Quotes About Powerful

But the fact was, I suppose, there were powerful tides tugging us apart by then, and it only needed something like that to finish the task.

The whiskey kicked like a mugger.

Plato compared the intellect to a charioteer guiding the powerful horses of the passions, i.e., he gave it both the power of perception and the power of control.

The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy.

Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively past-, present- or future-oriented.

Storytelling has a narcotic power.

She would rather remain silent, but her voice is no longer something to fear. It's strong. Powerful. A weapon of emotions.

I'm floating. The absence of pain is powerful.

It had been horrible, yes, and he'd never want to do it again - but it truly was his most powerful experience.

Suspense was an excellent tool for keeping powerful people off balance. It gave one bargaining power.

You can't write novels without a touch of paranoia. I'm paranoid as an act of good citizenship, concerned about what the powerful people are up to.

Thatcher set ordinary people free, but into a landscape that her other policies had already shaped to suit other, more powerful interests, such as large corporations or Britons with inherited wealth.

Praying for your children is the most powerful way you can care for them.

i believed that imagination is stronger than knowledge, sometimes that dreams are more powerful than fact, stronger dreams may seized peoples heart with full of amore/love

There is just too much cruelty, selfishness and corruption in the world not to want to crush the poisonous will of those who cause it by writing about it as powerfully as I can.

Love is a dramatic driving force, the most powerful potion that we drink willingly.

Blood is power, and the heart consumed of one much loved is the most powerful thing of all. After all, what is love if you keep your heart?

Prayer is powerful beyond limits when we turn to the Immaculata who is queen even of God's heart.

It takes us long to learn that prayer is more important than organization, more powerful than armies, more influential than wealth and mightier than all learning.

I have felt the impact of your prayer in these past weeks. I am certain now that nothing has had a more powerful infl uence on this life of mine than your prayers.

The ascetic remembrance of death is opposed to akedia, to anxiety, to depression, and becomes a powerful reminder of eternity, its joyful nostalgia.

Those who know God the best are the richest and most powerful in prayer. Little acquaintance with God, and strangeness and coldness to Him, make prayer a rare and feeble thing.

A prayer couched in the words of the soul, is far more powerful than any ritual.

I think the Lord's Prayer is a very powerful prayer. And the prayer of St. Francis.