Powerful Quotes

"In this most powerful nation in the world, lack of access to health care should not force local and state governments, companies and workers into bankruptcy, while causing unnecessary illness and hospitalization"

John Conyers, Politician

"Being on a Michael Bay set is... well, it's the only set I've ever been on. But I would imagine there's no set that's run quite like it. It's big, it's loud, it's powerful, it's intense, it's dirty, it's hot, it's sweaty - and it's really exciting. There's never a dull moment; there's never a quiet moment"

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Model

"A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they're really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others"

Jena Malone, Actress

"Conservatives, despite their increasingly powerful presence on cable TV and talk radio, feel excluded and disregarded by the longstanding preponderance of liberal voices on public television"

Michael Medved, Journalist

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

John Jay Chapman, Poet

"Debt is such a powerful tool, it is such a useful tool, it's much better than colonialism ever was because you can keep control without having an army, without having a whole administration"

Susan George, Activist

"Certainly Amadeus because it was a very powerful time for me, we filmed it in the Czech Republic at a time of lots of social and political change going on in that part of the world"

Jeffrey Jones, Actor

"Pope John Paul II brought hope to all corners of the world, to people of all faiths and backgrounds, with his powerful belief in the human spirit"

Jerry Costello, Politician

"A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence"

Pam Brown, Poet

"If I read not amiss, this powerful race will move down upon Mexico, down upon Central and South America, out upon the islands of the sea, over upon Africa and beyond. And can any one doubt that the results of this competition of races will be the "survival of the fittest?""

Josiah Strong, Clergyman

"Personal faith can be a powerful force for public good"

David E. Price, Politician

"The whole process of getting licenses to broadcast, which took place decades ago, was done behind closed doors by powerful lobbies, and wealthy commercial interests got all the licenses with no public input, no congressional input for that matter"

Robert McChesney, Critic

"You all know how powerful and varied are the effects of which steam engines are capable; with them has really begun the great development of industry which has characterised our century before all others"

Hermann von Helmholtz, Physicist

"I always sang in church always was in a gospel choir and directed choirs and always performed, but I never thought of it as a powerful thing"

Charles King, Politician

"Heat can also be produced by the impact of imperfectly elastic bodies as well as by friction. This is the case, for instance, when we produce fire by striking flint against steel, or when an iron bar is worked for some time by powerful blows of the hammer"

Hermann von Helmholtz, Physicist

"Appetite, craving for food, is a constant and powerful stimulator of the gastric glands"

Ivan Pavlov, Psychologist

"Jewish persecution is a historical memory of the present generation and people fear it in the present day, and that's why those references are so much more powerful. I just understand that better now"

Gregg Easterbrook, Author

"Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words"

Deborah Bull, Dancer

"Ajax isn't a technology. It's really several technologies, each flourishing in its own right, coming together in powerful new ways"

Jesse James Garrett, Businessman

"Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more and more powerful, it will kill off all middle-class professions"

Jaron Lanier, Artist

"But man has still another powerful resource: natural science with its strictly objective methods"

Ivan Pavlov, Psychologist

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

Charlotte Gainsbourg, Actress

"Words are as strong and powerful as bombs, as napalm"

Dorothy Day, Activist

"But the - look, I think that this - the United States of America is still the most powerful economy in the world. It is an incredible engine for creativity and innovation. And it has the most - smartest, most effective workforce in the world. So we have a lot going for us, in spite of the fractiousness of our politics"

Jay Carney, Public Servant

"As a scientist, my attention became totally focused on global warming some 15 years ago by the elegant and powerful measurements of carbon dioxide trapped in ice cores taken as much as 2 miles deep from the great East Antarctica ice sheet"

John Olver, Politician

"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"

Dorothy Day, Activist

"When you poll all of the economists, uh, across America that I think are intellectually honest they would all, or maybe not all, but 95% of them 96% of them would say you know we really have got a powerful economy"

Donald Evans, Public Servant

"It's a story about victory that will touch the lives of everyone who watches it. It's powerful"

Derek Luke, Actor

"We all have an equal interest in stability and security throughout Europe. The years the OSCE has existed, and particularly this year, have given rise to great expectations and at the same time to powerful disappointments"

Boris Yeltsin, President

"Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in mind the grassroots opposition to the Vietnam War"

Breyten Breytenbach, Writer

"At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self"

Brendan Francis, Playwright

"In 1763 the English were the most powerful nation in the world"

Albert Bushnell Hart, Historian

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

Anish Kapoor, Artist

"I wish I could have 25,000 years of my personal family history documented in a very powerful computer or a CD-ROM that I could just pop in and my computer would never crash"

Brendan Fraser, Actor

"Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears"

Albert Bandura, Psychologist

"Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way"

David Lynch, Director

"And then, when I thought about joining the Air Force, flying seemed like a natural extension of the motorcycling experience. You're going faster, higher. You're operating a machine that's a lot more powerful than you are"

Duane G. Carey, Astronaut

"The most powerful moral influence is example"

Huston Smith, Theologian

"When I was a child and teenager I read whenever I had the opportunity, but since then I've found it hard to read as much as I'd like, children, work, and pets all providing powerful incentives to escape into a book and a practical reason why I rarely do so"

Louise Brown, Celebrity

"An alliance with a powerful person is never safe"

Phaedrus, Poet

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