Powerful Quotes

"It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be introduced to us and I absorbed it totally, and it changed my complete outlook on music"

Eric Clapton, Musician

"I've been spoiled by this project. I was given the script and went in to read, realizing that this was a powerful story and one that wasn't told very often"

Wentworth Miller, Actor

"The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be"

Bruce Lee, Actor

"We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends"

Mary McLeod Bethune, Educator

"I know that in order for something to work for me it has to be extremely powerful"

Ronnie Coleman, Athlete

"The sea is a mysterious and powerful force, and those who venture out onto it must respect its unpredictable nature"

Dennis Conner, Athlete

"If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought"

Peace Pilgrim, Activist

"Certainly, my father would not want to see me destroy myself in this business, as so many people in our family have been destroyed. I try to take good care of myself, but we are fighting the good fight, and the truth is powerful"

Sam Sheppard, Scientist

"What is this powerful have over my tub? Surely, I am transfixed by your firecracker charm and your suspended electrified wit"

Isabel Yosito, Artist

"It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power"

Gabriele Nanni

"My children are 10 and three, and the longing and the need for them is incredibly powerful"

Treat Williams, Actor

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

Terry Goodkind, Writer

"There was a subtlety about Peggy Lee. It was powerful. There was a valuable use of space. Everything was not cluttered. Her voice was out front and was the key instrument"

Rita Coolidge, Musician

"But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing"

Bryan Ferry, Musician

"The Internet is a powerful way to make lots of money... But we are not going to buy Yahoo!"

Sumner Redstone, Businessman

"Truth is powerful and it prevails"

Sojourner Truth, Activist

"The thing I was attracted to as a little girl was Kirk, Bones and Spock, and their utter loyalty. There's nothing more powerful than that"

Jolene Blalock, Actress

"I'm getting a lot of roles as women who are very powerful. I think that's a reflection of me as a person"

Melinda Clarke, Actress

"The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism and stereotyping on a society. It forces us to examine the responsibilities of citizenship and confront the powerful ramifications of indifference and inaction"

Tim Holden, Politician

"Keeping a lid on taxes is not just good for the taxpayer. It's a powerful way to force government to be more accountable, set priorities and spend smarter. Let me repeat that: more accountable, set priorities and spend smarter - that's what we need to be about"

Tim Pawlenty, Politician

"In the last five or six thousand years, empires one after another have arisen, waxed powerful by wars of conquest, and fallen by internal revolution or attack from without"

John Boyd Orr, Politician

"There are powerful emotions that bring two people together in wonderful harmony in a marriage. Satan knows this, and would tempt you to try these emotions outside of marriage. Do not stir emotions meant to be used only in marriage"

Richard G. Scott, Clergyman

"Our deep respect for the land and its harvest is the legacy of generations of farmers who put food on our tables, preserved our landscape, and inspired us with a powerful work ethic"

James H. Douglas, Politician

"Nanotechnology will let us build computers that are incredibly powerful. We'll have more power in the volume of a sugar cube than exists in the entire world today"

Ralph Merkle, Scientist

"The particular feature of Berlin - well, all you need to do is look at the map: the geographical position of the city right in the heart of Europe, and the separation of the most powerful two blocs we've ever had in history, which went all the way through Germany"

Markus Wolf, Public Servant

"As long as Florida remains a swing state, Cuban exiles in Florida will remain a very powerful voting bloc"

Joshua A. Tucker, Educator

"However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbours, we cannot in all circumstances undertake to involve the whole British Empire in a war simply on her account"

Neville Chamberlain, Politician

"I think an Edwards-Kerry ticket would be powerful"

John Edwards, Politician

"Management don't really have any problem at all with firing people. It's a powerful idea that, If I'm not happy, I'll quit. I'll try something else!"

Ron Livingston, Actor

"Under Hitler it was the entrepreneurial and professional classes who were the first victims of Nazi boycotts and exclusion. Today it is Israel, the most powerful symbol of Jewish national resurgence in two millennia"

Jack Schwartz, Scientist

"Further, the next generation of terrorists will grow up in a digital world, with ever more powerful and easy-to-use hacking tools at their disposal"

Dorothy Denning, Public Servant

"It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's always a bad reaction. So we see that controversy, and we believe that is a good thing to engage in"

Julian Assange, Activist

"It's a combination of melody and lyrics, not one without the other. It's a confluence of these different elements that makes something powerful"

Michael Bolton, Musician

"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"

Michelle Rodriguez, Actress

"Subversive language, however, must be constantly reinvented, because it is continually being co-opted by the powerful"

Carol P. Christ, Educator

"I am subject to very powerful lows. When you have highs, you have terrible lows. When you pinpoint that you are responsible for everything that happens to you, it is very frightening"

Jeanne Moreau, Actress

"People who think my books are autobiographical, which they're not, credit me with having a much better memory than I do. I do, however, have a powerful imagination"

Curtis Sittenfeld, Writer

"The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it"

Barry Commoner, Scientist

"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"

Barbara Castle, Politician

"What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain at its most powerful and guarded point - the exclusive right to govern the systems of production"

Barry Commoner, Scientist

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