Quotes about powerful
powerful addiction cracks
Tobacco addiction sinks its claws in deeply, it's just as powerful of [sic] an addiction as heroin or crack cocaine... Al Gore
powerful special firsts
The Congress is virtually incapable of passing any reforms unless they first get permission from the powerful special interests who are most affected by the proposal.
powerful enemy reason
Fear is the most powerful enemy of reason.
powerful accomplishment wish
Peace is the wish of the French of Italy Spain Germany and all the world, and Great Britain alone the cause of preventing its accomplishment, and this not for any point of honour or even interest, but merely lest there should be an example in the modern world of a great powerful Republic. Charles James Fox
powerful believe book
The BIBLE - banned, burned, beloved. More widely read, more frequently attacked than any other book in history. Generations of intellectuals have attempted to discredit it, dictators of every age have outlawed it and executed those who read it. Yet soldiers carry it into battle believing it more powerful than their weapons. Fragments of it smuggled into solitary prison cells have transformed ruthless killers into gentle saints Charles Colson
powerful believe men
The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for his existence. But this is a rash argument, as we should thus be compelled to believe in the existence of many cruel and malignant spirits, only a little more powerful than man; for the belief in them is far more general than in a beneficent deity. Charles Darwin
powerful men animal
Mr. J.S. Mill speaks, in his celebrated work, "Utilitarianism," of the social feelings as a "powerful natural sentiment," and as "the natural basis of sentiment for utilitarian morality," but on the previous page he says, "if, as is my own belief, the moral feelings are not innate, but acquired, they are not for that reason less natural." It is with hesitation that I venture to differ from so profound a thinker, but it can hardly be disputed that the social feelings are instinctive or innate in the lower animals; and why should they not be so in man?
powerful giving environmental
The most powerful natural species are those that adapt to environmental change without losing their fundamental identity which gives them their competitive advantage.
powerful struggle race
In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.
powerful science break-through
Precedents are treated by powerful minds as fetters with which to bind down the weak, as reasons with which to mistify the moderately informed, and as reeds which they themselves fearlessly break through whenever new combinations and difficult emergencies demand their highest efforts. Charles Babbage
powerful study promotion
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.
powerful science discovery
The influence of electricity in producing decompositions, although of inestimable value as an instrument of discovery in chemical inquiries, can hardly be said to have been applied to the practical purposes of life, until the same powerful genius [Davy] which detected the principle, applied it, by a singular felicity of reasoning, to arrest the corrosion of the copper-sheathing of vessels. ... this was regarded as by Laplace as the greatest of Sir Humphry's discoveries.
powerful agents most-powerful
The most powerful thing is for women not just to be the beneficiaries of the change, but to be agents of it. Blake Lively
powerful night world
The serene, silent beauty of a holy life is the most powerful influence in the world, next to the night of God. Blaise Pascal
powerful giving
We are troubled only by the fears which we, and not nature, give ourselves.
powerful justice together
Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.
powerful leader vision
Vision is the most powerful weapon in the leader's arsenal. Bill Hybels
powerful real thinking
The world's like a ride in a fairground & when you choose to go on it you think it's real, that's how powerful our minds are Bill Hicks
powerful taken loss
Lower the Law and you dim the light by which man perceives his guilt; this is a very serious loss to the sinner rather than a gain; for it lessens the likelihood of his conviction and conversion. I say you have deprived the gospel of its ablest auxiliary [its most powerful weapon] when you have set aside the Law. You have taken away from it the schoolmaster that is to bring men to Christ . . . They will never accept grace till they tremble before a just and holy Law. Therefore the Law serves a most necessary purpose, and it must not be removed from its place. Charles Spurgeon
powerful boys virginia
There were times when I asked myself whether I was being principled or simply a coward.... I was wrapped in the cocoon of tennis early in life, mainly by blacks like my most powerful mentor, Dr. Robert Walter Johnson of Lynchburg, Virginia. They insisted that I be unfailingly polite on the court, unfalteringly calm and detached, so that whites could never accuse me of meanness. I learned well. I look at photographs of the skinny, frail, little black boy that I was in the early 1950s, and I see that I was my tennis racquet and my tennis racquet was me. It was my rod and my staff. Arthur Ashe
powerful important tools
The important thing about outsourcing or global sourcing is that it becomes a very powerful tool to leverage talent, improve productivity and reduce work cycles. Azim Premji
powerful war voice
It is my conviction that in time of war, when the cannon speaks with its powerful voice, the less we speak the better. Benito Mussolini
powerful opportunity political
We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets. Benjamin Disraeli
powerful men matter
Man is more powerful than matter.
powerful power speakers
The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.
powerful men world
The most powerful men are not public men: a public man is responsible, and a responsible man is a slave. It is private life that governs the world.
powerful men people
The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy. It was not granted by monarchs, it was not gained for us by aristocracies ; but it sprang from the people, and, with an immortal instinct, it has always worked for the people.
powerful passion men
Of all the passions that inspire a man in a battle, none, we have to admit, is so powerful and so constant as the longing for honor and reknown. Carl von Clausewitz
powerful may encounters
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.
powerful character feelings
Strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one's balance in spite of them.
powerful character sea
We repeat again: strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one’s balance in spite of them. Even with the violence of emotion, judgment and principle must still function like a ship’s compass, which records the slightest variations however rough the sea.
powerful superficial
Image is powerful. But image is also superficial. Cameron Russell
powerful water stuff
Ah, you've come over the water. Powerful wet stuff, ain't it? C. S. Lewis