Strong Quotes

• Cornelia Parker has inspired a lot of my theatre work. Her art is about points of impact: it's poetic but with a strong literal story.

  

  Abi Morgan
  • Work
  • Art
  • Theatre

• Physically I'm not as strong as I was, but I try to make up for it mentally. It's a big challenge, and I relish it, competing with guys half my age.

  

  Karch Kiraly
  • Guy
  • Funny
  • inspirational

• I am wandering inside, wandering through my past, trying to see if there is a place there strong enough to hold me.

  

  Carol Matas
  • Trying
  • Past
  • Enough

• I watched my mother do what she did best, and realized there would never be a way to cut myself from her entirely. No matter how strong or weak I was, she was a part of me, as crucial as my own heart. I would never be strong enough, in all my life, to do without her.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Mother
  • Enough
  • Cutting

• The temptation to moralize is strong; it is emotionally satisfying to have enemies rather than problems, to seek out culprits rather than the flaws in the system.

  

  William Sloane Coffin
  • Problem
  • Enemy
  • Temptation

• I don't have lots of things in the background. I do like large faces. I find them strong and contemporary.

  

  Paul Eluard
  • Strong
  • Faces
  • Contemporary

• Debenhams has a strong track record for developing exclusive designer brands.

  

  Matthew Williamson
  • Strong

• Stay strong. Depression lies.

  

  Wil Wheaton
  • Strong
  • Depression
  • Stay

• I was an only child. Growing up, we moved a lot, so I didn't have any close friends. So the animals I was around as a child - dogs, cats, and horses, and stuffed animals - became my family and friends. The only strong bonds I made as a child were with animals.

  

  William McNamara
  • Children
  • Dog
  • Horse

• The nature of touring is packaging acts together that have strong catalogues of music. It's about making sure that it's a winning combination. It's really about giving people value for their money.

  

  Vivian Campbell Def Leppard
  • People
  • Giving
  • Winning

• I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong.

  

  Audrey Hepburn
  • Strong
  • Wrong
  • I Believe In

• I'm strong because I know my weaknesses. I'm wise because I've been foolish. I laugh because I've known sadness.

  

  Ziad Abdelnour
  • Strong
  • Wise
  • Laugh

• I had a list of things that science fiction, particularly American science fiction, to me seemed to do with tedious regularity. One was to not have strong female protagonists. One was to envision the future, whatever it was, as America.

  

  William Gibson
  • America
  • Fiction
  • Female

• For ever and anon the soul becomes weary of the conventions that are not of it, and with a single stroke shatters the civilized lies with which it is unable to cope, and the strong arm reaches out and takes by force what it cannot win by cunning.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Soul
  • Winning
  • Lying

• Today it is time for strong and courageous people because only they can achieve victory and rid the world of tyranny.

  

  Wladyslaw Sikorski
  • People
  • Tyranny
  • Courageous

• The best gift you can give, besides your unconditional love, is to be strong for them when they are present and stronger for yourself when they are not!

  

  David H. Cooke
  • Love
  • Stronger
  • Recovery

• I want people of faith on my side, not just voting on election day but by hoisting me up by getting down on your knees and lifting me up in prayer. Those who have a different view of things are already organizing...Will you stand in the gap with those of us who believe there's a God, and a God who is strong? We can stand in the gap together and speak about issues we believe in and we will be victorious.

  

  Rick Perry
  • People
  • Believe
  • Different

• I always wanted to play music, but my family was more interested in handing me paints and markers. Art was always my favorite subject in school, and I can remember staying up all night drawing as a small child. My expression via art was extremely strong as I grew and hasn't stopped.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • Children
  • School
  • Art

• Growing up, when I was younger, I didn't feel all that tough or smart or strong. As I got older, I was able to discover my own strength.

  

  Alexandra Daddario
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Smart

• It is better to be strong and cruel than to be fair. At least, one eats better that way. And morality is more dependent on the state of one's stomach than of one's nation

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Morality
  • Stomach
  • Cruel

• I need to be fit and strong, and I don't want to carry any excess fat.

  

  Lizzie Armitstead
  • Strong

• In business, you have to be strong. If you are weak, people are going to take advantage.

  

  Ivana Trump
  • Business
  • Strong
  • Advantage

• Any object not interesting in itself may become interesting through becoming associated with an object in which an interest already exists. The two associated objects grow, as it were, together; the interesting portion sheds its quality over the whole; and thus things not interesting in their own right borrow an interest which becomes as real and as strong as that of any natively interesting thing.

  

  William James
  • Real
  • Interesting
  • Philosophy

• Plasticity, then, in the wide sense of the word, means the possession of a structure weak enough to yield to an influence, but strong enough not to yield all at once. Each relatively stable phase of equilibrium in such a structure is marked by what we may call a new set of habits.

  

  William James
  • Science
  • Mean
  • Habit

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