Top 100 Powerful Than Quotes
#1. The computer-simulated dreamworld of the Matrix trilogy is a technological version of Descartes's evil demon. In essence it represents the idea of a mind (the Architect) more powerful than our own that is intent on deceiving us whenever, and however, it sees fit.
William Irwin
#2. Looking back, I have come to realize that the gang lifestyle back then - the fame, the respect, and the recognition - was stronger and powerful than any drug. We were serious with what we were dealing with. It was like a do or die situation. Shelton 'Apples' Burrows reform gang leader
Drexel Deal
#3. Why didn't you tell me how dangerous my feelings were?"
"There's a difference between power and danger. Your feelings are more powerful than anything in the world. But you shouldn't be afraid of them. Love is bigger than fear.
Lauren Kate
#4. If there's nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come, there is nothing more ubiquitously pervasive than an idea whose time won't go.
Elizabeth Janeway
#5. I made my fantasy life more powerful than my real one.
Jeffrey Dahmer
#6. Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push - a smile. A word of optimism and hope, a 'you can do it!' when things are tough
Richard M. DeVos
#7. Didn't they know who I was, what they'd trained me for? I was Eadlyn Schreave. No one was more powerful than me.
So if they thought I was going down without a fight, they were sadly mistaken.
Kiera Cass
#8. Love spells are nothing but wives' tales. You can't play magic inside the heart, for it's more powerful than any spell. Lust you can order up with a wink, desire with a smile. But love is love, and there is nothing can touch it.
Nora Roberts
#9. One cubic inch of nanotube circuitry, once fully developed, would be up to one hundred million times more powerful than the human brain.9
Ray Kurzweil
#10. Saying no to something is actually much more powerful than saying yes.
Tom Hanks
#11. Hate is such a strong emotion. Much more powerful than indifference. But those who burn with hate can also love just as intensely. Can't they? When you hate
or love
do you do so with all your heart? So much that it feels as if you might die from it?
Morgan Rhodes
#12. There is little more powerful than when truth joins action.
Bryant H. McGill
#13. You are stronger, smarter and mmore powerful than you think.
Jan Porter
#14. Habits are more powerful than fears.
Seth Godin
#15. Why was his grief more powerful than his love? Why couldn't he find it within himself to fight back?
Why am I not enough to live for?
Libba Bray
#16. One day he (Einstein) said that the only mechanical force more powerful than steam, electricity and atomic energy is will. That Alberto bloke was not stupid. With will you can achieve things.
Jose Mourinho
#17. I have learned so much from working with other poets, travelling and reading with them, spending days discussing poems in progress. There is the sense that we are all, as writers, part of something which is more powerful than any of us.
Helen Dunmore
#18. Nothing is more powerful than the black church experience. A good choir and a good sermon in the black church, it's pretty hard not to be move and be transported.
Barack Obama
#19. Today, I don't believe in destiny. But I do believe in history ... There's nothing more powerful than history ...
Brad Meltzer
#20. The unexpected connection is more powerful than one that is obvious.
Heraclitus
#21. That [photographs] disturb readers is exactly as it should be: that's why photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism.
Nora Ephron
#22. There is one thing more powerful than kings and all the soldiers in the world, and that is a visionary who has the courage to persevere.
Paul Delaroche
#23. The curve is more powerful than the sword.
Mae West
#24. Let passion reach a catastrophe and it submits us to an intoxicating force far more powerful than the niggardly irritation of wine or of opium. The lucidity our ideas then achieve, and the delicacy of our overly exalted sensations, produce the strangest and most unexpected effects.
Honore De Balzac
#25. Watching that great ship fly up, and up, and up against the night was an awakening, a vivid flash of something like God, something more powerful than nature itself. And it is us. And we know. We who have seen.
Charles Pellegrino
#26. At the end of every day, having a clientele that speaks well of you, that's the largest source of business. I don't care what kind of business you're in. Clients referring us to their friends or relatives is so much more powerful than any advertising we could ever do.
Charles R. Schwab
#27. If you take neutron star material outside of the crushing gravity well where it's normally found, it will re-expand into superhot normal matter with an outpouring of energy more powerful than any nuclear weapon.
Randall Munroe
#28. Any coalition, especially where one party is more powerful than the other, it's always bound to have a pecking order.
Peter Hook
#29. We all know the power of film; we all know there's almost nothing more powerful than to see people on film that look and talk like you, like we do.
Mira Nair
#31. You are more powerful than any fearful force. Your Divine willingness can out-will any darkness that the world has ever seen.
Doreen Virtue
#32. The mechanism she employs is much more powerful than ours, for all her levers move the human heart.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#33. The thing I was attracted to as a little girl was Kirk, Bones and Spock, and their utter loyalty. There's nothing more powerful than that.
Jolene Blalock
#34. What is learned out of necessity is inevitably more powerful than the learning that comes easily.
