Strongest Quotes - Page 36

• The strongest of all psychic forces in the world is unsatisfied desire.

  John Cowper Powys

  Psychics, Desire, World

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• Brave men are a city's strongest tower of defence.

  Alcaeus

  Men, Cities, Brave

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• Yes, evolution by descent from a common ancestor is clearly true. If there was any lingering doubt about the evidence from the fossil record, the study of DNA provides the strongest possible proof of our relatedness to all other living things.

  Francis Collins

  Dna, Doubt, Records

  "Collins: Why This Scientist Believes in God" by Francis Collins, edition.cnn.com. April 06, 2007.

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• Painting is always strongest when in spite of composition, color, etc., it appears as a fact, or an inevitability, as opposed to a souvenir or arrangement.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Strength, Color, Etc

  Robert Rauschenberg, Amsterdam (Netherlands). Stedelijk Museum, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris (1968). “Robert Rauschenberg”

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• The strongest human instinct is to impart information, the second strongest is to resist it.

  Kenneth Grahame

  Information, Instinct, Humans

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• It is good to be often reminded of the inconsistency of human nature, and to learn to look without wonder or disgust on the weaknesses which are found in the strongest minds.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Humanity, Mind, Weakness

  "Warren Hastings". Book by Thomas B. Macaulay, 1851.

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• You believe that you can win the nomination of your party, and then you believe that you're the strongest candidate to win the election for your party.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Party, Believe, Winning

  "He's Ready! Rudy Giuliani Talks with Sean Hannity". "Hannity & Colmes", www.foxnews.com. February 6, 2007.

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• Love is perhaps the strongest force in the universe. When you meditate with love, what you do is you feel love. Love is like a bird, you get on its back and you ride it up very high above the thought level.

  Frederick Lenz

  Love Is, Bird, Levels

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• Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Wisdom, Love Is, Greatness

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• The most subtle art, the strongest and deepest art - supreme art - is the one that does not at first allow itself to be recognized.

  Andre Gide

  Strength, Art, Doe

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• When I was alone, I lived on eggplant, the stove top cook's strongest ally. I fried it and stewed it, and ate it crisp and sludgy, hot and cold. It was cheap and filling and was delicious in all manner of strange combinations. If any was left over, I ate it cold the next day on bread.

  Laurie Colwin

  Hot And Cold, Eggplant, Next Day

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• The strongest are those who renounce their own times and become a living part of those yet to come. The strongest and the rarest.

  Milovan ?ilas

  Renounce

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• Only the strongest players can swim in the shark-infested waters of the Masters' Seas.

  Victor Niederhoffer

  Player, Sharks, Sea

  Victor Niederhoffer (1998). “The Education of a Speculator”, p.168, John Wiley & Sons

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• I guess maybe my art can be said to be a protest. I see things a certain way, and as an artist I’m privileged in that arena to protest or say publicly what I’m thinking about. Maybe the strongest work I’ve done is because it was done with indignation. Considering myself as a feminist, I don’t want my work to be a reaction to what male art might be or what art with a capital A would be. I just want it to be art. In a convoluted way, I am protesting- protesting the usual way art is looked at, being shoved into a period or category.

  Nancy Spero

  Art, Thinking, Feminist

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• Our most conservative estimates show that by adopting shall-issue laws(concealed carry laws), states reduced murders by 8.5%, rapes by 5%, aggravated assaults by 7% and robbery by 3%... While support for strict gun-control laws usually has been strongest in large cities, where crime rates are highest, that's precisely where right-to-carry laws have produced the largest drops in violent crimes.

  John R. Lott Jr.

  Gun, Law, Cities

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• Life is very difficult. It seems right to me sometimes that we should follow our strongest feelings; but then such feelings continually come across the ties that all our former life has made for us,--the ties that have made others dependent on us,--and would cut them in two.

  George Eliot

  Cutting, Two, Ties

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6046, Delphi Classics

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• The desire of reward is one of the strongest incentives of human conduct; ... the best security for the fidelity of mankind is to make their interest coincide with their duty.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Motivation, Desire, Incentives

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2015). “The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution”, p.355, Coventry House Publishing

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• What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in maturer life.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Mistake, Passion, Stronger

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• A tale of scandal is as fatal to the credit of a prudent lady as a fever is generally to those of the strongest constitutions. But there is a sort of puny, sickly reputation, that is always ailing, yet will wither the robuster characters of a hundred prudes.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Character, Prudes, Credit

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• The strongest rebellion may be expressed in quiet, undramatic behavior.

  Benjamin Spock

  Teamwork, May, Quiet

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• I suspect we have internal senses. The mind's eye since Shakespeare's time has been proverbial; and we have also a mind's ear. To say nothing of dreams, one certainly can listen to one's own thoughts, and hear them, or believe that one hears them: the strongest argument adducible in favour of our hearing any thing.

  Augustus William Hare

  Dream, Believe, Eye

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• Jas in the Arab language is despair, And Min the darkest meaning of a lie. Thus cried the Jessamine among the flowers, How justly doth a lie Draw on its head despair! Among the fragrant spirits of the bowers The boldest and the strongest still was I. Although so fair, Therefore from Heaven A stronger perfume unto me was given Than any blossom of the summer hours.

  Charles Godfrey Leland

  Summer, Lying, Flower

  Charles Godfrey Leland (1872). “The Music-lesson of Confucius, and Other Poems”, p.32

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• I sometimes go for the strongest, most vivid colour on the palette, which in the case of movies is violence.

  Brian De Palma

  Vivid, Violence, Sometimes

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• O madness to think use of strongest wines And strongest drinks our chief support of health, When God with these forbidden made choice to rear His mighty champion, strong above compare, Whose drink was only from the liquid brook.

  John Milton

  Strong, Wine, Thinking

  John Milton (1873). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Preliminary Dissertations on Each Poem, Notes Critical and Explanatory, an Index to the Subjects of Paradise Lost, and a Verbal Index to All the Poems”, p.380

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• Are you willing to forget what you have done for other people, and to remember what other people have done for you ... to remember the weakness and loneliness of people who are growing old ... Are you willing to believe that love is the strongest ting in the world ... stronger than hate, stronger than evil, stronger than death... Then you can keep Christmas! But you can never keep it alone.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Christmas, Hate, Loneliness

  "The Spirit of Christmas". Book by Henry Van Dyke, December 31, 1987.

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