#strength

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#easy #lives #men #pray #pray for

A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#cannot #costly #depends #enterprising #expensive

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#desires #fact #falls #illusion #instinctual

Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side. ↗

— James Anthony Froude

#had #lie #long #long run #right

What I miss today more than anything else - I don't go to church as much anymore - but that old-time religion, that old singing, that old praying which I love so much. That is the great strength of my being, of my writing. ↗

— Ernest Gaines

#anything #being #church #else #go

There's no doubt that the squad needs strengthening if we are to get back up among the top three because they are operating on another level to us at the moment. ↗

— Steven Gerrard

#another #back #back up #because #doubt

When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#appropriate #cried #family #family values #feeling

I understand about the relative strengths of people, and I don't think people have to be anything. They can be nothin' if they want to be. ↗

— Cecil Taylor

#anything #i #nothin #people #relative

We need the UN, to deal with the threats to our common security from nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, not only in the case of Iraq. They must be tackled by the international community together, by strengthening conventions, treaties and agreements. ↗

— Anna Lindh

#biological #biological weapons #case #chemical #common

Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#control #crow #dropping #golden #important