Malcolm Gladwell
#35. Armand Gamache had always held unfashionable beliefs. He believed the light would banish the shadows. That kindness was more powerful than cruelty, and that goodness existed, even in the most desperate places. He believed that evil had its limits.
Louise Penny
#36. More powerful than God, more evil than the Devil; the poor have it, the rich lack it, and if you eat it you die?
Margaret Atwood
#37. I think readers' imaginations are far more powerful than anything you can put on a page and, therefore, can conjure up graphic images for themselves, which I think you just have to nudge them towards.
Mark Billingham
#39. A strong intuition is much more powerful than a weal test. Normals teach us rules; outliers teach us laws. For every perfect medical experiment, there is a perfect human bias.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#40. The myth of the impossible dream is more powerful than all the facts of history.
Robert Fulghum
#41. If nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come, nothing is more harmful than an idea which is manipulated by motivated men. Rogues and crooks have ideas. So do ordinary folks. But intellectuals are meant to be a breed apart for the same reason rocks aren't gems.
Mohammad Badrul Ahsan
#42. Modern research has shown that your eye-brain system is thousands of times more complex and powerful than had previously been estimated, and that with proper training you can quickly reap the benefits of this enormous potential.
Tony Buzan
#43. Man, the flavor of a pineapple is 100 times more powerful than the flavor of meat.
Jose Andres
#44. Our feelings are real and they are powerful, but they are not more powerful than God and truth.
Joyce Meyer
#45. Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't let our people have guns. Why should we let them have ideas?
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin
#46. When you look in the mirror and say, 'I love you,' don't worry if you don't believe it yet. Love is far more powerful than your limiting beliefs.
Cheryl Richardson
#47. [Her message to women and girls of the world] You are more powerful than you can possibly imagine. You are more powerful than you can possibly imagine. And it is incumbent upon you to use that power
not only for yourself, but for everyone else around you.
Jennifer Beals
#48. In each of us, there lies a divine connection to a power more powerful than hate or violence. Today is the day to attune to that power and use it on behalf of peace on earth.
Marianne Williamson
#49. His righteousness rises above the sins of all men; His life is more powerful than all death; His salvation is more unconquerable than all hell.
Martin Luther
#50. Choices are powerful things. In fact, they're more powerful than most things.
Amy Neftzger
#51. I know some of my memories are made up and they are far more powerful than the things that actually happened. For example, I always remember my brother posting me a copy of 'Dubliners' from Africa, but he says he never did.
John Banville
#52. I keep reminding myself, through all the ups and downs of 'Community,' that I might never have another job that really means something to people the way 'Community' means something to people. That's more powerful than ratings.
Gillian Jacobs
#53. I always said to the directors that the minute a player becomes more powerful than the manager of Manchester United, it's not Manchester United. You have lost control of the whole club. So I always made sure that I was in control. They always knew who the manager was.
Alex Ferguson
#55. 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.
John W. Thompson
#56. One who is connected to the Energy Stream is more powerful than a million who are not. And two who are harmoniously focused and connected to the Energy Stream brings about a co-creative endeavor that cannot be matched by anything else in all of the Universe.
Esther Hicks
#57. I didn't think there was any way to convince
Jack that he wanted more than I had to
give, that to people who'd been damaged the
way I had been, fear and the will to survive
would always be more powerful than attachment.
I could only love in a limited way
Lisa Kleypas
#58. Darling, family can be the very devil in disguise. More powerful than any drug, more alluring than any sin. They can demand a loyalty that will rip your heart out and chew it up without the thought of an apology.
Liz Reinhardt
#59. It takes us long to learn that prayer is more important than organization, more powerful than armies, more influential than wealth and mightier than all learning.
Samuel Chadwick
#60. Sometimes laughing isn't the best judge of what's funny, 'cause I think there's a lot of things that are really funny that don't make you laugh, that don't make you physically, audibly make a noise, but is something that is much more powerful than that.
Tim Heidecker
#61. The historical record demonstrates that, on the contrary, many homosexuals chose heterosexuality and failed to maintain it because choice is less powerful than destiny.
Rictor Norton
#62. I think that American salesmanship can be a weapon more powerful than the atomic bomb.
Henry J. Kaiser
#63. There is a force more powerful than steam and electricity: the will.
Fernan Caballero
#64. There is a tale, as old as the Ancient Ones themselves, that one would arise who has that gift: to sing all the chantments, the high notes and the low, the swift rhythms and the slow. And this person would be more powerful than even the Ancient Ones were, as powerful as the gods themselves.
Kate Constable
#65. Do not underestimate the human being, who sometimes appears so simple. Even with sight as sharp as an eagle, a mind as sharp as a razor, senses more powerful than gods, hearing that can catch the music and the lamentations of life, your knowledge of humanity will never be total.
