“Ye always carry your women wi ye into battle, Ian Og. They're the root of your strength, man.”
Source: Written in My Own Heart's Blood
“Quhen the Sonne is at the hycht,
Att nonne quhen it doith schyne most brycht,
The schaddow of that hydduous strength
Sax myle and more it is of lenth.
Thus maye ye Juge, in to your thocht,
Gyfe Babilone be heych, or nocht.”
Ane Dialog Betuix Experience and ane Courteour, off the Miserabyll Estait of the Warld, line 1752
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" The Coliseum http://infomotions.com/etexts/literature/american/1800-1899/poe-coliseum-674.txt", st. 2 (1833).
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Source: prevale.net
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John Steinbeck
(1902–1968) American writer
Nobel Prize acceptance speech (1962)
Context: Humanity has been passing through a gray and desolate time of confusion. My great predecessor, William Faulkner, speaking here, referred to it as a tragedy of universal fear so long sustained that there were no longer problems of the spirit, so that only the human heart in conflict with itself seemed worth writing about.
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“Such subjects are the very strength of kings,
And are thus above the law.”
Pierre Corneille
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De pareils serviteurs sont les forces des rois,
Et de pareils aussi sont au-dessus des lois.
Tulle, act V, scene iii
King Tullus forgives the hero, Horace, who has saved the state but killed his sister.
Horace (1639)
“Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.”
John Dryden
(1631–1700) English poet and playwright of the XVIIth century
Epistle to Congreve (1693), line 19.
“We had not the armour, the strength, the quickness in manoeuvre, yes, the leadership”
Michael Foot
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explaining Labour's 1983 election defeat when he was leader in his book Another Heart And Other Pulses, 1984.
1980s
Stephen Colbert
(1964) American political satirist, writer, comedian, television host, and actor
Knox College commencement address http://www.knox.edu/colbert.xml (3 June 2006)
Context: Don’t be afraid to be a fool. Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics. Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us. Cynics always say no. But saying yes begins things. Saying yes is how things grow. Saying yes leads to knowledge. "Yes" is for young people. So for as long as you have the strength to, say yes.