Quotes About Potency

Such compliments--they were thrilling but almost impossible to absorb in this quantity, at this pace. It was like she was being pelted with magnificent hail, and she wished she could save the individual stones to examine later, but they'd exist with such potency only now, in this moment.

Such compliments—they were thrilling but almost impossible to absorb in this quantity, at this pace. It was like she was being pelted with a magnificent hail, and she wished she could save the individual stones to examine later, but they'd exist with such potency only now, in this moment. And

The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and the power of movement, of action, in man.

From the old wood came an ancient melancholy, somehow soothing to her, better than the harsh insentience of the outer world. She liked the inwardness of the remnant of forest, the unspeaking reticence of the old trees. They seemed a very power of silence, and yet a vital presence. They, too, were waiting: obstinately, stoically waiting, and giving off a potency of silence.

he can make every word he speaks draw blood

He will also make use of what he learns as the months or years of the war strengthen his revolutionary convictions, making him more radical as the potency of arms is demonstrated, as the outlook of the inhabitants becomes a part of his spirit and of his own life, and as he understands the justice and the vital necessity of a series of changes, of which the theoretical importance appeared to him before, but devoid of practical urgency.

Steinach found that, when sexually mature white rats were castrated, though at first they remained as potent as ever, their potency gradually declined; sexual excitement, however, and sexual inclination always persisted.

As the chant grew in volume she began to be conscious of the terrible potency of language, the sense that a name spoken is a summons and more than a summons, an act of creation, for a word shapes an idea, an idea shapes belief, and belief shapes the world.

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

The final test of a work of art is not whether it has beauty, but whether it has power.

Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it's just doing it.

Giving is the highest expression of potency. In the very act of giving I experience my strength, my wealth, my power.

The brain uses a simple but cunning method to make emotional memories register with special potency: the very same neurochemical alerting systems that prime the body to react to life-threatening emergencies by fighting or fleeing also stamp the moment in memory with vividness.

Powers is the greatest aphrodisiac. -Nicole Muldoon

He felt like an eagle: hard, sufficient, potent, remorseless, strong. But that passed, though he did not then know that, like the eagle, his own flesh as well as all space was still a cage.

Being powerful is so much more interesting than being beautiful.

Ideas are, in truth, force.

I don't go, like, 'Hmm, I'm now going to create something for the black community.' I just feel this compelling urge. I just feel myself drawn to stories that I feel have a potency and immediacy.

It does not matter if you can do 1,000 punches if none of them can knock out your little sister.

My agency was pure and miraculous. It conferred power upon me.

True power isn't granted. True power can't be taken away.

The information was like a secret weapon hidden in her pocket, which she held in the palm of her hand, caressing its contours, considering its power.

They needed to stay secret to keep their power.

If you don't think women are explosive, drop one.