„He gathers earth's whole good into his arms;
Standing, as man now, stately, strong and wise,
Marching to fortune, not surprised by her.“

„Under a spreading chestnut-tree
The village smithy stands;
The smith, a mighty man is he,
With large and sinewy hands;
And the muscles of his brawny arms
Are strong as iron bands.“

—  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Village Blacksmith

St. 1.
The Village Blacksmith (1842)

„He who denies his due to the strong man armed grants him everything.“

—  Marcus Annaeus Lucanus, libro Pharsalia

Book I, line 348 (tr. J. D. Duff).
Pharsalia
Originale: (la) Arma tenenti
omnia dat, qui justa negat.

„He bent down to her; their mouths met again, and the shock of sensation was so strong, so overpowering, that she shut her eyes against it as if she could hide in the darkness. He murmured and gathered her against him.“

—  Cassandra Clare American author 1973

„Peace fell upon her spirit. Strong comfort and assurance bathed her whole being. Life was so solid and splendid, and so good.“

—  Thomas Wolfe, libro You Can't Go Home Again

Origine: You Can't Go Home Again

„He believed that only strong States could make a strong Centre. He convinced the then Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, in this regard which made her change her earlier stance that strong States would mean a weak Centre.“

—  N. T. Rama Rao Indian actor and Andhra Pradesh former chief minister 1923 - 1996

In N.T. Rama Rao (1923 - 1995): A messiah of the masses, 9 December 2002, 8 January 2014, The Hindu http://hindu.com/thehindu/mp/2002/12/09/stories/2002120901160200.htm,
About NTR

„A wise man once said, "Convention is like the shell to the chick, a protection till he is strong enough to break it through."“

—  Learned Hand American legal scholar, Court of Appeals judge 1872 - 1961

"The Preservation of Personality" commencement address at Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania (2 June 1927); also in The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses (1952), p. 32.
Extra-judicial writings

„The pursuit of wealth generally diverts men of great talents and strong passions from the pursuit of power; and it frequently happens that a man does not undertake to direct the fortunes of the state until he has shown himself incompetent to conduct his own.“

—  Alexis De Tocqueville, libro La democrazia in America

Origine: Democracy in America, Volume I (1835), Chapter X-XIV, Chapter XIII.

„345. He that is not handsome at twenty, nor strong at thirty, nor rich at forty, nor wise at fifty, will never bee handsome, strong, rich, or wise.“

—  George Herbert Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest 1593 - 1633

Jacula Prudentum (1651)

„Be still, my soul, be still; the arms you bear are brittle,
Earth and high heaven are fixt of old and founded strong.“

—  A.E. Housman, libro A Shropshire Lad

No. 48, st. 1.
A Shropshire Lad (1896)

„But lo! the girl, like a frightened dove, that caught in the vast shadow of a hawk falls trembling on some man, no matter who he be, so doth she fling herself into his arms driven by strong fear.“

—  Gaius Valerius Flaccus, libro Argonautica

Originale: (la) Ecce autem pavidae virgo de more columbae
quae super ingenti circumdata praepetis umbra
in quemcumque tremens hominem cadit, haud secus illa
acta timore gravi mediam se misit.
Origine: Argonautica, Book VIII, Lines 32–35

„I cannot do it. I cannot bear it. I cannot go back to what I was here. I cannot stand at her side and watch another take her. I am not that strong or that good.“

—  Laurell K. Hamilton, A Stroke of Midnight

Origine: A Stroke of Midnight

„And it was good just to hold her and touch the softness of her skin. He wanted to hold her hard, not to hurt her but to keep her safe, to show her that he was strong enough to protect her. Her beauty was like fire and strange music, and he loved her.“

—  L.J. Smith American author 1965

Origine: Dark Visions

„Elizabeth’s gaze roamed over the V of his shoulders, his strong arms, his black hair silvering at the temples. Yum.“

—  Lis Wiehl American legal scholar 1961

Origine: Heart of Ice A Triple Threat Novel with April Henry (Thomas Nelson), p. 27

„…suddenly certain that what he was doing now was the sole reason he'd been placed on this earth. To love another. To care for someone else, to help another person, to carry her worries until she was strong enough to carry them on her own. To care for someone unconditionally, for in the end that was what gave life meaning.“

—  Nicholas Sparks American writer and novelist 1965

Jeremy Marsh, Chapter 20, p. 263
2000s, At First Sight (2005)

„may I be I is the only prayer--not may I be great or good or beautiful or wise or strong.“

—  E.E. Cummings American poet 1894 - 1962

„If his/her siblings and parents are not treated and he/she is strong enough to continue the recovery, a sibling will take up the “druggie” role.“

—  Virgil Miller Newton American priest 1938

Miller Newton (1981). Gone Way Down: Teenage Drug-Use is a Disease, American Studies Press, Tampa, FL, pg 66.
Recruiting Siblings into Treatment

„God was finally going to believe
in a man both good and strong,
but good and strong
are still two different men.“

—  Wisława Szymborska Polish writer 1923 - 2012

"Our Century's Decline"
Poems New and Collected (1998), The People on the Bridge (1986)

„The force that had been lent my father he honorably expended in manful well-doing. A portion of this planet bears beneficent traces of his strong hand and strong head. Nothing that he undertook to do but he did it faithfully and like a true man. I shall look on the houses he built with a certain proud interest. They stand firm and sound to the heart all over his little district.“

—  Thomas Carlyle Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher 1795 - 1881

1880s, Reminiscences (1881)

„a man would know the women he was meant to be with because she made him weak. Till he claimed her and she made him strong.“

—  Kresley Cole American writer

Origine: If You Deceive