Minimum Breaking Strength

Famous quotes containing the words minimum, breaking and/or strength:

    “After decades of unappreciated drudgery, American women just don’t do housework any more—that is, beyond the minimum that is required in order to clear a path from the bedroom to the front door so they can get off to work in the mourning.”
    —Barbara Ehrenreich (20th century)

    “I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The most vulnerable and yet most invincible thing is human vanity: indeed, its strength increases when it is wounded, and can ultimately grow to gigantic proportions.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)