„I like good strong words that mean something…“

— Louisa May Alcott

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„I knew I was strong, and maybe like they said, "crazy." But I had this feeling inside of me that something real was there.“
— Charles Bukowski
„Murderess is a strong word to have attached to you. It has a smell to it, that word - musky and oppressive, like dead flowers in a vase. Sometimes at night I whisper it over to myself:. It rustles, like a taffeta skirt across the floor.“
— Margaret Atwood
„Very' is such a strong word…“
— Derek Landy
„First principle: one must need to be strong — otherwise one will never become strong. — Those large hothouses [Treibhäuser] for the strong, for the strongest kind of human being that has ever been, the aristocratic commonwealths of the type of Rome or Venice, understood freedom exactly in the sense in which I understand the word freedom: as something one has and does not have, something one wants, something one conquers…“
— Friedrich Nietzsche
„Now when I talk about love, I’m not talking about emotional bosh; I’m not talking about some weak, sentimental something; I’m talking about something strong and powerful. I’m talking about something that is active good will, not just a passive, dead something.“
— Jr.
„Love heals. Heals and liberates. I use the word, not meaning sentimentality, but a condition so strong that it may be that which holds the stars in their heavenly positions and that which causes the blood to flow orderly in our veins.“
— Maya Angelou
„I like criticism. It makes you strong.“
— LeBron James