Quotes & Sayings About Strong

Overconfidence is a <strong>strongstrong> ally. People are always surprised when you try to do things you can't. — Edward W. Robertson

Now up and atom it's on, I was raised to be <strong>strongstrong>, and mama told me be a thug since the day I was born. The fame was a plot to try a change me, and what's strange is nobody knew my name. — Tupac Shakur

11 And the LORD will guide you continually and satisfy your desire in scorched places and make your bones <strong>strongstrong>; and you shall be u like a watered garden, like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail. — Anonymous

In this arid wilderness of steel and stone I raise up my voice that you may hear. To the East and to the West I beckon. To the North and to the South I show a sign proclaiming: Death to the weakling, wealth to the <strong>strongstrong>! — Anton Szandor LaVey

Open immigration can't exist with a <strong>strongstrong> social safety net; if you're going to assure healthcare and a decent income to everyone, you can't make that offer global — Paul Krugman

I think <strong>strongstrong> rhetoric and <strong>strongstrong> action are two separate things. Anyone can use tough words. Anyone can go over the top and say things that sound <strong>strongstrong>. But sounding <strong>strongstrong> is not enough. You have to know exactly how you're going to do it. And if you look at some of the policies he's talked about, they would not make America <strong>strongstrong>er. — Marco Rubio

We tore each other's clothes off like they were on fire. She was gorgeous. Firm and <strong>strongstrong> and a shape like a dream. Skin like silk. She pulled me to the floor through bars of hot sunlight from the window. It was frantic. We were rolling and nothing could have stopped us. It was like the end of the world. We shuddered to a stop and lay gasping. We were bathed in sweat. Totally spent. — Lee Child

I guess I want very much to be recognized for my abilities, for the work I put in, and yet it's still always there - who my parents were. As much as I love my parents, if that was the last thing ever said about me - that I was their daughter - I would be disappointed that my contributions weren't <strong>strongstrong> enough on their own. — Jamie Lee Curtis

Sometimes a <strong>strongstrong> wind blows suddenly and you leave your beloved tree without saying even goodbye, like a pale autumn leaf! This uncertainty of life makes every moment in life infinitely precious. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

All the good things on this earth are trophy cups. The <strong>strongstrong> win them. The weak lose them.
from a speech by the Nazi Minister of Education — William L. Shirer

And the creature run from the cur? There thou mightst behold the great image of authority: a dog's obeyed in office.
Thou rascal beadle, hold thy bloody hand.
Why dost thou lash that whore? Strip thine own back.
Thou hotly lust'st to use her in that kind
For which thou whipp'st her. The usurer hangs the cozener.
Through tattered clothes great vices do appear;
Robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold,
And the <strong>strongstrong> lance of justice hurtless breaks.
Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it.
None does offend - none, I say, none. I'll able 'em.
Take that of me, my friend, who have the power
To seal th' accuser's lips. Get thee glass eyes,
And like a scurvy politician seem
To see the things thou dost not. — William Shakespeare

Anna and I did not make love. I don't remember why. Maybe we didn't need to. She might have been afraid, although I doubt she was afraid of much. She'd been a midwife before she opened a studio; she'd held life in her hands, like a wire from a galvanic cell. Maybe death was too <strong>strongstrong> in me for an act so inspirited with life. Although I sometimes think that death is what gives lovemaking its desperate and terrible joy. — Norman Lock

The weak can never forgive. — Mahatma Gandhi

For centuries before Google, MIT, and IDEO, modern hotbeds of innovation, we struggled to explain any kind of creation, from the universe itself to the multitudes of ideas around us. While we can make atomic bombs, and dry-clean silk ties, we still don't have satisfying answers for simple questions like: Where do songs come from? Are there an infinite variety of possible kinds of cheese? How did Shakespeare and Stephen King invent so much, while we're satisfied watching sitcom reruns? Our popular answers have been unconvincing, enabling misleading, fantasy-laden myths to grow <strong>strongstrong>. — Scott Berkun

The <strong>strongstrong> demand, contend, prevail; the beggar is a fool. — Georgia Douglas Johnson

People can say what they want, but historically, feminism in the Dominican Republic has been extremely <strong>strongstrong>. — Junot Diaz

I watched you fall in love with me. I saw the smile cross your lips when it happened. I remember that day. I was the first day I knew I had no heart. — Tara Brown

I'm very comfortable being married to an extremely <strong>strongstrong>, opinionated, and driven woman. But I also sit at the head of the table. I have both of those sides to me. — Kevin Bacon

