Powerful Quotes

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.

The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.

So every single day, I found something to be grateful for and that's a powerful lesson.

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

Any real record person knows that the number one most powerful marketing tool when it comes to music is repetition.

Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented.

God was treated like this powerful, erratic, rather punitive father who has to be pacified and praised. You know, flattered.

The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.

The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.

If God is so powerful, can he create a rock which he cannot lift?

We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.

Anyone weighing whether to re-elect the President should take the bin Laden operation into account: it is a powerful exhibit that Obama is a steely Commander in Chief - a critical test for many Americans.

If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.

I was holding a reserve inside all along. When you're with someone as powerful as Donald, you have no choice. You can get lost within that power if you're not careful.

Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don't forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.

A father's disappointment can be a very powerful tool.

Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively past-, present- or future-oriented.

Belief is such a powerful thing - but because it is, it can also be very destructive and it's very easily manipulated.

An alliance with a powerful person is never safe.

If the militarily most powerful - and least threatened - states need nuclear weapons for their security, how can one deny such security to countries that are truly insecure? The present nuclear policy is a recipe for proliferation. It is a policy for disaster.

The radiation left over from the Big Bang is the same as that in your microwave oven but very much less powerful. It would heat your pizza only to minus 271.3*C - not much good for defrosting the pizza, let alone cooking it.

Today, the technology is there to give early and normally ample warning when a powerful tornado approaches. When a tornado strikes, all of us are at risk.

You can say that I lived in Asia for a long time and in Japan I became close to several CIA agents. And you could say that I became an adviser to several CIA agents in the field and, through my friends in the CIA, met many powerful people and did special works and special favors.

We are the most powerful nation on earth. No external power, no terrorist organization, can defeat us. But we can defeat ourselves by getting caught in a quagmire.

I grew up with a lot of guys, some of them are dead, some of them are this and some of them that, and some of them very, very powerful, bright young men, who became this instead of that simply because of a lack of guidance - that's all.

I think empathy is a beautiful thing. I think that's the power of film though. We have one of the most powerful, one of the greatest communicative tools known to man.

Although my early equipment was very modest, later I made my own and they were more powerful.

An order of government, established by such an all-wise, powerful being, must be good and perfect, and must be calculated to promote the permanent peace, happiness, and well-being of all his subjects.

I was very short when I was little, so I probably had - and there may be a residue of it now - that Napoleon complex. Wanting to be as big and as powerful as the big guys.

One of the most powerful defences the media can offer for controversial actions is, of course, public interest.