Strange, isn't it,' mused Glokta as he watched him struggle for air. 'Big men, small men, thin men, fat men, clever men, stupid men, they all respond the same to a fist in the guts. One minute you think you're the most powerful man in the world. The next you can't even breathe by yourself.
- Joe Abercrombie
The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit.
- Theodor Adorno
You've come to give me a piece of your mind. You know that phrase is really beautiful. The mind is the most powerful thing in the body. Whatever the mind believes, the body can achieve. So to give someone a piece of it... well thank you. Funny how people are always intent on giving it to the people they dislike when it really should be for the ones they love.
- Cecelia Ahern
of all the weapons of destruction that man could invent, the most terrible-and the most powerful-was the word. Daggers and spears left traces of blood; arrows could be seen at a distance. Poisons were detected in the end and avoided. But the word managed to destroy without leaving clues.
- Paulo Coelho
True love can break the most powerful curse
- Jodi Picoult
Love is the most powerful force in the world. That love can do anything.
- Cassandra Clare
L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle." "It means," he said, "that love is the most powerful force in the world. That love can do anything.
- Cassandra Clare
that love is the most powerful force in the world. That love can do anything.
- Cassandra Clare
Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had resisted, overcome his power, broken his will.
- Stephen Ambrose
The whole of world history often seems to me nothing more than a picture book which portrays humanity's most powerful and a senseless desire - the desire to forget. Does not each generation, by means of suppression, concealment, and ridicule, efface what the previous generation considered most important?
- Hermann Hesse
By now the crusaders had christened the most powerful French catapult 'Mal Voisine', or 'Bad Neighbour', while nicknaming the Muslim stone-thrower that targeted it for conter-bombardment 'Mal Cousine', or 'Bad Relation'.
- Thomas Asbridge
Developments in information technology and globalised media mean that the most powerful military in the history of the world can lose a war, not on the battlefield of dust and blood, but on the battlefield of world opinion.
- Timothy Garton Ash
[Kendra] also referred to Tizoc Theron, one of the most powerful mercenaries in all of vampiric existence, as her "Tizzy". The Inquisition was "a dreadful inconvenience," World War II was "a little spat" and the fall of Midnight, the vampiric empire that had reigned for centurie, was "an unfortunate event.
- Amelia Atwater Rhodes
The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself.
- Steve Maraboli
Some of the most powerful speeches I have given have been delivered in the dedicated silence of my actions.
- Steve Maraboli
We can start working with time, if you wish, till you can fly the past and the future. And then you will be ready to begin the most difficult, the most powerful, the most fun of all. You will be ready to BEGIN to fly up and know the meaning of kindness and of love
- Richard Bach
It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will; and, however little they acknowledge it, one later discovers that they were among the most powerful promoters of decadence.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit.
- Stefan Banach
When I was your age I met a man older than myself, quite a bit older. I fell in love with him. Really in love. I know people say it's just puppy love at that age, but I was in love properly. It lasted for years. It was the most powerful feeling I can ever remember. At that age one has no defenses. It just overwhelmed me.
- Lynne Reid Banks
You've got to be kidding me. I thought you were the most powerful of beings. Even the gods fear you. (Stryker)
We all have predators. The entire universe exists in a system of checks and balances. I just met my zero balance. (War)
Are you honestly telling me that the most powerful creature on this planet is a pathetic Cajun guttersnipe who offed himself because one of my men killed his mommy? (Stryker)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
How could one sentence uttered in anger cause so much damage? But then words were the most powerful thing in the universe. Cuts and bruises always healed, but words spoken in anger were most often permanent. They didn't damage the body, they destroyed the spirit. (Acheron)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Why does the Destroyer hate Artemis? (Cassandra)
Love. Why else? Love, hatred, and revenge are the most powerful emotions on earth. Apollymi wants revenge on Artemis for killing the one thing she loved most in the universe. (Katra)
And that is? (Cassandra)
I would never betray either one by saying it. (Katra)
Would you write it down?...Oh, yeah, like the two of you weren't thinking the same thing. (Chris)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
the table of elements does not contain one of the most powerful elements that make up our world, and that is the element of surprise.
- Lemony Snicket
Faith that is lived from deep within amid a secularized world is the most powerful ecumenical force that brings us together, guiding us towards unity in the one Lord. And we pray to him, asking that we may learn to live the faith anew, and that in this way we may then become one
- Pope Benedict Xvi
I've learned that I'm most powerful when I'm doing my art.
- Andre Benjamin
Words are one of the most powerful things given to human beings. In the hands of artists who can use them properly they are like weapons of mass construction.
- Eric T Benoit
A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns.
- Franklin D Roosevelt
The most powerful element in advertising is the truth.
- William Bernbach
When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you.
- Keith Richards
The single most powerful asset we all have is our mind. If it is trained well, it can create enormous wealth in what seems to be an instant.
- Robert Kiyosaki
The utilitarian behaves sensibly in all that is required for preservation but never takes account of the fact that he must die...His whole life is absorbed in avoiding death, which is inevitable, and therefore he might be thought to be the most irrational of men, if rationality has anything to do with understanding ends or comprehending the human situation as such. He gives way without reserve to his most powerful passion and the wishes it engenders.
- Allan Bloom
Even the most powerful woman needs a place to unwind.
- Barbara Taylor Bradford
She was chosen,' Mae insists.
No, you're wrong,' I say. 'She was only a girl.'...
She was gone for some time. You were the only force that kept her from turning completely. That's magic. Perhaps the most powerful I've seen.'
-In response to Felicity's love for Pippa keeping her from turning into a Winterland creature.
- Libba Bray
The most powerful single force in the world today is neither Communism nor Capitalism, neither the H-bomb nor the guided missile -- it is man's eternal desire to be free and independent.
- John F Kennedy
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
- Rudyard Kipling
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
Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.
- Robert Mcafee Brown
Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.
- William C Bryant
French is the most beautiful," he said, "and Italian is the most poetic, and Russian the most powerful, German the most solid. But more business is done in English than in any other.
- Pearl S Buck
Our prayer must not be self-centered. It must arise not only because we feel our own need as a burden we must lay upon God, but also because we are so bound up in love for our fellow men that we feel their need as acutely as our own. To make intercession for men is the most powerful and practical way in which we can express our love for them.
- John Calvin
Of all powers, love is the most powerful and the most powerless. It is the most powerful because it alone can conquer that final and most impregnable stronghold which is the human heart. It is the most powerless because it can do nothing except by consent.
- Frederick Buechner
Throughout history the most powerful rulers have been sex maniacs. And he asks, does their sex appetite come from having power, or does their will for power come from their sex appetite?
- Chuck Palahniuk
All of these stars, the most powerful actors in film, they were all gone in an instant.
- Chuck Palahniuk
Percy is the most powerful demigod I've ever met. No offense to you guys but it's true.
- Rick Riordan
My point is that love is the most powerful motivator in the world. It spurs mortals to greatness. Their noblest, bravest acts are done for love.
- Rick Riordan
Love is the most powerful motivator in the world. It spurs mortals to greatness. Their noblest and bravest acts are done for love.
- Rick Riordan
He touched the screen as if trying to reach through with his hand. "You're a wonderful young lady. I don't tell you that often enough. You remind me so much of your mother. She'd be proud. And Grandpa Tom" --he chuckled-- "he always said you'd be the most powerful voice in our family. You're going to outshine me some day, you know. They're going to remember me as Piper McLean's father, and that's the best legacy I can imagine.
