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“Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do it's bidding.”

Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer

“Maybe it just means that love can be stronger than fear.”

L.J. Smith The Forbidden Game

Source: The Forbidden Game

“The longing for destiny is nowhere stronger than in our romantic life.”

Alain de Botton (1969) Swiss writer

Source: On Love

“Whatever is in me is stronger than what is out there to defeat me.”

Caroline Myss (1952) author from the United States

“Fear is the antidote to boredom: the remedy must be stronger than the disease.”

Emil M. Cioran book The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“…Morphy was stronger than anyone he played with, including Anderssen”

Paul Morphy (1837–1884) American chess player

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.”

Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) American science fiction author

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”

Dana Gioia (1950) American writer

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Essays, Can Poetry Matter? (1991), The Catholic Writer Today (2013)

“Between a man and a woman there was always one person who was stronger than the other one. That doesn’t mean the weaker one doesn’t love the stronger.”

Alice Sebold book The Lovely Bones

Source: The Lovely Bones

“You are stronger than you seem,
Braver than you believe,
and smarter than you think you are.”

A.A. Milne book Winnie-the-Pooh

Variant: You are braver than you believe,
Stronger than you seem,
And smarter than you think(:
Source: Winnie-the-Pooh

“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge —
That myth is more potent than history.
I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts —
That hope always triumphs over experience —
That laughter is the only cure for grief.
And I believe that love is stronger than death.”

Robert Fulghum book All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

"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. <br class="br">Source: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

“Chase, I've tussled with vibrators stronger than your charge throwers.”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Dreams of a Dark Warrior

“The drive for power is even less logical than the sex urge… and stronger.”

Robert A. Heinlein book Stranger in a Strange Land

Source: Stranger in a Strange Land

“Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.”

Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter

“Suffering willingly endured is stronger than evil, it spells death to evil.”

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945) German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi

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.