Powerful Quotes

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. . . there is a wish in the heart of mankind to be distracted and confused. Truth is but one attraction, and not always… — Joyce Carol Oates
Surrender is a powerful force. — P. C. Cast
He is mad about being small when you were big, but no, that's not it, he is mad about being helpless when you were powerful,… — Donald Barthelme
Hormones are very powerful things. We are helpless in their wake. — Meg Cabot
Those blue, blue eyes, icy blue, looking back at me as if I could warm them up. They’re pretty powerful, you know, those eyes, pretty… — Lucy Christopher
Women are impossible, witches are worse, and women who are powerful witches are going to be the death of me. — Cate Tiernan
People are afraid to pursue their most important dreams, because they feel that they don't deserve them, or that they'll be unable to achieve them. — Paulo Coelho
The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from the… — George Eliot
Just being alive is such a gift, but nobody ever told you to be thankful to existence. On the contrary, everyone was grumpy, complaining. Naturally,… — Rajneesh
Powerful to alleviate, to delay, to camouflage, though money is, in the end it lets us down. — Caryll Houselander
A gun I had been brought down by a gun. It was practically comical. Cheaters, I thought. I’d spent my life focusing on hand to… — Richelle Mead
Powerful people have no regrets. — Gregory David Roberts
For nearly a century, the moral relativism of science has given faith-based religion--that great engine of ignorance and bigotry--a nearly uncontested claim to being the… — Sam Harris
He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Anger is great. It's powerful, when you need something to hold you up. Something to steel your spine. But in the dark, when you're alone… — Rachel Vincent
The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or… — Stendhal
We three belong to the Middle Ages. We have this need of heroism, and there is no place for such feelings in modern life. That… — Anais Nin
...all of a sudden I felt filled up again, so that my heart might come up my throat. And I was thinking how that can… — Katherine Hannigan
...sadness is a powerful foe, maybe harder to keep down than happiness... — Katherine Hannigan
Of course all such conclusions about appropriate actions against the rich and powerful are based on a fundamental flaw: This is us, and that is… — Noam Chomsky
It was a lesson most people learned much earlier; that even friendship could have an undisclosed shelf life. That loyalty and affection, so consuming and… — Jennifer Haigh
My survival was up to me. I had nothing and I had no one. What I did have, I told myself, was my mind, my… — John Marsden
As far as I can tell, there are two basic (kissing) rules: 1. Don't bite anything without permission. 2. The human tongue is like wasabi:… — John Green
At such times the universe gets a little closer to us. They are strange times, times of beginnings and endings. Dangerous and powerful. And we… — Terry Pratchett
The inferior position of blacks, the exclusion of Indians from the new society, the establishment of supremacy for the rich and powerful in the new… — Howard Zinn

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