- Rick Riordan
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
- Edmund Burke
I loved her. I still love her, though I curse her in my sleep, so nearly one are love and hate, the two most powerful and devasting emotions that control man, nations, life.
- Edgar Rice Burroghs
Connor put himself between his wife and me, then put his arms around both of us. I elbowed him. "I was forced to agree to praying, not to touching."
"Touch is one of the most powerful healers."
"So is morphine. I'll take that instead.
- Lisa Burstein
Change
is the one unavoidable,
irresistible,
ongoing reality of the universe.
To us,
that makes it the most powerful reality,
and just another word for
God.
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- Octavia Butler
You were supposed to have hope, right? You were supposed to respect its power and hold on. And so I did. I held, and held, and let hope fill me. But as the days went on, it seemed I could be holding for a long, long time. Hope could be the most powerful thing or the most useless
- Deb Caletti
Curiosity is the most powerful thing you own.
- James Cameron
One of the more fatuous remarks I've heard in recent days is that 'My Life,' Clinton's autobiography, is too long and, at almost 1,000 pages, short it is not. But this man was for eight years the President of the most powerful country on earth.
- Alastair Campbell
The most powerful women in Sachaka and all you do is waste time gossiping and matchmaking
- Trudi Canavan
But the - look, I think that this - the United States of America is still the most powerful economy in the world. It is an incredible engine for creativity and innovation. And it has the most - smartest, most effective workforce in the world. So we have a lot going for us, in spite of the fractiousness of our politics.
- Jay Carney
One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
- Bertrand Russell
To speak seriously: the standards of "goodness" which are generally recognized by public opinion are not those which are calculated to make the world a happier place. This is due to a variety of causes, of which the chief is tradition, and the next most powerful is the unjust power of dominant classes.
- Bertrand Russell
Surprise becomes effective when we suddenly face the enemy at one point with far more troops than he expected. This type of numerical superiority is quite distinct from numerical superiority in general: it is the most powerful medium in the art of war.
- Karl Von Clausewitz
You are the most powerful cultural force in the world.
- William J Clinton
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Belief is one of the most powerful organic forces in the multiverse. It may not be able to move mountains, exactly. But it can create someone who can.
People get exactly the wrong idea about belief. They think it works back to front. They think the sequence is, first object, then belief. In fact, it works the other way.
- Terry Pratchett
[...] But you doona plan to deprive Bowen and me of a fight?"
Garreth had answered, "So as to no' piss off a vampire queen and the most powerful witch ever to live? Oh, aye."
"What are you planning?"
"Steal the arrow from Lousha, sneak off, shoot the god. Then I'll come back with a present and an apology, promising she can shoot the next god.
- Kresley Cole
What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain at its most powerful and guarded point - the exclusive right to govern the systems of production.
- Barry Commoner
You little fool. You thought you could defeat the most powerful being on Earth.
- Walt Disney Company
In this most powerful nation in the world, lack of access to health care should not force local and state governments, companies and workers into bankruptcy, while causing unnecessary illness and hospitalization.
- John Conyers
At one and the same time, therefore, society is everything and society is nothing. Society is the most powerful concoction in the world and society has no existence whatsoever
- Virginia Woolf
The BBC provides the commentary on our lives, the soundtrack of the nation. It is one of the most powerful unifying forces in the United Kingdom today.
- Gavyn Davies
Thanks a lot, you dirty rats. The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick, & Colon.
- Kurt Vonnegut
The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.
- Kurt Vonnegut
Are you saying that was real magic?" I said. "That's crazy."
"Well, let's see. Are you telling me you just saw the past in a vision. That a monkey in a top hat was trying to murder my chief costumer and head accountant with the most powerful poison in existence using her makeup jar? If so, perhaps I'm not the crazy one here.
- Delilah S Dawson
We are the nation the most powerful, the most armed and we are supplying arms and money to the rest of the world where we are not ourselves fighting. We are eating while there is famine in the world.
- Dorothy Day
Prayer may just be the most powerful tool mankind has.
- Ted Dekker
Once upon a time, he said out loud to the darkness. He said these words because they were the best, the most powerful words that he knew and just the saying of them comforted him.
- Kate Dicamillo
In short, the right given to one man to inflict corporal punishment on another is one of the ulcers of society, one of the most powerful destructive agents of every germ and every budding attempt at civilization, the fundamental cause of its certain and irretrievable destruction.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
- Rita Dove
It takes a fearless, unflinching love and deep humility to accept the universe as it is. The most effective way he knew to accomplish that, the most powerful tool at his disposal, was the scientific method, which over time winnows out deception. It can't give you absolute truth because science is a permanent revolution, always subject to revision, but it can give you successive approximations of reality.
- Ann Druyan
The most powerful moral influence is example.
- Huston Smith
You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we're hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.
- Bob Dylan
I know what you're thinking. Did he fire six shots or only five? Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I've kinda lost track myself. But being as this is a.44 magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: "Do I feel lucky?" Well, do ya, punk?
- Clint Eastwood
The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from the limitations of our own weakness and an invocation of all Good to enter and abide with us.
- George Eliot
The Connection Machine was the most powerful supercomputer in the world. It is a complex supercomputer and it will take forever to completely describe how it works.
- Philip Emeagwali
[Words] cling to the very core of our memories and lie there in silence until a new desire reawakens them and recharges them with loving energy. That is one of the qualities of love that moves me most, their capacity for transmitting love. Like water, words are a wonderful conductor of energy. And the most powerful, transforming energy is the energy of love.
- Laura Esquivel
Julian is a very dangerous hunter. One of our best. Second to your father, he is perhaps the most powerful Carpathian alive.
I guess we aren't considering you, Savannah said loyally, truthfully.
- Christine Feehan
...if we were to name the most powerful assumption of all, which leads one on and on in an attempt to understand life, it is that all things are made of atoms, and that everything that living things do can be understood in terms of the jigglings and wigglings of atoms.
- Richard P Feynman
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
- Nelson Mandela
My most powerful memory was hearing Earl Scruggs on 'The Beverly Hillbillies' as a 5 or 6 year old. That sound just blew me away, shook my head up.
- Bela Fleck
The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
- Victor Hugo
The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
- Ferdinand Foch
Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.
- E O Wilson
The most powerful argument of all for saving open space is economics; in most states, tourism is the number two industry.
- Jim Fowler
There's no denying that television is one of the most powerful propaganda media we've ever invented.
- Jim Fowler
There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer: no disease that love will not heal: no door that enough love will not open...It makes no difference how deep set the trouble: how hopeless the outlook: how muddled the tangle: how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all. If only you could love enough you would be the happiest and most powerful being in the world..
- Emmet Fox
If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.
- Emmet Fox
Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating...too often fathers neglect it because they get so caught up in making a living they forget to make a life.
- John Wooden
a good woman's heart knows no bounds. And love is the most powerful and wondrous gift in the world. Yes, it is.
- Dorothea Benton Frank
Personal savings accounts to me are one of the most powerful things, not necessarily in saving, solvency, or bankruptcy of the program, but in guaranteeing, the words I used a few minutes ago, a safe and secure retirement for our seniors.
