Powerful Quotes
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God was treated like this powerful, erratic, rather punitive father who has to be pacified and praised. You know, flattered.
John Cleese
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A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely, and which is less benefited than most others by any acquaintance with science.
Charles Babbage
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Some things, like the orbits of the planets, can be calculated far into the future. But that's atypical. In most contexts, there is a limit. Even the most fine-grained computation can only forecast British weather a few days ahead. There are limits to what can ever be learned about the future, however powerful computers become.
Martin Rees
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'Would that he slips with both and hits himself repeatedly in the face' Entreri muttered to Jarlaxle.'So then when he’s gone, my friend Entreri can take his place' the drow quipped back.'Shut up.''He is a powerful ally.''And a mighty enemy.''Watch him closely, then.''From behind,'
R. A. Salvatore
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Boldness will be at a disadvantage only in an encounter with deliberate caution, which may be considered bold in its own right, and is certainly just as powerful and effective; but such cases are rare.
Carl von Clausewitz
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I love my uncle to death. It just breaks my heart. It's hard for me to (believe) that this drug is that powerful.
Gary Sheffield
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Powerful to alleviate, to delay, to camouflage, though money is, in the end it lets us down.
Caryll Houselander
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I was fortunate to work with some very powerful producers like Tom Miller and Bob Boyett.
Jaleel White
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But I believe that engagement is a more powerful force than isolation, and the changes we are making can help improve the lives of the Cuban people.
Barack Obama
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There may or may not be a God or gods; the Siblings do not concern themselves with proving or disproving such a thing. By definition, gods are more powerful than men, and thus quite able to fend for themselves without help.
Steve Perry
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It sounds so cheesy, but there's something very powerful about looking in the mirror and asking yourself a question. Because I think it's really hard to lie.
Kristen Wiig
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Computers are very powerful tools, but in the simulated world of the computer, everything has to be calculated.
Margaret Wertheim
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When the Manufacturing Capitalist of Europe shall advert to the many important advantages, which have been intimated, in the Course of this report, he cannot but perceive very powerful inducements to a transfer of himself and his Capital to the United States.
Alexander Hamilton
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...the need to overawe people and demand obedience from them is powerful and seductive. It is a part of that world that the kingdom of heaven is not of.
Bede Griffiths
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We live in an age where technology is so powerful that we can make change without even leaving our computers or cell phones.
Sadie Calvano
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When you are cast for a role, it's because of everything that makes you who you are in that moment in time. No one else has that. That's a unique, powerful thing to hold.
Christian Camargo
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That's what people forget about, is that when things are very, very powerful in a sad way, they have that possibility of also being over-the-top, hysterically funny.
Joel Grey
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It can be really powerful to write something when you're sad.
Kathryn Stockett
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I have this problem in the rebirthing community because it's so powerful sometimes, I get thrown out because people want to do things a certain way and they are just not open to new ideas, so they don't want me to come around.
Leonard Orr
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When you are competing for attention and eyeballs, articulating value and evoking possibility and vision can be powerful tools.
Lewis Howes
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In your walks about London you will sometimes see bent, haggard figures that look as if they had recently been caught in some powerful machinery. They are those fellows who got mixed up with Catsmeat when he was meaning well.
P. G. Wodehouse
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I never say someone is powerful.
Jimmy Iovine
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I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication on Earth - I just hate what is being done with it.
Alton Brown
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Surround yourself with people who are really good and really passionate about what they do regardless of what it is...positivity and passion make a powerful combination.
Rachael Bermingham