The Power of Words

The Power of Words is truly amazing. Everyone can say something powerful, something meaningful, something worth hearing. The impetus of this blog was Criminal Minds and the wide variety of quotes found therein. As such many of the early quotes will be those from Criminal Minds episodes. Eventually the sources will diversify, but for now enjoy what I have.

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“It is a wise father that knows his own child.”

- William Shakespeare

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“No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies.”

- Daisy Bates

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“A simple child/ That lightly draws its breath/ And feels its life in every limb/ What should it know of death?”

- William Wordsworth

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“It doesn’t matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.”

- Anne Sexton

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"The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He’s dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he’s a hero the whole time."

- Frank Miller

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“Superman is, after all, an alien life form. He is simply the acceptable face of invading realities.”

- Clive Barker

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William Shakespeare wrote, “Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”

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“God sends meat and the devil sends cooks.”

- Thomas Deloney

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“Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters.” 

- Francisco Goya

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“An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects.”

- Martin Luther

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“Now what else is the whole life of mortals but a sort of comedy, in which the various actors, disguised by various costumes and masks, walk on and play each one his part, until the manager waves them off the stage?”

- Erasmus

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G.K. Chesterton wrote: “Fairy tales do not tell children that dragons exist.  Children already know that dragons exist.  Fairy tales tell children that dragons can be killed.”

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Dostoyevsky once said, “Nothing is easier than denouncing the evildoer. Nothing more difficult than understanding him.”

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“In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of class and race. In the suburbs, though, it’s intimate and psychological – resistant to generalization, a mystery of the individual soul.” 

- Barbara Ehrenreich.

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Eleanor Roosevelt once said, “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face; You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”

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I'm sorry for my long absence, Uni was awful and I was crazy busy. Starting tomorrow updates will recommence and there will hopefully not be another long hiatus.

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The Taoist philosopher Lao-tze once wrote, “He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.”