Strongest Quotations

When I started to write realistic, real fiction, the voices that were the strongest for me - the characters that I heard, the people that I knew - were the ones from my childhood.

While starving refugees in Homs were providing target practice for government snipers, Bashar al-Assad's strongest international backer was in Sochi, at the Iceberg Skating Palace, visibly moved, smiling with deep satisfaction, as the Russians beautifully glided and leaped their way to the gold medal in the team event.

Desire is the strongest human emotion - desire for a hat, desire for a dress; that's what drives people to buy and want things.

I'm not a pretty princess, and I'm aware of that, so I like music that is really intense, really bold, and characters that in a way almost have a dark side and are kind of evil because, for me, that's when I feel my strongest and fiercest, when I'm not necessarily the good girl.

The longest sword, the strongest lungs, the most voices, are false measures of truth.

Parents need all the help they can get. The strongest as well as the most fragile family requires a vital network of social supports.

The strongest interactions are the nuclear interactions, which include the forces that bind nuclei together and the interaction between the nuclei and the z mesons. It also includes the interactions that give rise to the observed strange-particle production.

Evolution does not necessarily favor the longest-lived. It doesn't necessarily favor the biggest or the strongest or the fastest, and not even the smartest. Evolution favors those creatures best adapted to their environment. That is the sole test of survival and success.

I contend that the strongest of all governments is that which is most free.

Love is the strongest and most fragile thing we have in life.

If you look at it, the history of comedy has always been strongest among the nations who have been persecuted the most.

One of the strongest features of Puritanism is its autobiographical tendency, its passionate self-regard.

Whatever dramas are going on in my life, I always find that place inside my head where I see myself as the cleanest, tallest, strongest, wisest person that I can be.

Vulnerability is the strongest state to be in. How boring would it be if we were constantly dominant or constantly submissive?

To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.

I'm comfortable with the hold 'em, Omaha and stud high-low. But the other two games aren't my strongest games. I'm not comfortable at all with razz or stud.

I thought surrendering was a weakness; instead it's the strongest thing a man or a woman can ever do, to acknowledge our Creator who's in control of all things.

The parent is the strongest statement that the child hears regarding what it means to be alive and real. More than what we say or do, the way we are expresses what we think it means to be alive. So the articulate parent is less a telling than a listening individual.

The coral that grows at the edge of the reef is always the strongest and most colourful because it faces the greatest battering. It's the same if you're called Honeysuckle. I'd have had a totally different life if I'd been called Mary.

It's one of my strongest dance pieces - having just done Play Without Words which was veering away from a lot of dance - I thought it would be nice to go back to something with almost the most dance I'd done.

If you do have a team where every rider has a huge list of results, that means everybody wants to do the race for themselves. The strongest team in the Tour is not the strongest team on paper.

I used to be known as one of the strongest guys on the planet.

My instinct is probably one of the strongest assets I've got, workwise.

'You Are So Beautiful,' I think, is probably the, you know, the strongest tune I ever did in just the simplicity in it.

As I read the scriptures, it appears that those who receive the Savior's strongest reproach are often those who hold themselves in high esteem because of their wealth, influence, or perceived righteousness.

My strongest audiences are in Germany and France - they stuck with me through my dark days in the '70s.

Imperfect though it may be, the Beijing Platform for Action is the strongest statement of consensus on women's equality, empowerment and justice ever produced by governments.

The lessons I learned from my mother and her friends have guided me through death, birth, loss, love, failure, and achievement, on to a Fulbright scholarship and Harvard Business School. They taught me to believe that anything was possible. They have proven to be the strongest family values I could ever have imagined.

Pops always taught us that family is the strongest unit in the world. If you stick with your family, nobody can break you, nobody can harm you. You'll always have your family.

Humans are not the fastest or the strongest animals on the planet, but when it comes to survival, we have had the unique advantage of being clever.

When we look at what has the strongest statistical relationship to overall evaluation of your life, the first one is your career well-being, or the mission, purpose and meaning of what you're doing when you wake up each day.

Of course as a small country you're not necessarily in the strongest negotiating position unless you're negotiating with other small countries.

The Phoenicians are entitled to be commemorated in history by the side of the Hellenic and Latin nations; but their case affords a fresh proof, and perhaps the strongest proof of all, that the development of national energies in antiquity was of a one-sided character.

The strongest feelings I've had in my life are when love has gone right and when love has gone bad. And I think strong feelings make good songs.

In California, we have some of the strongest consumer protection laws in the country. While it is easy to conceive of innovation and regulation as mutually exclusive, California is proof that we can do both. We can innovate responsibly.

I don't want to buy something that has harmed anyone. This is my absolutely strongest belief, and I believe other people think this, too. Or if they don't now, they will.

Sometimes I like to list the strongest arguments I can find to support a point of view I think is wrong. When I have them before me, I am up against a real opponent rather than a hypothetical one that is an easy target for me to hit.

