Quotes about Robust

Robust grass endures mighty winds; loyal ministers emerge through ordeal. Votes: 3

If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust. Votes: 3

Robust faith in oneself and brave trust of the opponent, so called or real, is the best safeguard. Votes: 3

Our philosophy is we call it as we see it. Sometimes you agree, sometimes you don't. Robust debate is good. Votes: 3

Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community. Votes: 3

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust. Votes: 3

The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief. Votes: 3

Healthy debate has been replaced by automatic sensors that eliminate the need for actual talking during a filibuster - a la 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.' Robust debate is necessary in a democratic society. Instead, our discourse has been relegated to media spin by expert entertainers. Votes: 3

The court has said you are entitled to robust speech on public sidewalks, even insulting speech. Votes: 2

Of course, if one ignores contradictory observations, one can claim to have an "elegant" or "robust" theory. But it isn't science. Votes: 2

Our goal is to show that you can develop a robust, safe manned space program and do it at an extremely low cost Votes: 2

All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others. Votes: 2

Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the great junction of spiritual cultures. Votes: 2

Debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust and wide-open and that...may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials. Votes: 2

Our culture needs to find a robust image of female success that is first, not male, and second, not a white woman on the phone, holding a crying baby, Votes: 2

Standing armies can never consist of resolute robust men; they may be well-disciplined machines, but they will seldom contain men under the influence of strong passions, or with very vigorous faculties. Votes: 2

nothing is more wistful than the scent of lilac, nor more robust than its woody stalk, for we must remember that it is a tree as well as a flower, we must try not to forget this ... Votes: 2

We are a strong, robust, and prosperous nation. Optimism is the essence of our success. It drives our creativity and emboldens our entrepreneurial spirit. It is what makes us invest in the future and accomplish our highest aims. Votes: 2

Did you ever see the customers in health - food stores? They are pale, skinny people who look half - dead. In a steak house, you see robust, ruddy people. They're dying, of course, but they look terrific. Votes: 2

Certain management policies-stretching of credit resources, for example-may lead to great progress in good conditions; but, like the Grand Prix car in comparison with the Land Rover, they may not be robust enough to survive when the going gets tough. Votes: 2

No chord in populism reverberates more strongly than the notion that the robust common sense of an unstained outsider is the best medicine for an ailing polity. Caligula doubtless got big cheers from the plebs when he installed his horse as proconsul. Votes: 2

Like the cellar-growing vine is the Christian who lives in the darkness and bondage of fear. But let him go forth, with the liberty of God, into the light of love, and he will be like the plant in the field, healthy, robust, and joyful. Votes: 2

Is it not lack of faith that leads men to fear the scrutiny of reason? If the destination is doubtful, than the path must be fraught with fear. A robust faith need not fear, for if God exists, then reason cannot help but lead us to Him. Cogito, ergo Deus est,'says St. Augustine, I think, therefore God is. Votes: 2

We've got some very strong and robust ladies, but, when your life is at risk, I think the strain of that in a competitive situation will tell when you're trying to win. The mental stress I think would be pretty difficult for a lady to deal with in a practical fashion. I just don't think they have aptitude to win a Formula 1 race. Votes: 2

A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership. Votes: 1

From the outset, the Obama administration has recognized that building a robust skills infrastructure means building strong partnerships with community colleges. Votes: 1

Every city across the country that has successfully renewed and revitalized itself points to a robust education system as its fundamental key to success. Votes: 1

Each year has been so robust with problems and successes and learning experiences and human experienes that a year is a lifetime at Apple. So this has been ten lifetimes. Votes: 1

The Biblical world view sees Earth and its ecosystems as the effect of a wise God's creation and... therefore robust, resilient, and self-regulating, like the product of any good engineer. Votes: 1

Well, the reports are correct that we're conducting very robust military operations on the Afghan side of the border in areas where we think al-Qaida is operating and Taliban remnants are. Votes: 1

When you ask people, 'What's the opposite of fragile?,' they tend to say robust, resilient, adaptable, solid, strong. That's not it. The opposite of fragile is something that gains from disorder. Votes: 1

The basic scientific conclusions on climate change are very robust and for good reason. The greenhouse effect is simple science: greenhouse gases trap heat, and humans are emitting ever more greenhouse gases. Votes: 1

Courts have long recognized the federal government's robust power to inspect people and goods entering the country. After all, the very foundation of national sovereignty is a nation's ability to protect its borders. Votes: 1

I think politics today is all about false choices: You can have a robust energy economy and a challenged environment, or a great environment and no economy. That's a false choice. You can do both. Votes: 1

I often take things I find in vintage crawls and hand them to a very good seamstress, who then replicates them and makes a more robust version in different colors, with a pocket for my mic pack. Votes: 1

