Powerful Quotes

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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 ― 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
This is the Cuzco asking you to pull on your armor and, mounted on the ample back of a powerful horse, cleave a path through… — Che Guevara
More powerful than God, more evil than the Devil; the poor have it, the rich lack it, and if you eat it you die? — Margaret Atwood
Wealth isn't always measured in dollar signs. We each have time, talent and creativity, all of which can be powerful forces for positive change. Share… — Jon M. Huntsman Sr.
The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each… — Rachel Naomi Remen
When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears. — Tony Robbins
His vision, from the constantly passing bars, has grown so weary that it cannot hold anything else. It seems to him there are a thousand… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Dear Bill (O'Reilly)...I am concerned that you have been losing touch with reality recently. Did you really say you are more powerful than any politician?… — Roger Ebert
History could claw upward as well as down. The powerful could be deafened by the cries of the poor. — Salman Rushdie
When you want to attract something into your life, make sure your actions don’t contradict your desires.. Think about what you have asked for, and… — Rhonda Byrne
Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause… — J.R.R. Tolkien

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