Living in a capital in Europe but still surrounded by mountains and ocean, my relationship to music was strongest walking to school and back. I would sing to myself and very quickly started mapping out my melodies to landscapes - at the time I just thought it was very matter of fact, a common thing to do.

The argument of the strongest is always the best.

The modern presidency, as expressed in the policies of the administration of George W. Bush, provides the strongest piece of evidence that we are governed by a fundamentally different Constitution from that of the framers.

The strongest signals leaking off our planet are radar transmissions, not television or radio. The most powerful radars, such as the one mounted on the Arecibo telescope (used to study the ionosphere and map asteroids) could be detected with a similarly sized antenna at a distance of nearly 1,000 light-years.

When we grow older and begin to realize that our omnipotence is really not so omnipotent, that our strongest wishes are not powerful enough to make the impossible possible, the fear that we have contributed to the death of a loved one diminishes - and with it, the guilt.

I believe terrorism cannot be won over by military action. Terrorism must be condemned in the strongest language. We must stand solidly against it, and find all the means to end it. We must address the root causes of terrorism to end it for all time to come.

It is a hopeless endeavor to make the form and content of earlier architectural epochs usable for our time; in this, even the strongest artistic talent must fail. We see repeatedly how the outstanding builders fail to achieve an effect because their work does not serve the will of the age.

So long as I'm Commander-in-Chief, we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. When you take off the uniform, we will serve you as well as you've served us - because no one who fights for this country should have to fight for a job, or a roof over their head, or the care that they need when they come home.

'The Levanter' features some of the strongest action scenes to be found in Ambler - who can, in some of his fiction, stay in one place for a whole novel.

Charm of personality is a divine gift that sways the strongest characters and sometimes even controls the destinies of nations.

In 1973 I became heavyweight champion of the world with 38 victories, no defeats as a professional. You get to a point where you think you cannot lose. I felt like I had the greatest power with my fists, I was the strongest man in the world.

Every man ultimately falls into the company with which he affiliates. And he is the strongest who draws men to himself, who creates the company; and this is through having a positive quality - courage and physical prowess.

The people who have the strongest opinion about everything have never left their city, their town, haven't left their 'hood, haven't left their area, their corner of the world. They don't read. They've never left their house.

We are probably the most athletic and strongest team. Being that we are so athletic, we expect to go all the way.

We believe that the city has been our strongest partner and we certainly are seeking their support at this point. We are dismayed that they've taken a wait-and-see attitude.

Whether our challenge is peacemaking, nation-building, democratization or responding to natural or man-made disaster, we have seen that even the strongest amongst us cannot succeed alone.

We remain on plan to begin rolling out a number of new products, including our instant single-use camera in the second half of 1998. We are confident that 1999 will be one of the company's strongest in recent years.

We're so scared of piracy right now that we're ready to pimp out our mothers. This whole day-and-date DVD release nonsense? Here's an answer: (Digital cinema is) one of the strongest reasons I've been pushing 3-D for the past few years because it offers a powerful experience which you can only have in the movie theater.

What he needed to do was to work harder than the normal person just to get back to where he needed to be. This is probably the strongest I've ever seen him.

We're going to ice the strongest team we can because we want to finish with three victories to take into the finals weekend.

United has the most committed employees and strongest airline franchise in the world. We will not let it fail. We look forward to working with you to implement the coalition framework,

Very few people could ever make a commitment to do what John did. He set a goal after he was done playing football that he wanted to become the strongest man in the world. He worked hard enough to do that.

Year over year, the data shows, this will be the strongest holiday season since 1999. But because consumers have been spending since September, there's not much pent-up demand. Consumers have already spent up demand.

We feel that this is, without question, the most accomplished team and perhaps the strongest team that we've placed on the field of play in an Olympic Winter Games. Our expectations are very high.

(With this deal) the major labels have stopped whining about absolute control and embraced a new business model. Secure delivery, the majors' magic bullet, is overrated; legitimately making music available is the strongest weapon in the fight against music theft.

We're seeing regional design activity very strong here. The strongest sectors seem to be on the institutional side, education and health care.

We have no quarrel with America. We all know NATO is the strongest military machine in the world. We simply want them to stop being so busy with our country and worry about their own problems.

We are also pleased to confirm that last year's acquisition by Berkshire Hathaway has helped us attain the industry's highest financial rating, allowed us to expand our underwriting appetite to additional practice specialties that meet our underwriting criteria, and provided us with the capital to open the door for even more Texas health care providers who desire the strongest carrier.

We develop and grow leaders. P&G people are given the opportunity - the assignments, experiences, and coaching - to become the strongest leaders they can be.

There are no locks and anything can happen the rest of the way. I don't think we've hit our strongest point as a team yet, we haven't played up to our potential for a full game. We're a solid team, but we can play better.

