Strongest Quotes - Page 6

• Even the strongest and bravest must sometimes weep. It shows they have a great heart, one that can feel compassion for others." —Cornflower

  Brian Jacques

  Heart, Compassion, Sometimes

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• A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Mind, Lasts, Pleasure

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• I don't want this office, this responsibility, any longer, even if you want me. Find the strongest and most able and God bless you. Good-bye.

  Harry S. Truman

  Goodbye, Responsibility, Office

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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• 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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• I took the life of the woman I was supposed to call mother in the process of being born... in order to become the world's strongest shinobi... an incarnation of sand was implanted inside of me.

  Masashi Kishimoto

  Mother, Order, World

  "Naruto". Manga series by Masashi Kishimoto, 1997.

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• I'm fine," I told him tersely. "Of course you are. You're one of the strongest people I know." It took me a second to process that, because he'd said it so casually. Like he was talking about the weather or what time it was. Only Pritkin didn't say things like that. His idea of a compliment was a nod and to tell me to do whatever it was I'd just done over again. Like that was usually possible. But that had sounded suspiciously like a compliment to me.

  Karen Chance

  Talking, Weather, Ideas

  Karen Chance (2011). “Hunt the Moon: A Cassie Palmer Novel”, p.50, Penguin

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• Christmas reminds us we are not alone. We are not unrelated atoms, jouncing and ricocheting amid aliens, but are a part of something, which holds and sustains us. As we struggle with shopping lists and invitations, compounded by December's bad weather, it is good to be reminded that there are people in our lives who are worth this aggravation, and people to whom we are worth the same. Christmas shows us the ties that bind us together, threads of love and caring, woven in the simplest and strongest way within the family.

  Donald E. Westlake

  Christmas, Struggle, Caring

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• In a healthy individual, a broken bone that has healed properly is strongest where it was once broken. You have not lost any life, Henry told himself. You will still get your fair share of years. Yet the quality of his life changed. Once you've been struck by violence, you acquire companions that never leave you entirely: Suspicion, Fear, Anxiety, Despair, Joylessness. The natural smile is taken from you and the natural pleasures you once enjoyed lose their appeal.

  Yann Martel

  Taken, Years, Broken

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• Ask Me Some time when the river is ice ask me mistakes I have made. Ask me whether what I have done is my life. Others have come in their slow way into my thought, and some have tried to help or to hurt: ask me what difference their strongest love or hate has made. I will listen to what you say. You and I can turn and look at the silent river and wait. We know the current is there, hidden; and there are comings and goings from miles away that hold the stillness exactly before us. What the river says, that is what I say.

  William Stafford

  Hurt, Hate, Mistake

  William Stafford (2014). “Ask Me: 100 Essential Poems of William Stafford”, p.19, Macmillan

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• The miracle is that, in most cases, he succeeds - for the powers of survival, of the will to survive, and to survive as a unique inalienable individual, are absolutely, the strongest in our being: stronger than any impulses, stronger than disease.

  Oliver Sacks

  Unique, Will To Survive, Miracle

  Oliver Sacks (2014). “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: Picador Classic”, p.111, Pan Macmillan

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• As gentle a man as he was, as tender as was his heart, there was nothing weak about Michael Hosea. He was the strongest-minded man Joseph had ever met. A Man like Noah. A Man like the Shepherd-king David. A man after God's own heart.

  Francine Rivers

  Kings, Heart, Men

  Francine Rivers (2009). “Redeeming Love: A Novel”, p.224, Multnomah

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• When we are young we do not look into mirrors. It is when we are old, concerned with our name, our legend, what our lives will mean to the future. We become vain with the names we own, our claims to have been the first eyes, the strongest army, the cleverest merchant. It is when he is old that Narcissus wants a graven image of himself.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Mean, Eye, Army

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The English Patient”, p.151, A&C Black

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• The world is a chessboard, Madam, on which we play out our ploys and follies. You are the Queen, of course. Your moves are the strongest. For myself, I claim only to be a knight, advancing in a crooked progress. Do we move ourselves, do you think, or does a great gloved hand place on our squares

  Catherine Fisher

  Life, Queens, Moving

  Catherine Fisher (2010). “Sapphique”, p.130, Penguin

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• A prison does not only lock its inmates inside, it keeps all others out. Her strongest prison is of her own construction.

  Margaret Atwood

  Doe, Locks, Inmates

  Margaret Atwood (2011). “Alias Grace: A Novel”, Anchor

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• Peace. That's what salaam means. Peace unto you." The words brought forth an echo from Ender's memory. His mother's voice reading to him softly, when he was very young. ... The kiss, the word, the peace were with him still. I am only what I remember, and Alai is my friend in a memory so intense that they can't tear him out. Like Valentine, the strongest memory of all.

  Orson Scott Card

  Mother, Memories, Reading

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• I wasn't born with any innate talent. I've never been naturally gifted at anything. I always had to work at it. The only way I knew how to succeed was to try harder than anyone else. Dogged persistence is what got me through life. But here was something I was half-decent at. Being able to run great distances was the one thing I could offer the world. Others might be faster, but I could go longer. My strongest quality is that I never give up.

  Dean Karnazes

  Running, Giving Up, Distance

  Dean Karnazes (2017). “Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner”, p.135, Atlantic Books

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• Is it true, O Christ in heaven, that the highest suffer the most? That the strongest wander furthest and most hopelessly are lost? That the mark of rank in nature is capacity for pain? That the anguish of the singer makes the sweetness of the strain?

  John Milton

  Pain, Heaven, Suffering

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• ...there's something about maternal love - it might just be the strongest human spiritual bond there is.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Spiritual, Might, Maternal Love

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• It was his cunning, this confidence and farsightedness in dealing with his own Clan, that made Crookedstar one of the strongest leaders the Clans have ever seen.

  Erin Hunter

  Leader, Clans, Made

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• I’ll have you know that the most delicate flowers often produce the strongest scent when crushed.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Flower, Scent, Produce

  Maria V. Snyder (2008). “Magic Study”, p.406, MIRA

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• The demons of the Devil don't use your weak weaknesses against you, they use your strong ones. If you're rational and logical, they argue their case rationally and logically. If you're loyal and faithful, they turn those against you. If you're passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears. Your weak weaknesses are no use to them.... They find the strongest weaknesses you didn't know were yours and use those against you.

  Aidan Chambers

  Strong, Emotional, Loyal And Faithful

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• All of us heal in time. The strongest are born again. We only keep the scars we choose to keep.

  Alethea Kontis

  Scar, Born Again, Heal

  "Enchanted". Book by Alethea Kontis, 2012.

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• It is as though some old part of yourself wakes up in you, terrified, useless in the life you have, its skills and habits destructive but intact, and what is left of the present you, the person you have become, wilts and shrivels in sadness or despair: the person you have become is only a thin shell over this other, more electric and endangered self. The strongest, the least digested parts of your experience can rise up and put you back where you were when they occurred; all the rest of you stands back and weeps.

  Peter Straub

  Sadness, Self, Skills

  FaceBook post by Peter Straub from Mar 02, 2014

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• I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets.

  George Eliot

  Writing, Poet, Pardon

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.108, Booklassic

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