Habit is a <strong>strongstrong> invisible prison. — John O'Donohue

Keep knocking with the hammer of your love. The door will open when the power is <strong>strongstrong> enough. — Debasish Mridha

It is well known that of every <strong>strongstrong> woman they say she has a masculine mind. — R. Buckminster Fuller

-When I was growing up, Lieutenant Uhura was a major role model for me, a <strong>strongstrong> black woman on the bridge of a starship ...
-In a miniskirt, answering the interplanetary telephone? — Suzanne Brockmann

Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is exploitation of the weak by the <strong>strongstrong>. Communism is exploitation of the <strong>strongstrong> by the weak. — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Normally, to decide whether we are alive we do not look outside of ourselves to find out if we are nourishing and generating life. We look into ourselves to find out how <strong>strongstrong> and healthy and vital we are. But the notion of the seed that dies demands an extraordinary redirection of the sense of life. Now to know if anyone is alive, we do not look at them; look beyond them to the mode of their expenditures and the life that they nourish and preserve beyond themselves. — Arthur C. McGill

The wish to be super-<strong>strongstrong> is a healthy wish, a vital, compelling, power-producing desire. The more the Superman-Wonder Woman picture stories build up this inner compulsion by stimulating the child's natural longing to battle and overcome obstacles, particularly evil ones, the better chance your child has for self-advancement in the world. — William Moulton Marston

When I got the camera on the shoulder, they give me a nickname. They call me 'the tripod' because I'm kind of short and kind of <strong>strongstrong>. So if I take the camera and I lock myself, you think that you're on a crane. — Luc Besson

The Mongols consumed a steady diet of meat, milk, yogurt, and other dairy products, and they fought men who lived on gruel made from various grains. The grain diet of the peasant warriors stunted their bones, rotted their teeth, and left them weak and prone to disease. In contrast, the poorest Mongol soldier ate mostly protein, thereby giving him <strong>strongstrong> teeth and bones. — Jack Weatherford

People have really <strong>strongstrong> images of what church is, and it's almost certainly not the same as mine. — Sally Phillips

It's an old story; it's as old as our history. The difference between Democrats and Republicans has always been measured in courage and confidence. The Republicans believe that the wagon train will not make it to the frontier unless some of the old, some of the young, some of the weak, are left behind by the side of the trail. The <strong>strongstrong>, the <strong>strongstrong> they tell us, will inherit the land. We Democrats believe in something else. We Democrats believe that we can make it all the way with the whole family intact, and we have more than once. — Mario Cuomo

If I could give one message to the bullied, it would be this: You are not alone. You are <strong>strongstrong>. You have a voice. You are beautiful. You are intelligent. There are many kids who want to speak up for you, but they don't because they are afraid of becoming bullied themselves. There are many of us in the world who love you. I love you. You have the power to end this now. That power is in your voice. Find it. Once you use your voice, bullies want no part of you. If you feel that you lack the courage, fake it until you do. Finally, I know it's hard to see a life that exists beyond high school. It is there, and it is beautiful. — Dan Pearce

He took me in his <strong>strongstrong> white arms,
He bore me on his horse away
O'er crag, morass, and hairbreadth pass,
But never asked me yea or nay.

He held me fast with book and bell,
With links of love he makes me stay;
Till now I've neither heart nor power
Nor will nor wish to say him nay. — Christina Rossetti

She went as through a forest
the columns were furrowed like ancient trees, and in through the forest flowed the light, many-hued and clear as song, from the pictured windows. High up above her, beasts and men sported among the stone leafage, and angels played
and yet far, dizzily far higher, the vaulting soared, lifting the church towards God. In a hall that lay to one side, worship was being held at an altar. Kristin sank down on her knees by a pillar. The singing cut into her like a too <strong>strongstrong> light. Now she saw how low she lay in the dust ... Pater noster. Credo in unum Deum. Ave Maria, gratia plena. — Sigrid Undset

Both Othello and Iago seem a bit cracked. If you spend 15 years being responsible for death and destruction, that sense of suppressed horror is <strong>strongstrong>. — Rory Kinnear

I love you, Ink, and I want you-only you. Being <strong>strongstrong> doesn't mean I don't want you too. You are the only person who knows every part of my life, every part of me in it, the good and the bad and the horrible, and you still love me. You are always with me, even when you're not there. And when you're not there, I can feel it, like an empty space where you ought to be, and I can hardly wait until you're back to fill it again. Neither world feels like it fits, but we belong. — Dawn Metcalf

