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Power Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- It is worth mentioning, for future reference, that the creative power which bubbles so pleasantly in beginning a new book quiets down after a time,…
- The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to…
- It is only by putting it into words that I make it whole. This wholeness means that it has lost its power to hurt me;…
- Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
- Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.
- And it was awfully strange, he thought, how she still had the power, as she came tinkling, rustling, still had the power as she came…
- There is the strange power we have of changing facts by the force of the imagination.
- They lack suggestive power. And when a book lacks suggestive power, however hard it hits the surface of the mind it cannot penetrate within.
- I feel that I have had a blow; but it is not, as I thought as a child, simply a blow from an enemy hidden…
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- What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. — Aristotle
- The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. — Aristotle
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
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- The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo