Powerful The Quotes

#1. It must be that there is something in the hearts of human beings, some natural fluid perhaps, that insists on happiness, even confronted with the most powerful arguments against it.

Ben H. Winters

#2. The next question is how? How does news find us?
What you need is a certain critical literacy about the fact that you are almost always subject to an algorithm. The most powerful thing in your world now is an algorithm about which you know nothing about.

Kelly McBride

#3. The power of a dream is that it frees up your imagination to think about the best possible scenario for your life.

Silken Laumann

#4. You ultimately judge the civility of a society not by how it treats the rich, the powerful, the protected and the highly esteemed, but by how it treats the poor, the disfavored and the disadvantaged ...

Bryan Stevenson

#5. She understood now why pain was the tithe for magic: It was more powerful than joy. Than anything.
Than hope?

Laini Taylor

#6. I reckon it does take a powerful trust in the Lord to guard a fellow, though sometimes I think that Cora's a mite over-cautious, like she was trying to crowd the other folks away and get in closer than anybody else.

William Faulkner

#7. I wanted my photographs to be as powerful as the last thing a person sees or remembers before death.

Joel-Peter Witkin

#8. Understand the place of love in a spiritual life. A powerful and blissful type of love has no conditions, no ownership and no people involved. Be free from fear. Be who you are. That is love.

Ajahn Brahm

#9. There is nothing in this world more powerful than the connection a person feels for another.

Rinda Elliott

#10. Well the basic thesis is that there's a god in heaven who is all powerful who wants to help people. And that - he will answer prayer, and does miraculous things in people's lives. And so I've documented some of these wonderful things.

Pat Robertson

#11. Your story isn't powerful enough if all it does is lead the horse to water; it has to inspire the horse to drink, too. On social media, the only story that can achieve that goal is one told with native content.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#12. Bush has done more to create passions for what they call terror than any other Administration in this nation's history. I get rather afraid when the most powerful man in the world talks to, and gets answers back from, God.

Randall Robinson

#13. It is the powerful who know how to honour, it is their art, their domain for invention.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#14. Boards of directors are allowed to work together, so are banks and investors and corporations in alliances with one another and with powerful states. That's just fine. It's just the poor who aren't supposed to cooperate.

Noam Chomsky

#15. There's no denying that television is one of the most powerful propaganda media we've ever invented.

Jim Fowler

#16. And the ideal travel writer is consumed not just with a will to know. He is also moved by a powerful will to teach.

Paul Fussell

#17. From 1783 at the end of the American Revolution to 1861, the number of slaves in the United States increased five times over, and all this expansion produced a powerful nation.

Edward E. Baptist

#18. Women are so powerful they're scary, and the incentive to squash this has been going on for so long that some of us actually believe we're subordinate.

Alanis Morissette

#19. Modern business-people and lawyers are, in fact, powerful sorcerers. The principal difference between them and tribal shamans is that modern lawyers tell far stranger tales.

Yuval Noah Harari

#20. [I]t is the writer's duty to write fiction which promotes virtue, the good, the beautiful, and above all, the true ... It is the writer's duty to hate injustice, to defy the powerful, and to speak for the voiceless. To be ... the severest critics of our own societies.

Edward Abbey

#21. We're pieces on a gameboard, Dr. March, and some of us are more powerful than others. You. Me. Her. We're the ones the gods want. We're the ones they're fighting over.

Richelle Mead

#22. The friendless, the weak, the victims of prejudice and public excitement are entitled to the same quality of justice and fair play that the rich, the powerful, the well-connected, and the fellow with pull thinks he can get.

Harry S. Truman

#23. Another hidden sacrifice, one of great spiritual beauty and of powerful efficacy in the healing of human sorrows, is the

James Allen

#24. It is not reasonable that art should win the place of honor over our great and powerful mother Nature. We have so overloaded the beauty and richness of her works by our inventions that we have quite smothered her.

