The inner world is very potent for me - I don't ascribe to any God or Jesus or Buddha - I just have a sense of it and revere it along with the natural world and human consciousness.
Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.
Threats to our standing in the eyes of others are remarkably potent biologically, almost as powerful as those to our very survival.
You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
Anne Boleyn is an intriguing character. She seems to appeal to modern-day women in a very potent way. Because she was such an independently opinionated and spirited young woman, which at the time was unheard of.
The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish.
Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.
[P]ower is at its most potent when it can operate silently.
A silence absorbed them both – a lack of sound so potent it blackened the place with something richer than hate.
If we write our dreams and goals down, we dramatically increase our odds of realization. If we share them with others, they become potent and alive.
There is a side of the Moon which we never see, but that hidden half is as potent a factor in causing the ebb and flow of the Earth's tide as the part of the Moon which is visible.
And I learned from my own experience that laughter was the most potent weapon: laughter can kill everything.
A common allegiance to form of expression that is identified with no single national unit is likely to prove one of the most potent symbols of the freedom of the human spirit that the world has yet known.
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Conformism is a potent statement, and as much as we do talk about individuality in fashion, there's a sense that people are fearful of not conforming and not being part of action.
There is nothing more potent than thought. Deed follows word and word follows thought. And where the thought is mighty and pure, the result is mighty and pure.
The more potent, unasked question is how society at large reacts to eager, voluntary violence by females, and to the growing evidence that women can be just as aggressive as men.
May the United Nations ever be vigilant and potent to defeat the swallowing up of any nation, at any time, by any means-by armies with banners, by force or by fraud, by tricks or by midnight treachery.
Union Captain at the Bridge: [swinging a bottle of booze] The most potent weapon of war!
Opening Quote by Chris Hedges: The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug.
