Famous Quotes & Sayings

Zong Qinghou

In China, you have to have a strong leader for a business to get anything done.

Zola Budd

I have strong views about South African politics and I still don't feel I need to make public statements.

Zora Neale Hurston

I am the kind of a woman that likes to move on mentally from point to point, and I like for my man to be there way ahead of me. Then if he is strong and honest, it goes on from there. Good looks are not essential, just extra added attraction.

Zora Neale Hurston

I have a strong suspicion . that much that passes for constant love is a golded- up moment walking in its sleep.

Zora Neale Hurston

I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all. I do not belong to the sobbing school of Negrohood who hold that nature somehow has given them a lowdown dirty deal and whose feelings are all hurt about it. Even in the helter-skelter skirmish that is my life, I have seen that the world is to the strong regardless of a little pigmentation more or less. No, I do not weep at the world—I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

Zachary Taylor

A strong reputation is like a good bonfire. When you have one kindled it's easy to keep the flame burning, even if someone comes along and tries to piss on it. But if you fall asleep and neglect it...You'll wake up with ashes.

Zach Wamp

I believe the National Park Service has demonstrated strong partnerships geared towards respecting the private property of citizens in its administering of the current Trail of Tears National Historic Trail and will continue to do so upon the addition of the routes.

Zachary Levi

I don't believe in strong-arming people.

Yukio Mishima

The past does not only draw us back to the past. There are certain memories of the past that have strong steel springs and, when we who live in the present touch them, they are suddenly stretched taut and then they propel us into the future.

Zane Grey

I must go deeper and even stronger into my treasure mine and stint nothing of time, toil, or torture.

Zainab Salbi

Stronger women build stronger nations.

Zainab Salbi

Everything can be taken from you in a second, but the human spirit is so strong. War can teach you so much about evil, and so much about good.

Zayn Malik

Smile doesn't mean that someone is happy. Sometimes it just means that you're strong.

Yulia Tymoshenko

We will fight and defend my good name in the European court. We have to be strong and defend Ukraine from this authoritarianism.

Zig Ziglar

There will always be people in your life who treat you wrong. Be sure to thank them for making you strong.

Ziggy Marley

My father, we bumped heads when I was younger, much younger... I had different ideas that I shared with him. He didn't like them as much. He gets upset or whatever. I guess I had a strong opinion from when I was a little boy.

Ziggy Marley

The Rastafari culture has a very strong connection to Haile Selassie, a descendant of King Solomon.

Ziggy Marley

My father, my Rastafari culture, has a tight link to the Jewish culture. We have a strong connection from when I was a young boy and read the Bible, the Old Testament.

Zhuangzi

True men" ... are strong willed, have dignity in their demeanor, serenity in their expression. They are cool like autumn, warm like spring. Their passions arise like the four seasons, in harmony with the ten thousand creatures, and no one knows their limits.

Yvonne Strahovski

I have a strong dance background. I danced from age five until 18, and that helps a lot. Doing a fight routine is like doing a dance routine.

William Hague

As far as I'm aware, everybody in the shadow cabinet accepts that there's a compelling case on climate change and a strong scientific case.

William H. McRaven

You cant change the world alone - you will need some help - and to truly get from your starting point to your destination takes friends, colleagues, the good will of strangers and a strong coxswain to guide them.

William Hazlitt

There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.

William Hazlitt

As a general rule, those who are dissatisfied with themselves will seek to go out of themselves into an ideal world. Persons in strong health and spirits, who take plenty of air and exercise, who are "in favor with, their stars," and have a thorough relish of the good things of this life, seldom devote themselves in despair to religion or the muses. Sedentary, nervous, hypochondriacal people, on the contrary, are forced, for want of an appetite for the real and substantial, to look out for a more airy food and speculative comforts.

William Davenant

All slander must still be strangled in its birth, or time will soon conspire to make it strong enough to overcome the truth.

Wendell Willkie

Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.

Wendell Berry

We can fight the global economy with a strong local economy.

Wendelin Van Draanen

But in my heart I knew that just like the new grass, I wasn't strong enough yet to be walked on

Wendell Phillips

There is nothing stronger than human prejudice.

W. Somerset Maugham

What I'm trying to tell you is that there are men who are possessed by an urge so strong to do some particular thing that they can't help themselves, they've got to do it. They're prepared to sacrifice everything to satisfy their yearning.

Vladimir Nabokov

- Might it console you to know that I expect nothing but torture from her return? That I regard you as a bird of paradise? She shook her head. - That my admiration for you is painfully strong? - I want Van – she cried – and not intangible admiration. - Intangible? You goose. You my gauge it, you may brush it once very lightly with the knuckles of you gloved hand. I said knuckles. I said once. That will do. I can't kiss you. Not even your burning face. Good-bye, pet. Tell Edmond to take a nap after he returns. I shall need him at two in the morning.

Vladimir Nabokov

Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.

Yoko Ono

There are things you can never take, no matter how strong you are.