Michel De Montaigne

#25. The more positive you are, the powerful youll be.

Joyce Meyer

#26. I understood a powerful fact: formal education gets you a job, but self-education is what makes you rich! The

Jim Rohn

#27. The Lord intends us to be powerful people-mighty in optimism and hopeful of spirit, powerful in evangelistic zeal, potent in influence, sturdy in moral fiber and purity. We can be powerhouses in prayer and preaching.

David Jeremiah

#28. When an individual is motivated by great and powerful convictions of truth, then he disciplines himself, not because of the demands of the church, but because of the knowledge within his heart

Gordon B. Hinckley

#29. Prayer is the most powerful weapon we have in our spiritual arsenal to stand against the world's greatest enemy, the one who presents himself as an angel of light [2 Corinthians 11:14].

Billy Graham

#30. I think this is one of the greatest gifts of this era: Because of the Internet, we can start to type a question into Google and watch the question auto-fill. In that moment, we know someone else has asked that same question. The gift of realizing you're not alone is incredibly powerful.

Ze Frank

#31. 'Favoritism' is always a factor, and pressure always build for the appointment of friends of influential supporters of the President, or for the nominees of powerful Member of Congress from the incoming President's party.

Richard V. Allen

#32. People are seeing the impact of climate change around them in extraordinary patterns of floods and droughts, wildfires, heatwaves and powerful storms.

John Holdren

#33. The difference between punishment and discipline is a powerful child.

Danny Silk

#34. The most powerful narcotic in the world is the promise of belonging.

Kalle Lasn

#35. But contemporary capitalism increasingly has the power to eliminate the intimacy and accountability of human relationships. So in the marketplace, as in every field, there is an urgent need for those with a powerful compass.

Timothy Keller

#36. And now, because of a song, Vimes, a simple piece of music, Vimes, soft as a breath, stranger than a mountain, some very powerful states have agreed to work together to heal the problems of another autonomous state and, almost as collateral, turn some animals into people at a stroke.

Terry Pratchett

#37. Maggie Shipstead takes hold of the reader and doesn't let go. Astonish Me is a haunting, powerful novel.

Dani Shapiro

#38. Magic Johnson was in the seventh year of his Hall of Fame career when thoughts of his basketball afterlife led him to the office of uber-executive Michael Ovitz, co-founder of Creative Artists Agency, Hollywood's most powerful agency.

Don Yaeger

#39. At 82, Nelson (who wrote the song "On the Road Again," among a thousand or more others) is the elder statesman of country music, a steadying and powerful voice in the industry and on environmental issues, and he's still on the road much of the year. The music keeps calling.

Willie Nelson

#40. Powerful is the charm of words, which for us reduces to manageable entities all the passions that would otherwise madden and destroy us.

Gene Wolfe

#41. 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.

Cassandra Clare

#42. remember you are capable of the most powerful thing in the universe.

you are capable of love.

AVA.

#43. I feel good when I'm engaged in what I think are the core issues of the society, and those core issues to me are what's happening to poor folks in this society.

Barack Obama

#44. Love is the most powerful healing energy. Everything you do with love spreads healing. So feel it,be it, and spread it.

Abhishek Kumar

#45. Baseball. If there's a more beautiful word in the English language. I have yet to hear it ... baseball has served as such a powerful link between Dad and me, and later between me and my son.

Tim Russert

#46. I think being ambitious, successful, powerful, making a lot of money - I don't care what color you are as a woman; it's difficult to find a mate. I think the natural order is that men want to be providers.

Stephanie Allain

#47. If we never leave our house except to drive to work, do we need to be even remotely aware of this powerful, humbling, extraordinary and eternal life force that surges and ebbs around us all the time? Apparently not. Because we have stopped paying attention.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#48. Remove all the walls and curtains so you can get closer and purely love. Have principles but do not use them to exclude or to judge the others. Stay far from idols, specially from those you made from your own principles. Have a powerful faith, but do not play the powerful.