We had very good discussions on current security challenges and NATO's continued adaptation to meet them. Canada is a committed ally and a capable contributor to international security. We appreciate your quick decision to deploy forces, planes and ships to strengthen our collective defence in view of Russia's aggressive actions in Ukraine, as well as your contribution to the international anti-ISIL coalition. Canada plays a major part in our decision-making and helps keep the vital bond between Europe and North America <strong>strongstrong>. — Jens Stoltenberg

I have absolutely no musical talent of my own! — Danny Strong

But lately she had been starting to experience <strong>strongstrong>, inarticulate feelings of longing, of a desire to be with Joe all the time, to inhabit his life and allow him to inhabit hers, to engage with him in some kind of joint enterprise, in a collaboration that would *be* their lives. — Michael Chabon

I mean, there's no arguing. There is no anything. There is no beating around the bush. 'You're fired' is a very <strong>strongstrong> term. — Donald Trump

Be <strong>strongstrong> and of good courage; for you shall cause this people to inherit the land which I swore to their fathers to give them. 7 Only be <strong>strongstrong> and very courageous, to observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded you: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go. 8 This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it: for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success. 9 Have not I commanded you? Be <strong>strongstrong> and of good courage; Do not be terrified, neither be dismayed: for Yahweh your Elohim is with you wherever you go. — Elder Jacob O Meyer

Iran's <strong>strongstrong> logic and firm diplomacy is the guideline for all government officials in negotiations on country's peaceful nuclear program with foreigners, quite resolutely. — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two <strong>strongstrong> oxen or 1024 chickens? — Seymour Cray

Now, mark it. This may be <strong>strongstrong> language, but heed it. The people mean it, and, my friends of the Eastern Democracy, we bid farewell when you do that thing. — Richard Parks Bland

I don't know if directors go, 'Hey! We've got another suicide-let's call Robin Tunney! It's weird, but they're all different, and I guess it gives the characters some kind of power ... At least I play women who are <strong>strongstrong> enough to take the power into their own hands! And kill themselves! So many women in films just shoot themselves in the head anyway, because they're not really there for any reason. — Robin Tunney

You are out of control, Rand al'Thor,' she declared.
I do what must be done,' he said, speaking now from the shadows. He sounded exhausted ...
I hate what you just did, Rand,' Nynaeve snarled. 'No, "Hate" isn't <strong>strongstrong> enough. I loathe what you've done. What has happened to you?'
Test him!' Rand whispered, voice dangerous. 'Before condemning me, let us first determine if my sins have achieved anything beyond my own damnation. — Brandon Sanderson

All the evils in the world come not because our desires for happiness are too <strong>strongstrong>, but because they are so weak that we settle for fleeting pleasures that do not satisfy our deepest souls, but in the end destroy them. The root of all evil is that we are the kind of people who settle for the love of money instead of the love of God (1 Timothy 6:10). — John Piper

Te is thus the natural miracle of one who seems born to be wise and humane, comparable to what we call "perfect specimens" of flowers, trees, or butterflies - though sometimes our notions of the perfect specimen are too formal. Thus Chuang-tzu enlarges on the extraordinary virtue of being a hunchback, and goes on to suggest that being weird in mind may be even more advantageous than being weird in body. He compares the hunchback to a vast tree which has grown to a great old age by virtue of being useless for human purposes because its leaves are inedible and its branches twisted and pithy.5 Formally healthy and upright humans are conscripted as soldiers, and straight and <strong>strongstrong> trees are cut down for lumber; wherefore the sage gets by with a perfect appearance of imperfection, such as we see in the gnarled pines and craggy hills of Chinese painting. — Alan W. Watts

In many ways he was like America itself, big and <strong>strongstrong>, full of good intentions, a roll of fat jiggling at his belly, slow of foot but always plodding along, always there when you needed him, a believer in the virtues of simplicity and directness and hard labor. — Tim O'Brien

Wait for me. Be <strong>strongstrong>, and I'll be <strong>strongstrong> too. I'll fight my way out of whatever they've got in store.
I won't forget you. I won't ever turn my back on you, no matter what lies I have to tell them. Our center will hold. — Richelle Mead

A <strong>strongstrong> person like you doesn't have break downs. They have moments. You're having one. — Jessica Gadziala

We are reviled but we do not intend to speak evil in return. We are in desperate straits but do not despair. We are persecuted but not forsaken. It's easy to humiliate and crush people who are open, but when I am weak, then I am <strong>strongstrong>. — Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

