I certainly did feel inferior. Because of class. Because of strength. Because of height. I guess if I’d been able to hit somebody in the nose, I wouldn’t have been a comic.
The Caribbean is not an idyll, not to its natives. They draw their working strength from it organically, like trees, like the sea almond or the spice laurel of the heights.
Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.
I think listening to the director is the number one strength an actor should have.
The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.
I was ironing my own clothes when I was 11 years old. My mental strength goes back to those days.
Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders’ spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.
Our firm conviction that ours is a just cause and that we must find a peaceful way to attain our goals gave us the strength and the awareness of the limits beyond which we must not go.
It’s a real strength for me that I’ve never minded the training process. It’s something I enjoy. I really like being in the gym or, certainly, on the field.
Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism… but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.
I want to sit in my own sorrow, cry it out, talk to God, and say, ‘Give me strength, wisdom.’
I’m not just a doormat. I’m not just being stepped on all over the place. If you look at the bulk of my material, it’s about trying to find some strength through that.
We also very importantly recommend continued growth in the Army and the Marine Corps end strength.
Dictators have an old trick to assess the strength of their opposition: they say something patently untrue, and then look to see who mindlessly repeats it. Those who do, they recognise as their true supporters.
My greatest strength is common sense. I’m really a standard brand – like Campbell’s tomato soup or Baker’s chocolate.
Man has not really vanquished Shamanism and its spooks till he possesses the strength to lay aside not only the belief in ghosts or in spirits, but also the belief in the spirit.
You get elected, often, if you’re a woman, on the strength of the women’s vote; then you get into office, and you have to adapt to an overwhelmingly male environment.
We managed to hang in there. Today when people get married there’s a tendency to run away when things get tough. There is a lot of strength in hanging together.
If you make the unconditional commitment to reach your most important goals, if the strength of your decision is sufficient, you will find the way and the power to achieve your goals.
I think that’s the strength of photography – to decide the decisive moment, to click in the moment to come up with a picture that never comes back again.
Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.
Don’t hold back from being an ‘empath.’ Don’t be afraid of shedding your tears. Feel it. Feel the full extent of everything. It gives us strength.
The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.
There’s a kind of a fundamental irresponsibility in playwriting, and the strength of playwriting comes from that irresponsibility.
What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.
