Powerful Quotes

• Ridicule has even been the most powerful enemy of enthusiasm, and properly the only antagonist that can be opposed to it with success.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Success
  • Enemy
  • Enthusiasm

• I'm realizing that the people who criticize what I'm doing, their intentions and comments are not actually real.There's nothing happening in the real world outside of whatever they're writing on the internet. Whereas for the people who feel inspired by what I'm doing, there's something so concrete and powerful in what's happening when they feel empowered. There's actually some kind of growth or self-acceptance, some kind of self-love that's actually being triggered, hopefully. And that's real.

  

  Amandla Stenberg
  • People
  • World
  • Writing

• Hunger is a powerful incentive to introspection.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Hunger
  • Incentives
  • Introspection

• I've spent my career trying to help people without connections understand what's going on so that they have a chance of getting a fair shake from the connected and the powerful.

  

  Allan Sloan
  • People
  • Trying
  • Help

• That occurs everywhere, unfortunately. Powerful, smart women who make it to the end sometimes are not seen as the same charismatic likable guys.

  

  Allison Grodner
  • Women
  • Powerful
  • Charismatic

• He's able to sustain longer minutes in the game. He's more powerful, and he's able to hit the jumper a lot better; he worked real hard on that.

  

  Chris Kaman
  • Game
  • Hit
  • Sustain

• The way theater can bring people together is so powerful.

  

  Phillipa Soo
  • People
  • Together
  • Powerful

• Every state protects the privileges of the powerful.

  

  Colin Ward
  • Powerful
  • State
  • Protects

• Mental and spiritual laws are so powerful that they can be used to multiply, neutralize, or even reverse natural laws!

  

  Catherine Ponder
  • Powerful
  • Spiritual
  • Natural

• The questions they ask usually in the polls is: do you support the President's attempt to overthrow the government of Saddam Hussein? ... If you ask a question like: do you support the dropping of powerful explosives upon the heads of totally innocent men, women and children, demolishing their homes and their schools and their hospitals, are you in favour of that? That would change the answers, I think, quite a bit.

  

  William Blum
  • Men
  • Children
  • School

• Through adopting radical extremism, some young men who previously felt humiliated and emasculated by their peers can now feel powerful and intimidating - and gain status, attention from young women, and the comradeship and solidarity of other young men like themselves.

  

  Deeyah Khan
  • Men
  • Women
  • Attention

• The sensation of never feeling good enough or pretty enough will always be there. It's a constant dialogue, and you just learn to be more powerful than that other voice. When you hear it come up, you shut it down.

  

  Shirley Ann Manson Angelfish
  • Feelings
  • Enough
  • Dialogue

• It is simply not feasible for sovereignty to be exercised unilaterally by individual nation-states, however powerful. It is a principle which will yield only slowly and reluctantly to the imperatives of global environmental cooperation.

  

  Maurice Strong
  • Powerful

• I'm very excited about some of the novels that I have adapted. I think they're equally as powerful, if not more. Going After Cacciato (by Tim O'Brien) is something I'm very passionate about.

  

  Gabe Polsky
  • Powerful

• He's completely correct, for as with music, as with movies, and as with a wide variety of human phenomena: a flaw is a powerful thing. Even at the person-to-person level, to be universally liked is to be relatively ignored. To be disliked by some is to be loved all the more by others.

  

  Christian Rudder
  • To Be
  • Liked
  • Flaw

• My visuals are typically very powerful. The rhythm is fast. The cuts are fast.

  

  Andrew Lau
  • Powerful

• Who's Chernabog?" Grumbled Maybeck. Philby answered,"Only the most powerful villian Walt Disney ever created.

  

  Ridley Pearson
  • Powerful
  • Walt

• The soul may be compared to a field of battle, where the armies are ready every moment to encounter. Not a single vice but has a more powerful opponent, and not one virtue but may be overborne by a combination of vices.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • May
  • Soul
  • Single

• I find it hard to believe that so many people doubt the existence of God. I mean, seriously, I'm here, so is it such a stretch to imagine that another all-powerful being could exist somewhere in the universe?

  

  Zach Braff
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• Our hopes, desires and ambitions are powerful forces existing within us for the shaping of the future. They are the generating forces that create the future.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Future
  • Powerful

• There are some varieties of fiction that I never touch - mystery stories, for instance, which I abhor, and historical novels. I also detest the so-called "powerful" novel - full of commonplace obscenities and torrents of dialog.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Mystery
  • Novel
  • Historical

• The division of the spoils between the victors will also provide employment for a powerful office, whose doorsteps the greedy adventurers and jealous concession hunters of twenty or thirty nations will crowd and defile.

  

  John Maynard Keynes
  • Powerful

• It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be introduced to us and I absorbed it totally, and it changed my complete outlook on music.

  

  Eric Clapton Blind Faith
  • Drug
  • Changed
  • Outlook

• Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is such a powerful book, and 'Love in the Time of Cholera' is so strangely, brilliantly optimistic.

  

  Anjelica Huston
  • Time
  • Book
  • Solitude

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