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Quotes About Potency

Power is the ability to make things happen. Talk is good, but action is better. Action makes things happen. - Strong by Kailin Gow
~ Kailin Gow
If you can direct the power you call up, it can do a lot.", FADE by Kailin Gow
~ Kailin Gow
Women become invisible as they age; men become impotent.
~ Paula Hawkins
The books which seal off the long perspectives, which sever us from our losses, which represent the world of potency as a world of act, these are the books which, when the drug wears off, go on to the dump with the other empty bottles. Those that continue to interest us move through time to an end, an end we must sense even if we cannot know it; they live in change, until, which is never, as and is are one.
~ Frank Kermode
I think I added pepper too early in the cooking – did you know it loses its potency?
~ Freya North
What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Under the spell of the right song, passion is within reach... love is close by... and you are not alone! With such potency, music should be treated with care. The sound, the feel, the presentation... everything! It is a medicine. It is a teacher!
~ Dave Sitek
Small things have a way of overmastering the great. This small press can destroy a kingdom.
~ Sonya Levien
The word is not just a sound or a written symbol. The word is a force;
~ Miguel Ruiz
in many ways the UnDead are strong. He have always
~ Bram Stoker
Wow-Wow Sauce, a mixture of mature scumble, pickled cucumbers, capers, mustard, mangoes, figs, grated wahooni, anchovy essence, asafetida and, significantly, sulfur and saltpetre for added potency. Ridcully inherited the formula from his uncle who, after half a pint of sauce on a big meal one evening, had a charcoal biscuit to settle his stomach, lit his pipe and disappeared in mysterious circumstances, although his shoes were found on the roof the following summer.
~ Terry Pratchett
Some dreams never leave you, because they're more than just dreams. They're truth, distilled to purest potency.
~ Brian Hodge
These temporary apprehensions, so vague but so awful, derived a wondrous potency from the contrasting serenity of the weather, in which, beneath all its blue blandness, some thought there lurked a devilish charm, as for days and days we voyaged along, through seas so wearily, lonesomely mild, that all space, in repugnance to our vengeful errand, seemed vacating itself of life before our urn-like prow.
~ Herman Melville
I can hit hard, trust me.
~ Israel Adesanya
Power was building up around him, living, writhing, hissing power.
~ Storm Constantine
Even though they have long shelf lives, chemical leaveners will lose potency over time. If the only box of baking soda you have around is the one that's been absorbing odors in your fridge for the last few years, it's probably a good idea to get a new box just for baking.
~ Claire Saffitz
Man rarely knows his own power
~ Mitch Albom
We realize our messages are influential.
~ Jisoo
omnipotence
~ C.G. Jung
In themselves, harmless. As a group, incredibly dangerous.
~ Isaac Asimov
Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.
~ Karl Kraus
Today's marijuana is also twice as strong as it was in the mid 80's.
~ John Walters
Goodhue wanted visitors to feel more than they were in a pretty building. He wanted them to feel they were part of a three-dimensional meditation on the power of human intellect and the potency of storytelling.
~ Susan Orlean
The irony of the Feuersprüche was that they treated books as seriously as Jews did. To feel the need to destroy them acknowledged the potency and value of books, and recognized the steadfast Jewish attachment to them.
~ Susan Orlean