Quotes About Powerful

Adverbs lead to overwriting. Try taking them out and reading your prose again to see how it sounds. Simple and less words are more powerful.

Most governments do have inbuilt biases in favour of the rich and powerful, and most do contain plenty of manipulators who love intrigue, who have lost whatever moral compass they may once have had and who protect themselves with steely cynicism.

I came from a tradition of demonstrations and protests, and I really believe in them. I think they are powerful ways of bring people together, to organize, to raise awareness, and most importantly to empower people.

Apenas se deviam ler os livros que nos picam e que nos mordem. Se o livro que lemos não nos desperta como um murro no crânio, para quê lê-lo?

The helpless ecstasy of loosing himself in her charm was a powerful opiate rather than a tonic.

Isabella had been for some time capable of very strong, if very transient emotions...

The education system is an increasingly powerful mechanism for the intergenerational reproduction of privilege.

Leo Tolstoy quote: 'The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.' " "Thank you for that, Jack," Charles said tongue in cheek.

begin to see that when we say God will "justify" rather than merely "acquit," the action has a reconstituting force — hence the insufficiency of the courtroom metaphor "to acquit." God's righteousness is the same thing as his justice, and his justice is powerfully at work justifying, which does not mean excusing, passing over, or even "forgiving and forgetting," but actively making right that which is wrong.

We know there is a very powerful fan base for Liverpool in Asia. We are not embarrassed to say we want to exploit that.

Brock Lesnar is a fascinating human being.

I think when you've been exposed to the Creator of the universe, then the federal government doesn't seem very powerful.

I want to look feminine, powerful, sexy and bold.

You can't market or commercialize feminism as an entity. One has to be careful. I aim to be about powerful women in my clothing.

There are few things as powerful as the joy of someone who got a second chance and found their purpose.

Feature filmmaking is a very powerful medium. It has a hold on me now.

I won't let anybody, even the most powerful person in this country, trample our values or our Constitution. And no matter who's in the White House, I am incredibly vigilant about that and will continue to fight that fight.

The aggressive use of wiretaps is important: It shows that we are targeting white-collar insider-trading rings with the same powerful investigative tools that have worked so successfully against the mob and drug cartels.

However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbours, we cannot in all circumstances undertake to involve the whole British Empire in a war simply on her account.

Science is simply a powerful way of understanding what's real and what isn't, what's true and what's not. It can help us determine what works, what doesn't, for whom, and under what circumstances.

As a consumer, you want to associate with brands whose powerful presence creates a halo effect that rubs off on you.

Our country presents on every side the evidences of that continued favor under whose auspices it, has gradually risen from a few feeble and dependent colonies to a prosperous and powerful confederacy.

Have you ever held a snake? They are so strong. You can see why there are so many myths about them: they are unlike any other creature. It's extraordinary how that little brain can keep everything moving in different directions.

Agribusiness - with its wicked powerful lobby and its infiltration of top bureaucratic posts - essentially runs roughshod over the government agencies that are supposed to monitor it. It's the rich fox guarding the filthy, overcrowded henhouse.