The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength.

A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I’ll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I’m crepuscular.

I’m so tough and so bad, I can be humble and lift another guy up.

I knew through the surgeries that he was on my side and that this wasn’t something where I was gonna feel less of a woman, because my husband wasn’t gonna let that happen.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

If you have to stand and fight, you train yourself so that you’re able to do it.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets.

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

Many a man’s strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

The capitalist system is about taking from the Earth and from the other great commodity, labour. What’s happening with this system is that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, and the only way out of it is supposed to be growth. But growth is debt. It’s going to make the situation worse.

It’s in the difficult times that we’re growing and you can’t just rebuke everything hard. We’ve got to endure it and fight the good fight of faith and pass the test.

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

The more I see of deer, the more I admire them as mountaineers. They make their way into the heart of the roughest solitudes with smooth reserve of strength, through dense belts of brush and forest encumbered with fallen trees and boulder piles, across canons, roaring streams, and snow-fields, ever showing forth beauty and courage.

Heaven gives us hope and makes our present burdens easier to bear.

My mom cleaned toilets for a long time, and she’d seen a lot of terrible things, but she was still the strength of our family. And there are women like that all across the country – all around the world – who show that type of fortitude.

I pay a lot of tax, and I feel, one of the reasons I stay and pay why I’m not based in Monaco… I think my country helped me.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.

We should no longer measure our wealth and success in the graph that shows economic growth, but in the curve that shows the emissions of greenhouse gases.

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

I want to reform the tax code so that it’s simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250,000 – the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president; the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history, and a lot of millionaires to boot.

You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

Serious illness doesn’t bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

Though she be but little, she is fierce.

When we’re looking for compassion, we need someone who is deeply rooted, is able to bend and, most of all, embraces us for our strengths and struggles.

We all gonna die eventually from something or other, but don’t be a wimp. Put up a good fight.

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn’t a matter of political correctness. It’s a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith.

Tina Turner is someone that I admire, because she made her strength feminine and sexy.

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn’t think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‚Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

And when a woman’s will is as strong as the man’s who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

As you read or listen to God’s Word and spend time talking to Him in prayer, your spirit will eventually become stronger than your flesh.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

True nobility is exempt from fear.

I know I’m stronger in the songs than I really am. Sometimes I need to hear it myself. We all need to hear those empowering songs to remind us.

In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats – maybe it’s imperative that we encounter the defeats – but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike.

All cruelty springs from weakness.

When President Obama speaks about raising taxes on the rich, he speaks about high-income employees and small business owners, not entrepreneurs who build big businesses.

The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.

Food Stamp recipients didn’t cause the financial crisis; recklessness on Wall Street did.

I want people to draw strength from me.

We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.

My sisters are stronger and my brother’s bigger than me.

Have you not learned that strength comes to an ordinary soul when given an extraordinary calling?

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.

I want to represent… to the kids to draw strength from me. So they can see that everybody goes through something, but you can rise up and do your best. Just try.

The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.