#strongest

People don't understand that when I grew up, I was never the most talented. I was never the biggest. I was never the fastest. I certainly was never the strongest. The only thing I had was my work ethic, and that's been what has gotten me this far. ↗

— Tiger Woods

#biggest #certainly #ethic #far #fastest

Only the most unapologetic biblical fundamentalists, for instance, take every biblical injunction literally. If we all took all scripture at the same level of authority, then we would be more open to slavery, to the subjugation of women, to wider use of stoning. Jesus himself spoke out frequently against divorce in the strongest of terms. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#authority #divorce #every #frequently #fundamentalists

Productivity is a relative matter. And it's really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer's strongest books. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#important #insignificant #matter #productivity #really

So long as I'm Commander-in-Chief, we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. When you take off the uniform, we will serve you as well as you've served us - because no one who fights for this country should have to fight for a job, or a roof over their head, or the care that they need when they come home. ↗

— Barack Obama

#care #come #commander-in-chief #country #ever

I think the primary message to the world is that the United States is going to remain the strongest military power in the world. ↗

— Leon Panetta

#i #i think #message #military #military power

It is the safeguard of the strongest that he lives under a government which is obliged to respect the voice of the weakest. ↗

— Robert Purvis

#lives #obliged #respect #safeguard #strongest

It is not the intelligent woman v. the ignorant woman; nor the white woman v. the black, the brown, and the red, it is not even the cause of woman v. man. Nay, tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice. ↗

— Anna Julia Cooper

#brown #cause #even #hear #her

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#attacks #head #heart #love is #passions

Man may act according to that principle or inclination which for the present happens to be strongest, and yet act in a way disproportionate to, and violate his real proper nature. ↗

— Joseph Butler

#act #disproportionate #happens #his #inclination

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#enough #good #heads #hearts #intoxicate