Potent Quotes

269 Potent quotes by 228 unique authors

Crude absurdities, trivial nonsense, and sublime truths are equally potent in readying people for self-sacrifice if they are accepted as the sole, eternal truth — Eric Hoffer
Once at a potent leader's voice I stayed; Once I went back when a good monarch prayed; Mortals, howe'er we grieve, howe'er deplore, The flying… — Maurice Maeterlinck
The thing about eyewear is that it is so potent, There are very few accessories that, if you were not wearing anything, if you put… — Tom Ford
The deserving are not always blest. That peculiar attribute known as personality is as potent a factor as genius. — Walter J. Phillips
A beautiful feature in the colour wood-cut, and one unique in printing, is colour gradation... Two brushes are sometimes used, one charged with more potent… — Walter J. Phillips
There is no more potent antidote to the corroding influence of mammon than the presence in the community of a body of men devoted to… — William Osler
No Zionist can forgo the smallest portion of the Land Of Israel. [A] Jewishstate in part [of Palestine] is not an end, but a beginning… — David
By firm immutable immortal laws Impress'd on Nature by the GREAT FIRST CAUSE, Say, MUSE! how rose from elemental strife Organic forms, and kindled into… — Erasmus Darwin
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill it teaches the whole people by example. Crime is contagious. If the… — Louis D. Brandeis
I grew up in Sierra Leone, in a small village where as a boy my imagination was sparked by the oral tradition of storytelling. At… — Ishmael Beah
The shadow is not a problem to be solved or an enemy to be conquered, but a fertile field to be cultivated. When we dig… — Debbie Ford
Christianity is most admirably adapted to the training of slaves, to the perpetuation of a slave society; in short, to the very conditions confronting us… — Emma Goldman
Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth And from the soul itself must… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always… — Robert Fulghum
Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action. — Mahatma Gandhi
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… — Samuel Gompers
Extraordinary how potent cheap music is. — Noel Coward
Childhood, after all, is not an ending, but rather a state full of potent curiosity. — Rachel Cusk
In the early '90s, when I really started to find my voice, I was reading a lot of books, and I was moved by the… — Mos Def
Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad. — Manly Hall
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think. — Robert Henri
We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious. — Eric Hoffer
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived. — Helen Keller
The inner world is very potent for me - I don't ascribe to any God or Jesus or Buddha - I just have a sense… — Annie Lennox

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