Shams Tabrizi

#49. Books and knowledge are the two most powerful drugs.

Meghan Blistinsky

#50. I get strength from my art - all the paintings I own are powerful.

Madonna Ciccone

#51. In his play "Long Day's Journey into Night, " Eugene O'Neill has one of his characters utter a powerful statement toward the end of her life: "None of us can help the things life has done to us. They are done before you realize it and once they are done, they make you do other things, until at

Ravi Zacharias

#52. The person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people. Fearless, powerful, surprising, moved as I otherwise am only when I write.

Franz Kafka

#53. Mr Zhu says what makes him a diaosi is that he is the son of factory workers. He is not fu er dai - second-generation rich - or guan er dai - the son of powerful government officials (it does not escape a diaosi's notice that those two categories often overlap).

Anonymous

#54. Our educational system is appallingly poor right now. Yet, somehow we're turning out some of the most intellectual and powerful sophisticated minds in the world. I think that's because we still have the opportunity here.

Malcolm Wallop

#55. How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.

Robert Burns

#56. I actually think the reason I am interested in certain parts is because I was such a dweeb in high school. When you are such a loser, it's a helpful way in to a lot of characters because even very powerful people are not all that powerful, really.

Sigourney Weaver

#57. The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.

Barry Commoner

#58. A powerful connection between two people is a potent psychic factor that exists regardless of either person's opinion about the relationship.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#59. Well, whatever one thinks of the Roman Church, it is a worthy and powerful foe. I could accept that sort of conversion with grace. But I shall be very disappointed indeed if we lose him to the Presbyterians.

Donna Tartt

#60. Our country demands all our strength, all our energies. To resist the powerful combination now forming against us will require every man at his place. If victorious, we will have everything to hope for in the future. If defeated, nothing will be left for us to live for.

Robert E.Lee

#61. I think the human spirit is a real powerful spirit. It has no limits and it has no ends. And I hate to see it put in any kind of box - pink or green.

Frank Capra

#62. This is the danger of loving: No matter how powerful you are, no matter how many kingdoms you rule, you cannot stop those you love from dying.

Kate DiCamillo

#63. Although military, economic and political strength certainly favors the more powerful side, the matter of simple justice is a counterbalancing factor.

Jimmy Carter

#64. The most powerful teaching moments are the ones where you screw up.

Brene Brown

#65. I believe that one of the most powerful things of all is aesthetics.

Kalle Lasn

#66. 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

#67. There is a practice that is most powerful in keeping us united with God. That practice is the constant recollection of His presence.

Alphonsus Liguori

#68. [On women in previously all-male fields:] I think it will change in a lot of workplaces. I'm not so sure it will ever change on Capitol Hill until more women are in powerful positions. Because this is the last plantation for men.

Andrea Mitchell

#69. I believe the cinema is one of our principal forms of art. It is an incredibly powerful way to tell uplifting stories that can move people to cry with joy and inspire them to reach for the stars.

Wes Craven

#70. His books are exciting and powerful and - if I may filch the word from the booksy ones - pulsing.

Dorothy Parker

#71. In the heraldry of heaven goodness precedes greatness; so on earth it is more powerful. The lowly and the lovely may frequently do more in their own limited sphere than the gifted.

Thomas Hartwell Horne

#72. You are the most powerful army in the world; you are the future of this planet. You cannot, you will not spend one more minute of your time looking in a mirror wishing you looked different.

Jamie Le Fay

#73. Ridicule has even been the most powerful enemy of enthusiasm, and properly the only antagonist that can be opposed to it with success.

Oliver Goldsmith

#74. Because I said so." She paused again. "Sweetheart, I know you're an adult, but adults are like vampires. The older ones are much more powerful.

Karin Slaughter

#75. I truly believe the only way we can create global peace is through not only educating our minds, but our hearts and our souls.

