Powerful Quotes

I call on men and boys everywhere to join us. Violence against women and girls will not be eradicated until all of us - men and boys - refuse to tolerate it.

God within us is communicating with God above us, and we know that this communication is pure and powerful.

What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the writer on the one hand and the reader on the other

If we truly believe in an all-powerful God, then there's going to be beauty and truth to be found in all sorts of different places.

My father was an absolutely wonderful human being. From him I learned to always assume positive intent. Whatever anybody says or does, assume positive intent.

The more things you know, or pretend to know, the more powerful you are. It doesn't matter if the things are true. What counts, remember, is to possess a secret.

We've gone through the operating system and looked at everything and asked how can we simplify this and make it more powerful at the same time.

Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented.

Pessimism is the luxury of the powerful.

Smiling babies should actually be categorized by the pharmaceutical industry as a powerful antidepressant.

Powerful truth has its own gravity and eventually pulls people back to it.

Launching a business is essentially an adventure in problem-solving.

I love what's going on these days with these powerful women who are really working to make a difference.

What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.

Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words.

Power doesn't have to be on such a big scale for powerful things to occur. Within your own home, you can be a powerful woman as a mother, influencing your children's lives.

I think that crowdfunding has become such a powerful tool to tell stories that might not find financing otherwise - like a dark comedy about infidelity, for example!

A Witch's work is mind work and utilizes powerful metaphors, allegories, and images that unlock the powers of the mind.

Seeing other people do great work is its own form of inspiration and far more powerful than borrowing their ideas.

Technologies are not merely aids to human activity, but also powerful forces acting to reshape that activity and its meaning.

Openly questioning the way the world works and challenging the power of the powerful is not an activity customarily rewarded.

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.

The most powerful element in advertising is the truth.

The power of a dream is that it frees up your imagination to think about the best possible scenario for your life.

Belief is a powerful thing.

Those who take oaths to politically powerful secret societies cannot be depended on for loyalty to a democratic republic.

Any one who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.

The singing of our sacred hymns, written by the servants of God, has a powerful effect in converting people to the principles of the Gospel, and in promoting peace and spiritual growth.

If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story.

Keeping your mind open in the face of uncertainty is the single most powerful secret of unleashing your creative potential.

On hearing about powerful love, respond, be moved like an aesthete. Only, fortunate as you've been, remember how much your imagination created for you.

Unlike these powerful grown-ups, children have no ideologies to reinforce, no superstructure of political opinion to promote, no civic equanimity or image to defend, no personal reputation to secure.

It seems that we have been born only to consume and to consume, and when we can no longer consume, we have a feeling of frustration, and we suffer from poverty, and we are auto-marginalized.

When irony first makes itself known in a young man's life, it can be like his first experience of getting drunk; he has met with a powerful thing which he does not know how to handle.

One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.

Occupying my mind with complex problems has been my best and most powerful and most reliable defense against my mental illness.

Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

It is not crazy to think that powerful people do some pretty horrible things. And maybe they get out of hand. Maybe it just gets away from them. It snowballs.

You can't come up against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and not accept the risk.

The ultimate authority resides in the people, and that if the federal government got too powerful and overstepped its authority, then the people would develop plans of resistance and resort to arms.

...the need to overawe people and demand obedience from them is powerful and seductive. It is a part of that world that the kingdom of heaven is not of.

I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.

My passion for storm chasing has always been driven by the beautiful and powerful storms displayed in the heartland each spring.

Dream big by setting yourself seemingly impossible challenges. You then have to catch up with them.

Laissez-faire is finished. The all-powerful market that always knows best is finished.

Anna Wintour is the most powerful woman in the global fashion industry, the first lady of fashion. She's a politician; I'm a stylist. They are two very different jobs.

A man is powerful on his knees.

Unlike other people, our reviewers are powerful because they believe in nothing.

Understanding one's own power is more interesting than someone being given something powerful.

I believe that one of the most powerful things of all is aesthetics.