Powerful Quotes
4692 quotes by 3038 authors
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When women get together as a group, it is immensely powerful.
— Annie Lennox
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... In contrast to the "banality of evil," which posits that ordinary people can be responsible for the most despicable acts of cruelty and degradation…
— Philip Zimbardo
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A library takes the gift of reading one step further by offering personalized learning opportunities second to none, a powerful antidote to the isolation of…
— Julie Andrews
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...all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the…
— Hippocrates
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New York is the place where all the aspirations of the western world meet to form one vast master aspiration, as powerful as the suction…
— H. L. Mencken
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Custom is a second nature, and no less powerful.
— Michel de Montaigne
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People who have lost their hunger for justice are not ultimately powerful. They are like sick people who have lost their appetite for what is…
— Cesar Chavez
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There is a great fear of our Union - a fear that I do not fully understand, but that I know is present...What is it…
— Cesar Chavez
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Non-violence is very weak in the theoretical sense; it cannot defend itself. But it is most powerful in the action situation where people are using…
— Cesar Chavez
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Our struggle is not easy. Those who oppose our cause are rich and powerful and they have many allies in high places. We are poor.…
— Cesar Chavez
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She plunged into a sea of platitudes, and with the powerful breast stroke of a channel swimmer, made her confident way towards the white cliffs…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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We have to keep our God placated with prayer, and even then we are never sure of him-how much higher and finer is the Indian's…
— Mark Twain
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I am sustained by the prayers of the people in this country. I guess an appropriate way to say this, it's one of the beautiful…
— George W. Bush
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We live in a hemisphere whose own revolution has given birth to the most powerful force of the modern age; the search for freedom and…
— John F. Kennedy
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If we cannot be powerful and happy and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves.
— Elbert Hubbard
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Every country is renewed out of the unknown ranks and not out of the ranks of those already famous and powerful and in control.
— Woodrow Wilson
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The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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If God is all-powerful, then the Devil must be nothing more than a darkness in the mind of God. But if the Devil is something…
— Tad Williams
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It is time to fill the world with strong and powerful deeds. It is common knowledge that no great captain in the world has ever…
— Dalai Lama
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You are innately designed to use your personal power. When you don't, you experience a sense of helplessness, paralysis, and depression-which is your clue that…
— Susan Jeffers
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