- Bill Frist
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
- Leo Tolstoy
The soul of man is the lamp of God,' says a wise Jewish proverb. Man is a weak and miserable creature when God's light is not burning in his soul. But when it burns (and it only burns in souls enlightened by religion), man becomes the most powerful creature in the world. And it cannot be otherwise, for what then works in him is not his own strength, but the strength of God.
- Leo Tolstoy
You become most powerful in whatever you do if the action is performed for its own sake rather than as a means to protect, enhance, or conform to your role identity.
- Eckhart Tolle
Stories are the single most powerful tool in a leader's toolkit.
- Howard Gardner
Even divorce, she thought, cannot erase all the bonds forged by years of marriage. Long after the papers are signed, decrees notarized, the ties still remain. And the most powerful tie of all is written in a child's flesh and blood.
- Tess Gerritsen
We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.
- Jean Giraudoux
Everyone had told her, since she became a princess-in-training, that she was very likely the most beautiful woman in the world. Now she was going to be the richest and the most powerful as well.
Don't expect too much from life, Buttercup told herself as she rode along. Learn to be satisfied with what you have.
- William Goldman
The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
- Lyndon B Johnson
The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky.
- Lyndon B Johnson
Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, aren't even aware of.
- Ellen Goodman
The most powerful words you can learn to use? I Don't Know.
- Erica Goros
The most powerful recent innovation in government is when states aggressively use community colleges for retraining. In Michigan, where large numbers of workers were displaced from the manufacturing industry, we created a wildly successful program: No Worker Left Behind.
- Jennifer M Granholm
One of the most powerful tools for empowering individuals and communities is making certain that any individual who wants to receive a quality education can do so.
- Christine Gregoire
And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship.
- John Grierson
Wish' is the most powerful thing in the world. Higher than God.
- G I Gurdjieff
The humblest is the peer of the most powerful.
- John Marshall Harlan
For nearly a century, the moral relativism of science has given faith-based religion--that great engine of ignorance and bigotry--a nearly uncontested claim to being the only universal framework for moral wisdom. As a result, the most powerful societies on early spend their time debating issues like gay marriage when they should be focused on problems like nuclear proliferation, genocide, energy security, climate change, poverty, and failing schools.
- Sam Harris
In 1763 the English were the most powerful nation in the world.
- Albert Bushnell Hart
Traffic is one of the most powerful films to come out in recent years. It blew me away.
- Mary Hart
The argument for liberty is not an argument against organization, which is one of the most powerful tools human reason can employ, but an argument against all exclusive, privileged, monopolistic organization, against the use of coercion to prevent others from doing better.
- Friedrich August Von Hayek
To witness miracles unfold in your experience, count your blessings and be thankful. Perceived small blessings accumulate to be the most powerful.
- T F Hodge
The most powerful demonstration of leadership is not a clenched fist of brute force but an open hand of humble assistance.
- Mike Huckabee
Storytellers are the most powerful people on earth. They might not be the best paid-- but they are the most powerful. Storytellers have the power to move the human heart-- and there is no greater power on earth.
- Laurie H Hutzler
History shows that people often do cast their votes for amorphous reasons-the most powerful among them being the need for change. Just ask Bill Clinton.
- Gwen Ifill
There's no sense drawing attention to yourself, Li."
"Hellooooo. I'm aHorseman of the Apocalypse, and I'm betrothed to the most infamous, most powerful demon in existence. I couldn't draw more attention to myself i I wore Lady Gaga's meat dress to a PETA convention.
- Larissa Ione
The pressure of adversity is the most powerful sustainer of accountability. It's as though everything you do is multiplied by 50 in order to surpass those with a head-start. I was never capable of slacking when at the threshold of failure.
- Criss Jami
Never worry alone. When anxiety grabs my mind, it is self-perpetuating. Worrisome thoughts reproduce faster than rabbits, so one of the most powerful ways to stop the spiral of worry is simply to disclose my worry to a friend... The simple act of reassurance from another human being [becomes] a tool of the Spirit to cast out fear -- because peace and fear are both contagious.
- John Ortberg Jr
Of all the smiths from goldsmiths to John Smiths, the most powerful is the wordsmith, because he can influence your emotions and cognitions. And while you are standing there pondering what he said, he can rob you of your gold and your identity.
- Jarod Kintz
President Bush spent last night calling world leaders to support the war with Iraq and it is sad when the most powerful man on earth is yelling, 'I know you're there, pick up, pick up.
- Craig Kilborn
Real art is one of the most powerful forces in the rise of mankind, and he who renders it accessible to as many people as possible is a benefactor of humanity.
- Zoltan Kodaly
Maybe when all was said and done, the imagination was the most powerful of all weapons. It was the imagination of the human race that had allowed it to dream of a life beyond cold caves and of a possible future in the stars.
- Dean Koontz
There's always a way," his sister lectured. "We'll need help, though."
"What help?"
Amy grinned. "Sometimes it doesn't hurt to be a part of the most powerful family in human history.
- Gordon Korman
Thank You!' is the most powerful vibration you can send out into the Universe.
- Donna Labermeier
Hair on a man's chest is thought to denote strength. The gorilla is the most powerful of bipeds and has hair on every place on his body except for his chest.
- Anton Lavey
If you wanted to build the most powerful computer you could, you can't do better than including everything in the universe that's potentially available.
- Seth Lloyd
Love is the most powerful healing force of all. But past
demons have a way of ripping open old wounds, and
threatening the survival of even the strongest friendship...
- Cherrie Lynn
You are a beacon for us. One of the most powerful."
"I'm not," I say softly. "Not anymore."
Smiling, my grandmother presses my hand. "Always, Tamsin. Because of you, we have a future. That's why you will always be a beacon for us." Still holding my hand, she turns toward the house, toward the sound of laughter and music spilling out from the lit windows.
Looking back at her, I mile, close my eye in her trademark wink, and say, "Ah.
- Carolyn Maccullough
The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.
- Malcom X
Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities.
- Ralph Marston
Buddha's teaching are very simple, you don't have to break your head to understand the message. The part that I like the most from Buddha's teachings and from His Holiness, The Dalai Lama, is that the most powerful weapon is to not attack, to be able to have self-control.
- Ricky Martin
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
- Seneca
I am fascinated by love, which I believe is the most powerful and mysterious force in the universe.
- Anthony S Maulucci
Walmart is an amazing story of entrepreneurship and, as one of the world's most powerful brands, touches millions of lives every day.
- Marissa Mayer
This is the clearest, most powerful summons yet, TO ALL OF US, to restore the American story to its rightful, vital place in American life and in how we educate our children. It couldn't be more timely and important.
- David Mccullough
Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest! What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.
- Mignon Mclaughlin
She raised her eyebrows in a look that she hoped conveyed how much she was all right with him leaving her. After all, he was a prince. The most powerful men and women on Earth had summoned him. She understood.
And yet he was still here, with her.
"I'm fine," she said. "Go away.
- Marissa Meyer
religion, the most powerful of the elements which have entered into the formation of moral feeling, having almost always been governed either by the ambition of a hierarchy, seeking control over every department of human conduct, or by the spirit of Puritanism.
- John Stuart Mill
alone, lonely, and loneliness are three of the most powerful words in the English language... Those words say that we are human; they are like the words hunger and thirst. But they are not words about the body, they are words about the soul.
