Potent Quotes

269 Potent quotes by 228 unique authors

The look of experience suited him, especially because somewhere deep in those eyes, there still lurked a dangerous invitation to play. He had a quality… — Lisa Kleypas
As a means of motivating people to be cruel or inhumane-as a means of inciting evil, to borrow the vocabulary of the devout-there may be… — Jon Krakauer
Their false compassion is called compassion and their false understanding is called understanding, for this is their most potent spell. — Aleister Crowley
Twelve thousand years ago, everybody on earth was a hunter-gatherer; now almost all of us are farmers or else are fed by farmers. The spread… — Jared Diamond
She had the face of an angel I saw mirrors in her eyes We were the same, she and I Both bound by potent lies.… — Alexandra Adornetto
I can't believe it's actually happening. This is independent adulthood, this is what it feels like. Shouldn't there be some sort of ritual? In certain… — David Nicholls
She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself. — Michael Cunningham
The difference between magic and meditation methods is the difference between drugs and diet—medicines will do swiftly what diet can only effect slowly, and in… — Dion Fortune
There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil -- improper influence! What old woman's cackle is that?" "Are you a young lady?" "I… — Charlotte Bronte
...things happen that are out of your control.' Kerrick gave him a tight smile. 'You mean I'm not omnipotent?' 'You're not even semi-potent.' 'Is that… — Maria V. Snyder
However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by… — George Washington
What all the ads and whorescopes seemed to imply was that if only you took proper care of your smells, your hair, your boobs, your… — Erica Jong
I absolutely think that happiness is a choice. One of the most potent forces in human psychology is the power of habit. Do something, think… — Nicholas Evans
The fear is like metal on my tongue—I’ve known him but a fragment of time, and yet I’m certain if I accept his suit, it… — Nalini Singh
They [Fairy Tales] are talking about real emotions, telling true stories, through the medium of metaphor. People used to understand metaphor better than I think… — Jane Yolen
A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political… — Naomi Wolf
Those candle flames were like the lives of men. So fragile. So deadly. Left alone, they lit and warmed. Let run rampant, they would destroy… — Brandon Sanderson
I'll take care of my mother," he said grimly. "I love her, but she doesn't run my life." "Yeah, that's what we all say. You.… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips
I was a terrible believer in things,but I was also a terrible nonbeliever in things. I was as searching as I was skeptical. I didn't… — Cheryl Strayed
You must decide if you are going to rob the world or bless it with the rich, valuable, potent, untapped resources locked away within you. — Myles Munroe
Nature full strength is more than we can take, Adam One used to say. It's a potent hallucinogen, a soporific, for the untrained Soul. We're… — Margaret Atwood
Of all things love is the most potent. — Maria Montessori
Fear is a tyrant and a despot, more terrible than the rack, more potent than the snake. — Edgar Wallace
The strike, the boycott, the refusal to serve, the ability to paralyze the functioning of a complex social structure-these remain potent weapons against the most… — Howard Zinn
Unvisited tombstones, unread diaries, and erased video game high-score rankings are three of the most potent symbols of mankind's pathetic and fruitless attempts at immortality. — Sarah Silverman

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