Quotes About Potent

The soldiers had, apparently, been given beehives filled with the honey of bees that had feasted on rhododendron and azalea, plants that produce neurotoxins so potent that they remain active in the honey. Those who eat the honey succumb to honey intoxication, also called grayanotoxin poisoning.

If deception is the most potent weapon in your arsenal, then patience in all things is your crucial shield.

On the other hand, an attack on another man's reputation is a potent weapon, particularly when you have less power than he does.

you'll find that trickery of the mind is just as potent as trickery of deed

His smile is laced with dynamite.

The goal was organized resistance to racial subjugation, and its harassing effect was probably more potent precisely because they risked so much without either economic or political power and with no certainty that they could change a system that they had known and hated all of their lives.

I cannot think of a day in my life when the library didn't exert a potent attraction for me, offering a sense of the specialness of each individual's curiosity and his or her quest to satisfy it.

is not only the execution and the excellence of the craft that determine the quality of a witcher's sword. As with mysterious elven or gnomish blades, whose secret has been lost, the mysterious power of a witcher's sword is bound to the hand and skill of the witcher wielding it. And, forsooth, owing to that magic's mysteries it is greatly potent against the Dark Powers.

But books, she had found, were too powerful, and invariably misleading.

I'm explosive.

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Una droga así tiene que ser poderosa en muy pequeñas dosis y sintetizable.

show that THC has "potent anti-cancer activity," and can significantly "target and switch off" pathways that allow cancers to grow.

coffee strong enough to grow hair on a frog,

Certainly I knew the feeling of shame and I knew everybody around me knew that feeling as well. In no way was it a weak feeling, for it seemed more potent than anger, more potent than hatred, stronger even than that most disguised of emotions, fear.

Unholy delight lit Giles's dark face to flashing brilliance. She realized that while he mightn't be handsome, he was breathtakingly attractive and brimming with potent masculinity more powerful than mere good looks.

There were many factors at work, but the proximate cause was undoubtedly the establishment of the Scottish Parliament in 1999. In part, the new English nationalism is thus another example of the dominant power mimicking the gestures of small-nation 'liberation' movements – the English were reacting to and mirroring the emergence of a potent and effective Scottish nationalism.

the small delights of the flesh were sometimes the most potent medicine against the deep pains of the spirit.

I love good strong words that mean something.

I like good strong words that mean something.

A young man's distractions are far more potent than an old man's memories,'he told me. He said that in the end memory is a cheat and a lie and no substitute for what he called the real stuff, the stuff of life.

By the end of World War II, the Germans had developed sarin, a nerve gas far more potent than tabun. The chemistry was relatively simple: methylphosphonyl difluoride mixed with rubbing alcohol.

Meta-Essence is the life-force of Wonderland. That of your enemies is especially potent. Collect what you can. Use it wisely.

An engagement is so potent a thing that sooner or later it reduces all who speak of it to this state of cheerful awe.