Potent Quotes

269 Potent quotes by 228 unique authors

The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug. — Chris Hedges
I learned early on that war forms its own culture. The rush of battle is a potent and often lethal addiction, for war is a… — Chris Hedges
There is nothing quite as potent as a focused life, one lived on purpose. — Rick Warren
Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.… — Anthony Trollope
Dwelling on pain, spending too much time immersed in it, tasting its flavors, fingering its textures--this makes it only more potent. — Tayari Jones
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… — Gangaji
To say that a thing is imaginary is not to dispose of it in the realm of mind, for the imagination, or the image making… — Dion Fortune
The Lord intends us to be powerful people-mighty in optimism and hopeful of spirit, powerful in evangelistic zeal, potent in influence, sturdy in moral fiber… — David Jeremiah
Hitchcock's murder set-pieces are so potent, they can galvanize (and frighten) even a viewer who's seen them before! — Leonard Maltin
The daemonic-divine object may appear to the mind an object of horror and dread, but at the same time it is no less something that… — Rudolf Otto
When one begins to reflect on philosophy—then philosophy seems to us to be everything, like God, and love. It is a mystical, highly potent, penetrating… — Novalis
Every man is equally entitled to protection by law. But when the laws undertake to add... artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities, and exclusive privileges—to… — Andrew Jackson
I cannot think of a day in my life when the library didn’t exert a potent attraction for me, offering a sense of the specialness… — Scott Turow
POWER: The ability to make our fellow humans squirm, sweat and stammer on command. Often regarded as an aphrodisiac; actually a potent laxative that, whenever… — Rick Bayan
One cannot help asking sadly, why is love of gold more potent than love of souls? The number of men mining and prospecting for gold… — Lottie Moon
Knowing how you actually want to feel is the most potent form of clarity that you can have. — Danielle LaPorte
I wish to use the words of Justice Brandeis dissenting in Olmstead to speak for me. He wrote, 'Our government is the potent, the omnipresent… — Timothy McVeigh
It is sometimes frightening to observe the success which comes even to the outlaw with a polished technique, and we find ourselves doubting the validity… — Unknown Author
I remember that grand word of the Katha Upanishad - Shraddhâ or marvellous faith. An instance of Shraddha can be found in the life of… — Swami Vivekananda
The ideal of faith in ourselves is of the greatest help to us. If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I… — Swami Vivekananda
You are flawed, you are stuck in old patterns, you become carried away with yourself. Indeed you are quite impossible in many ways. And still,… — John Welwood
However often we turn to it [the Koran] at first disgusting us each time afresh, it soon attracts, astounds, and in the end enforces our… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It remains an astonishing, disturbing fact that in America - a nation where nearly every new drug is subjected to rigorous scrutiny as a potential… — Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Pacific Yew can be cut down and processed to produce a potent chemical, taxol, which offers some promise of curing certain forms of lung,… — Al Gore
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… — Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

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