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.

I'm surrounded by very powerful women and very progressive men.

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.

The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.

Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate.

The tax issue is the most powerful issue in American politics going back to the Tea Party. People say, 'Oh, Grover Norquist has power.' No. Grover Norquist and Americans for Tax Reform focus on the tax issue. The tax issue is a powerful issue.

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is.

Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words.

The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity.

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.

Extremely strong, effective, tenacious, and powerful political networks can be built when you fight losing battles as well as when you win.