Power came the way a child came — with agony.
– Octavia E Butler
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- Consider–We are bornNot with purpose,But with potential. – Octavia E Butler
- People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn’t bother me. It’s other people doing the calling that bothers me. – Octavia E Butler
- Was an eternity of absolute ease just another name for hell? – Octavia E Butler
- Read every day and learn from what you read. – Octavia E Butler
- Prayers only help the person doing the praying, and then, only if they strengthen and focus that person’s resolve. – Octavia E Butler
- Everything is so soft here,’ he said, ‘so easy…’ ‘I know – Octavia E Butler
- If you work hard enough at something that doesn’t matter, you can forget for a while about the things that do. – Octavia E Butler
- BewareAt war Or at peace,More people die Of unenlightened self-interestThan of any other disease – Octavia E Butler
- There is no endTo what a living worldWill demand of you. – Octavia E Butler
- I lost an arm on my last trip home. My left arm. – Octavia E Butler
- Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain. – Octavia E Butler
- I’m Valerie Rye,’ she said, savoring the words. ‘It’s all right for you to talk to me. – Octavia E Butler
- When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I reasoned as a child, but when I became a man, I put away childish things. – Holy Bible
- Wisdom from Top Butler: Guard yourself at all times but don’t let anyone lead you to live a guarded life that is all. – Donavan Nelson Butler
- You have immense power–power to overcome, power to achieve, power to possess, and power to prosper, making you incredibly irresistible. – Anitra SheltonQuinn
- Spanking a child is about the parent not the child. The child will learn more from positive correction than physical manipulation. – Asa Don Brown
- Don’t put your child at risk. Limit unsupervised one-on-one time between your child & another adult or another child. – Carolyn Byers Ruch
- There’s a fine line between child-like -“ learning as a child does, the natural way we learn most stuff -“ and being child-ish. – Robin Hoyle
- Having a child who is struggling doesn’t make you a bad parent, just as being a child who is struggling doesn’t make your child a bad kid. – Ann Douglas
- Fear least have power! The power of fear lies in the power of our fears. Without the power of our fears, fear is least empowered! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- The power to lead is the power to mislead, and the power to mislead is the power to destroy. – Thomas S Monson
- Words have power. The power to soothe. The power to skewer someone through the heart. The power to render someone speechless. – Ellen Hopkins
- Love if mishandled spreads hatred and creates agony and chaos. – raja shakeel mushtaque
- Shame internalized can lead to agony. Whereas shame let out can lead to freedom, or at least a funny story, which is a sort of freedom too. – Jon Ronson
- That was what it meant to be a woman: to live in an unbearable agony hidden for a time behind smoke and mirrors. – Mary Pauline Lowry
- And he howled in agony, in a pain that would never cease as long as he lived. His tortured voice echoed in those mountains for a long long time… – Farrah Naseem
- A torpid heart in agony needs a pen to bleed – Munia Khan
- And I realize, so suddenly that it hurts, just how empty a creature can be, while still filled to the brim with drowning agony. – DR Hedge
- But always, at moments when his mind was like a blind octopus, squirming in an agony of knife-cuts, she would drop in that accusation. – Ford Madox Ford
- Very few great artists feel the giant agony of the world. – Edith Hamilton
- In such moments of precious, invaluable misery, she rejoiced in tears of agony… – Jane Austen
- Agony’s PlotA zephyr skimmedacross my creamy skingently kissingwhere the sun had been…. – Muse
- Life is short unless agony is long. – Brian Spellman
- I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am! – Nathaniel Hawthorne
- I like a look of agony, because I know it’s true – Emily inson
- You could concentrate much more deeply when you were alone with agony. – William Goldman
- She cried aloud, with a great mourning cry for all that she had never known in this life, and the agony of a bereavement unguessed till this moment. – Marion Zimmer Bradley
- Madness is a bowl of poison cherries, chew them and die, but you die screaming in agony. – Stephen Richards