Strongest Quotes - Page 2

• The strongest force in the universe is Compound Interest.

  Albert Einstein

  Being Yourself, Being Real, I Love Myself

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• Because who can describe that look that triggers the memory of loved ones? Who can anticipate the frown, the smile, or the misplaced lock of hair that sends a swift, undeniable signal from the past? Who can ever estimate the power of association, which is always strongest in moments of love and in memories of death?

  John Irving

  Memories, Past, Hair

  John Irving (2012). “A Widow For One Year”, p.100, Random House

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• You cannot go against nature. She is stronger than the strongest of men. We can permit ourselves some liberties, but in details only.

  Pablo Picasso

  Men, Stronger, Liberty

  "Conversation avec Picasso". Interview with Christian Zervos in Cahiers d'Art, Vol X, 7-10, 1935.

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• To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world's strongest economy.

  Ronald Reagan

  Taken, World, Politics

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1981

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• I see the strongest and the smartest men who have ever lived... and these men are pumping gas and waiting tables.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Men, Waiting, Tables

  Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.149, W. W. Norton & Company

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• It is part of the irony of life that the strongest feelings of devoted gratitude of which human nature seems to be susceptible, are called forth in human beings towards those who, having the power entirely to crush their earthly existence, voluntarily refrain from using that power.

  John Stuart Mill

  Crush, Gratitude, Feelings

  John Stuart Mill (1970). “The Subjection of Women”, p.34, MIT Press

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• I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Science, Religion

  Albert Einstein, George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Einstein on Cosmic Religion and Other Opinions and Aphorisms”, p.52, Courier Corporation

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• The strongest argument against totalitarianism may be a recognition of a universal human nature; that all humans have innate desires for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The doctrine of the blank slate... is a totalitarian's dream.

  Steven Pinker

  Dream, Pursuit Of Happiness, Desire

  "Steven Pinker: the optimistic voice of science" by Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2011.

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• ...We pray together, we are afraid together, and then we go to sleep. Even if Satan came into the house, no one would interfere. After all, what is there to fear in this house? There is always one with us who is the strongest. Satan may visit our house, but the good Lord lives here.

  Victor Hugo

  Sleep, House, Together

  Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1987). “Les misérables”, Dutton Adult

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• The strongest must seek a way, say you? But I say: let a ploughman plough, but choose an otter for swimming, and for running light over grass and leaf, or over snow- an Elf!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Running, Swimming, Light

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.209, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• He held up a book then. “I'm going to read it to you for relax.” “Does it have any sports in it?” “Fencing. Fighting. Torture. Poison. True Love. Hate. Revenge. Giants. Hunters. Bad men. Good men. Beautifulest Ladies. Snakes. Spiders... Pain. Death. Brave men. Cowardly men. Strongest men. Chases. Escapes. Lies. Truths. Passion. Miracles.” “Sounds okay,” I said and I kind of closed my eyes.

  William Goldman

  Sports, Pain, Revenge

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• Money and women. They're two of the strongest things in the world. The things you do for a woman you wouldn't do for anything else. Same with money.

  Satchel Paige

  Funny, Witty, Money

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• We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are. Yet the strongest, most authentic motive for deep reading…is the search for a difficult pleasure.

  Harold Bloom

  Reading, Knowledge, Self

  Harold Bloom (2001). “How to Read and Why”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• Israel has always been and must always be America's strongest ally.

  George Pataki

  Israel, America, Allies

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• The strongest continuous thread in America's political tradition is skepticism about government.

  George Will

  Government, America, Political

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• Because we are saturated with life, because we are human, our strongest motive is life, humanity; and the stronger the motive back of the line the stronger, and therefore more beautiful, the line will be.

  Robert Henri

  Beautiful, Drawing, Humanity

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• Appreciation is the purest,strongest form of love. It is the outward-bound kind of love that asks for nothing and gives everything.

  Kelly Corrigan

  Appreciation, Giving, Kind

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• I can hear President Snow's voice in my head. 'On the seventy-fifth anniversary, as a reminder to the rebels that even the strongest among them cannot overcome the power of the capital, the male and female tributes will be reaped from their existing pool of victors.

  Suzanne Collins

  President Snow, Voice, Overcoming

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.175, Scholastic Inc.

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• The dearest ones of time, the strongest friends of the soul--BOOKS.

  Emily Dickinson

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• If we have not struggled/as hard as we can/at our strongest/how will we sense/the shape of our losses/or know what sustains/us longest or name/what change costs us,/saying how strange/it is that one sector/of the self can step in/for another in trouble,/how loss activates/a latent double, how/we can feed/as upon nectar/upon need?

  Kay Ryan

  Loss, Self, Names

  Kay Ryan (2007). “Say Uncle: Poems”, p.54, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.

  Marquis de Sade

  Country, Passion, Law

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• I view my strongest competition as myself. You're always trying to top yourself, rather than worrying about what other people are doing.

  John C. Reilly

  Views, Always Trying, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Only the strongest are put through the fire,' Josiah said. 'And the forge creates things of great strength and beauty.' 'Then I shall be truly glorious by the time my tenure ends.

  Sharon Shinn

  Fire, Ends, Said

  Sharon Shinn (1997). “Archangel”, p.143, Penguin

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• It was what accidental deaths did to people, made everybody's sea floor irregular and uneven, causing tidal currents to collide, surge upward, thereby resulting in small yet volatile eddies churning at everybody's surface. (In the more dangerous cases, it created a lasting whirlpool in which the strongest swimmers could drown.)

  Marisha Pessl

  Sea, People, Swimmer

  Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.192, Penguin

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• Each of us knows that we have an obligation to care for the old, the young and the sick. We stand strongest when we stand with the weakest among us.

  Sarah Palin

  Sick, Care, Young

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