Power loves not the light of day, nor the attention of curious eyes. In darkness it thrives most...A lord may send his army hither and thither, but the true testing of his power is in those places where his army is not...Has he sent its long fingers far enough through the backstreets and alleys, into the drinking dens and the lending-houses, so that he may gather them unto himself and hold them firm without a single swordsman?
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. It was frustrating to still be in the dark about something and be given only so little light. LAUREN LOLA The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a... JEANETTE CORON In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is underm... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty. BRIAN JACQUES Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th... DEYTH BANGER The profound ability to use aural and written language has enabled our species to collectively explo... KATHERINE VUCICEVIC There is only one classroom in which to learn: 1. The work of God. 2. The will of God. 3. The trustw... ELISABETH ELLIOT And the Lord spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three,... MONTY PYTHON When we put LIVE backwards it spells EVIL, interesting how one word can have two totally opposing me... GARY F EVANS... We have tears in our eyes As we wave our goodbyes, We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL If those who are sent to draw water begin by drinking themselves, the army is suffering from thirst.... SUN TZU He is not a vegetable. He is conscious. He understands what we say. He can shake, open and close his... JOEL MENARD When you embrace the things you do not understand, you understand what is embraced JOHN M SHEEHAN The doubt has the mysterious power to bring out the hidden reality of life. ANUJ SOMANY Hey you the "Supreme Power Within Myself" uplift my soul that I make no more mistakes and patiently ... NEHA KOTHARI If you look at a stream or river and close your eyes it will be amazing the flow of ideas that will ... GARY F EVANS... The power of man;Man does not only have the power to accomplish great & unbelievable things in life,... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Acknowledge and express your mistakes so you can prove to yourself and others that you can learn and... SERGIO ORTIZ You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ... C. JOYBELL C. Until we understand what the land is, we are at odds with everything we touch. And to come to that u... WENDELL BERRY Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON Anger - a beast within us that needs taming. SARU SINGHAL No, sweet one. See, my precious: if we has it, then we can escape, even from Him, eh? Perhaps we gro... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it wer... J.R.R. TOLKIEN A great future starts with what you can see SOTONYE ANGA Is it not wonderful that the creator of all worlds, infinite in power and wisdom, could not hold his... ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any like... BIBLE You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON Now: unlike ourselves, the Father of Jesus loves men and women, not for what He finds in them, but f... JAMES BURTSCHAELL He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power. SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Quoting from Thomas Merton Dialogues With Silence The true contemplative is not one who pr... STEPHEN COPE Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True ... MARK TWAIN Feast of the Annunciation of our Lord to the Virgin Mary The Old Testament does not occupy itself... BENJAMIN B. WARFIELD I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It i... FLANNERY O'CONNOR Hard to restrain, unstable is this mind; it flits wherever it lists. Good it is to control the mind.... GAUTAMA BUDDHA A man may go into the field and say his prayer and be aware of God, or he may be in Church and be aw... MEISTER ECKHART Man is the religious animal. He is the only religious animal. He is the only animal that has the Tru... MARK TWAIN The founder of an organization is not the sole legacy owner of his firm,because those who will belie... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A father may have a child who is ugly and lacking in all the graces, and the love he feels for him p... MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Here was one with an air of high nobility such as Aragorn at times revealed, less high perhaps, yet ... J.R.R. TOLKIEN And this is the case of the slayer, which shall flee thither, that he may live: Whoso killeth his ne... BIBLE We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth ha... L.M. MONTGOMERY He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he th... JOHN MILTON Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefor... BIBLE You may fancy the Lord had His own power to fall back upon. But that would have been to Him just the... GEORGE MACDONALD If the best is possible, than good is never enough and only do the best. ROBERT SIAHAAN There is always a good choice and there is always a better choice. There is always the best choice a... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH When each and every believer rises up to serve others and function according to their capacity, the ... HENRY HON The young man, who does not know the future, sees life as a kind of epic adventure, an Odyssey throu... JOHN WILLIAMS Percy was getting tired of water. If he said that aloud, he would probably get kicked out of Po... RICK RIORDAN Here is a universal law: that when it comes to negative and positive, you will always thrive more po... C. JOYBELL C. The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has... VACLAV HAVEL Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus m... BIBLE Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without t... RAINER MARIA RILKE I’m reminded of a book my father used to read me,” she said. “A bunch of elves and things get ... LEMONY SNICKET The road goes ever on and on J.R.R. TOLKIEN He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the ... BIBLE The mark of a real man, is a man who can allow himself to fall deeply in love with a woman. But the ... C. JOYBELL C. He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one... JOHN STUART MILL Anthropocentric as [the gardener] may be, he recognizes that he is dependent for his health and surv... MICHAEL POLLAN We could live several lifetimes and never exhaust the power of our minds. DENIS HACHEY A man should conceive of a legitimate purpose in his heart, and set out to accomplish it. He should ... JAMES ALLEN A man should conceive of a legitimate purpose in his heart, and set out
