Strong Enough Quotes - Page 7

• I knew it. In this way, Peeta's not hard to predict. While I was wallowing around on the floor of that cellar, thinking only of myself, he was here, thinking of me. Shame isn't a strong enough word for what I feel.

  Suzanne Collins

  Strong, Thinking, Way

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.178, Scholastic Inc.

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• and when love came to us twice and lied to us twice we decided to never love again that was fair fair to us and fair to love itself. we ask for no mercy or no miracles; we are strong enough to live and to die and to kill flies, attend the boxing matches, go to the racetrack, live on luck and skill, get alone, get alone often, and if you can't sleep alone be careful of the words you speak in your sleep; and ask for no mercy no miracles; and don't forget: time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.

  Charles Bukowski

  Strong, Sleep, Skills

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• It is the things you cannot see coming that are strong enough to kill you.

  Jodi Picoult

  Strong, Enough, My Sisters Keeper

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

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• I could not get my fill of looking. There should be a song for women to sing at this moment or a prayer to recite. But perhaps there is none because there are no words strong enough to name that moment.

  Anita Diament

  Song, Strong, Prayer

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• A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Motivational, Strong, Determination

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• It's really grinding to always play out of both sides of your mind and always be thinking what will offend people. Or what won't. But I'm strong enough to deal with that. I own that I'm freakish in my way.

  Johnny Weir

  Strong, Thinking, Play

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• We are all strong enough to bear other men's misfortunes.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Strong, Men, Bears

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• In the beginning, people think vulnerability will make you weak, but it does the opposite. It shows you're strong enough to care.

  Victoria Pratt

  Strong, Thinking, Opposites

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• This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge.

  Jean Piaget

  Strong, Mean, Support

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• My concern is to continue respecting my work as I've done since I began as an actor and I could only do that if I'm strong enough to keep on doing what I think best in an artistic way.

  Javier Bardem

  Strong, Thinking, Actors

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• What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Change, Strong, Children

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• You've got to be strong enough for love. It's very easy to be cool and cynical. It's very difficult to just let yourself go and be in love. You've got to be strong enough for that.

  Noel Gallagher

  Strong, Love You, Cynical

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• And if you are strong enough, then you can grow as a conductor more and more.

  Kurt Masur

  Strong, Enough, Grows

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• Nobody's strong enough to stand up under a flood of weak material.

  Alan Ladd

  Strong, Enough, Weak

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• There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

  Cyril Connolly

  Love, Strong, Pain

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• You are never strong enough that you don't need help.

  Cesar Chavez

  Change, Strength, Being Strong

  Cesar Chavez (2008). “An Organizer's Tale: Speeches”, p.352, Penguin

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• I was 15, and the years of hard swimming had packed muscle on my frame and made me very strong. Not as strong as a football player, but strong enough to inflict heavy damage.

  Esther Williams

  Football, Strong, Swimming

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• And no matter what, there's not one thing in this world *or* the next that we can do or hope or guess at or wish or pray that can change it or help it one iota. Because whatever is, is. That's all. And all there is now is to be ready for it, strong enough for it, whatever it may be. That's all. That's all that matters. It's all that matters because it's all that's possible.

  James Agee

  Strong, Wish, Next

  James Agee (2008). “A Death in the Family”, p.99, Penguin

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• I prayed all the way up that hill yesterday, he said softly. Not for you to stay; I didna think that would be right. I prayed I'd be strong enough to send ye away. He shook his head, still gazing up the hill, a faraway look in his eyes. I said 'Lord, if I've never had courage in my life before, let me have it now. Let me be brave enough not to fall on my knees and beg her to stay.' He pulled his eyes away from the cottage and smiled briefly at me. Hardest thing I ever did, Sassenach.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Strong, Fall, Eye

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.437, Dell

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• When you will not fly into a passion people know you are stronger than they are, because you are strong enough to hold in your rage, and they are not, and they say stupid things they wish they hadn't said afterward. There's nothing so strong as rage, except what makes you hold it in--that's stronger. It's a good thing not to answer your enemies.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Strong, Stupid, Princess

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2016). “A Little Princess”, p.84, Xist Publishing

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• When there came a sound that I'd never heard the like of in all my born days. Eh, I won't forget that. The whole air was full of it, loud as thunder but far longer, cool and sweet as music over water but strong enough to shake the woods. And I said to myself, 'If that's not the Horn, call me a rabbit.

  C. S. Lewis

  Sweet, Strong, Air

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• It took a little over a decade to build a coalition strong enough to beat the insurance companies, but in 1990, then Senator Tom Daschle and I passed a law regulating the private market for supplemental Medicare insurance policies.

  Ron Wyden

  Strong, Law, Littles

  "Preserving the Medicare Guarantee: Why I’ve Been Working with Paul Ryan" by Ron Wyden, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 19, 2012.

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• Human beings are remarkable - at what we can learn to live with. If we couldn't get strong from what we lose, and what we miss, and what we want and can't have, then we couldn't ever get strong enough, could we? What else makes us strong?

  John Irving

  Strong, Missing, Want

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• I'll never forget the first time Davram took me by the scruff of my neck and showed me he was the stronger of us. It was magnificent! If a woman is stronger than her husband, she comes to despise him. She has the choice of either tyrannizing him or else making herself less in order not to make him less. If the husband is strong enough, though, she can be as strong as she is, as strong as she can grow to be.

  Robert Jordan

  Strong, Husband, Order

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• It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable; it is precisely thereby that it attracts the more subtle minds. It seems that the hundred-times-refuted theory of the "free will" owes its persistence to this charm alone; some one is always appearing who feels himself strong enough to refute it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Strong, Persistence, Mind

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1”, Lulu.com

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