S Quotes
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“Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.”
“Stronger people are harder to kill”
“Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!”
Source: Rimbaud: The Works : A Season in Hell, Poems & Prose, Illuminations
“Stronger than all the armies is an idea thats time has come. ... The time has come for equality of opportunity in sharing in government, in education, and in employment. It will not be stayed or denied. It is here!”
“Stronger than ever.”
“Stronger than iron crueler than death sweeter than springtime it lives beyond breath”
Source: Cybele's Secret
“Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.”
Source: The Complete Euripides: Volume V: Medea and Other Plays
“stronger than mountains.
a place where my heart
feels the safest-
underneath his shirt.”
“Stronger than thunder's winged force All-powerful gold can speed its course; Through watchful guards its passage make, And loves through solid walls to break.”
Source: The Works of Horace, Translated by Philip Francis
“Stronger the military, stupider the citizens.”
Source: The Humanitarian Dictator
“Stronger the military,
stupider the citizens.
Louder the ammunition,
lousier the education.
Mightier the missiles,
measlier the minds.
Sharper the snipers,
sicklier the spines.”
Source: The Humanitarian Dictator
“Stronger the military,
stupider the citizens.
Louder the ammunition,
lousier the education.
More titanic the tanks,
more pathetic the primates.
World in trance of arms,
is a planet of the apes.”
Source: The Humanitarian Dictator
“Stronger the military, stupider the citizens. World in trance of arms, is a planet of the apes.”
Source: The Humanitarian Dictator
“Stronger the mind,
gentler the mind.
Braver the mind,
humbler the mind.”
Source: Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets
“Stronger together is, I think, a preposition and a comparative adjective, but it's not really an action verb or what it is.”
“Stronger women build stronger nations.”
“Strongest drug in existence is love, even God is addicted to it.”
“Strongest minds are often those whom the noisy world hears least.”
Source: The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth
“Strongest pain often gives the deepest pleasure.”
“Strongest people cries the most genuine tears....”
“Strongly guarded as is the separation between Religion and Government in the Constitution of the United States, the danger of encroachment by Ecclesiastical Bodies may be illustrated by precedents already furnished in their short history.”
“Strongly held opinions, strongly expressed, are a
necessity in the chaos of a flabby age.”
Source: Fascism: One Hundred Questions Asked And Answered
“Struck by lightning! Struck by lightning!”
Source: The Hobbit: 75th Anniversary Edition
“struck by the pain of the ice and the rage of the water below that was forced to make room for the huge piece of frozen time, the glacier, trapped in a solid state for centuries, melting into the ocean and becoming one with its future. She feels small and insignificant in the face of such a display of nature.”
“Struck in the wet mire
Four thousand leagues from the ninth buried city
I thought of Troy, what we had built her for.”
Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976
“Structural dissatisfaction: Returning to circumstances that once pleased you, after having experienced a more thrilling or opulent way of life, and finding that you can no longer tolerate them.”
Source: A Visit From the Goon Squad
“Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows in Ouisghian Zodahs.”
“Structural truth at all costs war their motto and all buildings which attempted to conceal the true nature of their construction, or to disguise the materials in which they were carried out, stood convicted of acting a lie. That a high proportion of the buildings which many generations of man-kind had agreed to regard as masterpieces failed to reach this exalted standard was held to be quite irrelevant.
Unfortunately the new theory did not in practice prove quite so easy to carry out satisfactorily as hoped. Simplicity is not invariably and on every occasion a virtue, and while desperate attempts to lend some transient interest to a hopelessly uninspired structure by a top-dressing of cornice and pilasters are doubtless reprehensible, the bright, unvarnished truth tends too often to be even more depressing. After all few of us, by and large, look our best in the nude.”
Source: Here, of All Places
“Structural work is only a bandage unless feelings have been healed.”
Source: Sitting In The Fire: Large Group Transformation Using Conflict And Diversity
“Structuralism argues that a liberal capitalist world economy tends to preserve or actually increase inequalities between developed and less developed economies.”
“Structurally, democracies succeed when there is a strong middle class, the police and the military are separate and under civilian control, due process is perceived as a 'fairness' test that applies across groups, government has to respect some kind of 'private' space into which it will not intrude UNLESS the public good is at stake, and people get mad if political figures - whether their own chosen representatives or THOSE people's representatives - appear to be untruthful or unfair. If people decide to see things as a zero-sum game - the more THEY succeed, the more WE lose, and we should rage about any call made against US, and cheer any call made against THEM - then democracy loses.”
Source: Demagoguery and Democracy
“Structurally I don't see a fundamental difference between what we may reasonably expect of police and doctors - though obviously the fact that doctors are generally pursuing life-saving activities and police may be engaged in life-threatening activities may lead to differences in how we construe the moral limits to their roles.”
“Structurally we should understand that one cannot think that the human brain is different from the brain of the other vertebrates. It is an important question, because we can investigate what is the difference between the brain of a mouse and ours, and of course the difference is enormous, in size and capacity.”
“Structure builds minds into great Monuments.”
“Structure Design must be safe and sound such that the exterior looks will magnetise the cameras from every nook and corner”
“Structure ignites spontaneity. Limits yield intensity. When we play... by our self-chosen rules, we find that containment of strength amplifies strength.”
“Structure influences behavior. Design spaces that make you feel "you are welcome here and that you came to the right place."”
“Structure is important in film, but there's often structure to be found in the most unlikely of places! It's quite possible to build a structured story and retain idiosyncrasy.”
“Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.”
Source: Revolution for the Hell of It: The Book That Earned Abbie Hoffman a Five-Year Prison Term at the Chicago Conspiracy Trial
“Structure is not just a means to a solution. It is also a principle and a passion.”
“Structure is nothing if it is all you got. Skeletons spook people if they try to walk around on their own. I really wonder why XML does not.”
“Structure is one of the things that I always hope will reveal itself to me.”
“Structure is something that calms our nature; we know this of toddlers.”
“Structure is the most important component in a successful planting; colour is important too but it is a secondary consideration.”
“Structure is translation software for your imagination.”
Source: Just Write: Creating Unforgettable Fiction and a Rewarding Writing Life
“Structure is what makes communication hang together. It's like the rails that a train runs on. Without them, things wouldn't move very far. If you only have time to do one thing in your presentation, make sure it has a clear and identifiable structure. Without this, you'll have no credibility. Once you've organized your ideas, if you step back and look at it, many times we've organized topics. We've strung together a structure with organized topics. At this point, change your topics into messages.”
“Structure that really pays off is all based on emotion. I don't write down an elaborate plan. It's really done by feel. It's one area of my writing that I think I've got surer at as I've evolved. In my work you often get an abrupt shift in time, a jolt. But the emotional logic will take the reader on. I hope. I trust. After all, our memories do not work with any sequential logic.”
“Structure your cross-training appropriately by alternating the intensity of your sessions so you work, recover, work, recover.”
“Structure your presentation so that you appeal to the different interests of the different decision-makers involved.”
Source: Successful Selling
“Structure your thought pattern to what you want to achieve and who you want to become.”