For years, members of Congress have heard from constituents who want them to protect the nation from crime, terrorism and intellectual property violation. They have not faced equally robust demands that online rights and freedoms be preserved. Votes: 1

In the remaining months, we should focus on achieving more robust international involvement in training of Iraqi soldiers, police officers, judges, teachers, and doctors - all key elements needed to end the sectarian and civil conflict and build Iraq's future. Votes: 1

We take what we think are the tools of spiritual transformation into our own hands and try to sculpt ourselves into robust Christlike specimens. But spiritual transformation is primarily the work of the Holy Spirit. He is the Master Sculptor. Votes: 1

By adopting a wonderful mutt, you'll save a life and help reduce animal homelessness while also boosting your chances of a more robust new furry friend, as mixed-breed dogs have demonstrated better health and longer life spans than their purebred cousins. Votes: 1

The key to sauces is having patience. I'm not a patient woman, but I learned with sauces that you have to get everything on a slow roll and layer the flavors. That's where you get robust tastes: it starts one way and ends another. Votes: 1

In politics, religion and other areas of culture, people disagree on the worth of competing ideas. There is no equivalent to the scientific method that can determine in a robust way which ideas match the real world, and which ones can be ruled out. So conflicting ideologies persist indefinitely. Votes: 1

The evolution of social media into a robust mechanism for social transformation is already visible. Despite many adamant critics who insist that tools like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are little more than faddish distractions useful only to exchange trivial information, these critics are being proven wrong time and again. Votes: 1

My father was a psychiatrist, the medical director of a mental hospital in Scotland, and when I was a student, I took vacation jobs there as a nursing assistant. So I did get to see mental illness, but I don't remember conversations about mental conditions. My father was a cheerful man with a robust attitude to such things. Votes: 1

If our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire defense budget from foreign investors. Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security. That is not, as our military friends say, a 'robust strategy.' Votes: 1

But if our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire defense budget from foreign investors. Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security. That is not, as our military friends say, a 'robust strategy.' Votes: 1

Life is insanely robust, though we can make species go extinct, and this is the bad thing. So I always make the point that you can't say, 'Is it too late?' That is the terrible question, because either answer promotes inaction. If it's too late, you don't need to act; if it's not too late, you don't need to act. Votes: 1

For the robust, an error is information. Votes: 0

Compassion: a robust dance between grace and wisdom. Votes: 0

Governance is key to a robust Health IT system. Votes: 0

Imagination is more robust in proportion as reasoning power is weak. Votes: 0

Dare to be as physically robust and varied as you always were. Votes: 0

The investigator should have a robust faith - and yet not believe. Votes: 0

Joy is spiritual and far grittier than happiness, and far more robust. Votes: 0

A cough so robust that I tapped into two new seams of phlegm. Votes: 0

I have a robust sense of humour which helps me deal with problems. Votes: 0

I discovered there was an endless source of robust enjoyment in trifling with psychiatrists. Votes: 0

The human body is robust. It can gather strength when it's in mortal danger. Votes: 0

The only way to continue to have a robust economy is to out-innovate other nations. Votes: 0

When people are healthy and not hungry, they are stronger workers building a robust economy. Votes: 0

For a male person bric-a-brac hunting is about as robust a business as making doll-clothes. Votes: 0

If the blood humor is too strong and robust, calm it with balance and harmony. Votes: 0

Friends always say you don't realise how robust your baby is until you drop it. Votes: 0

A fat man is never so happy as when he is describing himself as "robust. Votes: 0

The most important thing as a comic and a creator is to have a robust standpoint. Votes: 0

The fragile wants tranquility, the antifragile grows from disorder, and the robust doesn't care too much. Votes: 0

There ought to be a robust, uninhibited conversation in black America with different black ideological perspectives. Votes: 0

The court has said you are entitled to robust speech on public sidewalks, even insulting speech. Votes: 0

The oceans are a way of life. We fish; we sail; we have a robust marine economy. Votes: 0

Perhaps the single most robust fact across many surveys is that married people are happier than anyone else. Votes: 0

The more socially intelligent you are, the happier and more robust and more enjoyable your relationships will be. Votes: 0

My plant-based diet plus fish is to credit for my low blood pressure, high energy, and robust immunity. Votes: 0

I have quite a robust relationship with regret. You simply don't know what the alternative would have been. Votes: 0

We appreciate size, but only if it is robust growth. Just to be big is not a target. Votes: 0

A healthy woman is much like a wolf: robust, chock-full, strong life force, life-giving, territorially aware, inventive, loyal, roving. Votes: 0

Similar thing until today, with digital cameras you look after something like that as robust as they can be. Votes: 0

I will work to restore fiscal responsibility to our country's budget and to provide for a more robust economy. Votes: 0

I like to drink young wines, wines which are robust and have a lot of forward fruit to them. Votes: 0

