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Quotes About Potency

It is no diminution of power not to be able to do things which are no object of power.
~ Samuel Clarke
the literal definition of the word "power" is "the ability to act.
~ Anthony Robbins
The Amanita phalloides... holds three different poisons. There is amanitin, which works slowly and is most potent. There is phalloidin, which acts at once, and there is phallin, which dissolves red corpuscles, although it is the least potent. The first symptoms do not appear until seven to twelve hours after eating, in some cases not before twenty-four or even forty hours. The symptoms begin with violent stomach pains, cold sweat, vomiting-
~ Shirley Jackson
Power proves the man.
~ Solon
For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
~ John Milton
He breathed a power brewed from masculinity and intelligence, not from an accident of inheritance.
~ Eloisa James
To have solely one thought, but it to be capable of destroy the universe
~ Emil Cioran
The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.
~ Baltasar Gracian
Mercedes and Ferrari fear Red Bull more than any other team because they know the potency and capability that we have.
~ Christian Horner
But the danger is obvious: those who take this approach more often than not end up denying the potency of the Sermon and sometimes simply turn elsewhere—to Galatians and Romans and Ephesians—for their Christian ethical instruction. What many such readings of the Sermon really want is Paul, and since they can't find Paul in the Sermon, they reinterpret the Sermon and give us Paul instead.
~ Scot McKnight
This brew could make a dead eunuch piss lightning
~ Scott Lynch
That's the way it is with influence, you know; if you don't use it all the time, people will forget you have it.
~ Mary Deasy
Reading the papers, it was often hard to tell when people were referring to Viagra (which was competing for second place on the front pages) and when they were talking about the nuclear bomb—"We have superior strength and potency." (This was our minister for defense after Pakistan completed its tests.)
~ Arundhati Roy
Omnipotence is most omnipotent when one does nothing!
~ Stanislaw Lem
There's real potency in metal. Metal fans love metal as if it's a nation they would fight for. It's not diluted by pop culture.
~ Feist
after all, a great power is a great power, it doesn't become one by chance, and doesn't remain one by chance, either.
~ Jonathan Littell
Giving is the highest expression of potency. In the very act of giving, I experience my strength, my wealth, my power. This experience of heightened vitality and potency fills me with joy. I experience myself as overflowing, spending, alive, hence as joyous. Giving is more joyous than receiving, not because it is a deprivation, but because in the act of giving lies the expression of my aliveness.
~ Erich Fromm
More: she is something that cries out to be rescued, set free, and redeemed, and she demands that the man shall prove himself manly, not merely as the bearer of the phallic instrument of fertilization, but as a spiritual potency, a hero. She expects strength, cunning, resourcefulness, bravery, protection, and readiness to fight.
~ Erich Neumann
great power.
~ Erin Hunter
High-potency benzodiazepines, especially triazolam, can cause anterograde amnesia. A paradoxical increase in aggression has been reported in persons with preexisting brain damage.
~ Benjamin James Sadock
India is a regional power. It does not need anything to establish it.
~ Gary Ackerman
Luther Reigns is a powerhouse.
~ Big Show
I have athletic power that people can't see, that sharpness, the big bang that hits you.
~ Daniel Jacobs
My left hook is the H-bomb of the Featherweight division.
~ Patricio Freire