Top 100 A Powerful Quotes
#1. Love is a powerful feeling for another person, often defying logic.
Graeme Simsion
#2. Recently I reviewed the history of many missionaries and found a powerful correlation between exceptional missionaries and mothers who chose to remain home, often at great financial and personal sacrifice ... They reflect honor to mothers who sacrificed to remain home for their children's benefit.
Richard G. Scott
#3. This is the Cuzco asking you to pull on your armor and, mounted on the ample back of a powerful horse, cleave a path through the defenseless flesh of a naked Indian flock whose human wall collapses and disappears beneath the four hooves of the galloping beast.
Ernesto Che Guevara
#4. A powerful programming language is more than just a means for instructing a computer to perform tasks. The language also serves as a framework within which we organize our ideas about processes.
Hal Abelson
#5. I didn't grow up as a religious person under any sort of system or anything like that, I just felt like I've always been sort of intrigued by that - how it can make people's lives better - I mean, it's a powerful thing. So I was interested in thinking about that kind of stuff.
Panda Bear
#6. Visions of paradise. That was exactly what had led him down into hell, into endless arguments with his family, into such a powerful feeling of guilt that he had felt incapable of doing anything and had finally sought refuge in another world.
Paulo Coelho
#7. I tend to wear my emotions on my sleeve. I've had my share of mood swings, believe me. But it's a powerful thing when you realize that you have dominion over your behavior and your passions.
Matt Dillon
#8. Yahoo is positioned for accelerated financial growth. We have a powerful consumer brand, a huge global audience, and a highly profitable operating model.
Jerry Yang
#9. Denial is a powerful weapon. My dad taught me mind over matter. No matter how hurt I got, he didn't mind.
Christopher Titus
#10. We are paint streaked runners,
deafened by the cries of all the sad people.
It's a powerful sound that practically yanks the tears right out of you.
Sometimes, you just can't help but feel like a
very small
clam in
a very
big ocean.
Taylor Rhodes
#11. Indeed it can be argued that to make a powerful film you must care about the subject, therefore powerful films tend to be both political and partisan in nature.
Ben Edwards
#12. Smiling is powerful. Smiling at your problems make you a powerful person.
K.R. Loreto
#13. Love begins when two souls meet together. A soul attracted by another soul. They feel like bind by each other. It's a powerful addiction. It's truly said, first love is last love. But it does not said anywhere to stop love if you betrayed by your lover.
Kusum Manjeshri
#14. My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing.
G. Willow Wilson
#15. As government regulations grow slowly, we become used to the harness. Habit is a powerful force, and we no longer feel as intensely as we once would have [the] constriction of our liberties that would have been utterly intolerable a mere half century ago.
Robert Bork
#16. Democracy cannot long survive when the people permit their lives to be dominated - economically or politically - by a powerful few.
Helen Gahagan Douglas
#17. If we push on, we begin to feel a vague, tingling sense of who, or what, we really are. It's a powerful feeling, strong enough to have us coming back for more, again and again.
Adharanand Finn
#18. 'Peace Train' is a song I wrote, the message of which continues to breeze thunderously through the hearts of millions. There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again.
Cat Stevens
#19. Reality is a powerful solvent.
Tony Judt
#20. Eating a meal with full awareness can be a powerful, enlightening, and healing experience.
David Simon
#21. Leaders today would do well to model the heart of the second king of Israel, one who did not seek his own will, one who readily confessed sin and shortcomings, and one who allowed God to mold him into a powerful influence. David had a willing heart and willing hands, and he was willing to lead!
Teresa Hampton
#22. The weakling and the neurotic attached to his neurosis are not anxious to turn such a powerful searchlight upon the dark corners of their psychology.
Sigmund Freud
#23. The secret of health, happiness, and long life: If you simply learn how to accept and express love, you will live longer ... be happier ... grow healthier. For love is a powerful force.
Alfred Armand Montapert
#24. We need to take nostalgia seriously as an energizing impulse, maybe even a form of knowledge. The effort to revalue what has been lost can motivate serious historical inquiry; it can also cast a powerful light on the present.
T. J. Jackson Lears
#25. Rage is a powerful emotion, strong enough not just to burn away pain but also to sear back the whispering tendrils of fear.
Carrie Ryan
#26. When I started my own business, I funded it as a naked model. I still think that the sex industry can, for some men and women, be a powerful tool for improving their financial prospects.
Molly Crabapple
#27. The endless newsreel clips of nuclear explosions that we saw on TV in the 1960s (were) a powerful incitement to the psychotic imagination, sanctioning *everything*.
J.G. Ballard
#28. Prayer is a powerful thing; for God has bound and tied himself thereunto.