We want to offer job training and mentoring and build the site with more robust, reliable and flexible technology. Votes: 0

I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar. Votes: 0

I am very strong & robust & not of the delicate sex nor of the fair but of the deficent in look ... Votes: 0

Most of the policies that support robust economic growth in the long run are outside the province of the central bank. Votes: 0

Our selfishness is so robust and many-clutching that, well encouraged, it easily devours all sustenance away from our poor little scruples. Votes: 0

The language of the novel differs from the just-the-facts language of the old tales. It's robust and earthy, sometimes even baroque. Votes: 0

GE's businesses turned in a terrific first quarter. Our products and services are being well received in unusually robust global markets. Votes: 0

I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I'm still quite robust. Votes: 0

The heavy trees, The grunting, shuffling branches, the robust, The nocturnal, the antique, the blue-green pines Deepen the feelings to inhuman depths. Votes: 0

By common consent, most European countries support the maintenance of robust welfare states and are comfortable with taxation systems that support them. Votes: 0

Our deep collaboration with ABC News further strengthens Yahoo! as the No. 1 online news source, greatly enhancing our already robust news content. Votes: 0

The first official statements of President Asif Ali Zardari's new government have been firm and robust. Pakistan is obviously a renewed democracy. Votes: 0

When an idea is not robust enough to stand expression in simple terms, it is a sign that it should be rejected. Votes: 0

I have not been more robust towards female rather than male assembly members and I do not believe I have been remotely sexist. Votes: 0

Affliction is a sort of moral gymnasium in which the disciples of Christ are trained to robust exercise, hardy exertion, and severe conflict. Votes: 0

Our goal is to show that you can develop a robust, safe manned space program and do it at an extremely low cost. Votes: 0

For every romantic possiblity, no matter how robust, there exists at least one equal and opposite sentence, phrase, or word capable of extinguishing it. Votes: 0

Our growing, robust economy is able to provide the average American citizen access to the best social program there is - a steady job. Votes: 0

In both children and adults, there can be a hard-to-deny link between a robust sense of hope and either work productivity or academic achievement. Votes: 0

Comedy appeals to the collective mind of the audience and this grows fatigued; while farce appeals to a more robust organ, their collective belly. Votes: 0

There are things that man is not meant to interfere with, and the robust yet fragile temper of a woman is one of them. Votes: 0

The UK is an extraordinary partner for America and a force for good in an unstable world. I hope it remains strong, robust and united. Votes: 0

There's always a lot of pressure with big projects and so as a writer you have to be robust and flexible, with a tough hide. Votes: 0

Quantum field theory, which was born just fifty years ago from the marriage of quantum mechanics with relativity, is a beautiful but not very robust child. Votes: 0

Climate change is a reality and if left unchecked, rising ocean tides will harm Georgia's Atlantic coast and threaten our state's robust tourism and shipping industries. Votes: 0

Live in robust sanity, in holy obedience to the ordinary." (The Message) "In an insane asylum like the world, simple sanity can be a heroic achievement. Votes: 0

The fact that there is a robust debate in Congress is good. The fact that the debate sometimes seems unanchored to facts is not so good. Votes: 0

You become visibly stressed because you are working hard to pay for a standard of living so robust that it overwhelms your capacity to consume it. Votes: 0

As people around the world become more affluent, they are demanding diets richer in animal protein, which will require ever more robust feed crop yields to sustain. Votes: 0

I think Facebook is an extraordinarily important part of the Internet ecosystem, and having a robust presence there is a critical part of any brand (or company's) strategy. Votes: 0

It is diversity that makes any natural system robust, and diversity that stabilizes culture against the eccentricity and arrogance that have so often called themselves reason and science. Votes: 0

A true personality . . . is like a robust organism that, with unconscious sureness, seeks out and digests the nourishment appropriate to it and vigorously rejects that which is unsuitable. Votes: 0

In the 1970s, New York City avoided bankruptcy because wise political leaders like Gov. Hugh L. Carey believed both in strong labor unions and robust banks and companies. Votes: 0

It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon. Votes: 0

When the gospel enters our work in a robust way, there's a deep encouragement and renewed sense of purpose that people begin to experience sometimes for the first time. Votes: 0

Big sporting events and spectacles might give the national morale a shot in the arm, but they are too transient and taste-specific to stand as robust symbols of nationhood. Votes: 0

In 2006, the global economy was doing well. In India, the political and economic situation was stable. All key macroeconomic indicators reflected an economy that was in robust good health. Votes: 0

Is the biographer an artist who can and should exist on equal terms with the dramatist, fiction writer and poet? The short and robust answer is, 'Certainly not.' Votes: 0

Most people are robust. If a man puts his hand on a woman's bottom, any woman worth her salt can deal with it. It's communication. Can't we be friendly? Votes: 0

