Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Exactly what the fairy tale does is this: it accustoms [the child] to the idea that these limitless terrors had a limit, that these shapeless enemies have enemies in the knights of God, that there is something in the universe more mystical than darkness, and stronger than strong fear.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A man's minor actions and arrangements ought to be free, flexible, creative; the things that should be unchangeable are his principles, his ideals. But with us the reverse is true; our views change constantly; but our lunch does not change. Now, I should like men to have strong and rooted conceptions, but as for their lunch, let them have it sometimes in the garden, sometimes in bed, sometimes on the roof, sometimes in the top of a tree. Let them argue from the same first principles, but let them do it in a bed, or a boat, or a balloon.

John Dryden

Thou strong seducer, Opportunity!

John Marston

Some trees flourish, others die. Some cattle grow strong, others are taken by wolves. Some men are born rich enough and dumb enough to enjoy their lives. Ain't nothing fair. You know that.

John Marshall

Whether a law be void for its repugnancy to the Constitution, is, at all times, a question of much delicacy, which out seldom, if ever, to be decided in the affirmative, in doubtful case. ... But it is not on slight implication and vague conjecture that the legislature is to be pronounced to have transcended its powers, and its acts to be considered as void. The opposition between the Constitution and the law should be such that the judge feels a clear and strong conviction of their incompatibility with each other.

John Masefield

Life's battle is a conquest for the strong; The meaning shows in the defeated thing.

John Mayer

This is not to say, there never comes a day I'll take my chances and start again. And when I look behind on all my younger times, I'll have to thank the wrongs that led me to a love so strong.

John Mayer

Someday, everything will make perfect sense. So for now, laugh at the confusion, smile through the tears, be strong and keep reminding your self that everything happens for a reason.

John Maynard Keynes

A conventional valuation which is established as the outcome of the mass psychology of a large number of ignorant individuals is liable to change violently as the result of a sudden fluctuation of opinion due to factors which do not really make much difference to the prospective yield; since there will be no strong roots of conviction to hold it steady.

John Malkovich

My father was an exceptionally strong influence on me.

John Malkovich

I know I have a fairly strong feminine side. I find myself really distanced from male behavior.

John Lubbock

There are temptations which strong exercise best enables us to resist

John Linder

If the Founding Fathers and other patriots who fought during the Revolutionary War could see the United States today, I believe they would be proud of the path that the thirteen colonies, now fifty strong states, have taken since then.

John Lancaster Spalding

If thou wouldst be interesting, keep thy personality in the background, and be great and strong in and through thy subject.

John le Carre

I've never been able to write a book without one very strong character in my rucksack.

John le Carre

Unfortunately it is the weak who destroy the strong.

John Kricfalusi

My style is very strong poses and expressions.

John L. Lewis

The labor movement is organized upon a principle that the strong shall help the weak.

Jimmy Doolittle

Nothing is as strong as the heart of a volunteer.

Julie Bishop

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.

I have to trust that if a story is strong, it can find its readership, and good editors can steer me well.

Julie Delpy

I always feel this pressure of being a strong and independent icon of womanhood, and without making it look my whole life is revolving around some guy. But loving someone, and being loved means so much to me. We always make fun of it and stuff. But isn't everything we do in life a way to be loved a little more?

Katherine Dunn

In the end I would always pull up with a sense of glory, that loving is the strong side. It's feeble to be an object. What's the point of being loved in return, I'd ask myself.

Joyce Meyer

The conscience can be a strong guide in life if we allow it.

Joyce Meyer

A demonstration of sincere concern can be a strong building block of love.

Katharine Hepburn

People think that I'm tough and strong and that I kicked my way through everything. But they are wrong. The truth is that when I was young I was adorable and a trembling wreck.

Karen Russell

I had been eagerly waiting just such a disaster. Storms, wolves, snakebite, floods-these are the occasions to find out how your father sees you, how strong and necessary he thinks you are.

Justin Morneau

I feel like I'm strong enough that I don't have to do anything to turn on the ball. When I do that-when I'm ready to take the ball up the middle, when I'm willing to go the other way-that's when I can turn on the ball.

Judy Chicago

Remember our heritage is our power; we can know ourselves and our capacities by seeing that other women have been strong.

Josh Lucas

At a certain point, even if the one alpha male is dominant, at a certain point there's a younger lion that is stronger, and everyone knows it.

Josh Lucas

I want to be so strong as an actor that people wouldn't say... eh, that's Josh Lucas

Josh Radnor

One thing I'm most proud of, in my movies, is that I think the performances are super-strong, but that's not all me. I think part of it is casting appropriately.