Quotes of: Powers Keyword

You string some letters together, and you make a word. You string some words together, and you make a sentence, then a paragraph, then a chapter. Words have power.

Firespell

I didn't think that Herefordshire Social Services would be best pleased about me dumping a poorly socialised pre-teen with mind control powers on them.

Foxglove Summer

It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing.

The Fault in Our Stars

The only reason pain exists is because we let it feed on us and that gives it the power to continue existing (I.R.V)

Fallen, Standing: My Life As A Schizophrenist

Small souls who seek power over others first destroy the faith those others might have in themselves.

God Emperor of Dune

The only way Magick ever has power is when its secrets are truly secret. Once too many people know how it works, then it doesn’t work anymore.

The Goodwill Grimoire

There had been a subtle realignment of the spheres. The world was somehow a place I could endure again. If life was a grey corridor lined with doors, it was now within my power to open some of them.

Glitterland

It means that two people start loving each other. I guess because it can feel really sudden and because it's powerful. Like gravity--an unstoppable force.

Glitch

History isn't all fact--it's just the story the victors tell to keep themselves in power. And it's been a slow revision. The more time passes, the easier it becomes to reinvent the past.

Glitch

Anything with the power to make you laugh over thirty years later isn’t a waste of time. I think something like that is very close to immortality.

Hearts in Atlantis

I have rubbed shoulders with the rich, the powerful, and the armless. It’s how to network when handshakes aren’t an option.

How to put out forest fires with your naked body

Running an expedition can bring out the worst in a man. It can make you a power-crazed monster.

House of the Tiger King: The Quest for a Lost City

When we're at our weakest, God's at His strongest. We serve a powerful God, boy, and last time I checked, He was still on the throne.

A Heart Deceived

The strength we find within ourselves gives us endurance and perseverance power.

How to Trust God When All Other Resources Have Failed

But love like that doesn't just disappear, does it? No matter how powerful the hate, there is always a little love left, underneath. Yes. Horrible, isn't it?

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

Mastery is not something that strikes in an instant, like a thunderbolt, but a gathering power that moves steadily through time, like weather.

The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers

English does not distinguish between arrogant-up (irreverence toward the temporarily powerful) and arrogant-down (directed at the small guy).

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

More powerful than God, more evil than the Devil; the poor have it, the rich lack it, and if you eat it you die?

The Blind Assassin

I cannot stress this enough: do not take powerful hallucinogens before going to a Holocaust memorial.

The Big Rewind: A Memoir Brought to You by Pop Culture

Only those who have been wanderers long desolate can know the power there was in the latter appeal [Christianity].

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

You're very lucky... Friends are precious, powerful things - hard to earn, harder still to keep. You should thank this one for taking a chance on you.

The Broken Kingdoms