- Donald Miller
... in a cycle as old as tribalism, ignorance of the Other engenders fear; fear engenders hatred; hatred engenders violence; violence engenders further violence until the only "rights", the only law, are whatever is willed by the most powerful.
- David Mitchell
And realising that humour is the most powerful way to make a political statement and say the things that you want to say. And it's not used enough, at least not in the U.S.
- Michael Moore
One of the most powerful devices is to distort time, to go from human time to atomic time, geologic time. Sometimes you can actually accomplish that, with one unexpected word choice.
- Robert Morgan
One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime.
- Robert Morgan
It is to this new-found resolution to reassert our indivisibility with life, to recognize the obligations incumbent upon us as the most powerful and deadly species ever to exist, and to begin making amends for the havoc we have wrought, that my own hopes for a revival and continuance of life on earth now turn. If we persevere in this new way we may succeed in making man humane... at last.
- Farley Mowat
Obama has made America cool again - and more than that, he's made his own brand arguably the most powerful the world has ever known.
- Dee Dee Myers
Yawns are not the only infectious things out there besides germs.
Giggles can spread from person to person.
So can blushing.
But maybe the most powerful infectious thing is the act of speaking the truth.
- Vera Nazarian
The tax issue is the most powerful issue in American politics going back to the Tea Party. People say, 'Oh, Grover Norquist has power.' No. Grover Norquist and Americans for Tax Reform focus on the tax issue. The tax issue is a powerful issue.
- Grover Norquist
I run a taxpayer group - the most powerful guy in D.C., nonsense. OK? There are buildings with thousands of people in them, all lobbying for more spending and higher levels of spending and more government commitments. And there are a handful - a handful of groups that fight for less spending.
- Grover Norquist
Because there is a wish in the heart of mankind to be distracted and confused. Truth is but one attraction, and not always the most powerful
- Joyce Carol Oates
... there is a wish in the heart of mankind to be distracted and confused. Truth is but one attraction, and not always the most powerful.
- Joyce Carol Oates
Materialist philosophies that treat human beings as machines or animals possess the high ground in our culture - academia, the most powerful media and many of our courts.
- Marvin Olasky
He had long ago learned that society imposes insults that must be borne, comforted by the knowledge that in this world there comes a time when the most humble of men, if he keeps his eyes open, can take his revenge on the most powerful. It was this knowledge that prevented the Don from losing the humility all his friends admired in him.
- Mario Puzo
Consider non your superior, whatever their rank or station in life. Treat all fairly or they will seek revenge. Be careful with your money. Hold fast to your belief and others will listen." he continued at a slower pace, " of the affairs of love... my only advice is to be honest. thats your most powerfull too to unlock a heart or gain forgiveness. that is all i have to say"Garrow to Roran p 64
- Christopher Paolini
Love is only A one syllable word but it's the most powerful one mankind's ever heard.
- Stanley Victor Paskavich
Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other.
- Randy Pausch
Who's Chernabog?" Grumbled Maybeck.
Philby answered,"Only the most powerful villian Walt Disney ever created.
- Ridley Pearson
The most powerful thing we own is our vote.
- Bev Perdue
Decisions just look different with women at the table. We still have a long way to go. The most powerful thing we own is our vote.
- Bev Perdue
'Sex drives us, love or no love. Power or no power. Money or no money. It's the most powerful drug in the world. Some pay for it. Some die for it.'
- Vicki Pettersson
While The United States is the most powerful nation the world has ever seen, it is also the most detested nation that the world has ever known.
- Harold Pinter
I think desire is the most powerful force in the universe.
- Carol Plum Ucci
To love and be loved is the most powerful of human needs
Clare Morgan
- Mary Jo Putney
As a people of faith, we know that prayer is a powerful instrument. And as one Nation under God, we know that many times our most powerful tool is prayer.
- Nick Rahall
A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.
- A Philip Randolph
Music is the most powerful thing on this earth, and it's hard to be angry when you are listening to music.
- Jerry Reed
It's hard to put into words, shaking hands with the most powerful man in the world.
- Buddy Rice
You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named "Bush", "Dick", and "Colin." Need I say more?
- Chris Rock
Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love.
- Nelson Rockefeller
Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer.
- Anita Roddick
Any real record person knows that the number one most powerful marketing tool when it comes to music is repetition.
- Nile Rodgers
I think empathy is a beautiful thing. I think that's the power of film though. We have one of the most powerful, one of the greatest communicative tools known to man.
- Michelle Rodriguez
You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness.
- Percy Ross
Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented.
- Leo Rosten
If the militarily most powerful - and least threatened - states need nuclear weapons for their security, how can one deny such security to countries that are truly insecure? The present nuclear policy is a recipe for proliferation. It is a policy for disaster.
- Joseph Rotblat
The reason that I keep writing is that all my most powerful messages about the fates of wild places that I care about need to have words as well as images.
- Galen Rowell
When you become the image of your own imagination, it's the most powerful thing you could ever do.
- Rupaul
Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
- Marquis De Sade
The eyes are one of the most powerful tools a woman can have. With one look, she can relay the most intimate message. After the connection is made, words cease to exist.
- Jennifer Salaiz
Station is the paradox of the world of my people, the limitation of our power within the hunger for power. It is gained through treachery and invites treachery against those who gain it. Those most powerful in Menzoberranzan spend their days watching over their shoulders, defending against the daggers that would find their backs. Their deaths usually come from the front. -Drizzt Do'Urden
- R A Salvatore
The most honest of men is the one who thinks and acts best, but the most powerful is the one who writes and speaks best.
- George Sand
The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.
- Carlos Santana
America has a critical role to play as the most powerful member of the world community.
- Adam Schiff
In this ever-changing society, the most powerful and enduring brands are built from the heart. They are real and sustainable. Their foundations are stronger because they are built with the strength of the human spirit, not an ad campaign. The companies that are lasting are those that are authentic.
- Howard Schultz
Under Hitler it was the entrepreneurial and professional classes who were the first victims of Nazi boycotts and exclusion. Today it is Israel, the most powerful symbol of Jewish national resurgence in two millennia.
- Jack Schwartz
Of all human inventions the organization, a machine constructed of people performing interdependent functions, is the most powerful.
- Robert Shea
Knowledge empowers people with our most powerful tool: the ability to think and decide. There is no power for change greater than a child discovering what he or she cares about. (Speech about Global Warming read on the National Mall for the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, 2010)
- Seymour Simon
You know, if you think about it, the most powerful people on this earth probably never raise their voices - they just say it and people hop to, because they have that power.
- Erika Slezak
Some of the most powerful times are when we're quiet.
- Michael W Smith
Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing; joy, rage, fear; triumph, yearning and confusion.
- Tony Snow
We are the most powerful nation on earth. No external power, no terrorist organization, can defeat us. But we can defeat ourselves by getting caught in a quagmire.
- George Soros
Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music.
- John Philip Sousa
I'm Sorry are two of the most powerful words in our language, especially when they are not flipped blithely over the shoulder but spoken from the heart. They help restore order, balance, harmony. They reduce pain. They heal broken friendship. If they were medecine, they'd be called a miracle.
- Jerry Spinelli
I was the most powerful left-handed hitter in the Alameda area.
- Willie Stargell
The Queen is by much the most powerful of the forces.
