Powerful Quotes

I think training in comedy, as it were, a history writing comedy, is a powerful tool for anyone.

The thing I was attracted to as a little girl was Kirk, Bones and Spock, and their utter loyalty. There's nothing more powerful than that.

Europe is merely powerful; India is beautiful.

Money is such an amazing teacher: What you choose to do with your money shows whether you are truly powerful or powerless.

The Sierra Club is a very good and a very powerful force for conservation and, as a matter of fact, has grown faster since I left than it was growing while I was there! It must be doing something right.

I think I'm really powerful. They'll smash me, probably.

Some of the biggest advocates for feminism seem to believe that in order to feel powerful you have to make another woman subservient, and that is not what feminism is about at all.

The fact I had my father as an adversary was such a powerful tool to work with. I subconsciously fought him to the degree that I drove me to be one of the most successful musician in the world.

Success can be built on a strong relationship between a lobbyist and a single, powerful lawmaker.

A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.

What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union.

We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities.

The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait come across as meaningfully as possible.

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

I am now the target of the most powerful man in this country, with an army of aides whose major responsibility today seems to be to attack me and get rid of me.

It's a mystery. That's the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it's mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.

There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.

There's a basic principle about consumer electronics: it gets more powerful all the time and it gets cheaper all the time. that's true of all types of consumer electronics.

Would you rather have butter or guns? Preparedness makes us powerful. Butter merely makes us fat.

America has a critical role to play as the most powerful member of the world community.

The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky.

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

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.