Powerful Quotes

But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.

I think one of the reasons that we like conspiracy theories is I think that we like to feel like there is a group of people who are so smart and powerful that they can pull the wool over an entire country or in fact even an entire world's eyes. That certainly makes us feel like somehow we're protected, even if it's not in our best interest.

We are the nation the most powerful, the most armed and we are supplying arms and money to the rest of the world where we are not ourselves fighting. We are eating while there is famine in the world.

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.

And that had a powerful appeal, particularly to those who had been denied the choice to stay on at school, to go to university, to be something else, other than going down the pit.

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

The active part of man consists of powerful instincts, some of which are gentle and continuous; others violent and short; some baser, some nobler, and all necessary.

I was the most powerful left-handed hitter in the Alameda area.

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

That's a powerful lucky rabbit's foot. I got the part in Gone With the Wind because of it. I got my Warner contract, thanks to it.

And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

I want to tell stories powerful people don't want you to tell. It's not worth getting out of bed otherwise.

If you wanted to build the most powerful computer you could, you can't do better than including everything in the universe that's potentially available.

You know, rural Americans are a special people. Their labor puts food on our table and fuel in our gas tanks. Their service in our military sets a powerful example of leadership, honor and sacrifice. Their spirit of community inspires us all.

Somewhere we turn ourselves into victims instead of being the powerful women we really are meant to be.

I began to realise that film sees the world differently than the human eye, and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed.

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.

When you feel powerful, you are willing to stand up for your rights, you are willing to stand up for what you believe in, you're more willing to stand up and be counted.

Cultivate the frontal portion of her brain as much as that of man is cultivated, and she will stand his equal at least. Even now, where her mind has been called out at all, her intellect is as bright, as capacious, and as powerful as his.

To make pictures big is to make them more powerful.

Words can be very powerful. I find them very difficult.

Under the process of ongoing globalization, advantages are, in the main, created for a minority of countries and development centres as well as powerful transnational companies.

Funny, I don't feel any more powerful today than yesterday.

People knew that Murdoch's media estate in the UK was too powerful and it was doing very unpleasant things.

I am Indian, and I'm proud of it. Indian life is mythologically rich and powerful.

Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.

Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.

Baseball presents a living heritage, a game poised between the powerful undertow of seasons past and the hope of next day, next week, next year.