Quotes About Potency

The root of empowerment is power.

His power is accessible.

Agatha: The acid had lost a lot of potency … but it did get right in his eyes . Jiminez: It stings! Like a really mean grapefruit!

As for the women, it is true to say, with Erikson, that male domination tends to "restrict their verbal consciousness" so long as this is taken to mean not that they are forbidden all talk of sex, but that their discourse is dominated by the male virtues of virility, so that all reference to specifically female sexual "interests" is excluded from this aggressive and shame-filled cult of male potency.

I mean, what is racism? Racism is a projection of our own fears onto another person. What is sexism? It's our own vulnerability about our potency and masculinity projected as our need to subjugate another person, you know? Fascism, the same thing: People are trying to untidy our state, so I legislate as a way of controlling my environment.

The method of estimating the potency of insulin solutions is based on the effect that insulin produces upon the blood sugar of normal animals.

One last unexploded mine remains, its exact location unknown and its hidden potency serving as something of a symbol of the Great War's underlying power to influence events down to the present day.

For Adams it was especially distressing to witness such conspicuous failure "in the first formation of Government erected by the People themselves on their own Authority, without the poisonous Interposition of Kings and Priests." There was, to be sure, such a thing as "The Cause," but the glorious potency of that concept did not translate to "The People of the United States."16

The process of all healing is a definite, positive, mental attitude, an inner attitude, or a way of thinking, called faith. Healing is due to a confident expectancy, which acts as a powerful suggestion to the subconscious mind releasing its healing potency.

The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?

If I take a finger and touch you, you won't even know you've been tapped. If I take two fingers, you will know that something touched you. But if I bring all of those fingers together in a fist, I can give you a terrible blow!

I put a charge into a lot of balls. Still can.

Power in superhero stories and in magic, when people use it, it drains them. It makes them more tired or it drains them. I wanted power to feed the people that used it. I wanted it to make the people who used it stronger, more powerful, and beautiful. That was one of the tents of being a Grisha.

After I play a gig, I'm like a different person: I have superhuman strength.

Sweetheart, I know you're an adult, but adults are like vampires. The older ones are much more powerful.

I know you're an adult, but adults are like vampires. The older ones are much more powerful.

Sweetheart, I know you're an adult, but adults are like vampires. The older ones are much more powerful." Claire

I am not a man, I am dynamite!

God has blessed man with seed that has the highest potency and woman with a field richer than the richest earth to be found anywhere on his globe.

If we look at music history closely, it is not difficult to isolate certain elements of great potency which were to nourish the art of music for decades, if not centuries.

Politics can be strengthened by music, but music has a potency that defies politics.

By the sense of mystery I understand the experience of certain places and times when one's whole nature seems to be in touch with a presence, a genius loci, a potency.

Words, without power, is mere philosophy.

Information has more power than any atom bomb.