Famous quotes containing the word strong:
“In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.”
—Lao-Tzu (6th century B.C.)
“The unities, sir, he said, are a completenessa kind of universal dovetailedness with regard to place and timea sort of general oneness, if I may be allowed to use so strong an expression. I take those to be the dramatic unities, so far as I have been enabled to bestow attention upon them, and I have read much upon the subject, and thought much.”
—Charles Dickens (18121870)
“My father was a gentleman of many virtues,but he had a strong spice of that in his temper which might, or might not, add to the number.Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause,and of obstinacy in a bad one.”
—Laurence Sterne (17131768)