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Quotes About Potency

If you fail to have an erection the first time, you're impotent for the rest of your life.
~ Umberto Eco
She's an old woman possessed of great powers--but aren't all old women possessed of great powers? Occupational hazard, I think.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
potency of motion
~ Jack London
One who has great wisdom has great power.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
No one can stand up to the extraordinary power of my fists.
~ Naseem Hamed
The Word is the master key for the whole world, inasmuch as through its potency the doors of the hearts of men, which in reality are the doors of heaven, are unlocked.
~ Baha'u'llah
Charity is not a potency of the soul, because if it were it would be natural. Nor is it a passion, because it is not in a sensitive potency in which are all passions. Nor is it a habit, because a habit is removed with difficulty; charity, however, is easily lost through one act of mortal sin. Therefore charity is not something created in the soul.
~ Thomas Aquinas
Such I hold to be the genuine use of Gunpowder: that it makes all men tall.
~ Thomas Carlyle
The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?
~ James Hillman
My nickname is Nuke.
~ Rau'Shee Warren
Nada é tão débil e instável quanto a fama da potência não assente na própria força
~ Nicolau Maquiavel
part of the potency of the common sense, is to rule out our thinking any differently about the world. That is, to subjugate our own mental capacity to imagine the world otherwise.
~ Noam Chomsky
She's got powers," said de Bono, taking off his spectacles and surveying the terrain ahead. "Most women have, of course.
~ Clive Barker
mighty in heaven and hell
~ Virgil
Fatigue is what we experience, but it is what a match is to an atomic bomb.
~ Laura Hillenbrand
The Heart Sutra ends with "the great spell" or mantra. It says in the Tibetan version: "Therefore the mantra of transcendent knowledge, the mantra of deep insight, the unsurpassed mantra, the unequalled mantra, the mantra which calms all suffering, should be known as truth, for there is no deception." The potency of this mantra comes not from some imagined mystical or magical power of the words but from their meaning. It
~ Chogyam Trungpa
Potente Gehirne stärken sich nicht durch Milch, sondern durch Alkaloide.
~ Gottfried Benn
Sexcaliber hrosspower.
~ James Joyce
Providing power is the only way forward." She
~ James Luceno
My, g**, he was as strong as a team of oxen. That would be strong right?
~ James Patterson
When you're on stage and the stars are aligned and the audience is as one and you're guiding them, steering them... It's a feeling of incredible potency, of unity, of such, such joy. It's almost overwhelming to know that you're making that number of people feel better.
~ Michael Ball
I want a man with nuclear power.
~ Carla Bruni
Scientia potentia est. Knowledge is power.
~ Thomas Hobbes
Power. Intoxicating. Like a fine wine.
~ Cornelia Funke