#strength

One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. ↗

— W. E. B. Du Bois

#american #asunder #being #body #dark

Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#bathtub #dog #dump #endowed #extraordinary

I feel my heart break to see a nation ripped apart by it's own greatest strength - it's diversity. ↗

— Melissa Etheridge

#break #diversity #feel #greatest #greatest strength

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

The single currency should allow the European Union, and therefore France, to balance its monetary strength with the United States. It should help us adjust to the development of China. ↗

— Laurent Fabius

#allow #balance #china #currency #development

The weapon of the Republic is terror, and virtue is its strength. ↗

— Georg Buchner

#strength #terror #virtue #weapon

That's one strength that Stevie has. She's really not a strong instrumentalist in any way. Her instrument is her voice and her words. And it keeps her focused on the very center of that. ↗

— Lindsey Buckingham

#center #focused #her #instrument #instrumentalist

What are my sources of strength? My husband and my three kids, my health-care team, and my religion. ↗

— Geraldine Ferraro

#kids #religion #sources #strength #team

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#calm #calmness #itself #power #strength

The serve, I was too young and too small and... not enough powerful to have a good serve when I was young, so my forehand was always my signature shot. So I used to always run around my backhand, you know, use my forehand as much as I could, and so that's why I think it's my strength also today, you know. ↗

— Roger Federer

#always #around #could #enough #good