Powerful Quotes

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The urge to transform one's appearance, to dance outdoors, to mock the powerful and embrace perfect strangers is not easy to suppress." --Barbara Ehrenreich, Dancing… — Barbara Ehrenreich
Change is the one unavoidable, irresistible, ongoing reality of the universe. To us, that makes it the most powerful reality, and just another word for… — Octavia Butler
The most powerful single force in the world today is neither Communism nor Capitalism, neither the H-bomb nor the guided missile -- it is man's… — John F. Kennedy
If you show someone something you've written, you give them a sharpened stake, lie down in your coffin, and say, â€˜When youâ€™re readyâ€™. — David Mitchell
Leap out the window, my inner Tigress cried. You aren't ready to face such a powerful Tiger. I frowned. I thought a true Tigress never… — Gena Showalter
In this world of ours, a world of powerful centers and subjugated outposts, there is no wealth that must not be held in some suspicion. — Eduardo Galeano
When something ought to be true then it proves to be a very powerful truth. — Marilynne Robinson
A powerful dragon crying its eyes out under the moon in a deserted valley is a sight and a sound hardly to be imagined. — C.S. Lewis
Ah, you've come over the water. Powerful wet stuff, ain't it? — C.S. Lewis
Pessimism is the luxury of the powerful. — Fatema Mernissi
Prayer may just be the most powerful tool mankind has.â€ ~Blink — Ted Dekker
Everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him. It is the moment when his emotions achieve their most powerful sway over him,… — John Knowles
Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose. — Viktor E. Frankl
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars;… — Andre Malraux
Surrender to a logic more powerful than reason. — J. G. Ballard
I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk… — Jon Katz
They think written words are even more powerful,â€™ whispered the toad. â€˜They think all writing is magic. Words worry them. See their swords? They glow… — Terry Pratchett
Forgiveness works two ways, in most instances. People have to forgive themselves too. The powerful have to forgive themselves for their behavior. That should be… — Sidney Poitier
But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword. — Rick Riordan

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