Powerful Quotes

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I've never been helpless, I just have powerful enemies — Christopher Paolini
Hence the strong attraction which magic and science alike have exercised on the human mind; hence the powerful stimulus that both have given to the… — James G. Frazer
I hope you never hear those words. Your mom. She died. They are different than other words. They are too big to fit in your… — Mitch Albom
No Man has a more perfect reliance on the all-wise and powerful dispensations of the Supreme Being than I have, nor thinks his aid more… — George Washington
She was chosen,' Mae insists. No, you're wrong,' I say. 'She was only a girl.'... She was gone for some time. You were the only… — Libba Bray
Homework is not an option. My bed is sending out serious nap rays. I can't help myself. The fluffy pillows and warm comforter are more… — Laurie Halse Anderson
She wondered: How could people respond to these images if images didn't secretly enjoy the same status as real things? Not that images were so… — Jonathan Franzen
Reader, you may ask this queston. In fact, you must ask this question. Is it ridiculous for a very small, sickly, big-eared mouse fall in… — Kate DiCamillo
And make no mistake: irony tyrannizes us. The reason why our pervasive cultural irony is at once so powerful and so unsatisfying is that an… — David Foster Wallace
To write with taste, in the highest sense, is to write [...] so that no one commits suicide, no one despairs; to write [...] so… — John Gardner
One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected. — Bertrand Russell
To speak seriously: the standards of "goodness" which are generally recognized by public opinion are not those which are calculated to make the world a… — Bertrand Russell
As one who sees in dreams and wakes to find the emotional impression of his vision still powerful while its parts fade from his mind… — Dante Alighieri
A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities. — J.R.R. Tolkien
Jason settled back on the bench. 'I hate to break this to you, but as a rule, wizards are nasty people. They're powerful, capricious, ruthless,… — Cinda Williams Chima
Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
..because the only kind of love I have to offer is stupid and blind and so deep and powerful that I feel like I'm cracking… — Brent Weeks
It is a dogma of the Roman Church that the existence of God can be proved by natural reason. Now this dogma would make it… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
When you relate to thoughts obsessively, you are actually feeding them because thoughts need your attention to survive. Once you begin to pay attention to… — Chogyam Trungpa
So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads. — Dr. Seuss
Fear is such a powerful emotion for humans that when we allow it to take us over, it drives compassion right out of our hearts. — Thomas Aquinas
Christianity is at its best when it is peculiar, marginalized, suffering, and it is at its worst when it is popular, credible, triumphal, and powerful. — Shane Claiborne
of all the weapons of destruction that man could invent, the most terrible-and the most powerful-was the word. Daggers and spears left traces of blood;… — Paulo Coelho
Murray said, ´I don´t trust anybody´s nostalgia but my own. Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the… — Don DeLillo
The greatest and most powerful revolutions often start very quietly, hidden in the shadows. Remember that. — Richelle Mead

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