We gain the strength of the temptation we resist. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Part of my strength as an actor comes from what Ive 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
It is impossible for our working people to maintain their full strength if they do not succeed in obtaining a sufficient supply of fat, allotted to them on a proper basis. – Paul von Hindenburg
Well you know Im very supportive of what the Tea Party is trying to do. Theyre 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
But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, and the process of striking the shackles from the slave was accomplished in a single hour. – Wendell Willkie
African women in general need to know that its OK for them to be the way they are – to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence. – Wangari Maathai
Why do critics make such an outcry against tragicomedies? is not life one? – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers