#strength

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is. ↗

— Allan Bloom

#books #both #failure #fatal #good

What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#call #exclude #managed #mostly #page

Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai. ↗

— Orlando Bloom

#angelic #created #elves #graceful #human strength

The strength in our third-quarter financial results is cause for excitement. I'm particularly pleased that we continue to demonstrate impressive growth at the same time we are engaged in important merger discussions. ↗

— Bernard Ebbers

#continue #demonstrate #discussions #engaged #excitement

Strengthening our identity is one way of reinforcing people's confidence and sense of citizenship and well-being. ↗

— David Blunkett

#confidence #identity #our #people #reinforcing

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#discipline #disorder #fear #perfect #postulates

You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength. ↗

— Charlotte Bronte

#born #fasten #feebleness #had #instead

You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. ↗

— William J. H. Boetcker

#strengthen #strong #weak #weakening #you

Our strength in finance has led us to set up an international financial centre with medium and long-term objectives, especially to develop Islamic financial and insurance services. ↗

— Hassanal Bolkiah

#develop #especially #finance #financial #insurance

You always have certain strengths and certain weaknesses, and you want to compensate for your weaknesses... I have a real duty to earn the trust of the faculty. I don't just deserve it. I have to earn it. ↗

— Erskine Bowles

#certain #compensate #deserve #duty #earn