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)

    “Yet herein will I imitate the sun,
    Who doth permit the base contagious clouds
    To smother up his beauty from the world,
    That when he please again to be himself,
    Being wanted, he may be more wondered at
    By breaking through the foul and ugly mists
    Of vapors that did seem to strangle him”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)