Stalwart Quotes

• But lost children always find each other, in the dark, in the cold. It is as though they are magnetized, and can only attract their like.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Children, Dark, Dice

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.124, Macmillan

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• The stalwart soul has the will to live and is eager for the race.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Race, Soul, Will To Live

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• Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls

  Taylor Caldwell

  Ambition, Fire, Soul

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• Whatever else you do or forbear, impose upon yourself the task of happiness; and now and then abandon yourself to the joy of laughter. And however much you condemn the evil in the world, remember that the world is not all evil; that somewhere children are at play, as you yourself in the old days; that women still find joy in the stalwart hearts of men; And that men, treading with restless feet their many paths, may yet find refuge from the storms of the world in the cheerful house of love.

  Max Ehrmann

  Laughter, Children, Heart

  Max Ehrmann (2017). “The Desiderata of Happiness”, p.7, Souvenir Press Ltd

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• Liberals are stalwart defenders of civil liberties - provided we're only talking about criminals.

  Ann Coulter

  Hippie, Talking, Liberty

  Twitter post from Dec 9, 2015

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• Young people . . , God wants us to be victorious. He wants you to triumph over all of your foes. Stalwart and brave we must stand. God is at the helm. There is no reason for defeat.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  People, Bravery, Triumph

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• I might be a stalwart, but I'm not a kingmaker.

  Eric Abetz

  Might

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Idleness makes people feeble and peevish. Work makes them stalwart and prone to anger.

  Mason Cooley

  Anger, People, Idleness

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• A murmuring, fateful, giant voice, out of the earth and sky, Voice of a mighty dying tree in the Redwood forest dense.... [T]he wood-spirits came from their haunts of a thousand years, to join the refrain; But in my soul I plainly heard. Murmuring out of its myriad leaves, Down from its lofty top, rising two hundred feet high, Out of its stalwart trunk and limbs - out of its foot-thick bark, That chant of the seasons and time - chant, not of the past only, but of the future.

  Walt Whitman

  Past, Years, Sky

  Walt Whitman, “Song Of The Redwood-Tree”

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• Those of us and so many other stalwart critics and opponents and questioners and dissidents in conservative media were attacked for doing what those people in the mainstream media should have been doing. Do your job! Subject these political candidates to the same amount of scrutiny that you are now trying to compensate for with the incoming Trump administration!

  Michelle Malkin

  Jobs, Media, Should Have

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• His wry sense of humour and his stalwart courage were an inspiring example to so many. His ability to laugh at Life's idiosyncrasies and himself in a self deprecating way taught that most valuable of lessons: 'to be of good cheer, no matter what Life threw at you, and ever to find the hope that dwells in every human heart'.

  John McLeod

  Cheer, Heart, Humor

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• The ladder was there, from the gutter to the university, and for those stalwart enough to ascend it, the schools were a boon and a path out of poverty.

  Diane Ravitch

  School, Gutters, Ladders

  Diane Ravitch (2000). “The Great School Wars: A History of the New York City Public Schools”, p.244, JHU Press

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• It seems obvious that there comes period in your life when you have to learn to say no to things you don't want to do. But the biggest trickiest lesson in holding on the stalwart committment to your creativity is learning how to say no to the things you do want to do.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Creativity, Lessons, Want

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• Chaos claims the unwary or the incomplete. A true man may flinch away its embrace, if he is stalwart, and he girds his soul with the armour of contempt.

  Dan Abnett

  Men, Soul, May

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• The past doesn’t exist except as a memory, a mental story, and though past events aren’t changeable, your stories about them are. You can act now to transform the way you tell the story of your past, ultimately making it a stalwart protector of your future.

  Martha Beck

  Memories, Past, Events

  "Regret Nothing: Martha Beck on Saying 'Sorry'" by Martha Beck, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 5, 2012.

