Instead, I think over the years we have cut the strength of marriage and relationships by the law and weakened the institution. We have tried to deal with relationships with no-fault divorce, with child custody, with so many other avenues; and it has not helped.
It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.
I believe that we are given strength and help from a power much larger than ourselves. I believe if I humble myself that this power will come through me, and help me create work that is bigger than I would have ever been able to have done alone.
Strength does not have to be belligerent and loud.
Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.
If this war is not fought with the greatest brutality against the bands both in the East and in the Balkans then in the foreseeable future the strength at our disposal will not be sufficient to be able to master this plague.
Knowing what you're up against is part of the strength of writing something that is even, I guess, considered halfway original, knowing what's out there to begin with.
What we all need to do is find the wellspring that keeps us going, that gives us the strength and patience to keep up this struggle for a long time.
There is a lot of strength and intelligence in Hollywood.
Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.
And, unlike the earlier bombing on the World Trade Center, a major landmark and symbol of the strength of the financial world was, not just damaged but, totally destroyed.
A key to strengthening spiritual muscles and enduring hardship is finding strength in the Word of God.
We acquire the strength we have overcome.
To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the philosopher and the religious teacher.
I have a concept of Naples that is not so much of a city, per se, but rather an ingredient of the human spirit that I detect in everyone, Neapolitan or not. The idea that 'Neapolitanism' and mass ignorance are somehow indissolubly linked is one that I am prepared to fight with all the strength I have.
'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.
Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.
I know I have great inner strength; I always have. I can blank things out, cut people out, and I know that I can go and live in a cave on my own if necessary.
I think what weakens people most is fear of wasting their strength.
It was helpful to have the American troops there in great strength. They knew there'd be consequences if they didn't move back. Now, there has been some removal of the foreign forces.
It was really important that 'Dream' kept the balance of strength and total vulnerability - which was my exact headspace when it was being written.
Neither India nor Russia perceives a threat from the strength of the other. Each sees a benefit for itself in the increased political and economic strength of the other.
Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side.
From this process has emerged a parallel process of translating traditional working and living values into a new political and economic power - a power increasingly based upon the strength of money and those material things money can purchase.
Stress is the demon in our society, stalking the cities and the countryside, striking down young and old and growing in strength daily.
Baseball players need strength but also the ability to make fast-paced, explosive movements, so their training is all about strengthening the tendons around the bone and the joint so you don't tear the muscles from the bones.
My father not only has the strength and ability necessary to be our next president, but also the kindness and compassion that will enable him to be the leader that this country needs.
Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.
Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.
To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.
America needs a big idea that plays to its strength. It should look to national service.
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
True strength is delicate.
If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come.
