Top 1200 Really Powerful Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

What a man needs to get ahead is a powerful enemy.

Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

I find it safer to pursue the powerful, the ugly, the unpleasant.

The simple act of commitment is a powerful magnet for help.

Stress should be a powerful driving force, not an obstacle.

Stories? We all spend our lives telling them, about this, about that, about people … But some? Some stories are so good we wish they’d never end. They’re so gripping that we’ll go without sleep just to see a little bit more. Some stories bring us laughter and sometimes they bring us tears … but isn’t that what a great story does? Makes you feel? Stories that are so powerful … they really are with us forever.

What is powerful is when what you say is just the tip of the iceberg of what you know

Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.

A president with a pen in their hand is a very powerful person.

Nostalgia is a powerful feeling; it can drown out anything.

Songs sung under duress are often very powerful.

Our whole attitude about life is money-oriented. And money is one of the most uncreative things one can become interested in. Our whole approach is power-oriented and power is destructive, not creative. A man who is after money will become destructive, because money has to be robbed, exploited; it has to be taken away from many people, only then can you have it. Power simply means you have to make many people impotent, you have to destroy them - only then will you be powerful, can you be powerful.

The only powerful emotion that we have control over is love.

So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.

A strong, powerful, successful woman is always intimidating.

Love will always be the most powerful force.

One of the most powerful energies you can ever experience is gratitude.

There is nothing more powerful and beautiful than motherhood.

Living matter is the most powerful geological force.

Nothing is more powerful than the human spirit.

Wanting to do it was much more powerful than the fright.

Finding solitude in the concrete jungle is powerful and peaceful.

There really are two Americas, one for the grifter class and one for everybody else. In everybody-else land, the world of small businesses and wage-earning employees, the government is something to be avoided, an overwhelming, all-powerful entity whose attentions usually presage some kind of financial setback, if not complete ruin. In the grifter world, however, government is a slavish lapdog that the financial companies that will be the major players in this book use as a tool for making money.

John Coltrane is still probably one of the greatest musicians of this century. His tone truly puts demons on a leash. His gift is directly from the mind of God and is very powerful. ..... The first time I heard a Love Supreme, it was really an assault. It could've been from mars as far as i was concerned, or another galaxy. I remember the album cover and the name, but the music didn't fit into the patterns of my brain at that point. It was like someone trying to tell a monkey about spirituality or computers, you know, it just didn't compute.

There's still people that do it poorly... and people that do it very, very well. I think there's still an incredible spectrum. I guess there's something that's appealing in it, in that everyone on some level is a DJ. But people still go to clubs, and there's still... it is interesting - with everyone having an iPod now - when music is so personalised and things like Pandora and making your own playlists, there's something really powerful about a room full of people all dancing to the same song.

We had a great connection with Pedro Almodovar from the beginning. Even before I met him, it was so strange. I felt like I already knew him. I loved him even before I met him. It was so powerful. And when I looked at him in the eyes, this was the feeling that I knew I was going to have with him. It gets bigger and bigger every day. I adore him. It's much more than working together. He's a really special person in my life.

For painting, I like strong lines, powerful pieces.

The words 'I'm sorry' are so powerful that it's almost difficult to overstate

Even when powerful men stumble, they inspire fear.

The way theater can bring people together is so powerful.

With all women gentleness is the most persuasive and powerful argument.

That's what life is: an open door to all that is possible. And that's a powerful thing.

With the most powerful binoculars, I cannot see Alaska.

Color is a powerful physical, biological, and psychological force.

Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great and powerful one.

Nothing is more powerful and liberating than knowledge.

I want to look feminine, powerful, sexy and bold.

I've never been helpless, I just have powerful enemies

I found that you're more powerful when talking from your soul.

When I close my eyes my vision is even more powerful.

Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.

The active part of man consists of powerful instincts.

The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost.

The cash register did more for human morality than the Congregational Church. It was a really powerful phenomenon to make an economic system work better, just as, in reverse, a system that can be easily defrauded ruins a civilization. A system that's very hard to defraud, like a cash register, helped the economic performance of a civilization by reducing vice, but very few people within economics talk about it in those terms.

I once owned a really, really ugly pair of white leather boots. They were so bad. It was back in the '80s! It was just a really tacky fashion choice when I was in middle school, and I thought it was cool. I'm really embarrassed.

Most Christians who've been around for a while have their Story in bits and pieces, but have never seen how powerful it really is when assembled as a whole. I want them to see how well it fits together and how it offers tremendous explanatory power regarding the world as we actually find it. I want them to see how it resolves the problem of evil, and why God's solution - the God/man Jesus - is the only solution.

I've never felt that anger is a very powerful emotion.

[H]istorians have powerful imaginations, which are essential and dangerous.

Mindfulness is so powerful that the fact that it comes out of Buddhism is irrelevant.

You are more powerful than you know; you are beautiful just as you are.

Magic is a powerful art that can support a weak performer.

I think powerful women don't care whether or not they're liked.

Love is the most powerful four letter word.

Nothing in the past is as powerful as what we choose to do in the present moment.

Positive thinking is the most powerful thing in the world.

Do you really think you'd win a PR war against a bunch of committed librarians?' He thought about this, but he knew I was right. The libraries were a treasured institution and so central to everyday life that government and commerce rarely did anything that might upset them.Some say they were more powerful than the military, or, if not, they were certainly quieter. As they say: Don't mess with librarians. Only they use a stronger word than 'mess'.

The Christian religion is a very powerful and convincing mistake.

When you do not seek or need approval, you are at your most powerful.

Music is something that's so powerful and means so much to me.

Dreaming is the most powerful thing because no one can take it from you.