Quotes About Powerfully

I believed in the worth of biography and even of ethnography, but I believed more powerfully in the reach of a well-told narrative that set out to pull the reader into the life of that child I had not been. I did not want to relate what had happened to me.

We don't talk about things like that." Jiminy stared back, then sneezed powerfully, grateful that her body instinctively rejected such attitudes.

O Emily! these are moments, in which joy and grief struggle so powerfully for pre-eminence, that the heart can scarcely support the contest!

In some ways grief anonymizes as powerfully as a Greek tragedy mask.

At the same time it offered the hope, as it still does, that improved understanding could better the lot of mankind. For me, growing up in the 1930s, the two motivations powerfully reinforced each other.

Lately, I've been thinking about the difference between poetry and prose, and as I've experienced it, poetry is insistent. It allows for images and statements to operate in a single space and resonate powerfully without the application to be elaborated upon and narrated.

And there was something else about him that quickly became evident, a raw emotional neediness that brought out powerfully maternal feelings in the elderly woman. Something about the nearly sixty-year-old Mary Martin

This memory of my relative indifference is important because such indifference demonstrates powerfully the outsider's inability to grasp the essence of the illness.

Imagine your kid is running into the street and you have to sprint after her in bare feet," Eric told me when I picked up my training with him after my time with Ken. "You'll automatically lock into perfect form--you'll be up on your forefeet, with your back erect, head steady, arms high, elbows driving, and feet touching down quickly on the forefoot and kicking back toward your butt." You can't run uphill powerfully with poor biomechanics," Eric explained.

Embedded in Trumpism is the distinction between "people" and "the people." Not all people belong to "the people." More and more people emphatically do not belong—which is why Trump's absurd claims about illegal voting resonated so powerfully.

We tried to limit human versus human conflict only to those cases where it could be powerfully motivated and made completely believable.

You can't expect not to face obstacles in life. When people meet, their different energies conflict. Where there is no energy, there is no conflict and wher there is no conflict, there is no creation. Conflict is the source of creation. One needs to know how to powerfully embrace the tension that arises when opposing energies meet, when there's conflict and struggle.

What actions are the most excellent? Those, certainly, which most powerfully appeal to the great primary human affections: to those elementary feelings which subsist permanently in the race, and which are independent of time. These feelings are permanent and the same; that which interests them is permanent and the same also.

I believe in the power of origins, a belief that, as Ecclesiastes put it, 'that wich is done is that wich shall be done: and there is no new thing under de sun'; that we claim as originality and discovery are nothing but the airs and delusios of our innocence, ignorance, and arrogance: that whatever is said was said better - more powerfully, beautifully, and purely, long ago