Forever wasn't pain and grief.
Forever wasn't a problem.
Forever was my heartbeat and it was the hope tomorrow held. Forever was the glistening silver lining of every dark cloud, no matter how heavy and thick it was. Forever was knowing moments of weakness didn't equate to an eternityof them.Forever was knowing that I was <strong>strongstrong>.Forever was the fire breathing dragon inside me that had shed the fear like a snake shedding skin. Forever was simply a promise of more. Forever was a work in progress. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

This truth may be unfashionable, unpalatable, no doubt unpopular, but, if it is the truth, the story of mankind shows that war was universal and unceasing for millions of years before armaments were invented or armies organized. Indeed, the lucid intervals of peace and order only occurred in human history after armaments in the hands of <strong>strongstrong> governments have come into being, and civilization in every age has been nursed only in cradles guarded by superior weapons and superior discipline. — Winston Churchill

In two days going they rowed right up the Long Lake and passed out into the River Running, and now they could all see the Lonely Mountain towering grim and tall before them. The stream was <strong>strongstrong> and their going slow. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Mr. Garrison glanced at Daemon, frowning. "It's the fact that the energy was so <strong>strongstrong> it disrupted a satellite's signal and they weren't able to snap any pictures of the event. Nothing like that has ever happened before."
Daemon kept his expression blank. "I guess I'm just that awesome. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

I pray that this council, which will probably be too late to save Iraq, will do what it can, which will be immeasurably <strong>strongstrong> in what it does in trying to save our democracy. — Ed Asner

The threat from Iran is, of course, their stated objective to destroy our <strong>strongstrong> ally Israel. That's a threat, a serious threat. It's a threat to world peace; it's a threat, in essence, to a <strong>strongstrong> alliance. I made it clear, I'll make it clear again, that we will use military might to protect our ally, Israel. — George W. Bush

In life u will make mistakes and people will try and tear u down ... but u gotta stay positive. Stay <strong>strongstrong>..and learn to be better..and..always live to serve others and The Lord. — Justin Bieber

No woman can love a weak man hard enough to make him <strong>strongstrong>. — Pearl Cleage

I ain't scared to lend a hand
I ain't scared to clench it either — Mie Hansson

In a state of nature, the weakest go to the wall; in a state of over-refinement, both the weak and the <strong>strongstrong> go to the gutter. — Elbert Hubbard

For the word "We" must never be spoken, save by one's choice and as a second thought. This word must never be placed first within man's soul, else it becomes a monster, the root of all the evils on earth, the root of man's torture by men, and of an unspeakable lie.
The word "We" is as lime poured over men, which sets and hardens to stone, and crushes all beneath it, and that which is white and that which is black are lost equally in the grey of it. It is the word by which the depraved steal the virtue of the good, by which the weak steal the might of the <strong>strongstrong>, by which the fools steal the wisdom of the sages. — Ayn Rand

Progress in computer science is made with the distribution of revolutionary software systems and the publication of revolutionary books. We don't need a fancy information system to alert us to these grand events; they will hit us in the face. Another good excuse for ignoring the literature is that, since everyone has <strong>strongstrong> beliefs about fundamentals but can't support those beliefs rationally or consistently convince non-believers, computer science is actually a religion. — Philip Greenspun

Love will push every button, try every faith, challenge every strength, trigger every weakness, mock every value, and then leave you there to die. And then you will be ready to be born at last, to become a soul who is <strong>strongstrong> enough to take love on. You'll be a romantic mystic who has achieved the elements: you endured the flames of love, you were baptized in the waters of love, and now you can soar like only a mystic can through the skies and skin of a lover's heart. — Marianne Williamson

I didn't know what to say. What to do. I didn't feel <strong>strongstrong> anymore. I felt like I couldn't go on without him. He loved me fiercely. Obsessively. Rivalled only by the intensity which I felt for him. So why couldn't we be together? — A. Zavarelli

It was easier being <strong>strongstrong> when another man was <strong>strongstrong> enough to be weak. — Aleksandr Voinov

I started to see it Eunice's way. We now had obligations to each other. Our families had failed us, and now we had to form an equally <strong>strongstrong> and enduring connection to each other. Any gap between us was a failure. Success would come when neither of us knew where one ended and the other began. — Gary Shteyngart

