Famous Quotes & Sayings

Georg Brandes

But when I was twelve years old I caught my first strong glimpse of one of the fundamental forces of existence, whose votary I was destined to be for life - namely, Beauty.

Gene Kelly

I arrived in Hollywood twenty pounds overweight and as strong as an ox.

Gene Kelly

I arrived in Hollywood twenty pounds overweight and as strong as an ox. But if I put on a white tails and tux like Fred Astaire, I still looked like a truck driver.

Gary Hirshberg

There can be no progress on climate change without strong and aggressive leadership from the White House. While we have been frustrated that it took until now, we find that the President’s plan contains plenty of smart proposals and pathways for action. Stonyfield stands firmly behind the President's vision.

Gary Hamel

One doesn't have to be a Marxist to be awed by the scale and success of early-20th-cent ury efforts to transform strong-willed human beings into docile employees.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Nothing seems to me to be rarer today then genuine hypocrisy. I greatly suspect that this plant finds the mild atmosphere of our culture unendurable. Hypocrisy has its place in the ages of strong belief: in which even when one is compelled to exhibit a different belief one does not abandon the belief one already has.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Once the decision has been made, close your ear even to the best counter argument: sign of a strong character. Thus an occasional will to stupidity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Species do not grow more perfect: the weaker dominate the strong, again and again- the reason being that they are the great majority, and they are also cleverer. Darwin forgot the mind (-that is English!): the weak possess more mind. ... To acquire mind, one must need mind-one loses it when one no longer needs it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A man unconsciously imagines that where he is strong, where he feels most thoroughly alive, the element of his freedom must lie.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is the business of the very few to be independent; it is a privilege of the strong.

Jessica Valenti

It used to be, if you wanted to have a strong, influential voice in the feminist movement, you really needed to be part of this New York/D.C. elite group of feminists, or part of a mainstream feminist organization. And now it's kind of an amazing thing that you can just start a blog and put your voice out there and build your readership.

Jerry Bruckheimer

We need a very strong military to protect the freedoms we do have.

Jerry Brown

I see the day in our own lifetime that reverence for the natural systems, the oceans, the rainforests, the soil, the grasslands, and all other living things will be so strong that no narrow ideology based upon politics or economics will overcome it.

Jennifer Armintrout

Let the meek have the kingdom of heaven. The strong shall rule on earth.

Jennifer Armintrout

I'd never been a good damsel in distress. I was a "hands-on" damsel.

Jennie Garth

I have a strong constitution.

Jenna Ushkowitz

I always had a strong support system. My parents always supported the stuff that I did.

Jennifer Beals

Even when I think about the fact that energy can become matter and matter can become energy, I have a very strong feeling that there's something afterward.

Jennifer Beals

I am strong-willed, and I am driven, and I am passionate...but I don't have...a central cause...a motivating cause, I don't know what that would be...other than trying to tell the truth when I work.

Jennifer Beals

When I was younger, I enjoyed being strong, and I loved it when my heart was very strong, but I think it was also about submitting to the cultural idea that if you're a 22-year-old woman, you have to look a certain way. I'm not into that anymore. But I do appreciate it when my clothes fit.

Jean Dubuffet

(Jean) Fautrier's exhibition (in Paris 1945,fh) made an extremely strong impression on me. Art had never before appeared so fully realised in its pure state. The word 'art' had never before been so loaded with meaning for me.

Jean Dubuffet

Man's need for art is absolutely primordial, as strong as, and perhaps stronger than, our need for bread. Without bread, we die of hunger, but without art we die of boredom.

Gloria Allred

There are some people who still feel threatened by strong women. That's their problem. It's not mine.

Gloria Gaynor

At first I was afraid, I was petrified, kept thinking I could never live without you by my side. But then I spent so many nights thinking how you did me wrong, and I grew strong.

Gloria Estefan

I'm in great shape considering I have hardware in my back. I work out constantly to keep my muscles limber and my abs strong so they can take the burnt of everything.

GG Allin

Your soul should be as strong as possible when it leaves here for whatever comes next.

Giacomo Leopardi

Since the world never faults a man who refuses to yield...it is generally recognized that weak men live in obedience to the world's will, while the strong obey only their own.

Jim Hodges

I was feeling a strong need to change, grow, and break with particular things that were going on in my life and my history, and the material was the perfect answer for that.

Jim Hodges

As a viewer, my own work elicits strong emotional reaction from me.

Jim Jordan

For me, I think being a conservative means you are focused on all four key principles: strong defense, lower taxes, less spending, and defending traditional American values.

Jim Cramer

I mean I'm not smarter than the market, but I can recognize a good tape and a bad tape. I recognize when it's right and when it's wrong and that's what my strength is.

Jim DeMint

I drive Fords, and I've driven American cars all my life, and I want to have a strong American manufacturing sector, especially in automobiles.

Hunter S. Thompson

I think you either have to have a very strong decisive person at the top or else a really brilliant staff command.