Quotes About Powerful

Kirk Douglas had engineered his social life with the cynical goal of meeting the rich and powerful, he would have ignored this Lauren Bacall. But so cynical and narrow-focused an approach isn't likely to produce good luck. The lucky personality gets to know everybody in sight: the rich and the poor, the famous the humble, the sociable and even the friendless and the cranky.

Diem regarded the Americans as 'great big children – well-intentioned, powerful, with a lot of technical know-how, but not very sophisticated in dealing with him or his race'.

In short, the critic is not an owner, because he still struggles with ideas as with powerful strangers, as the Christian is not the owner of his "bad desires" as long as he has to fight them; for the one who battles against vice, vice exists.

The main feature and top advantage of social media, which has made it such a powerful instrument in the hands of PR experts, is the ability to share - and especially the intriguing possibility of seeing your post go viral. In that case, your post is so catchy and contagiuos that it spreads like an epidemic and can consequently become a pandemic.

Physical relaxation, when practiced daily, brings about an accompanying mental relaxation and a relaxed attitude that enables us to better consciously control our automatic mechanism. Physical relaxation also, in itself, has a powerful influence in dehypnotizing us from negative attitudes and reaction patterns.

It was not a big smile, not particularly bold or polite or ironic or glib, not asking for anything or offering anything, not stringy or careless, not, in short, like any smile I had ever experienced before. But such a smile! You could burn a hole in the world with that smile.

not like any smile i had ever experienced before. but such a smile! you could burn a hole in the world with that smile

Es algo en lo que ya he pensado: una historia que acaba en tu cabeza sin que tú quieras, o que es depositada ahí por alguien. Tengo un archivo de imágenes horribles, pero no las voy a compartir contigo. ¿Y si metiera una aquí, en medio de un párrafo que estás leyendo por casualidad, como si fuera una mina antipersona? Nunca podrías olvidarla; sería parte de ti para siempre, como un poco de metralla en tu cerebro.

It's that powerful, this thing we share. A murky history, its narrative near impenetrable. We keep telling it to ourselves, noting its twists and turns, trying to make sense of it. And hiding it from everyone else.

Good heart is the best religion; its light is the most powerful light.

Malcolm MacDowylt, laird of the MacGahans, was one powerfully dangerous man.

She'd been a silly girl who'd dreamed of love, and a stupid girl who'd declared love a fraud; but she'd never imagined that when she found it,it would be richer, more powerful than dreams, and the impossibility of keeping it more painful than the worst betrayal.

A father's disappointment can be a very powerful tool.

Who can refuse the hand of the All Powerful One who abases Himself to the most unworthy of His creatures? How happy I am, my dear sister! I have been captured in the loving nets of the divine Fisherman. I would like to make you understand this happiness.

The Great and Powerful Theopolis didn't look so powerful now, lounging on his couch with potato chip crumbs on his chin.

To this day, I believe the unity of the world's countries in the fight against terror is more powerful than the fight itself.

If we cite the Bible, and yet fail to live according to its codes, the Bible becomes just another book. But when we live it, it becomes powerful. If you believe it, the words of scripture say that we become living epistles in whose life others read the presence of God.

If we cite the Bible, and yet fail to live according to its codes, the Bible becomes just another book. But when we live it, it becomes powerful. If you believe it, the words of scripture say that we come living epistles in whose life others read the presence of God.

Dr. Ornish "realized reimbursement is a much more powerful determinant of medical practice than research."97

The pharmaceutical industry is considered one of the most profitable and politically powerful industries in the United States, and mental illness is considered a golden goose: chronic, common, and often treated with multiple drugs.76 Indeed, antidepressants are currently prescribed to more than 8 percent of the population.77

reimbursement is a much more powerful determinant of medical practice than research."97

convey the most powerful elements of your story clearly, succinctly and passionately

Government is an extremely prominent and fundamental feature of the structure of our society. We know that people tend to have a powerful bias in favor of the existing arrangements of their own societies. It therefore stands to reason that, whether or not any government were legitimate, most of us would have a strong tendency to believe that some governments are legitimate, especially our own and others like it.

Christ is Lord, Christ is victorious, and Christ conquers by cruciform faithful resistance: not by inflicting but by absorbing violence; not by actually killing but by speaking his powerful word.