"Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing."

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Source : Washington Gladden (1883). “Things New and Old in Discourses of Christian Truth and Life”

Washington Gladden

#Powerful Quotes #Quiet Quotes #Prevailing Quotes

“Multinational corporations do control. They control the politicians. They control the media. They control the pattern of consumption, entertainment, thinking. They're destroying the planet and laying the foundation for violent outbursts and racial division.”
“Growing up I didn't watch movies.”
“There seems to me to be absolutely no limit to the inanity and credulity of the human race. Homo Sapiens! Homo idioticus!”

Source : Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)”, p.1779, Delphi Classics
“You don't know where you are or where your dreams end and the world begins.”

Source : Rachel Klein (2012). “The Moth Diaries”, Faber & Faber
“In terms of characters I wish I had created - just because I haven't dealt with anything like them - I'm really impressed by characters who can endure over time, whether that be a long series run like a Harry Bosch, or a character who endures over generations and continues to please readers: Sherlock Holmes.”

Source : "Michael Connelly on the Book He Had To Stop Writing". Interview with Nathan Rostron, www.bookish.com. February 4, 2013.
“Trying to be Supermom is as futile as trying to be Perfect Mom. Not going to happen.”
“Ronald Reagan [ cite the founders] on behalf of emphasizing the faith of our founders, of limited government, of the uniqueness and exceptionalism of America, of a nation with a people facing another historic challenge beyond the American Revolution, and in contrasting the system of the United States with the system of the USSR.”
“Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?”

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