to accomplish it. He should ... JAMES ALLEN I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON And the women said unto Naomi, Blessed be the LORD, which hath not left thee this day without a kins... BIBLE He is actually doing the right thing for himself because he is preserving himself in power, and he p... GEORGE SOROS Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. JEFFREY FRY At the end of the warehouse was a dais constructed from pallets of books: stack of vampire novels, w... RICK RIORDAN Surely your Lord is Allah, Who created the heavens and the earth in six periods of time, and He is f... QURAN Day, the boy from the streets with nothing except the clothes on his back and the earnestness in his... MARIE LU Because ye have burned incense, and because ye have sinned against the LORD, and have not obeyed the... BIBLE Eros (or call it lust if you will), is like a beautiful, magnificent Afghan Hound! A pure white Afgh... C. JOYBELL C. God takes away the minds of poets, and uses them as his ministers, as he also uses diviners and holy... SOCRATES Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live a... KILROY J. OLDSTER Avoid the temptation to force a moment so you won’t miss the one with your name on it. GINA GREENLEE And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of t... BIBLE The real thing that keeps men and women apart, is fear. Women blame men and men blame women, but the... C. JOYBELL C. Most powerful is he who has himself in his power. SENECA Clearly, unless the Lord chooses to explain Himself to us, which He does not often do, His motivatio... JAMES C. DOBSON It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has prod... THOMAS PAINE In the United States, man does not feel that he has been torn from the center of creation and suspen... OCTAVIO PAZ We still should have enough time to reach Rome.” Hazel scowled. “When you say should hav... RICK RIORDAN This is Buford,” Leo announced. “You name your furniture?” Frank asked. RICK RIORDAN He’d learned years ago it was better not to dwell too much on who was related to whom on the godly... RICK RIORDAN Did someone just call me the wine dude ?” he asked in a lazy drawl. “It’s Bacchus, pleas... RICK RIORDAN Reyna looked at Percy without much hope. “You do have a plan?” Percy wanted to step ... RICK RIORDAN Percy blinked. “So your brother is a winged horse. But you’re also my half brother, which means ... RICK RIORDAN I can’t believe how much this place has grown,” Hazel muttered. The taxi driver grinned in... RICK RIORDAN But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he g... BIBLE She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY
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BRIAN TRACY I'm often accused of being ahead of my time, but it's simply not true. The truth is that eve... BRIAN ENO When I was 11, I played the part of Rumpelstiltskin, and my teacher told me I would make a great act... BRIAN BLESSED People talk about the difference between radio acting, TV acting and stage acting, but I think it... BRIAN BLESSED My father was a coal hewer from Goldthorpe, a coal-mining village in South Yorkshire. He played for ... BRIAN BLESSED Life is a re-discovery. BRIAN BLESSED I wasn't good at examinations, but I went to a very good secondary school - Bolton-on-Dearne - w... BRIAN BLESSED My parents were so proud when I got a scholarship to go to theatre school - it was unheard of that a... BRIAN BLESSED I love Scotland - I was made an honorary Wallace after my work on 'Braveheart,' you know. If... BRIAN BLESSED I've completed half of my space training at Space City in Moscow. I love adventure, and I've... BRIAN BLESSED I've become quite a serious explorer: I've been to Everest three times; I'm the oldest m... BRIAN BLESSED My dream is to own a Hockney - I'm a Yorkshireman, and his vibrant colours are a good example of... BRIAN BLESSED I'm a fully trained cosmonaut and have completed 800 hours training, which has made me the No. 1... BRIAN BLESSED I fed my yak on my spare Cadbury chocolate 21,0000ft up Everest. It was a blonde, very sweet female ... BRIAN BLESSED There will be no funeral! Before I get too old and ill, I'll go to South America and live among ... BRIAN BLESSED I have marvelous dreams! I meet Buddha, I meet Jesus, I meet Mohammed. I constantly dream of space, ... BRIAN BLESSED When I was a child, I wanted to... go into space! To go to Mars. I wanted to explore and explore and... BRIAN BLESSED You can't call it an adventure unless it's tinged with danger. The greatest danger in life, ... BRIAN BLESSED Smart and savvy, the fearless female member of George Washington's Secret Six is a testament to ... BRIAN KILMEADE My parents taught me honesty, truth, compassion, kindness and how to care for people. Also, they enc... BRIAN BLESSED The English don't like concepts, really, not from a pop star. It's alright if they come from... BRIAN ENO You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you... BRIAN TRACY When I was a kid, I used to be afraid of the dark. I would stand at my door, turn the light off and ... BRIAN KRAUSE To be born in Wales, not with a silver spoon in your mouth, but, with music in your blood and with p... BRIAN HARRIS