Powerful Quotes
4692 quotes by 3038 authors
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Radical obedience to Christ is not easy... It's not comfort, not health, not wealth, and not prosperity in this world. Radical obedience to Christ risks…
— David Platt
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You think you're safe. Until you see a picture like that. And then you know you'll always be a slave to the present because the…
— Ann-Marie MacDonald
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The fire was silent, the little houses collapsing into the flames without complaint, flocks of sparks rising to the sky. At a distance it seemed…
— David Benioff
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See, the world is full of things more powerful than us. But if you know how to catch a ride, you can go places,
— Neal Stephenson
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Certitude leads to violence. This is a proposition that has an easy application and a difficult one. The easy application is to ideoologues, dogmatists, and…
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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Your imagination is an extremely powerful tool.
— Rhonda Byrne
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I hadn't fully realized just how powerful words could be before this. Whoever came up with the saying 'sticks and stones may break my bones…
— Malorie Blackman
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There is a light in this world, a healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter. We sometimes lose sight of this force…
— Mother Teresa
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It never occurred to me that our lives, until then so closely interwoven, could unravel and separate over a thing like that. But the fact…
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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Roland could not understand why anyone would want cocaine or any other illegal drug, for that matter, in a world where such a powerful one…
— Stephen King
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People can attach themselves to something--an idea, another person, a desire--with an impossibly strong grip, and in the case of restless ghosts, a grip stronger…
— Deb Caletti
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L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle. "It means that love is the most powerful force in the world. That love can do anything.
— Cassandra Clare
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Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the…
— David Lynch
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Never underestimate the value of knowing another's language. It can be far more powerful than swords and arrows.
— Melina Marchetta
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The human longing for story is so powerful, so primitive, that it seems like something not learned, but locked into our genes.
— Helen Dunmore
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Dominion does not mean domination. We hold dominion over animals only because of our powerful and ubiquitous intellect. Not because we are morally superior. Not…
— Marc Bekoff
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I imagine Johnny Mathis hates Bin Laden as much as I do, but could Johnny agree Bin Laden had a better speechwriter than Bush? "Axis…
— John Waters
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The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune.
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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When you want to take over a city, you have to destroy the illusion of safety it provides. You have to hit the large well-protected…
— Ilona Andrews
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I'd really like to go with you, Agachak. Truly I would...but I just can't." "I don't understand. Why not?" "I'm not allowed to leave home.…
— David Eddings
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