If you write a book that’s as powerful and successful as ‘Bastard,’ there’s a strong desire to prove there’s something else.

Whether people care enough about local news to pay for it is, sadly, an entirely different question than whether our democracy requires a strong watchdog function at the local level to ensure safeguards against abuse,...

In time, she learned to develop her own opinion of the people that she worked for, and she got stronger. Think she’s now much stronger. In the beginning she wanted to believe she was strong...

I developed a mechanism so that whatever mistakes I made, I would bounce straight back. Whatever was happening off the pitch, I could put it to one side and maintain my form. Call it mental...

I haven’t always been thrilled with my work. But the fear of not proving the people wrong who think you can’t emerge from a franchise and do well, that’s a very strong driving force.

I have a really hard time watching my sister act in anything, but especially anything where it’s a strong emotion.

I have a very strong family.

Safe wasn’t quite what appealed to her right then. Safe wasn’t how she felt. Invincible, in control, powerful- those words felt closer to true.

I look up to Tegan & Sara, obviously, Adele and Natalie Maines from the Dixie Chicks. All these artists are strong in their convictions, and they haven’t changed who they are for the music business.

When you start loving, your character becomes like the positive side of a magnet and the one you love becomes negative, that pulls people close to you in union, and becomes very difficult to separate.

I don’t like to make strong statements. I want to write strong novels… I keep my deep, radical things for my novels.

I am a strong believer in the intertwined nature of the personal and the political; I think they move together.

The first scene I ever shot for ‘Louie Bluie,’ on that first day, I had never seen the camera before. I didn’t know where to put it. I just knew what was strong about these...

No matter how strong you are, no matter how smart you are or tough you can be, the world will find a way to break you. And when it does, the only thing you can...

We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it’s absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive.

Dear my brothers there is no more room for wanting to be a thug, BUT there is PLENTY of room for being a father, lawyer, doctor and a teacher. Please take this in consideration!

She was strong and stubborn but loving. She was an untouchable angel with a devil’s mark. She was beautiful.

God doesn’t want you to be happy, He wants you to be strong.

President Obama and I recognize the importance of strong economic engagement for the continued growth of both the Philippines and the United States.

I’m really easily affected by horror films. I have pretty strong reactions to them.

illusion” of choice because, in many cases, the nature of their choices hardly reaches the level of will, but of merely perfunctory activity. For the most part, their desires are not too strong, they are...

Well, the Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist Party outside Soviet Union, there’s no doubt about that.

I am very very very strong”!

Throw your hands and pull up those in the valley do the hill. However, press your feet on the ground so hard that you don’t fall into the same valley together. Some people’s helping hands...

People would say you look weak if you’re not cursing the opposition and driving around in a big black car while always wearing a tie. Above all, to be ‘strong’ you’re always supposed to be...

I believe there is a strong familial pull as the influence of beloved ancestors continues with us from the other side of the veil.

There is a very strong linkage between U.S. banks and European banks. There are plenty of European employees that are employed by U.S. companies, and there are plenty of U.S. employees that are employed by...

It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.

It is when things are at their worst that Allah will raise the best generation. The generation that the Prophet would be told Sahabat should look up to. So maybe the fact that you are...

I am convinced that the public, large majority of the Greek people, realize that policies pursued in the past and the market practices have to be changed, in order to improve the prospects of the...

There are very few shows that show women talking like strong, sassy women. Do you know what I mean? ‘Sex and the City’ started doing that, and that was why that was such a huge...

The good thing is I don’t put the ball in my right hand and I’m predominantly left-handed when I’m running the ball. I just have to take care of the football and even if I...

I developed a really strong work ethic, and I don’t take anything for granted.

And yet, anything real, anything strong, was never easy. She’d been taught from an early age that the things that mattered most were the hardest to obtain.

When you’re single, you’re very independent. Very independent women raised me. We didn’t have a lot of male figures as the head of our household, so I got, and took on, a lot of that...

If the blood humor is too strong and robust, calm it with balance and harmony.

Curiosity is a strong fire, and once ignited, it is not easily put out.

I’m the hero of this story, I don’t need to be saved

Ever since I started doing television, I tended to get cast, for the most part, as these strong, intelligent women… Which is wonderful, but very rarely do I get to be the goofy girl that...

The weak fall, but the strong will remain and never go under!

Patents are like fertilizer. Applied wisely and sparingly, they can increase growth. But if you apply too many chemicals, or make patents too strong, then you can leach the land, making growth more difficult.

I want a character to wake up one day and feel like, ‘I can face it’. That, to me, is happy. I want the characters to rescue themselves, though you use the relationships you have,...

Unlike their Western counterparts, Africans take elections very seriously – rising up early to queue patiently in line for hours under the hot sun and cast their ballots. Any misguided attempt to nullify or steal...

But perhaps you could call her perilous because she’s so strong in herself. You , you could dash yourself to pieces on her, like a ship on a rock, or drown yourself, like a Hobbit...

So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.

The Ed Hardy man is confident with a strong sense of personal style. He is not afraid to be seen and take risks. He enjoys comfort and flexible style, yet he wants to stand apart...

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

Build strong foundation under your dreams.

Enójate, ponte furiosa si quieres, pero no dejes que esos sentimientos te duren más de 5 minutos, porque si lo permites, entonces habrás perdido la batalla.

Living a lie – pretending everything is fine when we areactually discontented – is hard work and, in the long run, even bad for our health. We pay a high pricefor compromising on this honesty...