Powerful Quotes

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Music- what a powerful instrument, what a mighty weapon! — Maria von Trapp
How obvious it is now--the gift you gave him. All those letters, they were you... All those beautiful powerful words, they were you!.. The voice… — Edmond Rostand
The girls took into their own hands decisions better left to God. They became too powerful to live among us, too self-concerned, too visionary, too… — Jeffrey Eugenides
The male frog in mating season," said Crake, "makes as much noise as it can. The females are attracted to the male frog with the… — Margaret Atwood
The death penalty can be tolerated only by extreme statist reactionaries who demand a state that is so powerful that it has the right to… — Noam Chomsky
Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes. — Desmond Tutu
You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect… — Richard P. Feynman
The argument for liberty is not an argument against organization, which is one of the most powerful tools human reason can employ, but an argument… — Friedrich August von Hayek
Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
You can't have it both ways. Love is too powerful to hide for very long. Deny it and suffer the consequences. Acknowledge it and suffer… — Tonya Hurley
But if you believe yourself worthy of the thing you fought so hard to get, then you become an instrument of God, you help the… — Paulo Coelho
Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks. In order to bear it… — Sigmund Freud
The more powerful you become, the more others will find ways to master you. They'll do it through those you love and those you hate.… — Holly Black
This is the danger of loving: No matter how powerful you are, no matter how many kingdoms you rule, you cannot stop those you love… — Kate DiCamillo
A prayer couched in the words of the soul, is far more powerful than any ritual. — Paulo Coelho
It bothered me in a kind of Charles Manson way to have a brown smear of blood on my wall but I also liked it… — Miriam Toews
At this gathering [Council of Niceau in 324 AD] many aspects of Christianity were debated and voted upon â€• the date of Easter, the role… — Dan Brown
In one day I had altered my life; my life, therefore, was alterable. This simple axiom did not call out for exegesis; no, it entered… — Carol Shields
Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Only those moments count, when the desire to remain by yourself is so powerful that you'd prefer to blow your brains out than exchange a… — Emile M. Cioran

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