- Howard Staunton
When he is most powerful, nothing does he become.
- Dejan Stojanovic
- Joe Abercrombie
The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit.
- Theodor Adorno
You've come to give me a piece of your mind. You know that phrase is really beautiful. The mind is the most powerful thing in the body. Whatever the mind believes, the body can achieve. So to give someone a piece of it... well thank you. Funny how people are always intent on giving it to the people they dislike when it really should be for the ones they love.
- Cecelia Ahern
of all the weapons of destruction that man could invent, the most terrible-and the most powerful-was the word. Daggers and spears left traces of blood; arrows could be seen at a distance. Poisons were detected in the end and avoided. But the word managed to destroy without leaving clues.
- Paulo Coelho
True love can break the most powerful curse
- Jodi Picoult
Love is the most powerful force in the world. That love can do anything.
- Cassandra Clare
L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle." "It means," he said, "that love is the most powerful force in the world. That love can do anything.
- Cassandra Clare
that love is the most powerful force in the world. That love can do anything.
- Cassandra Clare
Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had resisted, overcome his power, broken his will.
- Stephen Ambrose
The whole of world history often seems to me nothing more than a picture book which portrays humanity's most powerful and a senseless desire - the desire to forget. Does not each generation, by means of suppression, concealment, and ridicule, efface what the previous generation considered most important?
- Hermann Hesse
By now the crusaders had christened the most powerful French catapult 'Mal Voisine', or 'Bad Neighbour', while nicknaming the Muslim stone-thrower that targeted it for conter-bombardment 'Mal Cousine', or 'Bad Relation'.
- Thomas Asbridge
Developments in information technology and globalised media mean that the most powerful military in the history of the world can lose a war, not on the battlefield of dust and blood, but on the battlefield of world opinion.
- Timothy Garton Ash
[Kendra] also referred to Tizoc Theron, one of the most powerful mercenaries in all of vampiric existence, as her "Tizzy". The Inquisition was "a dreadful inconvenience," World War II was "a little spat" and the fall of Midnight, the vampiric empire that had reigned for centurie, was "an unfortunate event.
- Amelia Atwater Rhodes
The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself.
- Steve Maraboli
Some of the most powerful speeches I have given have been delivered in the dedicated silence of my actions.
- Steve Maraboli
We can start working with time, if you wish, till you can fly the past and the future. And then you will be ready to begin the most difficult, the most powerful, the most fun of all. You will be ready to BEGIN to fly up and know the meaning of kindness and of love
- Richard Bach
It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will; and, however little they acknowledge it, one later discovers that they were among the most powerful promoters of decadence.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit.
- Stefan Banach
When I was your age I met a man older than myself, quite a bit older. I fell in love with him. Really in love. I know people say it's just puppy love at that age, but I was in love properly. It lasted for years. It was the most powerful feeling I can ever remember. At that age one has no defenses. It just overwhelmed me.
- Lynne Reid Banks
You've got to be kidding me. I thought you were the most powerful of beings. Even the gods fear you. (Stryker)
We all have predators. The entire universe exists in a system of checks and balances. I just met my zero balance. (War)
Are you honestly telling me that the most powerful creature on this planet is a pathetic Cajun guttersnipe who offed himself because one of my men killed his mommy? (Stryker)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
How could one sentence uttered in anger cause so much damage? But then words were the most powerful thing in the universe. Cuts and bruises always healed, but words spoken in anger were most often permanent. They didn't damage the body, they destroyed the spirit. (Acheron)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Why does the Destroyer hate Artemis? (Cassandra)
Love. Why else? Love, hatred, and revenge are the most powerful emotions on earth. Apollymi wants revenge on Artemis for killing the one thing she loved most in the universe. (Katra)
And that is? (Cassandra)
I would never betray either one by saying it. (Katra)
Would you write it down?...Oh, yeah, like the two of you weren't thinking the same thing. (Chris)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
the table of elements does not contain one of the most powerful elements that make up our world, and that is the element of surprise.
- Lemony Snicket
Faith that is lived from deep within amid a secularized world is the most powerful ecumenical force that brings us together, guiding us towards unity in the one Lord. And we pray to him, asking that we may learn to live the faith anew, and that in this way we may then become one
- Pope Benedict Xvi
I've learned that I'm most powerful when I'm doing my art.
- Andre Benjamin
Words are one of the most powerful things given to human beings. In the hands of artists who can use them properly they are like weapons of mass construction.
- Eric T Benoit
A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns.
- Franklin D Roosevelt
The most powerful element in advertising is the truth.
- William Bernbach
When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you.
- Keith Richards
The single most powerful asset we all have is our mind. If it is trained well, it can create enormous wealth in what seems to be an instant.
- Robert Kiyosaki
The utilitarian behaves sensibly in all that is required for preservation but never takes account of the fact that he must die...His whole life is absorbed in avoiding death, which is inevitable, and therefore he might be thought to be the most irrational of men, if rationality has anything to do with understanding ends or comprehending the human situation as such. He gives way without reserve to his most powerful passion and the wishes it engenders.
- Allan Bloom
Even the most powerful woman needs a place to unwind.
- Barbara Taylor Bradford
She was chosen,' Mae insists.
No, you're wrong,' I say. 'She was only a girl.'...
She was gone for some time. You were the only force that kept her from turning completely. That's magic. Perhaps the most powerful I've seen.'
-In response to Felicity's love for Pippa keeping her from turning into a Winterland creature.
- Libba Bray
The most powerful single force in the world today is neither Communism nor Capitalism, neither the H-bomb nor the guided missile -- it is man's eternal desire to be free and independent.
- John F Kennedy
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
- Rudyard Kipling
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
Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.
- Robert Mcafee Brown
Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.
- William C Bryant
French is the most beautiful," he said, "and Italian is the most poetic, and Russian the most powerful, German the most solid. But more business is done in English than in any other.
- Pearl S Buck
Our prayer must not be self-centered. It must arise not only because we feel our own need as a burden we must lay upon God, but also because we are so bound up in love for our fellow men that we feel their need as acutely as our own. To make intercession for men is the most powerful and practical way in which we can express our love for them.
- John Calvin
Of all powers, love is the most powerful and the most powerless. It is the most powerful because it alone can conquer that final and most impregnable stronghold which is the human heart. It is the most powerless because it can do nothing except by consent.
- Frederick Buechner
Throughout history the most powerful rulers have been sex maniacs. And he asks, does their sex appetite come from having power, or does their will for power come from their sex appetite?
- Chuck Palahniuk
All of these stars, the most powerful actors in film, they were all gone in an instant.
- Chuck Palahniuk
Percy is the most powerful demigod I've ever met. No offense to you guys but it's true.
- Rick Riordan
My point is that love is the most powerful motivator in the world. It spurs mortals to greatness. Their noblest, bravest acts are done for love.
- Rick Riordan
Love is the most powerful motivator in the world. It spurs mortals to greatness. Their noblest and bravest acts are done for love.
- Rick Riordan
He touched the screen as if trying to reach through with his hand. "You're a wonderful young lady. I don't tell you that often enough. You remind me so much of your mother. She'd be proud. And Grandpa Tom" --he chuckled-- "he always said you'd be the most powerful voice in our family. You're going to outshine me some day, you know. They're going to remember me as Piper McLean's father, and that's the best legacy I can imagine.
