Quotes About Potency

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Drugs, cataplasms, and whiskey are stupid substitutes for the dignity and potency of divine mind and its efficacy to heal.

For me, there's something about a certain kind of genre film that has real potency in its emotional landscape.

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I'm no porn star, but what I lack in size I make up for in speed. --- Harry McGlade

POWER IS THE FACULTY OR CAPACITY TO ACT, THE STRENGTH AND POTENCY TO ACCOMPLISH SOMETHING. IT IS THE VITAL ENERGY TO MAKE CHOICES AND DECISIONS. IT ALSO INCLUDES THE CAPACITY TO OVERCOME DEEPLY EMBEDDED HABITS AND TO CULTIVATE HIGHER, MORE EFFECTIVE ONES." —Stephen R. Covey

the true test of awesome power is the ability not to use it,

I had felt untouchable, filled with teeth and power.

Then I learned that I could bend the world to my will, as a bow is bent for an arrow. I would have done that toil a thousand times to keep such power in my hands. I thought: this is how Zeus felt when he first lifted the thunderbolt.

All that his tipsiness did was to make him five times more his natural self than in normal times. And Mr. Geard's natural self was a thing of mountainous potency.

Even in her pain, she commanded the room, drawing all the light to herself, leeching the world around her pale as mushrooms.

And that is the least of my powers.

That energy which veils itself in mildness is most effective of its object.

Had we adopted non-violence as the weapon of the strong, because we realised that it was more effective than any other weapon, in fact the mightiest force in the world, we would have made use of its full potency and not have discarded it as soon as the fight against the British was over or we were in a position to wield conventional weapons. But as I have already said, we adopted it out of our helplessness. If we had the atom bomb, we would have used it against the British.

There are books of the same chemical composition as dynamite. The only difference is that a piece of dynamite explodes once, whereas a book explodes a thousand times.

When a man loses superiority, he loses potency. That's what all this talk about castrating women is about. Castrating women are those who refuse to pretend men are better than they are and better than women are. The simple truth — that men are only equal — can undermine a culture more devastatingly than any bomb. Subversion is telling the truth.

Pepper is small in quantity and great in virtue.

Freedom exists only with power.

And why is strength so important? THE ODIN BROTHERHOOD: Because it is only by becoming stronger that a man can realize his divinity. AUTHOR: In other words, through strength a man can become godlike? THE ODIN BROTHERHOOD: Yes. And a godlike man—a man who is pure force, inaccessible to any compromise—is called a hero.

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

I have 2 weapons; my arms, my legs and my brain.

Thunder is all talk; lightning is all action.

Simple ideas often make the strongest memes.

Might is a fine thing, and useful for many purposes; for "one goes further with a handful of might than with a bagful of right.