Quotes About Potency

Unlimited Power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it.

The Renaissance, for which, the never to be forgotten Moors were responsible, both in the sciences and the arts, swept everything before it. France, nearest neighbor to the North, could not resist the Moorish revolutionary culture, to the potency of which the people of other European domains perforce succumbed.

The strengthOf twenty men.

Fentanyl is fifty times stronger than heroin. Another concern is an opioid called carfentanil, which is as much as one hundred times more potent than fentanyl. According to the New York Times, an amount smaller than a snowflake could kill a person.

Books no longer have the power they once did.

What profound reward you must glean from studying the world so closely....Too many people turn away from small wonders, I find. There is so much more potency to be found in detail than generalities, but most souls cannot train themselves to sit still for it.

Dirty old men are dirty because they are hanging on to life. Sex is the life force, and the nearer they come to death, the more urgent their desire. Thus it comes about that the drive becomes most insistent at the time when the ability to gratify it is disappearing. So they augment a waning potency by reaching down into the dirt, adding lust and aggression to hold aloft an impulse that once soared effortlessly on wings of love alone.

My serve is my biggest weapon.

The big cop-out would be to accept popularity rather than opting to try to create potent work. It's so easy to do the popular thing, the expected thing, and that's where you start to cheat yourself - and your fans, in the end - because there's an inherent dishonesty in pandering and dishing up what everyone's expecting.

To make pictures big is to make them more powerful.

To the one who makes Zeus look like a tiny spark.

The greatest thing about having power is the mere having of power. Use the latter well, and you'll never have to use the former. Morgana, Queen of the Sorceri

The greatest thing about having power is the mere having of power. Use the latter well, and you'll never have to use the former.

jazz is the expression of America's romantic self, its sensual potency, its lyrical force.

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.

We rarely know the full power of words, in print or spoken.

To me, a Horse symbolizes top five attributes that a man constantly desires: Confidence, Determination, Potency, Power and Strength.

I could snap any number of men over my knee.

At issue for Peladan is the potency of the visual image: art's ability to construct images for viewing that can mobilize, concentrate and redirect instinctive responses. He brings out into the open the recognition underlying all decadent art; that is, the political function of the fascinated gaze.

He didn't move, didn't blink, wasn't physically aggressive in any way, but he bled power, and he knew it.

To be alive??is Power.

It's just something that God blessed me with. I've got power, so it really don't matter what weight class I'm in. I'm still going to have the same power as I had at any weight class I'm in.

It is a crime against the State to be powerful enough to commit one.

As anyone familiar with my scholarship knows, I am not a huge fan of inherent powers in most contexts.