Malala Yousafzai

#76. Walking the walk is one thing, but it is so much more powerful if you can talk it as well.

Robin Hoyle

#77. Love is the strongest medicine. It is more powerful than electricity.

Neem Karoli Baba

#78. There's nothing more narcissistic than being sure that you are built in the image of an all-powerful Creator-God, and that same God answers your prayers, knows your name, and has a personal relationship with you.

David G. McAfee

#79. I believe love is the most powerful energy we have in this life. Everything is about love.

Juanes

#80. Don't be afraid to really use your imagination. Let it run wild. It's one of the most powerful tools you've got.

Laird Hamilton

#81. Powerful new drug-free treatments have been developed for depression and for every conceivable type of anxiety, such as chronic worrying, shyness, public speaking anxiety, test anxiety, phobias, and panic attacks. The goal of the treatment is not just partial improvement but full recovery.

David D. Burns

#82. To abandon all is to take our hearts, place them before the One who created them, and dare to believe He can live life powerfully through our surrendered lives.

Mary E. DeMuth

#83. Every powerful movement has had its philosophy which has gripped the mind, fired the imagination and captured the devotion of its adherents.

John Stott

#84. Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other.

Randy Pausch

#85. Art is a product of the intuitive - the most powerful instrument within us. The intuitive is the most accurate sense we have.

Louis I. Kahn

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

Jasper Sole

#87. Insult is powerful. Insult begets both rage and humor and often at the same time.

Suzanne Fields

#88. I have always been a big fan of the character and am more of a moviegoer than a comic book guy, there is always something about the character of Batman that is very elemental. There is a great powerful myth to the character and romantic element that draws from a lot of literary sources

Christopher Nolan

#89. The appeal to the 'natural' is one of the most powerful aspects of common-sense thinking but it is a way of understanding social relations which denies history and the possibility of change for the future.

Chris Weedon

#90. Reading is a choice. The will to do depends the reader. We may or may not do it but when we kill reading, we kill a purposeful mind. Reading a page of a purposeful book per day is not only a great medicine to the mind but also a powerful antidote to ignorance and mediocrity

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#91. Not only the people of Nepal but also those who believe in the power of democracy are looking at Nepal and this assembly.

Narendra Modi

#92. The objection to propaganda is not only its appeal to unreason, but still more the unfair advantage which it gives to the rich and powerful.

Bertrand Russell

#93. Alfred," Merryweather said. "OIPEP is the only organization of its kind in the world, with practically unlimited resources and an intelligence network that spans every country in the planet. We shall do what any powerful, multinational bureaucracy would do in such a crisis. We shall hold a meeting!

Rick Yancey

#94. A dirty, joyous, bare-limbed freedom, which rose in his imagination like a vast airy cathedral, ruined perhaps, roofless, fan-vaulted to the skies, where they would weightlessly drift upward in a powerful embrace ...

Ian McEwan

#95. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama's strategy is to lead from behind. It sounds like what he is outlining is not to lead at all. We cannot continue to outsource foreign policy. We must lead. We are the most powerful nation in the world. We need to begin to act like it, again.

Marco Rubio

#96. The truth is, Hillary Clinton's ideas create more income inequality. Why? Because bigger government creates crony capitalism. When you have a 70,000 page tax code, you've got to be very wealthy, very powerful, very well connected to dig your way through that tax code.

Carly Fiorina

#97. Applause is the most powerful thing ... people talk about the sound of it, but what I hear is glee.

C. C. H. Pounder

#98. Disappointment and adversity can be catalysts for greatness. There's something particularly exciting about being the hunter, as opposed to the hunted. And that can make for powerful energy.

Cathy Freeman

#99. Simply put, Redeeming Love is the most powerful work of fiction you will ever read.

Liz Curtis Higgs

#100. The editor self thinks only of saving the reader time and shaping a powerful emotional experience.

Mary Karr