Powerful Quotes

The urge to transform one's appearance, to dance outdoors, to mock the powerful and embrace perfect strangers is not easy to suppress." --Barbara Ehrenreich, Dancing in the Streets, 260.

There's always a part of your nation's history that you haven't been told that... has a powerful impact on how you yourself may behave and may believe.

An intriguing mind is a powerful aphrodisiac.

I think it's a message of economic nationalism. It's obviously one that has bubbled up before in certain pockets, but it's never been the sort of powerful phenomenon that it is today.

I certainly was a geeky kid myself, but to me, math and science were always these magical things- powerful tools you could use in incredible ways.

Do we have a brain? Than use it. It's all you need to overcome a problem. That's the secret. That's my simple but powerful prescription for life, love, and success in a dangerous world.

Nature is more powerful than education; time will develop everything.

The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.

The longer I live the more convinced I become that God governs in the affairs of men. And have we now forgotten that powerful friend? Or do we imagine we no longer need His assistance.

In my videos, I always want to be a powerful woman. That's my mission.

It's the combination: big idea with a good entrepreneur: there's nothing more powerful. That's just as true [for] education and human rights as it is for hotel or steels.

Pat Robertson had decided that global warming was real and we need to do something about it struck me as powerful evidence that the Holy Spirit is hard at work in this question.

My job is to watch the powerful. It's a simple job description, watch powerful people and make sure they don't hurt the folks.

All I ask is for powerful people to respond honestly to the questions, and if they can't, explain why.

It would shine a torch into the dirty little corner where the BNP defecate on our democracy, and that would be much more powerful than duffing them up in the street - which Im also in favour of.

...hymns have been a powerful instrument of God to draw people closer to His Word and the saving riches therein.

Cooperation is always more powerful than competition.

[H]istorians have powerful imaginations, which are essential and dangerous.

Maybe the idea of me is more powerful than I perceive myself being.

If you need a transfusion of spiritual strength then just ask for it. We call that Prayer. Prayer is powerful spiritual medicine.

Obedience is a powerful spiritual medicine. It comes close to being a cure-all.

Life is all about choices. Today, show compassion for others, think powerful thoughts, and exercise self control.

There is no intimacy without vulnerability. Yet another powerful example of vulnerability as courage.

I grew up with a sister I was very close with and a mom who was a powerful influence on my life. I was always close with women.

When people say I'm powerful, it scares me in a way. If you saw what I see when I wake up in the morning, you wouldn't think that either.

Unions have been the only powerful and effective voice working people have ever had in the history of this country.

It seems to me if I would want to access the special, mysterious, mystical, powerful and most important, I simply need to live my life more fully.

Most of us can agree there is nothing more special, mysterious, mystical, powerful and important than life!

Surrender is not a weakness, or state of inaction, but rather a powerful state of pure energy; the energy of becoming your true purpose.

A powerful dragon crying its eyes out under the moon in a deserted valley is a sight and a sound hardly to be imagined.

Of all the passions that inspire a man in a battle, none, we have to admit, is so powerful and so constant as the longing for honor and reknown.

Candy apple red is my favorite color. It's a powerful color to wear. It's always been that way - I've always been really attracted to that color.

Subversive language, however, must be constantly reinvented, because it is continually being co-opted by the powerful.

There are personalities so powerful that they leave their stamp on any place they inhabit. Their presence is always there, like a spoor, whether or not they themselves are.

I don't think you need to sound like from where you're from. But I think there is something magical and powerful about encompassing something fully and singularly.

Bruce Lee was the first guy to bring film recognition of Asian men not being wimps, so it made me want to be as powerful as he was.

Pain made you strong. Loss made you powerful.

She gritted her teeth. She was here with Sebastian, on her way to see a powerful warlock, and mentally she was maundering on about the way Jace smelled.

Absolutely, I think that is where a scent is so powerful because it harnesses our memory and our memory is a very emotional place. I do like the smell of excitement.

We need grief as a precursor to emotional refreshment, and so consume it vicariously in somewhat titrated but powerful enough form through engagement with the arts.

Talking about peoples lived experiences is a powerful way to mobilize them. We can create new rules.

The family is the scene of the most intimate and powerful of human experiences. Family situations are bloodier and more passionate than any others, and the costs are greater.

To persuade is more trouble than to dominate, and the powerful seldom take this trouble if they can avoid it.

I've had four amazing men in my life, very strong, powerful, wonderful men. I certainly will have a relationship with someone but I don't think I will get married again.

It is only as powerful as it is relevant in a given scenario. I think we need to be clear it is not a magic bullet in post-conviction cases.

Highlighting expensive repair costs to your vendor can also be a powerful negotiating tool.

You don't have to do something exotic to enjoy the benefits of natural healing agents. So many things in your kitchen - common spices, common herbs and foods - have powerful healing agents as well.

Donald Trump has a lot of supporters with a deep hatred of Hillary Clinton and access to incredibly powerful lethal weapons.

Jesus is a powerful guy in Hollywood. Not quite as powerful as Vin Diesel, but powerful.

We have the ability to become far more powerful and happy and healthy than we ever dreamed possible. At any age.