"Convalescence. Such an utter weakness that you lie like an animal hibernating, playing possum. You float. You are adrift. Every current is stronger than you."
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"A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed."
"But who is stronger than death? Me , evidently ."
"Where unclarity resides, there is temptation, and there it proves only too easily the stronger. Wherever there is ambiguity, wherever there is wavering, there is disobedience down at the bottom."
"Tis not always in a physician's power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art."
"Actually, when I write, there is a feeling of necessity, of something that is stronger than myself that demands that I must write as I write."
"Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker."
"Vice President Dick Cheney reportedly has been disturbed over what he sees as the erosion of presidential powers since the Watergate scandal and has urged Bush to take a stronger stand against what Cheney sees as congressional intrusions into the executive branch."
"What is dead may never die, but rises again, stronger and harder."
"The more you touch something, the stronger it becomes."
"Texas has a tight cohesiveness perhaps stronger than any other section of America."
"To what will you look for help if you will not look to that which is stronger than yourself?"
"We won't apologise for our way of life, nor will we weaver in its defence, and for those who seek to advance their aims by inducing terror and slaughtering innocents, we say to you now that our spirit is stronger and cannot be broken, you cannot outlast us, and we will defeat you."
"I've noticed that loneliness gets stronger when we try to face it down, but gets weaker when we simply ignore it."
"Everywhere there is one principle of justice, which is the interest of the stronger."
"The sympathy of sorrow is stronger than the sympathy of prosperity."
"Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger."
"How many things in the world deserve our loyalty? Very few indeed. I think one should be loyal to immortality, which is another word for life, a stronger word for it."
"It's no accident that capitalism has brought with it progress, not merely in production but also in knowledge. Egoism and competition are, alas, stronger forces than public spirit and sense of duty."
"You mustnt give your heart to a wild thing. The more you do, the stronger they get."