Powerful Quotes

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Peer pressure and social norms are powerful influences on behaviour, and they are classic excuses. — Andrew Lansley
William Trevor is an author I admire; his stories are subtle and powerful, and beautifully written. — Kim Edwards
The exercise of democracy begins as exercise, as walking around, becoming familiar with the streets, comfortable with strangers, able to imagine your own body as… — Rebecca Solnit
One of the greatest things about writing as a profession is that the words of Tolstoy, Chesterton and Dostoyevsky have lived for a hundred years… — Philip Yancey
I realized that social media can be powerful force for good in the world and that acts of kindness can be scaled globally. — Amy Jo Martin
Part of the reason people abroad resent the United States is something Americans can do very little about: envy. The richest, most powerful country in… — Mohsin Hamid
My three husbands were afraid of me. I am a very powerful woman. — Nawal El Saadawi
I love my lecture tours. I get up onstage. I have my stack of books and a glass of water and a microphone. No podium,… — Suzan-Lori Parks
If we believe in an all-powerful God, then we must then believe that God gave us this Earth, and we must in turn believe that… — Sheldon Whitehouse
The economic dynamic in Zimbabwe is perversely robust: while ordinary people suffer, black-market dealers and people with foreign bank accounts prosper, making them powerful stakeholders… — Samantha Power
Why do we take pleasure in gruesome death, neatly packaged as a puzzle to which we may find a satisfactory solution through clues - or… — A. S. Byatt
It is impossible to fall out of love. Love is such a powerful emotion, that once it envelops you it does not depart. True love… — Oscar Wilde
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge - myth is more potent than history - dreams are more powerful than facts - hope always… — Robert Fulghum
So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful… — Winston Churchill
Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the definer of all laws, of all… — Emma Goldman
Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, and can only please by its resemblance — Anthony Ashley Cooper
All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free — Voltaire
To the public, the press is not David among Goliaths; it has become one of the Goliaths, Big Media, a combination of powerful television networks,… — Thomas Griffith
If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee - that will do them in — Emo Philips
If God existed as an all-powerful being, He would not need the money that faithful believers donate to their churches. — Donald Morgan
This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for… — Walt Whitman
I recognize two kinds of faith. The first is the kind which is apparent in the world. It is the common denominator of most everything… — Boyd K. Packer
He is most powerful who has power over himself — Seneca
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. — Margaret Thatcher
The most powerful ties are the ones to the people who gave us birth it hardly seems to matter how many years have passed, how… — Anthony Brandt

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