Powerful Quotes

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man... It is more powerful than external circumstances.

So many young people say, 'I'm just going to see what happens.' It's so much more powerful to make things happen and have a plan.

It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be introduced to us and I absorbed it totally, and it changed my complete outlook on music.

It's a combination of melody and lyrics, not one without the other. It's a confluence of these different elements that makes something powerful.

'Peace Train' is a song I wrote, the message of which continues to breeze thunderously through the hearts of millions. There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again.

Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.

We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves.

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

It shows the truth - that the real meaning of a word is only as powerful or harmless as the emotion behind it.

In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!

I live in America. I have the right to write whatever I want. And it's equaled by another right just as powerful: the right not to read it. Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people.

I loved her. I still love her, though I curse her in my sleep, so nearly one are love and hate, the two most powerful and devasting emotions that control man, nations, life.

People in the U.K. cannot understand whether Blair has lost his mind or whether his ambition to be the second-most-powerful man in the world made him lose his mind.

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

My favorite instrument is the snare drum. In Scotland, the snare drum is very prominent in Highland bands. The Scottish style of playing is in my blood. It's a very powerful instrument, but it can also be soothing, like velvet. It's a real challenge for composers.

Further, the next generation of terrorists will grow up in a digital world, with ever more powerful and easy-to-use hacking tools at their disposal.

Of all human inventions the organization, a machine constructed of people performing interdependent functions, is the most powerful.

The Nobel Peace Prize is a powerful message. A durable peace is not a single achievement, but an environment, a process and a commitment.

If you wanted to dissect the structure of living cells, genetic analysis was an extremely powerful method, so my interest turned to that.

The benefits of biomedical progress are obvious, clear, and powerful. The hazards are much less well appreciated.

If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.

Well the basic thesis is that there's a god in heaven who is all powerful who wants to help people. And that - he will answer prayer, and does miraculous things in people's lives. And so I've documented some of these wonderful things.

No one, however powerful and successful, can function as an adult if his parents are not satisfied with him.

I will insist on a military so powerful no one would ever think of challenging it.

I believe that prayer is our powerful contact with the greatest force in the universe.

Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.

I think the last one would have to be The Godfather because it was such a powerful story. There was lots of violence in it but I could take it because I thought there was a reality to it. It wasn't gratuitous, it was just these guys' story.

I want to be president because I have the sensitivity, as a woman, to listen. I'm a different candidate... different because I don't belong to powerful, privileged groups, because I'm honest.

Love is more powerful than kicking ass.

One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime.