Powerful Quotes

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Yawns are not the only infectious things out there besides germs. Giggles can spread from person to person. So can blushing. But maybe the most… — Vera Nazarian
I thought physics could be done to the glory of God, till I saw there wasnâ€™t any God at all and that physics was more… — Philip Pullman
There was another reason [she] took her books whenever they went away. They were her home when she was somewhere strange. They were familiar voices,… — Cornelia Funke
Cultural legacies are powerful forces. They have deep roots and long lives. They persist, generation after generation, virtually intact, even as the economic and social… — Malcolm Gladwell
sometimes the shifting of rocks is deep, deep below, and it's powerful and scary down there, but that all we feel on the surface is… — Khaled Hosseini
Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
You become most powerful in whatever you do if the action is performed for its own sake rather than as a means to protect, enhance,… — Eckhart Tolle
Never before did I realize that mental illness could have the aspect of power, power. Think of it: perhaps the more insane a man is,… — Ken Kesey
The curve is more powerful than the sword. — Mae West
The helpless ecstasy of loosing himself in her charm was a powerful opiate rather than a tonic. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Satan wants to claim our souls and those of our children. He want our marriages and our families to fail. He wants darkness to reign.… — John H. Groberg
A powerful, victorious ally is yet another name for master. — Alexander Hamilton
Secrets are more powerful when people know you've got them. — E. Lockhart
I cannot think of a better way to spread the faith. No thundering from a pulpit, no condemnation from bad churches, no peer pressure, just… — Yann Martel
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore. — William Faulkner
There would be no one there to live for her during those coming years; she would live for herself. There would be no powerful will… — Kate Chopin
If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story. — Terry Pratchett
There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even… — Novalis
The endless newsreel clips of nuclear explosions that we saw on TV in the 1960s (were) a powerful incitement to the psychotic imagination, sanctioning *everything*. — J. G. Ballard
Years after I'd seen him for the last time I found myself thinking of him unexpectedly and often. You know how certain places grow powerful… — Don DeLillo

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