We've seen in the last year here in the state, visitor expenditures grow 7.5%, which is our strongest rate of growth in the last five years.

The real crime of Hosni Mubarak is that he ruled for 30 years and left behind an Egypt where the Muslim Brotherhood is the single strongest player.

Our belief is often strongest when it should be weakest. That is the nature of hope.

We are teaming up with the financially strongest partner,

This proposed rule contains some of the strongest protections for human subjects ever proposed by the federal government.

When the National Security Agency recruited me, they put me through a day of lie detector tests. They found out all my weaknesses and immediately seduced me. They used the strongest drugs in our culture, sex, power and money, to win me over.

The only lifelong, reliable motivations are those that come from within, and one of the strongest of those is the joy and pride that grow from knowing that you've just done something as well as you can do it.

We made a lot of mistakes that cost us the game. Defensively, it was probably the strongest outing I've ever seen us have. They did not drive the field once except for a field goal. The tape doesn't lie.

We're seeing this growing. The strongest part of their influence is on the media: if something online suddenly becomes a story in the local press, then it matters.

We're seeing the strongest interest in being involved with the team since I've been here. We are working on some national accounts that normally only look at Chicago or Minneapolis. A lot of doors that have been closed in the past are suddenly open.

We're just going to make this the strongest case possible. We're going to keep building and building and make it airtight.

Lucent doesn't have the position in data networking that Cisco and Juniper Networks have, ... They are strongest in optical networking; in wireless they are competitive but in the middle of the pack; and data networking is their Achilles heel.

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the definer of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful moulder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

She's small, but she's the strongest kid on the team. She came in with fire and intensity, got on the floor and grabbed loose balls. As small as she is, she's strong enough to box out and grab rebounds and produce offense. She has good moves. She's just small, so she really has to work twice as hard as everybody else.

She's one of the toughest, strongest horses I've ever trained. She's very self-willed.

Since April we've experienced three out of the four strongest months on record for existing-home sales, and August was the sixth highest. We're at a more sustainable level now, but long-term there should be some additional easing toward the end of the year. In fact, the August sales pace is close to what we project for total sales this year.

She continues to improve and is definitely one of the strongest singles players in the region.

Six months ago, I would have said we have the strongest team,

Sinead came to play tonight. She's a tough player. She's one of the strongest girls we have.

She is one of the strongest girls I've ever met and when she connects on a ball, it has a tendency to go a long way. She fractured a finger a couple of weeks ago and has been hampered by that, so it was nice to see her come back and drive the ball like she can.

She raised (the case) in the strongest possible terms." ()

She is the sweetest girl with a beautiful smile. She touches everyone she meets. ... And she has been the strongest through this out of anyone. She comes to me and says, 'Mom, it's going to be OK. I am going to be all right.' As long as she stays strong, I'll stay strong.

Mr. Martin is campaigning in Montreal, which was considered not too long ago the strongest set of Liberal ridings in the country. That's an encouraging sign. Indications on the ground are good everywhere.

Medical Protective made a commitment to Texas policyholders, legislators and regulators that we would closely monitor the impact of tort reforms passed in 2003. We are pleased that the emerging data continues to suggest a moderating trend in loss costs and that we are, therefore, in a position to reduce our Texas rates again. We are also pleased to confirm that last year's acquisition by Berkshire Hathaway has helped us attain the industry's highest financial rating, allowed us to expand our underwriting appetite to additional practice specialties that meet our underwriting criteria, and provided us with the capital to open the door for even more Texas healthcare providers who desire the strongest carrier.

Network General is in an enviable position. The company has the strongest portfolio of network and application performance analysis solutions on the market, a loyal customer base of more than 13,000 and the strongest brand in the industry.

One of the two strongest clues that the Orlando Police Department is sharing with the media is the scent that was picked up in the woods.

One of the strongest things in the world is the father/son bond, and that's what they are drawing on. It also applies to the whole series because of Clark and that awkward adolescent period we all remember. Even the popular kid feels that and can relate. More and more adults are catching on and say, 'I watch the show and like it'.

One of the strongest parts to our organization is depth. It allows us to do a lot of things.

One of the strongest parts of our case has to do with the fact that Ken Lay never sold one share of Enron stock that he was not compelled to sell.

One of our strongest aspects of play this season has been a strong defensive system.

Obviously we know we?re in a position that he has to win the Classic to even think about that. If that happens then you can start looking at it a number of ways. He?s running against the strongest field any 3-year-old has run against this year. If he?s able to get it done, let?s soapbox then.

My drawing, like that of most cartoonists, is intended first of all to be functional: to create believable space and communicate information. My strongest point in drawing has always been my ability to show characters' nonverbal communication through facial expression and posture.

Nobody's really busting the doors down to buy women's apparel this fall selling season. Women's dress and casual footwear is probably the strongest I've seen in a good six or seven years.