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- Nov 07, 2020
Strength Quotes
On resilience, femininity, and what really holds firm.
This set covers strength at very different scales, from women feeling pressure to prove themselves through masculine-coded traits instead of trusting their own femininity, to a bridge metaphor that measures a society by its weakest point rather than its average. See Courage quotes for related themes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nov 07, 2020
My strength is my enthusiasm.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
My knee is as strong as it was before, if not stronger, and it's a matter of getting my leg strong. I lost six years of strength in about six month's time, so it's going to take another year or two to get that leg back up to full strength, but I'm good to go so far.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are realising that vulnerability isn’t a weakness, and the rise of mental health-related humour is making vulnerability feel like a strength.
- Genius
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poesy must not be drawn by the ears: it must be gently led, or rather, it must lead, which was partly the cause that made the ancient learned affirm it was a divine, and no human skill, since all other knowledges lie ready for any that have strength of wit; a poet no industry can make, if his own genius be not carried into it.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Negotiating with the Taliban must be done from a position of strength. Negotiating from a position of weakness would be a disaster.
- Mental
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- Nov 07, 2020
As much as we pump iron and we run to build our strength up, we need to build our mental strength up... so we can focus... so we can be in concert with one another.
- Something
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- Nov 07, 2020
Knowing what you're up against is part of the strength of writing something that is even, I guess, considered halfway original, knowing what's out there to begin with.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.
- Equip
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've got to demonstrate why European unity and integration, our vast single market, our single currency, equip us with the strength to embrace globalization.
- Casablanca
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- Nov 07, 2020
At Casablanca we did 'Midnight Express,' 'Flashdance,' and 'The Deep.' My willingness for risk has always been my strength.
- Greatest Strength
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- Nov 07, 2020
My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.
- Drastic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Good economic policy requires not so much the bravado to implement drastic change as the strength and wisdom to make reasonable trade-offs over the many years it takes to transform a country's standard of living.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
In some ways, I feel like the strength of animation is in its simplicity and caricature, and in reduction. It's like an Al Hirschfeld caricature, where he'll use, like, three lines, and he'll capture the likeness of someone so strongly that it looks more like them than a photograph. I think animation has that same power of reduction.
- Loneliness
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- Nov 07, 2020
I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality, while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.
- Late
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- Nov 07, 2020