Powerful Quotes

Some of the most powerful times are when we're quiet.

The Internet is a powerful way to make lots of money... But we are not going to buy Yahoo!

History shows that people often do cast their votes for amorphous reasons-the most powerful among them being the need for change. Just ask Bill Clinton.

There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.

In 1763 the English were the most powerful nation in the world.

Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it.

Buddha's teaching are very simple, you don't have to break your head to understand the message. The part that I like the most from Buddha's teachings and from His Holiness, The Dalai Lama, is that the most powerful weapon is to not attack, to be able to have self-control.

Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination.

I've helped people get rid of headaches by placing my hand on their forehead, and backaches by placing my hand on their back. It's a powerful example of love that really works.

It's true that I have very little idea what I shall be writing next, but at the same time I have a powerful premonition of everything that lies ahead of me, even ten years ahead.

The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost.

A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various and powerful interests, combined into one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in the banks.

What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful.

Kafka: cries of helplessness in twenty powerful volumes.

Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

The whole process of getting licenses to broadcast, which took place decades ago, was done behind closed doors by powerful lobbies, and wealthy commercial interests got all the licenses with no public input, no congressional input for that matter.

I get strength from my art - all the paintings I own are powerful.

But the - look, I think that this - the United States of America is still the most powerful economy in the world. It is an incredible engine for creativity and innovation. And it has the most - smartest, most effective workforce in the world. So we have a lot going for us, in spite of the fractiousness of our politics.

The power of television - it's so present in our lives, we don't even know how powerful it is.

Our educational system is appallingly poor right now. Yet, somehow we're turning out some of the most intellectual and powerful sophisticated minds in the world. I think that's because we still have the opportunity here.

Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge.

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

There is something powerful in Metallica, a will, a drive.

But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.

But we both came to the decision that the powerful thing is to go into your fear, walk in there with it, don't walk away from it, and to try to be true to it.

The powerful men in my life have always believed in me: my husband, my son.

Everybody's saturated with the marketing hype of next-generation consoles. They are wonderful, but the truth is that they are as powerful as a high end PC is right now.

In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.

And then, when I thought about joining the Air Force, flying seemed like a natural extension of the motorcycling experience. You're going faster, higher. You're operating a machine that's a lot more powerful than you are.