Powerful Quotes
4692 Powerful quotes by 2893 unique authors
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She’s a smart woman. I love that. Intelligence is a wonderful and powerful aphrodisiac. To me, it enhances beauty, makes an ordinary woman look like…
— Eric Jerome Dickey
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No one can believe how powerful prayer is and what it can effect, except those who have learned it by experience. Whenever I have prayed…
— Martin Luther
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A bruxis. That was the one wish more powerful than a gavriel, and its trade value was singular: The only way to purchase one was…
— Laini Taylor
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People do lie to themselves, and they get away with it because every action affirms and reaffirms their perception. That's the power of the human…
— Vicki Pettersson
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. . . Harboring an emotion as powerful as gratitude has power of its own.
— Richard Paul Evans
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There's no sense drawing attention to yourself, Li." "Hellooooo. I'm aHorseman of the Apocalypse, and I'm betrothed to the most infamous, most powerful demon in…
— Larissa Ione
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What all the ads and whorescopes seemed to imply was that if only you took proper care of your smells, your hair, your boobs, your…
— Erica Jong
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The most honest of men is the one who thinks and acts best, but the most powerful is the one who writes and speaks best.
— George Sand
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Psychoanalysis has taught that the dead – a dead parent, for example – can be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the…
— Jacques Derrida
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Yelling a battle cry—more to motivate himself than frighten his foes—Lukel grabbed the table leg and swung it at a soldier. The wood bounced off…
— Brandon Sanderson
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The warmth of his embrace soaked into me, a powerful charm against the dark things.
— Juliet Marillier
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The human tongue is like wasabi: it's very powerful, and should be used sparingly.
— John Green
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Do I really smother my own joy because I believe that anger achieves more than love? That Satan's way is more powerful, more practical, more…
— Ann Voskamp
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Truth was funny, because it was an insistent thing, maybe as powerful and insistent as some force of nature, the push of water or wind.…
— Deb Caletti
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If women had power, what would men be but women who can't bear children? And what would women be but men who can?" "Hah!" went…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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Knowledge was more powerful than fear. Love was stronger than hate.
— Lauren Myracle
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I think that everything should be made available to everybody, and I mean LSD, cocaine, codeine, grass, opium, the works. Nothing on earth available to…
— Charles Bukowski
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Kelsier smiled. 'It means that you, Vin, are a very special person. You have a power that most high noblemen envy. It is a power…
— Brandon Sanderson
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That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say how it is. It isn't a hiding place. It is a finding place.
— Jeanette Winterson
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That which should distinguish the suffering of believers from unbelievers is the confidence that our suffering is under the control of an all-powerful and all-loving…
— Jerry Bridges
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There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the…
— Anais Nin
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And then a low and powerful sound rumbles thru the sky, like some giant, deep horn. A sound God would make when he wanted yer…
— Patrick Ness
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French is the most beautiful,” he said, “and Italian is the most poetic, and Russian the most powerful, German the most solid. But more business…
— Pearl S. Buck
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Feelings aren't good or bad. They're just weak or strong. Love, for example, is weak: someone loves you, you love them back, you're happy for…
— Dan Wells
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But human beings are not machines, and however powerful the pressure to conform, they sometimes are so moved by what they see as injustice that…
— Howard Zinn
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