Pramoedya Ananta Toer
#66. Men are not conditioned to be less powerful than a woman. It will be the wise woman who realizes this and is sensitive to that issue.
Joyce Brothers
#67. Homework is not an option. My bed is sending out serious nap rays. I can't help myself. The fluffy pillows and warm comforter are more powerful than I am. I have no choice but to snuggle under the covers.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#68. There are few things more powerful than a name. A single phrase that somehow becomes a symbol for an entire existence.
Lance Conrad
#69. Nature is a big part of my weekend. Whenever possible, I take Friday and Monday off and spend four days outdoors. We should remind ourselves that there was something here before us, a force more powerful than us.
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
#70. But how can you be God, if Justice is more powerful than you?" I am his daughter, five hundred generations from him. Shouldn't the children of God learn something in that time? Lared
Orson Scott Card
#72. Never underestimate the value of knowing another's language. It can be far more powerful than swords and arrows.
Melina Marchetta
#73. Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.
Henry David Thoreau
#74. Success is not easy and I think everyone should know that hard work and perseverance and being open to giving back are so much more powerful than stepping all over people to get to the top.
Misty Copeland
#75. We're finding [texting] 11 times more powerful than email [for communicating with kids].
Nancy Lublin
#76. Cooperation is always more powerful than competition.
Bob Proctor
#77. The reason books get banned, but movies can do almost anything is because the novel is more powerful than a movie. The reader is part of the creation of the story because they must imagine and envision it. There is creation in the act of reading.
Carolyn Mackler
#78. Knowledge is far more powerful than any weapon,
Steve Berry
#79. Reason shows us our duty; he who can make us love our duty is more powerful than reason itself.
Stanislaw Leszczynski
#80. More powerful than the will to win is the courage to begin.
Orrin Woodward
#81. Sometimes words are more powerful than guns. And sometimes silence is more powerful than words. It is the things that are not said that are important.
Christie Watson
#82. Kindness is always more powerful than rightness, because rightness is only right but kindness is always right but with kindness.
Debasish Mridha
#83. Women are more powerful than they think. A mother's warmth is the essence of motivation. If we could liquefy the encouragement, care and compassion we deliver to our children it would surely fill an expanse greater than the Pacific
Louise Burfitt-Dons
#84. As Luchas looked over, those perfectly matched eyes met Qhuinn's fucked-up ones, and the connection was there: They had both been through hell, and that lock step was more powerful than the common DNA they shared.
J.R. Ward
#85. I have heard it said that living out of our vision is more powerful than living out of our circumstance.
Marianne Williamson
#86. You have goodness in your heart, but your darkness overwhelms it all; your desire to hurt, destroy, and avenge is more powerful than your desire to love, help, and light the way.
Marie Lu
#87. There exists in nature a force which is immeasurably more powerful than steam, and by means of which a single man, who knows how to adapt and direct it, might upset and alter the face of the world.
Eliphas Levi
#88. Surrendering is intentionally laying down the power I possess. And have I considered that the power I lay down is often more powerful than that which I'm laying it down in front of? Therefore, I would be wise to recognize that surrender is less the absence of power and more the presence of fear.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#89. There are not many relationships more powerful than that of two women who fall fast and deep into a friendship. It was heartbreaking to be loved and left.
Mindy Kaling
#90. Hope is good. Without it, well, you do the math. But hope has to be like a prayer. Putting it out there to something more powerful than yourself.
Lisa Unger
#91. Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out their conscience, thus helping bring the collective conscience to life.
Norman Cousins
#92. As someone who grew up in the Bronx, I certainly learned my share of four-letter words, but none are more powerful than nice.
Linda Kaplan Thaler
#93. There's nothing more powerful than coming out and being who you are.
Ken Mehlman
#94. Mother love is the most powerful, the most irrational force on earth, even more powerful than sexual love. However, one does lead to the other, so best not to spurn the former.
Rita Mae Brown
#95. The magic of drama is infinitely more powerful than the magic of trickery. It is as available to the conjurer as it is to the actor. The only difference is that actors take it for granted, whereas few conjurers are even aware that it exists.
Hake Talbot
#96. To this day, I believe the unity of the world's countries in the fight against terror is more powerful than the fight itself.
Michael DeLong
#97. But, my wolf, compassion is often mistaken for weakness when the fact is, there is very little that is more powerful than the courage it takes to give it. The one thing I know that's even more powerful is the courage it takes to forge your own path, make your own mark and in doing so, make change.
Kristen Ashley
#98. When the vision of the U.S. government included guarding the rights of people but staying out of their way, America was an economic engine more powerful than anything the world had ever witnessed.
Ben Carson
#99. [ ... ] death follows us around for a reason. It's because death is our best adviser. There is nothing more powerful than a person who is prepared to live right now, in this instant, fully accepting that this may be their last moment on earth.
A.C. Ping
#100. More powerful than the mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo