Power Brokers Rapid Quotes & Sayings

Carrying that lumber the forty meters from the forest had left his knuckles blistered, his underarms sopping, but now a few hours of flames had lifted what had taken him months to design, weeks to carry, days to build, all but the nails and rivets, all but the hinges and bolts, all into the sky. — Anthony Marra

I trembled, and my heart failed within me; when, on looking up, I saw, by the light of the moon, the daemon at the casement. — Mary Shelley

A 'why' is a dangerous thing ... It challenges old, comfortable ways, forces people to think about that they do instead of just mindlessly doing it. (Haplo)
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I think the danger is not so much in asking the 'why' as in believing you have come up with the only answer. (Alfred) — Margaret Weis

I should have let you bust Frank Dilley's nose," I say.

"That would have made things worse," he says.

"But it would have been a pleasure to watch. — Rae Carson

Be daring, be daring, always be daring. There is no big dream unless you dream big. — Brad Meltzer

If the two women feared that the coming of this date [their retirement] might give some clue to their ages, it was not an occasion for embarrassment because nobody else had been in the least interested, both of them having long ago reached ages beyond any kind of speculation. — Barbara Pym

You know, it's a tremendous responsibility to try to tell people how to get to heaven.6 — David Frost

It is only the brave who win life's rewards. Those who don't overcome their fears are destined to fail at even the least things. — Kevis Hendrickson

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt. — James A. Baldwin

A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind. — Daisaku Ikeda

But, apparently, crowds are more easily managed than individuals. It seems paradoxical. Much weight takes more effort to move than little weight. Much energy takes more effort to counter than little energy. Much distance takes longer to traverse than little distance. Why, then, should many people be easier to sway than few? — Anonymous

In solitude we can come to the realization that we are not driven together but brought together. In solitude we come to know our fellow human beings not as partners who can satisfy our deepest needs, but as brothers and sisters with whom we are called to give visibility to God's all-embracing love. In solitude we discover that community is not a common ideology, but a response to a common call. In solitude we indeed realize that community is not made but given. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

The masses favor socialism because they trust the socialist propaganda of the intellectuals. The intellectuals, not the populace, are molding public opinion. — Ludwig Von Mises

Real? Real depends upon your perspective, Annabelle. People never see life exactly the same way. The world is what you think it is. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Have you ever realised that if a person can make you angry, that person actually controls you. — Hanif Hassan Barbhuiya