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  • Have I not commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage: be not afraid, neither bethoudismayed: for the L thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    ORDJoshua1:9.

  • And hesaiduntothem,Outoftheeatercameforthmeat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness. And they could not in three days expound the riddle.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    Judges14:14.

  •    Igothewayofall theearth: bethoustrong therefore,and shew thyself a man.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    Kings 2:2.

  • Be strong, and quit yourselves like men.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    Samuel 4:9.

  • I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    Ecclesiastes 9:11

  •    Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    Joel 3:10.

  • Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    Corinthians16:13.

  • Es ist derVorzug und das Wesen der Starken, dass sie die groÞen Entscheidungsfragen stellen und zu ihnen klar Stellung nehmen k o« nnen. Die Schwachen mu«  ssen sich immer zwischen Alternativen entscheiden, die nicht die ihren sind. It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.

    - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
    Widerstand und Ergebung,'Ein paar Gedanken u«  ber Verschiedenes' (translated1953).

  • In anguish we uplift A new unhallowed song: The race is to the swift, The battle to the strong. See Bible101:85.

    -John Davidson
      'War Song', stanza1.

  • O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full.

    - SirJohn Denham
      Of the Thames. Cooper's Hill, l.189^92.

  • Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

    - RalphWaldo Emerson
      Representative Men,'Goethe'.

  • Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twentyand forty.

    -William Harrison Faulkner
      Interview in Paris Review, Spring.

  • To disarm the strong and arm the weak would be to change the social order which it's my job to preserve. Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned.

    -Thibault
    Crainquebille.

  • It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind.

    - (Sarah) Margaret, Marchioness Ossoli Fuller
      'The Great Lawsuit', in Dial, vol.4,  Jul.

  • Even if I die in the service of this nation,I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood,I am sure, will contribute to the growth of this nation and make it strong and dynamic.

    - Indira Priyad Arshini Gandhi
      Speech at Orissa, 31 Oct, the day before her assassination.

  • It takes up no falling cause; fights no uphill battle; advocatesnogreat principle; holdsout a helping hand to no oppressed or obscure individual. It is 'ever strong upon the stronger side'.

    -William Hazlitt
      Of  The Times. In the Edinburgh Review, May.

  • The world breaks everyone and afterwards many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

    - Ernest Millar Hemingway
      Frederic Henry.  A Farewell to  Arms, ch.34.

  • The nation seems to slouch onward into its uncertain future like some huge inarticulate beast, too much attainted by wounds and ailments to be robust, but too strong and resourceful to succumb.

    - Richard Hofstadter
    Quoted in Hedrick Smith The Power Game (1988).

  • Man wants but little drink below, But wants that little strong.

    - Oliver Wendell Holmes
      'A Song of Other Days'.

  • I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes. But I laugh And eat well, And grow strong.

    - (James Mercer) Langston Hughes
      'I, Too', in Survey Graphic, Mar.

  •    He isstrong and pain isworseto thestrong, incapacity is worse.

    - (John) Robinson Jeffers
      Cawdor,'Hurt Hawks'.

  • Where all the women are strong, all the men are good- looking, and all the children are above average.

    - (Gary Edward) Garrison Keillor
    from 1974  His description of the fictional mid- Western town Lake Wobegon, used regularly in  A Prairie Home Companion.

  • Come; and strong within us Stir theVikings' blood; Bracing brain and sinew; Blow, thou wind of God!

    - Charles Kingsley
      'Ode to the North-East  Wind'.

  • Nous avons tous assez de force pour supporter les maux d'autrui. We are all strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.

    - Fran c° ois, 6th Duc de La Rochefoucauld
      Maximes, no.19.

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

    -John Edward Masefield
      'The Wanderer'.

  • None need a guide, by sure attraction led, And strong impulsive gravity of head.

    - Alexander Pope
      The Dunciad, bk.4, l.75^6.

  •    This is the law of theYukon, that only the Strong shall thrive; That surely theWeak shall perish, and only the Fit survive.

    - Robert William Service
      Songs of a Sourdough,'The Law of theYukon'.

  • The man who listens to Reason is lost: Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her.

    - George Bernard Shaw
      Man and Superman,'Maxims for Revolutionists: Reason'.

  • Strong is the lionlike a coal His eye-balllike a bastion's mole His chest against the foes: Strong, the gier-eagle on his sail, Strong against tide, th'enormous whale Emerges as he goes.

    - Christopher Smart
      A Song to David, stanza 76.

  • If the fence is strong enough, I'll sit on it.

    - Sir Cyril Smith
      In the Observer,15 Sep.

  • Religion isthetragedy of mankind† But I do know, from the inside as well as from personal observation, that religion appeals to something deep and irrational and strong within us, and that is what makes it so dangerous.

    - A(ndrew) N(orman) Wilson
    Against Religion, no.19.

Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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