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• I think a stalwart peasant in sheep-skin coat, born on the soil, whose forefathers have been farmers for ten generations, with a stout wife and a half dozen children, is good quality

  Clifford Sifton

  Children, Thinking, Sheep

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• Businessmen are notable for a peculiarly stalwart character, which enables them to enjoy without loss of self-reliance the benefits of tariffs, franchises, and even outright government subsidies.

  Herbert J. Muller

  Business, Character, Loss

  Herbert J. Muller (1952). “the Uses of the Past”

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• In America, religious dissent is as vital as it is elusive. Like the secretions of the pituitary, the juices of dissent are essential to ongoing life even if we do not always know precisely how, when or where they perform their tasks, and the not knowing - the flimsy, filmy elusiveness - is supremely characteristic of America's expressions of religious dissent. For in the United States no stalwart orthodoxy stands ever ready to parry the sharp thrust or clever feints of dissent.

  Edwin Gaustad

  Religious, Clever, Expression

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• When we consider the weak and nerveless periods of some literary men, who perchance in feet and inches come up to the standard oftheir race, and are not deficient in girth also, we are amazed at the immense sacrifice of thews and sinews. What! these proportions, these bones,--and this their work! Hands which could have felled an ox have hewed this fragile matter which would not have tasked a lady's fingers! Can this be a stalwart man's work, who has a marrow in his back and a tendon Achilles in his heel?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Women, Sacrifice, Feet

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.996, Delphi Classics

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• On the other hand, I think that Governor Romney has to worry that his turnout is going to be low, that he is not going to bring out the evangelicals, that he is not going to bring out the Tea Party stalwarts. If he does not, then it's pretty clear that he will lose the election. So I think turnout in key groups is going to be really, really key on Election Day.

  Anna Quindlen

  Party, Thinking, Keys

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In that intensely busy time of children and work, soup became my stalwart friend and I learned its true value. Anyone who's been there knows. You're busy, too much to do, time vanishes, the kids are relentless, and everyone is hungry all the time. Something as comforting, delicious, and practical as soup is like gold.

  Anna Thomas

  Children, Food, Kids

  Anna Thomas (2009). “Love Soup: 160 All-New Vegetarian Recipes from the Author of The Vegetarian Epicure”, p.20, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The cause of freedom, in music as elsewhere, is now very nearly triumphant; but at a time when its adversaries were many and powerful, we can hardly imagine the sacred bridge of liberty kept by a more stalwart trio than Schubert the Armorer, Chopin the Refiner, and Liszt the Thunderer.

  Hugh Reginald Haweis

  Music, Powerful, Bridges

  Hugh Reginald Haweis (1873). “Music and Morals”, p.298, London : Strahan

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• The Dead and Those About to Die is a gripping, first-hand account of the desperate battle for Omaha Beach on D-Day by the legendary 1st Infantry Division, the Big Red One. On the 70th anniversary of that momentous event, John C. McManus’s tale of courage under fire is a vivid reminder that freedom isn’t free and that when the chips are down stalwart American soldiers will always answer the call of duty.

  Carlo D'Este

  Beach, Fire, Hands

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• From youth to middle, and often to past middle, age, most men are apt to be too closely engaged in the struggle of life to pay due attention to the strength of the body. They may take daily what they consider a sufficient amount of exercise; but the exercise is not calculated to keep the various limbs and muscles, still less the internal organs, in proper working order. Amid the ordinary concerns of life the man may appear strong, even stalwart. But when occasion arises for some special muscular exercise, or taxing the action of some organ, he finds out his weakness.

  Richard A. Proctor

  Strong, Struggle, Exercise

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• Such lonely, lost things you find on your way. It would be easier, if you were the only one lost. But lost children always find each other, in the dark, in the cold. It is as though they are magnetized and can only attract their like. How I would like to lead you to brave, stalwart friends who would protect you and play games with dice and teach you delightful songs that have no sad endings. If you would only leave cages locked and turn away from unloved Wyverns, you could stay Heartless.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Love, Song, Lonely

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.124, Macmillan

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