Powerful Quotes
4692 Powerful quotes by 2893 unique authors
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It is a crime against the State to be powerful enough to commit one.
— Pierre Corneille
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Songs are more powerful than books.
— Elvis Costello
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The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They…
— Norman Cousins
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Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don't forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.
— Stephen Covey
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A lot of powerful people in Washington may think it's a crazy-leftist-fringe position to think the intellectual authors of a torture regime should be investigated…
— John Cusack
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I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
— E E Cummings
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I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant…
— Clarence Darrow
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It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
— Ram Dass
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The campaign against the death penalty has been - while a powerful campaign, its participants have been those who attend all of the vigils, a…
— Angela Davis
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Despite the fact that feminists say they're not getting a fair deal, women are still very powerful.
— Les Dawson
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Words are as strong and powerful as bombs, as napalm.
— Dorothy Day
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We are the nation the most powerful, the most armed and we are supplying arms and money to the rest of the world where we…
— Dorothy Day
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If we're destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one another and all that stuff, there's got to be a…
— Ellen DeGeneres
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Doing something because God has said to do it does not make a person moral: it merely tells us that person is a prudential believer,…
— Alan Dershowitz
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I have a very powerful sense of place, but I have a very powerful sense of being a migrant, so it's both. It seems like…
— Junot Diaz
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He would make a lovely corpse.
— Charles Dickens
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Yes, but another writer I read in high school who just knocked me out was Theodore Dreiser. I read An American Tragedy all in one…
— Joan Didion
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I knew it was going to be the most extraordinary thing in my life, but how powerful it is, you can never know until you…
— Celine Dion
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Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
— Rita Dove
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I've run into certain geniuses of individualism - they are very few and far between - who live their lives completely on their own terms;…
— David Duchovny
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You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of…
— Bob Dylan
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