Strongest Quotes - Page 7

• You have to overcome enormous self-consciousness, but nudity is about the strongest thing you can do in an acting performance. It's the most unsettling or the most comic or the most sexual.

  John Lithgow

  Self, Acting, Overcoming

  "John Lithgow's Killer Role". Interview with Claire Martin, www.thedailybeast.com. December 10, 2009.

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• The refinement of morality increases together with the refinement of fear. Today the fear of disagreeable feelings in other people is almost the strongest of our own disagreeable feelings.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  People, Feelings, Together

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.53, Penguin

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• Habit is the strongest thing in life.

  Jack Black

  Things In Life, Habit

  Jack Black (2013). “You Can't Win”, p.295, Simon and Schuster

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• Romance? What is romance? Is it when I give you flowers? When I give you a gorgeous dinner? Or is it when I simply say, I love you. Love that we cannot have is the one that lasts the longest, hurts the deepest and feels the strongest. Love is not finding someone to live with; it's finding someone you can't live without.

  Raphael Montanez Ortiz

  Hurt, Flower, Love You

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• The proselytizing fanatic strengthens his own faith by converting others. The creed whose legitimacy is most easily challenged is likely to develop the strongest proselytizing impulse.

  Eric Hoffer

  Legitimacy, Creeds, Impulse

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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• Success to the strongest, who are always, at last, the wisest and best.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Lasts, Wisest

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• Any artist, in any field, wants to press deeper, to discover further. Image and sound play are among the strongest colors available to poetry's palette. For a long time, I've wanted to invite in more strangeness, more freedom of imagination. Yet music, seeing, and meaning are also cohering disciplines. They can be stretched, and that is part of poetry's helium pleasure. But not to the point of breaking.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Artist, Color, Play

  Source: www.americanmicroreviews.com

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• Economist and Africa expert Collier analyzes why a group of 50 nations, home to the poorest one billion people, are failing. Considering issues such as civil war, dependence on extractive industries, and bad governance, he argues that the strongest industrialized countries must enact a plan to help with international policies and standards.

  Amy Lockwood

  Country, War, Home

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• Our focus is on ensuring America has the strongest economy in the world for the next 100 years and to do that, we need to get to the role of the Federal Reserve and we need to get it right.

  Kevin Brady

  Years, America, Focus

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• I've always believed in challenging Republicans where they think they are strongest.

  Martin Frost

  Thinking, Challenges, Republican

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• A little happy house is the strongest castle in this whole universe!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  House, Castles, Littles

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• Friendship is the strongest bond in the world.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Friendship, World

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• The strongest initiative that government can take to ensure Australia is prepared for population ageing, is to maintain a strong economy, and a secure nation.

  Julie Bishop

  Strong, Australia, Government

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The strongest human emotion is fear. It's the essence of any good thriller that, for a little while, you believe in the boogeyman.

  John Carpenter

  Fear, Believe, Essence

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• Well, will anybody deny now that the Government at Washington, as regards its own people, is the strongest government in the world at this hour? And for this simple reason, that it is based on the will, and the good will, of an instructed people.

  John Bright

  Simple, Government, People

  John Bright (1865). “Speeches of John Bright, M.P., on the American Question”, p.257

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• Life? Bah! It has no value. Of cheap things it is the cheapest. Everywhere it goes begging. Nature spills it out with a lavish hand. Where there is room for one life, she sows a thousand lives, and it's life eats life till the strongest and most piggish life is left.

  Jack London

  Life, Hands, Rooms

  Jack London (2016). “The Sea-Wolf (Diversion Classics)”, p.64, Diversion Books

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• I surrender to the Monster. What pleasure at last to give way to the strongest force in oneself.

  Barry Webster

  Giving, Monsters, Way

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• Love is the most ferocious and strongest force on the planet.

  Greg Cipes

  Love Is, Force, Planets

  "Michelangelo Knows Best – An Interview with Greg Cipes". Interview with Dak, www.wired.com. March 1, 2013.

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• Life brings what it brings. I might be young but I've learnt this: prepare for each blind corner with your strongest shoulder dropped, ready to smash through whatever is thrown at you next. Once the dust clears you will be standing tall, a champion, a victor. NOTHING will be able to knock you down once you've taken the biggest hits this life has to offer, so come on life, BRING IT!

  Adam Johnson

  Motivational, Taken, Dust

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• And I am convinced that a single focus on preserving the purchasing power of the dollar, in effect, guarding against inflation or deflation, actually creates a solid foundation for the greatest job growth and the strongest economy that America can have.

  Kevin Brady

  Jobs, America, Focus

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• I think whatever comes natural is probably the truth, and the truth is the strongest form of anything - whether serious or funny.

  Charlyne Yi

  Thinking, Serious, Truth Is

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have always wanted to be both man and woman, to incorporate the strongest and richest parts of my mother and father within/into me - to share valleys and mountains upon my body the way the earth does in hills and peaks.

  Audre Lorde

  Mother, Father, Men

  "Zami: A New Spelling of My Name". Book by Audre Lorde, 1982.

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• Only the most unapologetic biblical fundamentalists, for instance, take every biblical injunction literally. If we all took all scripture at the same level of authority, then we would be more open to slavery, to the subjugation of women, to wider use of stoning. Jesus himself spoke out frequently against divorce in the strongest of terms.

  Jon Meacham

  Jesus, Divorce, Biblical

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• For as to the strength of body, the weakest has strength enough to kill the strongest, either by secret machination or by confederacy with others that are in the same danger with himself

  Thomas Hobbes

  Secret, Body, Enough

  Thomas Hobbes (1750). “The Moral and Political Works To which is Prefixed the Autors Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself ... Illustr. by the Ed. - London 1750”, p.148

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• The human spirit was the strongest medicine on earth. And sometimes all it needed was a little encouragement to pull off a miracle.

  David Baldacci

  Encouragement, Medicine, Miracle

  David Baldacci (2012). “The Forgotten”, p.330, Pan Macmillan

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