Japan, Germany, and India seem to me to have serious writers, readers, and book buyers, but the Netherlands has struck me as the most robust literary culture in the world. Votes: 0

Effective self-government cannot succeed unless the people are immersed in a steady, robust, unimpeded, and uncensored flow of opinion and reporting which are continuously subjected to critique, rebuttal, and reexamination. Votes: 0

Our economy is robust and will remain strong as more Americans who want a job find one. Republican economic policies based on tax relief are working for the American people. Votes: 0

It's hard for me to get embarrassed, but the things that do embarrass me would be if anybody ever heard my wife and I talking in our robust, made-up language. Votes: 0

The best belongs to me and mine; and if we are not given it, we take it: the best food, the purest sky, the most robust thoughts, the fairest women! Votes: 0

Scaling back the U.S. fleet of 14 nuclear-armed submarines to eight would maintain a robust deterrent at sea while generating billions in savings and easing pressure on the Navy's shipbuilding budget. Votes: 0

There are dozens of unfinished or aborted projects in my files, but I can only assume they don't get done because they're not robust enough to struggle through the birth process. Votes: 0

If we cannot provide excellent educational opportunities to all children, safe communities, quality health coverage, or robust and fair avenues towards wealth creation, then our nation will increasingly be in peril. Votes: 0

The Victorians were great engineers. They engineered a [schooling] system that was so robust that it's still with us today, continuously producing identical people for a machine that no longer exists. Votes: 0

With a population of more than 600 million people, an emerging middle class that is driving strong consumption, and a robust and resilient economy, Southeast Asia presents a compelling growth opportunity for Starbucks. Votes: 0

The economic dynamic in Zimbabwe is perversely robust: while ordinary people suffer, black-market dealers and people with foreign bank accounts prosper, making them powerful stakeholders in the perpetuation of devastating economic policies. Votes: 0

Those are all computational engines that are highly distributed and therefore highly robust, .. We're seeing a very significant evolution in the way we even think about computer systems, let alone specific applications. Votes: 0

The nation seems to slouch onward into its uncertain future like some huge inarticulate beast, too much attainted by wounds and ailments to be robust, but too strong and resourceful to succumb. Votes: 0

Life has survived for more than three billion years because it is robust, and almost no mutations can easily outwit the defense mechanisms built up through eons of exposure to potential pathogens. Votes: 0

Pot barley takes longer to cook than pearl, but an overnight soak in water will speed things along. It's a robust grain that, if overcooked, won't collapse but will become more tender. Votes: 0

I thought very seriously having something more like a normal life where I might have my weekends and evenings off, and be able to read and have a more robust personal life. Votes: 0

Cats, even when robust, have scant liking for the boisterous society of children, and are apt to exert their utmost ingenuity to escape it. Nor are they without adult sympathy in their prejudice. Votes: 0

I would be strongly committed to working with the FOMC to continue promoting a robust economic recovery ... I consider it imperative that we do what we can to promote a very strong recovery. Votes: 0

A self that is very robust, that has many, many levels of organization, from simple to complex, and that functions as a sort of witness to what is going on in our organisms. Votes: 0

By various agencies, unintentional and designed, a society transforms uninitiated and seemingly alien beings into robust trustees of its own resources and ideals. Education is thus a fostering, a nurturing, a cultivating, process. Votes: 0

What distinguishes exemplary boards is that they are robust, effective social systems . . .The highest performing companies have extremely contentious boards that regard dissent as an obligation and that treat no subject as undiscussable. Votes: 0

I do think that there is a hunger in the land for a vision of confessional Christianity that is robust, God-centered, tough-minded, able to address today and tomorrow and the next day, and comprehensive. Votes: 0

The process of editing a piece of writing seems sometimes a lot like natural selection. Your efforts never really eliminate the mistakes. You just cause them to evolve into a sneakier, more robust breed. Votes: 0

What's going on in this country? Unions stand against those trends. We've got to somehow insulate the robust American economy from this global economy that seems to want to devour our standard of living. Votes: 0

Cost-effective, attractive to business partners, environmentally friendly, easy access to a wide range of guidance and support - it makes good business sense to implement and maintain a robust and effective environmental management system Votes: 0

Anita Shreve is an author I adore. I rip through her meaty books and get off on the robust romance immensely - especially if I am feeling less than robust in my real life. Votes: 0

The new Rwanda is about building an economy that delivers prosperity and opportunity for our citizens based on a robust private sector. Foreign adventures would be costly and counterproductive distractions from these challenging objectives. Votes: 0

We must remain, in a word, in an intellectual disposition which seems paradoxical, but which, in my opinion, represents the true mind of the investigator. We must have a robust faith and yet not believe. Votes: 0

We're going to have a very, very robust, level of performance having to do with mental health. We are losing so many great people that can be taken care of if they have proper care. Votes: 0