- Rick Riordan
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
- Edmund Burke
I loved her. I still love her, though I curse her in my sleep, so nearly one are love and hate, the two most powerful and devasting emotions that control man, nations, life.
- Edgar Rice Burroghs
Connor put himself between his wife and me, then put his arms around both of us. I elbowed him. "I was forced to agree to praying, not to touching."
"Touch is one of the most powerful healers."
"So is morphine. I'll take that instead.
- Lisa Burstein
Change
is the one unavoidable,
irresistible,
ongoing reality of the universe.
To us,
that makes it the most powerful reality,
and just another word for
God.
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- Octavia Butler
You were supposed to have hope, right? You were supposed to respect its power and hold on. And so I did. I held, and held, and let hope fill me. But as the days went on, it seemed I could be holding for a long, long time. Hope could be the most powerful thing or the most useless
- Deb Caletti
Curiosity is the most powerful thing you own.
- James Cameron
One of the more fatuous remarks I've heard in recent days is that 'My Life,' Clinton's autobiography, is too long and, at almost 1,000 pages, short it is not. But this man was for eight years the President of the most powerful country on earth.
- Alastair Campbell
The most powerful women in Sachaka and all you do is waste time gossiping and matchmaking
- Trudi Canavan
But the - look, I think that this - the United States of America is still the most powerful economy in the world. It is an incredible engine for creativity and innovation. And it has the most - smartest, most effective workforce in the world. So we have a lot going for us, in spite of the fractiousness of our politics.
- Jay Carney
One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
- Bertrand Russell
To speak seriously: the standards of "goodness" which are generally recognized by public opinion are not those which are calculated to make the world a happier place. This is due to a variety of causes, of which the chief is tradition, and the next most powerful is the unjust power of dominant classes.
- Bertrand Russell
Surprise becomes effective when we suddenly face the enemy at one point with far more troops than he expected. This type of numerical superiority is quite distinct from numerical superiority in general: it is the most powerful medium in the art of war.
- Karl Von Clausewitz
You are the most powerful cultural force in the world.
- William J Clinton
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Belief is one of the most powerful organic forces in the multiverse. It may not be able to move mountains, exactly. But it can create someone who can.
People get exactly the wrong idea about belief. They think it works back to front. They think the sequence is, first object, then belief. In fact, it works the other way.
- Terry Pratchett
[...] But you doona plan to deprive Bowen and me of a fight?"
Garreth had answered, "So as to no' piss off a vampire queen and the most powerful witch ever to live? Oh, aye."
"What are you planning?"
"Steal the arrow from Lousha, sneak off, shoot the god. Then I'll come back with a present and an apology, promising she can shoot the next god.
- Kresley Cole
What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain at its most powerful and guarded point - the exclusive right to govern the systems of production.
- Barry Commoner
You little fool. You thought you could defeat the most powerful being on Earth.
- Walt Disney Company
In this most powerful nation in the world, lack of access to health care should not force local and state governments, companies and workers into bankruptcy, while causing unnecessary illness and hospitalization.
- John Conyers
At one and the same time, therefore, society is everything and society is nothing. Society is the most powerful concoction in the world and society has no existence whatsoever
- Virginia Woolf
The BBC provides the commentary on our lives, the soundtrack of the nation. It is one of the most powerful unifying forces in the United Kingdom today.
- Gavyn Davies
Thanks a lot, you dirty rats. The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick, & Colon.
- Kurt Vonnegut
The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.
- Kurt Vonnegut
Are you saying that was real magic?" I said. "That's crazy."
"Well, let's see. Are you telling me you just saw the past in a vision. That a monkey in a top hat was trying to murder my chief costumer and head accountant with the most powerful poison in existence using her makeup jar? If so, perhaps I'm not the crazy one here.
- Delilah S Dawson
We are the nation the most powerful, the most armed and we are supplying arms and money to the rest of the world where we are not ourselves fighting. We are eating while there is famine in the world.
- Dorothy Day
Prayer may just be the most powerful tool mankind has.
- Ted Dekker
Once upon a time, he said out loud to the darkness. He said these words because they were the best, the most powerful words that he knew and just the saying of them comforted him.
- Kate Dicamillo
In short, the right given to one man to inflict corporal punishment on another is one of the ulcers of society, one of the most powerful destructive agents of every germ and every budding attempt at civilization, the fundamental cause of its certain and irretrievable destruction.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
- Rita Dove
It takes a fearless, unflinching love and deep humility to accept the universe as it is. The most effective way he knew to accomplish that, the most powerful tool at his disposal, was the scientific method, which over time winnows out deception. It can't give you absolute truth because science is a permanent revolution, always subject to revision, but it can give you successive approximations of reality.
- Ann Druyan
The most powerful moral influence is example.
- Huston Smith
You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we're hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.
- Bob Dylan
I know what you're thinking. Did he fire six shots or only five? Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I've kinda lost track myself. But being as this is a.44 magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: "Do I feel lucky?" Well, do ya, punk?
- Clint Eastwood
The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from the limitations of our own weakness and an invocation of all Good to enter and abide with us.
- George Eliot
The Connection Machine was the most powerful supercomputer in the world. It is a complex supercomputer and it will take forever to completely describe how it works.
- Philip Emeagwali
[Words] cling to the very core of our memories and lie there in silence until a new desire reawakens them and recharges them with loving energy. That is one of the qualities of love that moves me most, their capacity for transmitting love. Like water, words are a wonderful conductor of energy. And the most powerful, transforming energy is the energy of love.
- Laura Esquivel
Julian is a very dangerous hunter. One of our best. Second to your father, he is perhaps the most powerful Carpathian alive.
I guess we aren't considering you, Savannah said loyally, truthfully.
- Christine Feehan
...if we were to name the most powerful assumption of all, which leads one on and on in an attempt to understand life, it is that all things are made of atoms, and that everything that living things do can be understood in terms of the jigglings and wigglings of atoms.
- Richard P Feynman
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
- Nelson Mandela
My most powerful memory was hearing Earl Scruggs on 'The Beverly Hillbillies' as a 5 or 6 year old. That sound just blew me away, shook my head up.
- Bela Fleck
The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
- Victor Hugo
The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
- Ferdinand Foch
Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.
- E O Wilson
The most powerful argument of all for saving open space is economics; in most states, tourism is the number two industry.
- Jim Fowler
There's no denying that television is one of the most powerful propaganda media we've ever invented.
- Jim Fowler
There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer: no disease that love will not heal: no door that enough love will not open...It makes no difference how deep set the trouble: how hopeless the outlook: how muddled the tangle: how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all. If only you could love enough you would be the happiest and most powerful being in the world..
- Emmet Fox
If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.
- Emmet Fox
Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating...too often fathers neglect it because they get so caught up in making a living they forget to make a life.
- John Wooden
a good woman's heart knows no bounds. And love is the most powerful and wondrous gift in the world. Yes, it is.
- Dorothea Benton Frank
Personal savings accounts to me are one of the most powerful things, not necessarily in saving, solvency, or bankruptcy of the program, but in guaranteeing, the words I used a few minutes ago, a safe and secure retirement for our seniors.
