Powerful Quotes

Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, and can only please by its resemblance.

We're not just twice as powerful when we're together, but ten times as powerful.

Pain hurts, but pain that's so powerful that you can't feel anymore, that's when you start to feel like you're going crazy.

I think people want to get married to end their emotional uncertainty. In a way, they want to end powerful feelings, or certainly the negative ones.

The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.

Anxiety and conscience are a powerful pair of dynamos. Between them, they have ensured that I shall work hard, but they cannot ensure that one shall work at anything worthwhile.

Oprah Winfrey is so powerful that she had the Rapture postponed until after her final show airs.

Lenin in 1921 observed very presciently that motion pictures were the most powerful tool ever invented to shape the way we thought. He was right. Political films can be successful.

Imagination Is More Powerful Than Knowledge Because Knowledhe Is Limited But Imagination Is Without Boundaries

A secret is powerful when it is empty.

If you bring cases against powerful bankers, they will enlist their political allies and they will give very large political contributions to do that

The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly.

The brush is a more powerful and rapid tool than the point or the stump... the main thing that the brush secures is the instant grasp of the grand construction of a figure.

Commitment cannot be taught; it can only be caught. I refer to the crusading spirit. Without the crusading spirit, you may have the starting power but not the staying power.

Condemning others as bad or sinful is a way to feel righteous. Such a feeling is a powerful mood alteration and can become highly addictive.

I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.

But would you sing, and rival Orpheus' strain. The wond'ring forests soon should dance again; The moving mountains hear the powerful call. And headlong streams hand listening in their fall!

Consider Palin for President? The most powerful job on earth? You don't give the dumb cheerleader the Uzi. That's in the Bible.

It's what you practice in private that you will be rewarded for in public.

The most powerful predictable people builders are praise and encouragement.

Every great, successful person I know shares the capacity to remain centered, clear, and powerful in the midst of emotional 'storms'.

Imagination is a powerful agent for creating, as it were, a second nature out of the material supplied to it by actual nature.

Hunger is a powerful incentive to introspection.

Fanaticism, or, to call it by its milder name, enthusiasm, is only powerful and active so long as it is aggressive. Establish it firmly in power, and it becomes conservatism, whether it will or no.

We cannot evangelize until we have been evangelized. This happens most powerfully through solitary prayer.

I've spent my career trying to help people without connections understand what's going on so that they have a chance of getting a fair shake from the connected and the powerful.

Women can be strong, be smart, be sexy, be mothers, be wives, and be powerful. We don't need to compromise.

I realized that social media can be powerful force for good in the world and that acts of kindness can be scaled globally.

You can choose your friends, but you sho' can't choose your family.

There is no bandit so powerful as Nature. The interaction of the positive and the negative principles, which produces the visible universe. In the whole universe there is no escape from it.

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

Kissing is not just kissing. It is a major escalation or de-escalation point in a powerful process of mate choice.

You in Lebanon, your power is no match to Israel. Israel, militarily, is more powerful than you and maybe it is more powerful than all the Arab countries, or most of them.

With its declining population, with people moving out of the Far East, with an enormously powerful China in the east, I think the real destiny of Russia is to become closer to the West.

The beliefs of Native people are no less powerful or important just because they focus on a different "form of magic."

Giving is the highest expression of our power.

Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

Human beings are much better at breaking up than they are at getting together. The instinct to get together is very powerful, but it doesn't last long.

The richest man is the one with the most powerful friends.

Choices are powerful things. In fact, they're more powerful than most things.

We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it's not just my way or the highway.

In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest.

hold your head high and keep those fists down - Atticus Finch

Baseball presents a living heritage, a game poised between the powerful undertow of seasons past and the hope of next day, next week, next year.

People in every country should be free to choose and live their faith based upon the persuasion of the mind, and the heart, and the soul. This tolerance is essential for religion to thrive.

Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science, but none can avoid the devastating impact of raging fires, and crippling drought, and more powerful storms.

I don't think there is any franchise more powerful than ours around securing the consumer experience and we will not concede that to anyone including Microsoft.

As for my ideal type, I like girls who don't have powerful presence, and not self-centered. I'd like her to have a light skin, and a calm personality.

I think comedy does have that powerful thing that doesn't seem too preachy because you're also making people laugh, so it's really kind of a good tool for messaging.

I am much more powerful today than the old programs and mind viruses that I absorbed in my childhood.