Powerful Individuals Quotes

#1. God isn't looking for powerful individuals who are strong, independent, courageous and self-sufficient. Rather, God is seeking vulnerable individuals who have weaknesses, deficiencies, inadequacies and who are willing to stop relying on their own abilities.

Dana Arcuri

#2. A theater is such a revealing form of art, such a transparent and good actors, they're such powerful individuals. I always kind of dreamt that one day I will open my mouth on stage.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

#3. I just hope that people, women specifically, embrace that side of themselves that maybe is a little nuts or that society tells us is crazy.

Jenny Mollen

#4. For 70 years there's been a consensus among scholars and the American people on a reading to the Constitution that protects the right of privacy, the autonomy of individuals, while at the same time empowering the federal government to protect the less powerful.

Joe Biden

#5. There is no secret in the mystery of life stronger and more beautiful than that attachment which converts the silence of a virgin's spirit into a perpetual awareness that makes a person forget the past, for it kindles fiercely in the heart the sweet and overwhelming hope of the coming future.

Khalil Gibran

#6. There was no romance about the mosquitos, however.

Edward Burnett Tylor

#7. I've thought about how you'd taste," he said, in a low, guttural voice, and she whimpered, arched against his mouth.

"Jesus," he panted. "It's like a fucking drug."

~Tommy aka "Ender

Sydney Croft

#8. Too often we forget how powerful we are as individuals to shape how other people see the world. Each one of us constantly broadcasts to other people - whether consciously or unconsciously - verbally or non-verbally - and those messages influence their brain.

Michelle Gielan

#9. Words alike make the destiny of empires and of individuals. Ambition, love, hate, interest, vanity, have words for their engines, and need none more powerful. Language is a fifth element - the one by which all the others are swayed.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#10. Nothing is more powerful than individuals acting out of their own conscience.

Vaclav Havel

#11. My mother was always in the center of her own agitation, seeming as though, far away, part of her was being chased along a dirt road by a swarm of bees.

Laura Kasischke

#12. The life expectancy of a team is about eight months. Then the next year, it's a whole new team.

Mike Krzyzewski

#13. The words we speak are important, powerful, and since names are spoken every day, directed at specific individuals, people often become what they are called. I like to know who I'm dealing with.

Gena Showalter

#14. Libraries' most powerful asset is the conversation they provide - between books and readers, between children and parents, between individuals and the collective world. Take them away and those voices turn inwards or vanish. Turns out that libraries have nothing at all to do with silence.

Bella Bathurst

#15. The internet is the most powerful mechanism we can imagine to match perfectly individuals who needs something, and people with something to offer.

John Goodwin

#16. The life of states cannot, any more than the life of individuals, be conditioned by the force and the will of a unit, however powerful, but by the consensus of a group, which must one day include all states.

Lester B. Pearson

#17. This is Kester Baleen and Ajex Cristo,' Jared introduced. 'One born without common sense and another with too much intelligence.'

'Yeah, and what about you Dernell?' Kester retorted back. 'Born with a dry sense of humour.

Deepika Kumaaraguru

#18. God has given us a vision to see the body of Christ move from being an inactive audience to a Spirit-filled army ... God is about to unloose a powerful outpouring of the Holy Spirit of an unprecedented magnitude ... He is looking for individuals who will be 'dread champions' for his cause.

John Wimber

#19. Praise is a powerful people-builder. Catch individuals doing something right.

Brian Tracy

#20. And then, when I started to school, I found out I couldn't talk.

Mel Tillis

#21. Philip couldn't fornicate if you put him in a barrel with three whores.

Ken Follett

#22. Be too dumb to quit and too stubborn to back off.

Steven Pressfield

#23. There are many organizations and individuals advocating for the public interest online - what's good for ordinary people - but other interests are more numerous and powerful than they are. I want that to change. And that's what I want to do next.

Sue Gardner

#24. The one thing in me more powerful than a general misanthropy is an inescapable compassion for individuals.

Jasper Sole

#25. Individuals who structure their careers around autonomy, mastery, and purpose will have a powerful body of work.

Pamela Slim

#26. In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.

Charles Darwin

#27. One of the most powerful tools for empowering individuals and communities is making certain that any individual who wants to receive a quality education can do so.

Christine Gregoire

#28. It's not just that individuals have lost faith in the integrity of their leaders, it's that they no longer believe society's most powerful institutions are acting in their interests.

Gary Hamel

#29. I'm not suggesting that everyone should meditate, far from it. Meditation is for very few individuals. I'm speaking of something that is a powerful experience.

Frederick Lenz

#30. I must repay the gratitude given by pretties.. I want to give even more happiness that I have received all these while

Kim Kyu-jong

#31. What offends me the most when I hear criticisms about this so-called Africa bias is how quick we are to focus on the words and propaganda of a few powerful, influential individuals, and to forget about the millions of anonymous people who suffer from their crimes.

Fatou Bensouda

#32. There are people who will think of you in negative ways. You will feel it sometimes. It can actually be physically painful if they're somewhat powerful. You simply have to remove yourself inwardly from these individuals.

Frederick Lenz

#33. Only caring individuals can restore the places we inhabit. The 'simple act of planting a tree' not only restores the places we live, but makes us whole and powerful again.

Paul Hawken

#34. Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#35. 'The X-Files,' as I recall, we didn't know really what we were until the middle of the first year. You know, so if we'd been cancelled, you get cancelled before you mature into what it is you can actually be, which is too bad.

David Duchovny

#36. People who are capable of practicing tantra are individuals who have meditated for many, many years and developed very strong and powerful states of attention.

Frederick Lenz

#37. By success, of course, I do not mean that you may become rich, famous, or powerful for that does not, of necessity, represent achievement. Indeed, not infrequently, such individuals represent pathetic failure as persons.

Norman Vincent Peale

#38. Having undergone that disintegration and dying of past individuals and rebirth into something vastly more powerful, all these creatures had joined millions of years before into its own early Gravemind, far more than the sum of its parts.

Greg Bear

#39. America is a mosaic not of groups but of individuals, each of whom carries a host of cultural influences, some chosen, some inherited, some absorbed by osmosis. That mosaic is held together by the pursuit of happiness, the most powerful mortar ever conceived. Left alone, it will long endure.

Virginia Postrel

#40. The person who thinks I worship the devil and kill animals is just as important as someone who makes an interpretation that's closer to what I intended.

Marilyn Manson

#41. Teachers are the most important individuals in our society - nothing is as powerful as the human touch in education.

George Lucas