- Bill Frist
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
- Leo Tolstoy
The soul of man is the lamp of God,' says a wise Jewish proverb. Man is a weak and miserable creature when God's light is not burning in his soul. But when it burns (and it only burns in souls enlightened by religion), man becomes the most powerful creature in the world. And it cannot be otherwise, for what then works in him is not his own strength, but the strength of God.
- Leo Tolstoy
You become most powerful in whatever you do if the action is performed for its own sake rather than as a means to protect, enhance, or conform to your role identity.
- Eckhart Tolle
Stories are the single most powerful tool in a leader's toolkit.
- Howard Gardner
Even divorce, she thought, cannot erase all the bonds forged by years of marriage. Long after the papers are signed, decrees notarized, the ties still remain. And the most powerful tie of all is written in a child's flesh and blood.
- Tess Gerritsen
We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.
- Jean Giraudoux
Everyone had told her, since she became a princess-in-training, that she was very likely the most beautiful woman in the world. Now she was going to be the richest and the most powerful as well.
Don't expect too much from life, Buttercup told herself as she rode along. Learn to be satisfied with what you have.
- William Goldman
The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
- Lyndon B Johnson
The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky.
- Lyndon B Johnson
Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, aren't even aware of.
- Ellen Goodman
The most powerful words you can learn to use? I Don't Know.
- Erica Goros
The most powerful recent innovation in government is when states aggressively use community colleges for retraining. In Michigan, where large numbers of workers were displaced from the manufacturing industry, we created a wildly successful program: No Worker Left Behind.
- Jennifer M Granholm
One of the most powerful tools for empowering individuals and communities is making certain that any individual who wants to receive a quality education can do so.
- Christine Gregoire
And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship.
- John Grierson
Wish' is the most powerful thing in the world. Higher than God.
- G I Gurdjieff
The humblest is the peer of the most powerful.
- John Marshall Harlan
For nearly a century, the moral relativism of science has given faith-based religion--that great engine of ignorance and bigotry--a nearly uncontested claim to being the only universal framework for moral wisdom. As a result, the most powerful societies on early spend their time debating issues like gay marriage when they should be focused on problems like nuclear proliferation, genocide, energy security, climate change, poverty, and failing schools.
- Sam Harris
In 1763 the English were the most powerful nation in the world.
- Albert Bushnell Hart
Traffic is one of the most powerful films to come out in recent years. It blew me away.
- Mary Hart
The argument for liberty is not an argument against organization, which is one of the most powerful tools human reason can employ, but an argument against all exclusive, privileged, monopolistic organization, against the use of coercion to prevent others from doing better.
- Friedrich August Von Hayek
To witness miracles unfold in your experience, count your blessings and be thankful. Perceived small blessings accumulate to be the most powerful.
- T F Hodge
The most powerful demonstration of leadership is not a clenched fist of brute force but an open hand of humble assistance.
- Mike Huckabee
Storytellers are the most powerful people on earth. They might not be the best paid-- but they are the most powerful. Storytellers have the power to move the human heart-- and there is no greater power on earth.
- Laurie H Hutzler
History shows that people often do cast their votes for amorphous reasons-the most powerful among them being the need for change. Just ask Bill Clinton.
- Gwen Ifill
There's no sense drawing attention to yourself, Li."
"Hellooooo. I'm aHorseman of the Apocalypse, and I'm betrothed to the most infamous, most powerful demon in existence. I couldn't draw more attention to myself i I wore Lady Gaga's meat dress to a PETA convention.
- Larissa Ione
The pressure of adversity is the most powerful sustainer of accountability. It's as though everything you do is multiplied by 50 in order to surpass those with a head-start. I was never capable of slacking when at the threshold of failure.
- Criss Jami
Never worry alone. When anxiety grabs my mind, it is self-perpetuating. Worrisome thoughts reproduce faster than rabbits, so one of the most powerful ways to stop the spiral of worry is simply to disclose my worry to a friend... The simple act of reassurance from another human being [becomes] a tool of the Spirit to cast out fear -- because peace and fear are both contagious.
- John Ortberg Jr
Of all the smiths from goldsmiths to John Smiths, the most powerful is the wordsmith, because he can influence your emotions and cognitions. And while you are standing there pondering what he said, he can rob you of your gold and your identity.
- Jarod Kintz
President Bush spent last night calling world leaders to support the war with Iraq and it is sad when the most powerful man on earth is yelling, 'I know you're there, pick up, pick up.
- Craig Kilborn
Real art is one of the most powerful forces in the rise of mankind, and he who renders it accessible to as many people as possible is a benefactor of humanity.
- Zoltan Kodaly
Maybe when all was said and done, the imagination was the most powerful of all weapons. It was the imagination of the human race that had allowed it to dream of a life beyond cold caves and of a possible future in the stars.
- Dean Koontz
There's always a way," his sister lectured. "We'll need help, though."
"What help?"
Amy grinned. "Sometimes it doesn't hurt to be a part of the most powerful family in human history.
- Gordon Korman
Thank You!' is the most powerful vibration you can send out into the Universe.
- Donna Labermeier
Hair on a man's chest is thought to denote strength. The gorilla is the most powerful of bipeds and has hair on every place on his body except for his chest.
- Anton Lavey
If you wanted to build the most powerful computer you could, you can't do better than including everything in the universe that's potentially available.
- Seth Lloyd
Love is the most powerful healing force of all. But past
demons have a way of ripping open old wounds, and
threatening the survival of even the strongest friendship...
- Cherrie Lynn
You are a beacon for us. One of the most powerful."
"I'm not," I say softly. "Not anymore."
Smiling, my grandmother presses my hand. "Always, Tamsin. Because of you, we have a future. That's why you will always be a beacon for us." Still holding my hand, she turns toward the house, toward the sound of laughter and music spilling out from the lit windows.
Looking back at her, I mile, close my eye in her trademark wink, and say, "Ah.
- Carolyn Maccullough
The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.
- Malcom X
Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities.
- Ralph Marston
Buddha's teaching are very simple, you don't have to break your head to understand the message. The part that I like the most from Buddha's teachings and from His Holiness, The Dalai Lama, is that the most powerful weapon is to not attack, to be able to have self-control.
- Ricky Martin
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
- Seneca
I am fascinated by love, which I believe is the most powerful and mysterious force in the universe.
- Anthony S Maulucci
Walmart is an amazing story of entrepreneurship and, as one of the world's most powerful brands, touches millions of lives every day.
- Marissa Mayer
This is the clearest, most powerful summons yet, TO ALL OF US, to restore the American story to its rightful, vital place in American life and in how we educate our children. It couldn't be more timely and important.
- David Mccullough
Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest! What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.
- Mignon Mclaughlin
She raised her eyebrows in a look that she hoped conveyed how much she was all right with him leaving her. After all, he was a prince. The most powerful men and women on Earth had summoned him. She understood.
And yet he was still here, with her.
"I'm fine," she said. "Go away.
- Marissa Meyer
religion, the most powerful of the elements which have entered into the formation of moral feeling, having almost always been governed either by the ambition of a hierarchy, seeking control over every department of human conduct, or by the spirit of Puritanism.
- John Stuart Mill
alone, lonely, and loneliness are three of the most powerful words in the English language... Those words say that we are human; they are like the words hunger and thirst. But they are not words about the body, they are words about the soul.
