Quotes About Potent

It's scary how effective movies can be. It's a very powerful medium that I think is sometimes abused.

My right hand is pretty powerful.

Spin doctors in every era have known that perception is infinitely more potent than mere fact.

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 no more potent force than religion.

There is a dark side to religious devotion that is too often ignored or denied. 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 no more potent force than religion

Being nonreactive to destructive or hostile behaviour does not imply passive acceptance of it. Rather, it means we need to deal with it, take off our blinders and see the unacceptable. To redirect the destructive enery, we must dance with the shadow, not kill it. When we can achieve this stance, we learn to confront maladaptive or nonproductive behaviour matter-of-factly, without becoming embroiled in the heat of our own emotions. This nonreflexive style of being in the world is potent.

If the Republican Party does not learn to understand unmarried women as the political force and potent voting bloc that they have become, we risk becoming the minority party.

When I shoot at the range, I don't feel personally powerful but like the custodian of something powerful. I feel like a successful disciplinarian of something radically alien and potent. Analyze this sensation all you want; you still can't make it go away.

True courage is not ostentatious; men who wish to inspire terror seem thereby to confess themselves cowards. Why do they rely on it, but because they know how potent it is with themselves?

But the arrival of the paramedics and my not being able to talk or move the right side of my body was a potent sales pitch for reality.

The instinct of self-preservation is the first law of nature; your strongest instinct is the most potent of all auto-suggestions.

She's surprisingly destructive for her size." "That's part of her appeal

Some might say that the most potent torment a man could experience would be to see into the beating, bloody heart of his darkest inner soul, to look upon it with perfect and unfiltered clarity. To know the rage, the hate and evil that he was capable of.

Ugly as sin, but she makes herself felt. You agree?

the church (the ecclesia), when true to its real calling, when it is on about what God is on about, is by far and away the most potent force for transformational change the world has ever seen.

The rush that you get from having a good night's sleep is so exotic: to feel powerful and clean, capable and potent, as opposed to washed up, impotent and mute.

Popular lies have ever been the most potent enemies of personal liberty.

In fact, it's the very impersonality of impersonal knowledge that renders such knowledge the most ethically potent of all.

I am not a man, I am dynamite!

Even weak men when united are powerful.

My mother says I'm like a disease that can walk into a room and get it infected. I can destroy things in seconds.

Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.

Humor relieves the tension between what we see or desire but repress in order to sustain a survivable illusion about the world we live in. As such it's always potent stuff, and dangerous.