Martin Luther
#29. Whenever out on a leap of faith, things have never turned out as I had imagined, but in the long run, things have always turned out better. Faith is a powerful force and one that creates incredible blessings.
Bronnie Ware
#30. Love is a powerful thing; it makes us all equals by making us briefly, beautifully human.
Seanan McGuire
#31. I am always careful with the truth. It is a powerful thing and deserves respect. (Tad)
Patricia Briggs
#32. If Amazon's dream of a world without gatekeepers becomes reality, then the company itself will become a powerful gatekeeper.
Evgeny Morozov
#33. Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves.
Michel De Montaigne
#35. A powerful flight of the imagination ... an entirely enjoyable reading experience, wrought by a pair of writers noted for excellence.
Roger Zelazny
#36. If governments did not mislead their citizens so often, there would be less need for secrecy, and if leaders knew they could not rely on keeping the public in the dark about what they are doing, they would have a powerful incentive to behave better.
Peter Singer
#37. Anger is a powerful, transformative emotion, one that can light the fire under us that propels us ever higher. However, the woman wasting time at the grocery story, the man cutting us off, the website that will not load are not the right targets for our energy.
Thomm Quackenbush
#38. When two people respect each other, the ability to be vulnerable and to reveal hurt feelings can create a powerful emotional connection that is the source of real intimacy and friendship.
David D. Burns
#39. I'm used to very strong women because my mother was particularly strong, and my father was away all the time. My mother was a big part of bringing up three boys, so I was fully versed in the strength of a powerful woman, and accepted that as the status quo.
Ridley Scott
#40. Doubt is a powerful tool. Doubt challenges my beliefs and breaks the spell of all the lies and superstitions that control my world. I use doubt to recover faith in myself, to take my power back from every superstition I believe in, and return that power to myself.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#41. It's important to remember how our friends have such a powerful influence on us and vice versa. This can be a great thing as long as your friends surround you with love, loyalty, respect and positivity.
Demi Lovato
#42. Inertia is a powerful force in human and political affairs.
Maurice Strong
#43. A powerful man wants people to dream of him, but a leader wants people to dream of themselves.
Romina Russell
#44. To be boomerous is to stay engaged and be a powerful force in life.
R. Trent Thompson
#45. When you see yourself as a powerful creator of your conditions, you'll see opportunities to get to your goals - and dreams - all around you.
Robin Sharma
#47. Materialist deny God because they can't smell a rose with a powerful telescope.
Adriano Bulla
#48. The words hit, a sucker punch that first inspired pain, then a powerful impulse to strike back.
Rob Thomas
#49. Limitless is a powerful and incrediable movie. Everyone should check it out!
Deyth Banger
#50. It is a cruel thought, that, when we feel ourselves standing on the firmest ground in every respect, the cursed arts of our secret enemies, combining with other causes, should effect, by depreciating our money, what the open arms of a powerful enemy could not.
Thomas Jefferson
#52. 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.
Robertson Davies
#53. My research had revealed that challenge and novelty are key elements to happiness. The brain is stimulated by surprise, and successfully dealing with an unexpected situation gives a powerful sense of satisfaction.
Gretchen Rubin
#54. Only a powerful soul can offer love. Only a powerful soul can afford to be humble. If we are weak, then we become selfish. If we are empty, we take, but if we are filled, we automatically give to all. That is our nature.
Brahma Kumaris
#55. Gamache had been to Three Pines on previous investigations and each time he'd had the feeling he belonged. It was a powerful feeling. After all, what else did people really want except to belong? He
Louise Penny
#56. There is no one-size-fits-all solution to the challenges facing our cities or to the housing crisis, but the two issues need to be considered together. From an urban design and planning point of view, the well-connected open city is a powerful paradigm and an engine for integration and inclusivity.
Richard Rogers
#57. Get one Manager Commitment as a result of the other Manager Commitment and you have a powerful equation for Earnings: E=MC2.
Stan Slap
#58. Magic is a powerful art that can support a weak performer.
Ricky Jay
#59. OCTOBER BABY is a profoundly beautiful story and a powerful testament to the importance of every human life.
Marjorie Dannenfelser
#60. During my years as a press secretary, I developed a powerful internal filter, which worked to strip all things 'off message' from my thoughts before they came out of my mouth. It didn't always work, of course, and I said more than a few things I regretted.
Dee Dee Myers
#61. why were the State Department and President Roosevelt so hesitant to express in frank terms how they really felt about Hitler at a time when such expressions clearly could have had a powerful effect on his prestige in the world?
Erik Larson
#62. I didn't want to take it. I knew it was a powerful drug, but I also knew it was a catabolic drug that consumed the body.
