Quotes About Potent

I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war.

Love is the most potent drug used to seduce anyone.

In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent.

The inner world is very potent for me - I don't ascribe to any God or Jesus or Buddha - I just have a sense of it and revere it along with the natural world and human consciousness.

Every so often a book comes along that has the power to alter the course of history. Project Animal Farm is that potent.

History shows that there is no more potent engine for reform than the passion of voters who feel betrayed by the politicians they hoped would do the right thing.

Humor is essential to a successful tactician, for the most potent weapons known to mankind are satire and ridicule.

The human imagination, in conjunction with technology, has become a force so potent that it really can no longer be unleashed on the surface of the planet with safety.

The Maker is mighty in strength.

The empress of the perfumer's palette, jasmine must be harvested before the rising sun to retain the full force of its delicate fragrance. Fragile and fleeting, jasmine is a fair nymph of a flower with a potent perfume. A world without jasmine? Simply unimaginable. -DB

They [Fairy Tales] are talking about real emotions, telling true stories, through the medium of metaphor. People used to understand metaphor better than I think we do now. But these stories are so potent, they refuse to die.

The most potent song on the record was the masterpiece "Sympathy for the Devil." It was a historical essay on the power of Satan.

The whiskey kicked like a mugger.

One hundred rounds do not constitute fire power. One hit constitutes fire power.

Good and evil thoughts are each a potent power, and they fill the universe.

Not to employ prayer with my patients was the equivalent of deliberately withholding a potent drug or surgical procedure.

The possibilities of prayer are found in its allying itself with the purposes of God for God's purposes and man's praying are the combination of all potent and omnipotent forces.

O true apothecary!Thy drugs are quick.

But in those first hours after you take it, your brain is tuned in like nothing you can imagine. Eyes like the Hubble telescope, sensing light that's not even on the spectrum. You might be able to read minds, make time stop, cook pasta that's exactly right every time.

Every act of kindness is potent and lingers long in the heart of the recipient.

Maybe you remember, Angela, what a powerful impact the word "fuck" used to have in our society—back before everybody and their children started saying it ten times a day before breakfast. Indeed, it was once a very potent word.

I think there's a weapon of cynicism to say, 'Protest doesn't work. Organizing doesn't work. Y'all are a bunch of hippies. You know, it doesn't do anything,' because, frankly, it's said out of fear, because it is a potent force for political change.

Since being in India, I am more convinced than ever before that the method of nonviolent resistance is the most potent weapon available to oppressed people in their struggle for justice and human dignity.

Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.