Powerful Quotes

"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"

John Thorn, Historian

"We all know how powerful the web can be for raising political money. Well, if you're game, the Duke Cunningham Legal Defense Fund is apparently ready to accept your donation"

Joshua Micah Marshall, Politician

"Traffic is one of the most powerful films to come out in recent years. It blew me away"

Mary Hart, Entertainer

"But with carefully chosen keyboard macros to activate it, Mass Copy is quick, convenient, and powerful. Most users who have mastered it depend heavily on it. That certainly includes me"

Robert Patterson

"The other thing is surrounding yourself with people that care for you. These are simple things, but they're powerful, and they've completely transformed who I am and how I perceive myself"

Mariel Hemingway, Actress

"Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture"

Leon Kass, Educator

"Success can be built on a strong relationship between a lobbyist and a single, powerful lawmaker"

Joshua Micah Marshall, Politician

"The province was surrounded by powerful tribes of Indians who watched the white settlers with an eager hostility, and seized every occasion to molest them by secret inroad, and often by open assault"

John P. Kennedy, Soldier

"They just have a feel about them. And you feel your way through them and you come out with something that's very powerful and mythic. And you don't quite know how you got there. I think this story has a lot of those elements"

Michael O'Donoghue, Writer

"If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful"

Jeff Bezos, Businessman

"A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various and powerful interests, combined into one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in the banks"

John C. Calhoun, Statesman

"'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, Public Servant

"The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both"

Vaclav Havel, Leader

"Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good"

Vaclav Havel, Leader

"Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral"

Paulo Freire, Educator

"Extremely strong, effective, tenacious, and powerful political networks can be built when you fight losing battles as well as when you win"

Patricia Ireland, Activist

"Buddha's teaching are very simple, you don't have to break your head to understand the message. The part that I like the most from Buddha's teachings and from His Holiness, The Dalai Lama, is that the most powerful weapon is to not attack, to be able to have self-control"

Ricky Martin, Musician

"Of all human inventions the organization, a machine constructed of people performing interdependent functions, is the most powerful"

Robert Shea, Author

"Job's avoidance of rebellion against God has nothing to do with God being good or wise or anything like that; it's strictly because God is so powerful, and you don't fight something when you are so much weaker than that which you would fight"

George C. Williams, Scientist

"The crises of our time, it becomes increasingly clear, are the necessary impetus for the revolution now under way. And once we understand nature's transformative powers, we see that it is our powerful ally, not a force to feared our subdued"

Thomas Kuhn, Writer

"Inertia is a powerful force in human and political affairs"

Maurice Strong, Businessman

"I've helped people get rid of headaches by placing my hand on their forehead, and backaches by placing my hand on their back. It's a powerful example of love that really works"

Shelley Long, Actress

"Indeed it can be argued that to make a powerful film you must care about the subject, therefore powerful films tend to be both political and partisan in nature"

Ben Edwards, Entertainer

"Science has produced such powerful weapons that in a war between great powers there would be neither victor nor vanquished. Both would be overwhelmed in destruction"

John Boyd Orr, Politician

"I wish all consumers were as gullible as advertising's biggest critics. Anyone who believes advertising is that powerful will believe almost anything"

Jef I. Richards, Professor

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

Clyde Tombaugh, Scientist

"Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had resisted, overcome his power, broken his will"

Stephen Ambrose, Historian

"Why movies are so powerful is because you are right in there and you stay in there until they want you to come out, and then you've really gone somewhere"

Rachel Griffiths, Actress

"The humblest is the peer of the most powerful"

John Marshall Harlan, Judge

"History shows that people often do cast their votes for amorphous reasons-the most powerful among them being the need for change. Just ask Bill Clinton"

Gwen Ifill, Journalist

"I'm surrounded by very powerful women and very progressive men"

Christie Hefner, Businessman

"Great writers arrive among us like new diseases threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible"

Craig Raine

"For anyone who works in front of an audience there is no thrill quite like that of feeling and hearing the evidence of the audience members' enjoyment. Laughter and applause really are powerful"

Randy West, Entertainer

"As attorney general, I can either look into it or I can ignore it because they're a bunch of powerful legislators... and I'm afraid they're going to cut my budget"

Ben Chandler, Politician

"Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things"

John Charles Polanyi, Scientist

"I think taking design out of the studio and really having a relationship with the people that you're making it for really convinced me of how powerful a thing design is. It's not just an aesthetic decoration"

Genevieve Gorder, Designer

"I am now the target of the most powerful man in this country, with an army of aides whose major responsibility today seems to be to attack me and get rid of me"

Gerald Walpin, Public Servant

"Love is more powerful than kicking ass"

Jet Li, Actor

"In life, particularly in public life, psychology is more powerful than logic"

Ludwig Quidde, Critic

"Without renouncing the support of physics, it is possible for the physiology of the senses, not only to pursue its own course of development, but also to afford to physical science itself powerful assistance"

Ernst Mach, Physicist

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