- Donald Miller
... in a cycle as old as tribalism, ignorance of the Other engenders fear; fear engenders hatred; hatred engenders violence; violence engenders further violence until the only "rights", the only law, are whatever is willed by the most powerful.
- David Mitchell
And realising that humour is the most powerful way to make a political statement and say the things that you want to say. And it's not used enough, at least not in the U.S.
- Michael Moore
One of the most powerful devices is to distort time, to go from human time to atomic time, geologic time. Sometimes you can actually accomplish that, with one unexpected word choice.
- Robert Morgan
One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime.
- Robert Morgan
It is to this new-found resolution to reassert our indivisibility with life, to recognize the obligations incumbent upon us as the most powerful and deadly species ever to exist, and to begin making amends for the havoc we have wrought, that my own hopes for a revival and continuance of life on earth now turn. If we persevere in this new way we may succeed in making man humane... at last.
- Farley Mowat
Obama has made America cool again - and more than that, he's made his own brand arguably the most powerful the world has ever known.
- Dee Dee Myers
Yawns are not the only infectious things out there besides germs.
Giggles can spread from person to person.
So can blushing.
But maybe the most powerful infectious thing is the act of speaking the truth.
- Vera Nazarian
The tax issue is the most powerful issue in American politics going back to the Tea Party. People say, 'Oh, Grover Norquist has power.' No. Grover Norquist and Americans for Tax Reform focus on the tax issue. The tax issue is a powerful issue.
- Grover Norquist
I run a taxpayer group - the most powerful guy in D.C., nonsense. OK? There are buildings with thousands of people in them, all lobbying for more spending and higher levels of spending and more government commitments. And there are a handful - a handful of groups that fight for less spending.
- Grover Norquist
Because there is a wish in the heart of mankind to be distracted and confused. Truth is but one attraction, and not always the most powerful
- Joyce Carol Oates
... there is a wish in the heart of mankind to be distracted and confused. Truth is but one attraction, and not always the most powerful.
- Joyce Carol Oates
Materialist philosophies that treat human beings as machines or animals possess the high ground in our culture - academia, the most powerful media and many of our courts.
- Marvin Olasky
He had long ago learned that society imposes insults that must be borne, comforted by the knowledge that in this world there comes a time when the most humble of men, if he keeps his eyes open, can take his revenge on the most powerful. It was this knowledge that prevented the Don from losing the humility all his friends admired in him.
- Mario Puzo
Consider non your superior, whatever their rank or station in life. Treat all fairly or they will seek revenge. Be careful with your money. Hold fast to your belief and others will listen." he continued at a slower pace, " of the affairs of love... my only advice is to be honest. thats your most powerfull too to unlock a heart or gain forgiveness. that is all i have to say"Garrow to Roran p 64
- Christopher Paolini
Love is only A one syllable word but it's the most powerful one mankind's ever heard.
- Stanley Victor Paskavich
Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other.
- Randy Pausch
Who's Chernabog?" Grumbled Maybeck.
Philby answered,"Only the most powerful villian Walt Disney ever created.
- Ridley Pearson
The most powerful thing we own is our vote.
- Bev Perdue
Decisions just look different with women at the table. We still have a long way to go. The most powerful thing we own is our vote.
- Bev Perdue
'Sex drives us, love or no love. Power or no power. Money or no money. It's the most powerful drug in the world. Some pay for it. Some die for it.'
- Vicki Pettersson
While The United States is the most powerful nation the world has ever seen, it is also the most detested nation that the world has ever known.
- Harold Pinter
I think desire is the most powerful force in the universe.
- Carol Plum Ucci
To love and be loved is the most powerful of human needs
Clare Morgan
- Mary Jo Putney
As a people of faith, we know that prayer is a powerful instrument. And as one Nation under God, we know that many times our most powerful tool is prayer.
- Nick Rahall
A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.
- A Philip Randolph
Music is the most powerful thing on this earth, and it's hard to be angry when you are listening to music.
- Jerry Reed
It's hard to put into words, shaking hands with the most powerful man in the world.
- Buddy Rice
You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named "Bush", "Dick", and "Colin." Need I say more?
- Chris Rock
Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love.
- Nelson Rockefeller
Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer.
- Anita Roddick
Any real record person knows that the number one most powerful marketing tool when it comes to music is repetition.
- Nile Rodgers
I think empathy is a beautiful thing. I think that's the power of film though. We have one of the most powerful, one of the greatest communicative tools known to man.
- Michelle Rodriguez
You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness.
- Percy Ross
Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented.
- Leo Rosten
If the militarily most powerful - and least threatened - states need nuclear weapons for their security, how can one deny such security to countries that are truly insecure? The present nuclear policy is a recipe for proliferation. It is a policy for disaster.
- Joseph Rotblat
The reason that I keep writing is that all my most powerful messages about the fates of wild places that I care about need to have words as well as images.
- Galen Rowell
When you become the image of your own imagination, it's the most powerful thing you could ever do.
- Rupaul
Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
- Marquis De Sade
The eyes are one of the most powerful tools a woman can have. With one look, she can relay the most intimate message. After the connection is made, words cease to exist.
- Jennifer Salaiz
Station is the paradox of the world of my people, the limitation of our power within the hunger for power. It is gained through treachery and invites treachery against those who gain it. Those most powerful in Menzoberranzan spend their days watching over their shoulders, defending against the daggers that would find their backs. Their deaths usually come from the front. -Drizzt Do'Urden
- R A Salvatore
The most honest of men is the one who thinks and acts best, but the most powerful is the one who writes and speaks best.
- George Sand
The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.
- Carlos Santana
America has a critical role to play as the most powerful member of the world community.
- Adam Schiff
In this ever-changing society, the most powerful and enduring brands are built from the heart. They are real and sustainable. Their foundations are stronger because they are built with the strength of the human spirit, not an ad campaign. The companies that are lasting are those that are authentic.
- Howard Schultz
Under Hitler it was the entrepreneurial and professional classes who were the first victims of Nazi boycotts and exclusion. Today it is Israel, the most powerful symbol of Jewish national resurgence in two millennia.
- Jack Schwartz
Of all human inventions the organization, a machine constructed of people performing interdependent functions, is the most powerful.
- Robert Shea
Knowledge empowers people with our most powerful tool: the ability to think and decide. There is no power for change greater than a child discovering what he or she cares about. (Speech about Global Warming read on the National Mall for the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, 2010)
- Seymour Simon
You know, if you think about it, the most powerful people on this earth probably never raise their voices - they just say it and people hop to, because they have that power.
- Erika Slezak
Some of the most powerful times are when we're quiet.
- Michael W Smith
Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing; joy, rage, fear; triumph, yearning and confusion.
- Tony Snow
We are the most powerful nation on earth. No external power, no terrorist organization, can defeat us. But we can defeat ourselves by getting caught in a quagmire.
- George Soros
Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music.
- John Philip Sousa
I'm Sorry are two of the most powerful words in our language, especially when they are not flipped blithely over the shoulder but spoken from the heart. They help restore order, balance, harmony. They reduce pain. They heal broken friendship. If they were medecine, they'd be called a miracle.
- Jerry Spinelli
I was the most powerful left-handed hitter in the Alameda area.
- Willie Stargell
The Queen is by much the most powerful of the forces.
- Howard Staunton
When he is most powerful, nothing does he become.
- Dejan Stojanovic
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