Quotes of: Powerful-thing Keyword

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.

John F. Kennedy

A powerful thing, destiny. You can't run from it. Not in the end.

The Hundred-Foot Journey

The only thing more powerful than words - is the Author who chooses them.

The Book of Told: Mere Words

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

Samuel Johnson

The amazing thing about technology is that people have power. We are seeing it all the time in that innocuous people you would never know are having their voices heard because of this ability and technology we have.

Eric Balfour

Power's a strange thing, lad. It's a drug people like me crave it.

The House of the Scorpion

People have the power to change their perspective. They just get caught up in an endless cycle of foolish things that don’t matter.

Insight

Books have the power to change and transform your life like few other things you have.

On The Journey To Achievement

I think this power of living in our children is one of the sweetest things in the world…

Jo's Boys

. . . things whose perishing had been arrested by their power to make her love them.

The Name of the World

The sexiest thing about men is how they are with kids... If they are great with kids they are real men ... selfless, powerful, comforting ... Too bad so many men suck!

Kant and Theology

The power of evil was nothing more than a tangible thing, something that given the strength of will, could be broken as easily as glass.

Starers

Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villains.

The Sweet Far Thing

But when people are angry, they tend to say things they do not mean... Anger is a very powerful feeling.

Seasons: The Mysterious Woman

There are few things more powerful than a name. A single phrase that somehow becomes a symbol for an entire existence.

The Price of Creation

The pure power of a life can manifest as beatitude, or as an unspeakable, sheer violence...

Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things

I love being a woman. I love the sexiness we get to exude. But the best thing about being a woman is the power we have over men.

Eva Longoria

The best thing we can do is give students the tools for constructing their own identities - powerful new tools like African fractals - and then just get out of the way.

Ron Eglash

The best thing I can think of would be to create a union between something as beautiful and powerful and wonderful as Hollywood films and a criticism of the status quo. That's my dream, to make such a German film.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Meditations

That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.

Ralph Waldo Emerson