type. You're either a feminist or you're not. You're a working woman or you're not. I'm raising two girls, and I say to them, 'I need you to be strong and soft. You can be smart and beautiful... You can be all of these things.'

  

  Maria Shriver
  • Women
  • Beautiful
  • Smart

• Transactive memory works best when you have a sense of how your partners' minds work - where they're strong, where they're weak, where their biases lie. I can judge that for people close to me. But it's harder with digital tools, particularly search engines.

  

  Clive Thompson
  • People
  • Work
  • Judge

• Shakespeare's stories are still very strong. He structured fantastic stories about things that were fundamental to the human being and psyche.

  

  James McAvoy
  • Strong

• I want to question my belief, so that what is left after I have questioned it, will be even stronger.

  

  Thomas Hardy
  • Strong
  • Question
  • Belief

• They successfully combined piracy and puritanism, which aren't so unlike when you come right down to it. Both had a strong dislike for opposition and both had a roving eye for other people's property.

  

  John Steinbeck
  • People
  • Strong

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