David Millar
#63. Denial is a powerful thing. It makes you believe lies.
Ellen Hopkins
#64. Specialization is undeniably a powerful social and economic force. And yet it is also debilitating. It breeds helplessness, dependence, and ignorance and, eventually, it undermines any sense of responsibility. Our
Michael Pollan
#65. Smell, the sense which somehow seems a joke, is the one most susceptible to outrage. It will give you no rest. One can close one's eyes to ugliness or shield the ears from sound; but from a powerful smell there is no recourse but flight.
Robert Leckie
#66. I know when I've been surfing I've got a sense of level of calmness to me, and when I hit the ocean, even in its presence, at the shore, and especially by a powerful surf, I've been put in my place as a person.
Nick Carroll
#67. I sense that stepping into the light is also a powerful metaphor for consciousness, for the birth of the knowing mind, for the simple and yet momentous coming of the sense of self into the world of the mental.
Antonio R. Damasio
#68. The capability of human life is beyond our imagination. What counts is the human capacity to investigate and transform our own mind and the world around us in a powerful and positive direction.
Gelek Rimpoche
#69. 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.
John Bradshaw
#70. The ability to cultivate friends is a powerful aid to success. It is capital which will stand by one when panics come, when banks fail, when business concerns go to the wall.
Orison Swett Marden
#71. Love is such a powerful subject matter because it comes in so many different shapes and sizes. It's about timing, fate, failure, redemption.
Jim Sturgess
#73. Within every woman there is a wild and natural creature, a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
#75. I spent a lot of time in the clouds. Becoming a mother has really helped me put my feet on the ground and given me a very powerful sense of self and a powerful sense of priority in life.
Evangeline Lilly
#76. Expressing political opinion can be a powerful way to establish a character's voice when writing fiction.
Jen Lancaster
#78. Shame is a powerful feeling. There is a tremendous difference between making a mistake and believing you are a mistake...If I don't see myself as being a mistake then it is I who must take responsibility and I am not ready to accept that.
David W. Earle
#79. Cute," she announced. "and oh,baby doll,you do give off a powerful vide,don't you? makes me want to touch you." with your teeth,id bet.i say to myself
Gena Showalter
#80. It takes a powerful motivation to lead to murder. That's why people don't usually murder comparative strangers.
Erle Stanley Gardner
#81. Turing exclaiming once, "No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mundane brain, something like the president of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company.
James Gleick
#82. The transsexually constructed lesbian-feminist feeds off woman's true energy source, i.e. her woman-identified self. It is he who recognises that if female spirit, mind, creativity and sexuality exist anywhere in a powerful way it is here, among lesbian-feminists.
Janice Raymond
#83. An adult mind that is brimming with chunks is a powerful engine of reason, but it comes with a cost: a failure to communicate with other minds that have not mastered the same chunks.
Steven Pinker
#84. Humor is a powerful tool, and some of these politicians are so far out and easy to lampoon. They just provide such delicious opportunity.
George Takei
#85. Kissing is not just kissing. It is a major escalation or de-escalation point in a powerful process of mate choice.
Helen Fisher
#86. Tourism in India has the potential to promote faster, sustainable and more inclusive growth. It could be used as a powerful antidote to tackle poverty.
Chiranjeevi
#87. As retail goes through a fundamental shift into the digital world, I believe Ocado's model and the high standards of customer service it provides will see it emerge as a powerful online player.
Stuart Rose
#88. It's a powerful instrument, dynamite
nothing like it for a convincing argument!
Leonid Andreyev
#90. I think that America is a nation of faith. I do believe that. Certainly by way of heritage - there's a powerful Christian thread through all of American history.
John Edwards
#91. 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.
Arnold J. Toynbee
#92. Jesus is a powerful guy in Hollywood. Not quite as powerful as Vin Diesel, but powerful.
Christian Finnegan
#93. Four is a powerful figure in literature and physical form
Miles Teller
#94. We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.
Mary McLeod Bethune
#95. She tried to scream once, but with significant portions of her larynx already compromised, what she managed was more of a powerful, wet exhalation.
James S.A. Corey
#96. Neither formal education, desire, hard work, nor being a good person guarantees success... the most important key to success is self-motivation. And a consciously chosen vision of the future is a powerful aid to motivate yourself.
Phil Laut
#97. When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development
Melinda Gates
#98. ...story is a powerful stimulant with tremendous influence over how we think and act. Like meth, only safer.
Kathleen Smith
#99. Fear must be challenged, I have found. It is a powerful beat if it is allowed the mastery.
Mary Balogh
#100. The Brotherhood was strong, a unit. a powerful force in their world for good. And so too were the females. Strong. A unit. A powerful force for good in their world.
J.R. Ward
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