Powerful Quotes
4692 quotes by 2998 authors
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If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.
— Henry Ford
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Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.
— Paulo Coelho
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The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs,…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively.
— Dalai Lama
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If you're like most members of the Baby Boom generation, you decided somewhere along the line, probably after about four margaritas, to have children. This…
— Dave Barry
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Your mother died to save you. If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love. Love as powerful as your mother's for you…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Nothing happens until something moves.
— Albert Einstein
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I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Grace is the most perplexing, powerful force in the universe, and, I believe, the only hope for our twisted, violent planet.
— Philip Yancey
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The big bankers of the world, who practise the terrorism of money, are more powerful than kings and field marshals, even more than the Pope…
— Eduardo Galeano
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If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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If critics say your work stinks it's because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by scaring you into conformity with…
— Jack Kerouac
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...I sense that stepping into the light is also a powerful metaphor for consciousness, for the birth of the knowing mind, for the simple and…
— Antonio Damasio
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Sane is rich and powerful. Insane is wrong and poor and weak. The rich are free, the poor are put in cages. Res Ipsa Loquitur,…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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Colorful demonstrations and weekend marches are vital but alone are not powerful enough to stop wars. Wars will be stopped only when soldiers refuse to…
— Arundhati Roy
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When I say it's you I like, I'm talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than anything you can…
— Fred Rogers
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Water is powerful. It can wash away earth, put out fire, and even destroy iron.
— Arthur Golden
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I'm tempted to tell you that you think too much, but I'm not really one to talk,' Jacob said. 'Henry Miller wrote something about fear…
— Tiffanie DeBartolo
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You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts…
— Winston Churchill
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The beautiful came to this city [Hollywood] in huge pathetic herds, to suffer, to be humiliated, to see the powerful currency of their beauty devalued…
— Salman Rushdie
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