Long Quote by Alice Sebold Download Open image “Who would have thought something that happened that long ago could have such power?” — Alice Sebold ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Long Long ago
I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power. — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
Don't underestimate the power of events that happened a long time ago. That is the tragic flaw of modern man. — Anne Fortier Copy Share Image
I would never have believed that the most powerful man in the world would think his own words have no power. — Alisyn Camerota Copy Share Image
the past only had whatever power you gave it; life was what you made it and if you wanted something different from what you… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
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Back then, when everybody thought the world would last forever, nobody had time for anything. — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
The great question which, in all ages, has disturbed mankind, and brought on them the greatest part of their mischiefs ... has been, not… — John Locke Copy Share Image
“Who would have ever though that a person could be so powerful, then so completely powerless, all in the same lifetime?” — Firoozeh Dumas Copy Share Image
Nothing in the past is as powerful as what we choose to do in the present moment. — Louise Hay Copy Share Image
Now I am in the place I call this wide wide Heaven because it includes all my simplest desires but also the most humble… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
These things, she felt, were not to be passed around like disingenuous party favors. She kept an honor code with her journals and her… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
I don't think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something. — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“There are secret rooms inside us,” I had said to my therapist. “A relatively benign construct,” he said, and so I did not bother… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“And a soul would run by a living being, touch them softly on the shoulder or cheek, and continue on its way to heaven.… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“My little brother's greatest fear was that the one person who meant so much to him would go away. He loved Lindsey and Grandma… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“She listened for the pain in my words, not to the narrative itself. She was intuiting what it meant to me, what was most… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
The relationship with the words someone uses is more intimate and integrated than just a quick read and a blurb can ever be. This… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
It appears to me that one great cause of our difference in opinion on subjects which we often discuss is that you have always… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
Only within yourself exists the other reality for which you long. I can give you nothing that has not already its being within yourself.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I would borrow money all day long, if the cost of borrowing is less than the expected return. — Brad Schneider Copy Share Image
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Contradictory precepts that have guided me for as long as I can remember: 1: I will live forever. 2: I will die tomorrow. — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
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Long before the 2016 presidential campaign, confidential sources had alerted me to longstanding misuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court system and the erosion… — Sharyl Attkisson Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image