But there still prevails, even in nations well acquainted with commerce, a <strong>strongstrong> jealousy with regard to the balance of trade, and a fear, that all their gold and silver may be leaving them. This seems to me, almost in every case, a groundless apprehension; and I should as soon dread, that all our springs and rivers should be exhausted, as that money should abandon a kingdom where there are people and industry. — David Hume

It was a common fallacy among survivors that zombies were <strong>strongstrong>. This was incorrect. The average zombie, by itself, was weak with little muscle control. The creatures were pure instinct. Whatever intelligence they had was gone with their first death, lost forever. It was their numbers that gave them strength. A <strong>strongstrong> man or woman with a weapon and their wits could easily take out ten to fifteen zombies. But behind those ten to fifteen lay fifty or a hundred more, untiring, unrelenting in their search for flesh. A human tired, a zombie didn't. This was their greatest strength. — Robert Morganbesser

Creative people need <strong>strongstrong> encouragement. — Fennel Hudson

Will Arnett is one of the funniest guys I know. He has seen it all and done it all and come out the other end pretty savvy and pretty <strong>strongstrong>. — Jason Bateman

The most effective alternative process [to punishment] is probably extinction. This takes time but is much more rapid than allowing the response to be forgotten. The technique seems to be relatively free of objectionable by-products. We recommend it, for example when we suggest that a parent 'pay no attention' to objectionable behavior on the part of his child. If the child's behavior is <strong>strongstrong> only because it has been reinforced by 'getting a rise out of' the parent, it will disappear when this consequence is no longer forthcoming. (p. 192) — B.F. Skinner

Live by the creed that a <strong>strongstrong> work ethic, playing by the rules, and doing things the right way will bring about opportunities for success and, ultimately, happiness. — Nick Saban

Without seeing any reason to believe that women are, on the average, so <strong>strongstrong> physically, intellectually, or morally, as men, I cannot shut my eyes to the fact that many women are much better endowed in all these respects than many men, and I am at a loss to understand on what grounds of justice or public policy a career which is open to the weakest and most foolish of the male sex should be forcibly closed to women of vigor and capacity. — Thomas Huxley

Dad always said the best way to keep the mind healthy is to make sure the body is <strong>strongstrong>. — Joelle Charbonneau

All I'm trying to tell you is to be <strong>strongstrong>. Don't ever let nothing get you down. Don't be afraid or ashamed to love, or to grieve when the thing you love is gone. Just don't let it throw you, no matter how much it hurts. — Patrick D. Smith

She attracted people to her; she had presence, an uncommon magnetism. Documenting her effect on her habitat, a naturalist would likely have compared her to a lioness: <strong>strongstrong>, sleek, and invariably surrounded by her pride. — Mohsin Hamid

There is a core value I wanted to illuminate: No matter what kind of family you have - straight, gay, married, single parent, separated, no kids, two kids, 20 kids, whatever - we all go through the human comedy. But if the bonds are <strong>strongstrong> enough, and the desire is there, you can get to the other side, still together and still a family. — Lisa Cholodenko

LinkedIn is increasingly becoming a very <strong>strongstrong> place for companies to develop their talent plans, their recruitment plans, and so there are ways in which we can track some of the momentum there. — Jeff Weiner

All fear has ever done is hold me back. I have so many things I want to accomplish in my life. For myself and for the world. Fear is useless; it just gets in the way of accomplishing everything Overcome fear today and and confront one of your phobias. — Demi Lovato

Democrats fought to get health insurance for more Americans. Democrats fought for a <strong>strongstrong> consumer agency so big banks can't cheat people. We fought, we won, and we improved the lives of millions of people - thank you, President Obama! — Elizabeth Warren

I write in a hurry, because the little one, who has been sleeping a long time, begins to call for me. Poor thing! when I am sad, I lament that all my affections grow on me, till they become too <strong>strongstrong> for my peace, though they all afford me snatches of exquisite enjoyment. — Mary Wollstonecraft

Shape and color are my two <strong>strongstrong> things. And by doing this, drawing plants has always led me into my paintings and my sculptures. — Ellsworth Kelly

I brandished my parasol at him like a rapier. You, sir, are an abominable scalawag of a man, and I'll be damned if I let you threaten me. — Susan Dennard

Too much sun after a Syracuse winter does strange things to your head, makes you feel <strong>strongstrong>, even if you aren't. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Excellence does not come easy for quickly- An Excellent education does not, a successful mission does not, a <strong>strongstrong>, loving marriage does not, rewarding personal relationships do not. It is simply a truism that nothing very valuable can come without significant sacrifice, effort, and patience on our part. — Jeffery R. Holland

