Powerful Quotes
4692 quotes by 3038 authors
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Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but antipolitical,…
— Hannah Arendt
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Looking into another person's eyes for an extended period of time proved to be a powerful thing. And if you don't believe me, try it…
— Matthew Quick
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How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another's heart? How much can we hope to understand those who have suffered…
— Orhan Pamuk
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I guess Satan was the first superhero [...] In his first adventure, he took the form of a snake to free two prisoners being held…
— Joe Hill
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Do you really think you'd win a PR war against a bunch of committed librarians?' He thought about this, but he knew I was right.…
— Jasper Fforde
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Here and there and not just in books we catch glimpses of a world of once upon a time and they lived happily ever after,…
— Frederick Buechner
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Secrets are more powerful when people know you've got them," said Mr. Sutton. "You show them the tiniest edge of your secret, but the rest…
— E. Lockhart
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I was glad when the Invalids were executed. Some people complained that lethal injection was too humane for convicted terrorists, but I thought it sent…
— Lauren Oliver
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Because here’s the thing: No matter how much one tells stories of magical beasts or impossible worlds, in the end, it is always the world…
— Steven Brust
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You saw me before I saw you. In the airport, that day in August, you had that look in your eyes, as though you wanted…
— Lucy Christopher
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Once more, I am watching the most powerful men in the kingdom bring their power to bear on a woman who has done nothing worse…
— Philippa Gregory
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Romance novels are tales of brave women taming dangerous men. They are stories that capture the excitement of that most mysterious of relationships, the one…
— Jayne Ann Krentz
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Words were dangerous when loosed. They were more powerful than cannon and more unpredictable than storms. They could turn men’s heads inside out and warp…
— Frances Hardinge
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Even the powerful needed protection sometimes.
— J R Ward
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Do you want to know the closest thing to feeling the most powerful you can feel ? Flying alone at night.Risky.Nothing but you and the…
— James Patterson
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They think I'm too old to cause trouble. Old age is a powerful disguise.
— Katherine Applegate
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I don't believe in God. But sitting there, in a room full of those who feel otherwise, I realize that I do believe in people.…
— Jodi Picoult
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The demon had trouble remembering what she was doing, but she was powerful, sort of the crazy Wendy of the lost lord-of-the-flies boys.
— Kim Harrison
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Real change will come when powerful women are less of an exception. It is easy to dislike senior women because there are so few.
— Sheryl Sandberg
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The Russians are bent on world dominance, and they are rapidly acquiring the means to become the most powerful imperial nation the world has seen.…
— Margaret Thatcher
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