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)

    With their ever breaking newness
    And their courage to be new.
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    The wise and just man will always feel that he stands on his own feet; that he imparts strength to the state, not receives security from it; and if all went down, he and such as he would quite easily combine in a new and better constitution.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)