“I decided very early that I wanted to write. But I didn't think of it as a career. I didn't even think of it as a profession... It was the most exciting thing, the most powerful thing, the most wonderful thing to do with my life.” ThinkingWritingWantedPowerfulCareersWonderfulDecidedExcitingProfessionThings To DoMost PowerfulWonderful ThingsExciting Things Author:Mary Oliver
“Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It's basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation, those things have built the modern world. And it's wonderful that the new tools have empowered that protestor so that state secrets, bad developments are not hidden anymore.” ThinkingWorldWellsStatesPoliticalPowerfulSecretDemocracyWonderfulModernDevelopmentCapitalismBuiltToolsInnovationMechanismModern WorldEmpoweredVery Powerful Author:Bill Gates
“I'm very excited about this wonderful opportunity to take part in the evolution of a company that is integral to the Hispanic community and a powerful force in all areas of the media.” OpportunityForceCommunityPowerfulCompanyWonderfulMediaEvolutionAreasExcitedHispanic Author:Gloria Estefan
“Truly speech has wonderful strength and power, that through a mere word, proceeding out of the mouth of a poor human creature, the devil, that so proud and powerful spirit, should be driven away, shamed and confounded.” ShouldHumansSpiritPoorPowerfulWonderfulProudCreaturesSpeechMouthsDevilMereDrivenProceeding Book:The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt Source: The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt
“Even with all that - excellent treatment, wonderful family and friends, supportive work environment - I did not make my illness public until relatively late in life, and that's because the stigma against mental illness is so powerful that I didn't feel safe with people knowing. If you hear nothing else today, please hear this: There are not 'schizophrenics'. There are people with schizophrenia, and these people may be your spouse, they may be your child, they may be your neighbor, they may be your friend, they may be your coworker.” PeopleIfsFeelsMayChildrenTodayPowerfulKnowingEnvironmentWonderfulPleaseSafeLateOur ChildrenIllnessNeighborMental IllnessExcellentYour ChildrenTreatmentFamily And FriendsSpouseSupportiveStigmaSchizophreniaCoworkerWork EnvironmentWonderful Family Author:Elyn Saks
“And it is a very important thing to be and do, if not the most important 'cause how you interpret a story can then make the difference. So it is a very powerful thing to be. And when misused, it's very sad.” IfsImportantStoriesCausesDifferencesPowerfulWonderfulImportant ThingsJournalistVery PowerfulVery SadMisused Author:Angelina Jolie
“The Orenda is a powerful story from history, folklore and the imagination, based on the universality of human cruelty, superstition and perseverance. Wonderful writing.” WritingImaginationPowerfulWonderfulPerseveranceCrueltyFolkloreHuman Cruelty Author:Linden MacIntyre
“Religion has been a powerful weapon in the hands of governments, in the hands of priests, in the hands of kings who have used it as a weapon to keep down the populace. It is a wonderful way of disciplining people and making them do what you want, to tell them that if they don't do what you want they will, for example, go to Hell.” PeopleIfsWayWantHas BeensHandsGovernmentUsedPowerfulHellWonderfulExampleKingsWeaponsWhat You WantPriestsGo To HellPowerful Weapons Author:Richard Dawkins
“Prayer is powerful! It fills the earth with mercy, it makes the Divine clemency pass from generation to generation; right along the course of the centuries wonderful works have been achieved through prayer.” Has BeensEarthCoursesPrayerPowerfulWonderfulGenerationsCenturyDivineMercyClemency Author:Frances Xavier Cabrini
“I think it was wonderful when Princess Di died so that everyone could cry in unison. I thought that the crying together was the most powerful gift that she gave in her death.” ThinkingTogetherPowerfulWonderfulCryDiedMost PowerfulPrincessUnison Author:Sark
“It was when I was on the set of Dead Poets Society.There was actor,his name was Norman Lloyd. One day he took us all aside and said, "You guys don't even understand what a powerful experience you're having. You don't really understand what a gift this is." We were going, "What does he mean?" It was that really wonderful opportunities aren't to be taken for granted. I often found that it had embedded itself in my memory.” MeanDoeSaidGuyActorsFoundOpportunityNamesMemoriesPowerfulTakenWonderfulPoetOne DayGrantedEmbeddedTaken For GrantedDead Poets SocietyDead Poets Author:Ethan Hawke
“Galway Kinnell came out with that wonderful big, breathy, hollow voice of his and read, for the first time in public, "The Bear." That poem impressed me so much that I memorized it. I used it for years when I taught in prisons. It's a powerful extended metaphor for what the writing life is really all about. It's a uniquely powerful poem about self-transformation, and that's what we're asking, really, beyond even our objection to the war. We're asking people to look at themselves and think about what might be possible with a little self-transformation.” PeopleThinkingWritingYearsFirstsLooksLittlesWarSelfBigsMightLife IsUsedVoicePowerfulWonderfulTaughtBearsFirst TimeTransformationAskingPrisonMetaphorImpressedWriting LifeHollowObjectionsSelf Transformation Author:Sam Hamill