“Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do it's bidding.”
“The longing for destiny is nowhere stronger than in our romantic life.”
Source: On Love
“Whatever is in me is stronger than what is out there to defeat me.”
“Fear is the antidote to boredom: the remedy must be stronger than the disease.”
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
“…Morphy was stronger than anyone he played with, including Anderssen”
Wilhelm Steinitz, International Chess Magazine 1885.
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“Decency is not news; it is buried in the obituaries — but it is a force stronger than crime.”
This I Believe (1952)
Context: Decency is not news; it is buried in the obituaries — but it is a force stronger than crime.
I believe in the patient gallantry of nurses... in the tedious sacrifices of teachers. I believe in the unseen and unending fight against desperate odds that goes on quietly in almost every home in the land.
“Two great poets are stronger than two thousand mediocrities”
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Essays, Can Poetry Matter? (1991), The Catholic Writer Today (2013)
“You are stronger than you seem,
Braver than you believe,
and smarter than you think you are.”
Variant: You are braver than you believe,
Stronger than you seem,
And smarter than you think(:
Source: Winnie-the-Pooh
"Credo" at his official website http://robertfulghum.com/index.php/fulghumweb/credo/; this may be partly influenced by remarks of Albert Einstein in "What Life Means to Einstein: An Interview by George Sylvester Viereck" The Saturday Evening Post (26 October 1929): I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Source: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
“Chase, I've tussled with vibrators stronger than your charge throwers.”
Source: Dreams of a Dark Warrior
“The drive for power is even less logical than the sex urge… and stronger.”
Source: Stranger in a Strange Land
“Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.”
“Suffering willingly endured is stronger than evil, it spells death to evil.”
Source: Discipleship (1937), Revenge, p. 142.
Context: Jesus bluntly calls the evil person evil. If I am assailed, I am not to condone or justify aggression. Patient endurance of evil does not mean a recognition of its rights. That is sheer sentimentality, and Jesus will have nothing to do with it. The shameful assault, the deed of violence and the act of exploitation are still evil. … The very fact that the evil which assaults him is unjustifiable makes it imperative that he should not resist it, but play it out and overcome it by patiently enduring the evil person. Suffering willingly endured is stronger than evil, it spells death to evil.
“For where might and justice are yoke-fellows—
What pair is stronger than this?”
Fragment 209 https://archive.org/stream/aeschyluswitheng02aescuoft#page/496/mode/2up
“Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the Ten Commandments.”
Sixteenth Week.
My Summer in a Garden (1870)
The Nun of Nidaros, st. 9.
Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863-1874)
“Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude.”
“Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude.”
Source: Unsourced