McCain is completely against the sequester. It was one thing when we had a Democratic chair who was against it - all the Democrats were against it. But to have a Republican chair who is outspoken and <strong>strongstrong> against the sequester, who has the credentials in military issues - who is going to challenge him? — Tim Kaine

Many newly public companies are able to post a year or two of <strong>strongstrong> sales growth off a small base, but their growth almost always slows over time, thanks to what investment professionals call 'the law of large numbers.' — Alex Berenson

I was really drawn to thinking about the women in my life. Thinking about my mother, who's a very powerful force on me. And I have these two very <strong>strongstrong> sisters who took up a lot of imaginary space in my life. — Junot Diaz

Its human to error no one is immune to it — Michael Strong

I'm glad I found you," Kane said quietly, stepping back as Avery stood.
"I think it was more like me finding you, handsome." For Kane, the sentimental memories were so <strong>strongstrong>; all he could do was stand there as they held their babies, thinking about their lives, their future,and his love for Avery.
"I can't imagine my life without you," Kane proclaimed sweetly.
"Good. I don't want you to. — Kindle Alexander

Robert, there's a creature inside of you that I'm not good enough to bring out, not <strong>strongstrong> enough to reach. I sometimes have the feeling you've been here a long time, more than one lifetime, and that you've dwelt in private places none of the rest of us has even dreamed about. You frighten me, even though you're gentle with me. If I didn't fight to control myself with you, I feel like I might lose my center and never get back. — Robert James Waller

Sometimes in love it just gets to the point where I have to give up. I have to give up trying and I have to give up believing because I know things won't change. To me, giving up isn't being weak. Giving up is being <strong>strongstrong> enough to let go. — Taylor Swift

We resist our brokenness because we want to BE STRONG, but little do we know that strength is obtained only through our brokenness, because where we are weak and broken we find God's strength to get us through. — Heather Bixler

Yet most women I know - no matter how clever, no matter how <strong>strongstrong> - are dragged down by husbands or fathers or titles or too many petticoats, or priests clutching at their hems, telling them, 'No, you cannot do that, you cannot be that.' I never listened. That's rare. Even a woman like the Comtesse pretends to pay attention to the sermons and the instructions, but then does whatever she wishes. I — Kelly Gardiner

If you look at the people who make up the Bravo landscape from Jeff Lewis to Rachel Zoe and Padma Lakshmi and Tabatha Coffey and the 'Millionaire Matchmaker,' these are very <strong>strongstrong> personalities that people love to watch and that you ... don't see anywhere else. — Andy Cohen

Bosnia is a complicated country: three religions, three nations and those 'others'. Nationalism is <strong>strongstrong> in all three nations; in two of them there are a lot of racism, chauvinism, separatism; and now we are supposed to make a state out of that. — Alija Izetbegovic

In 1960, in Blackburn v. Alabama, the Court said, "Coercion can be mental as well as physical." In reviewing whether a confession was psychologically coerced by the police, the following factors are crucial: (1) the length of the interrogation, (2) whether it was prolonged in nature, (3) when it took place, day or night, with a <strong>strongstrong> suspicion around nighttime confessions, and (4) the psychological makeup - intelligence, sophistication, education, and so on - of the suspect. — John Grisham

Wait: His boyfriend? He was gay? The focus on the lens sharpened, and I could see it clearly now. Of course he was gay. Everyone could see that, except the chubby little lonely heart sitting at seven o'clock, drawing sparkly rainbows on the page with her glitter crayons. I was still beating myself up when the round robin arrived to me, and I sputtered along trying to assemble some phony epiphany with <strong>strongstrong> verbs, but tears dripped down my face.
The room fell into silence as people waited for me to explain. But what could I possibly say? That I had just discovered my future husband was gay? That I was going to live the rest of my life surrounded by nothing but empty lasagna pans and an overloved cat destined to die before me?
"I'm sorry," I finally said. "I was just reminded of something very painful." And I guess that wasn't a lie. — Sarah Hepola

With a <strong>strongstrong> domestic economy, low national unemployment at 5 percent, and increasing retail sales, the picture should look rosy. But one look at the trade deficit changes all of that. — Jo Ann Emerson

I was assigned to a medical unit and was part of a group receiving men returning from theater headed to hospital care, many forever maimed with life-altering wounds. It made a <strong>strongstrong> impression because wounded men and body bags come back to home districts, not Washington, D.C., and accordingly, there is no more sacred vote than those surrounding war where life hangs in the balance. — Mark Sanford