Quotes on Powerful

Writing is a weapon and it’s more powerful than a fist could ever be.

I have not seen a film as powerful, surreal, and frightening in at least a decade unprecedented in the history of cinema.

Love is the ultimate theme, but it's not just for women.

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

The word dysfunction has, I think, served its purpose and now has lost its meaning. Every family, like every person, is imperfect, after all. The idea that there is a family somewhere who functions, is an odd concept. In my youth I was running from my family to try to find out who I was-their influence distracted me. Now I see what a powerful hold they have, no matter what.

The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope

On occasions when u feel most hopeless, u must take powerful effort. We must persist in face of failure.

O powerful love, that in some respects makes a beast a man, in some other, a man a beast.

The separation of talent and skill is one of the greatest misunderstood concepts for people who are trying to excel, who have dreams, who want to do things. Talent you have naturally. Skill is only developed by hours and hours and hours of beating on your craft.

The dreams and passions stored within hearts are powerful keys which can unlock a wealth of potential.

To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.

Man is more powerful than matter.

It is the nature of aphoristic thinking to be always in a state of concluding; a bid to have the final word is inherent in all powerful phrase-making.

They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death.

I have yet to meet a single person from our culture, no matter what his or her educational background, IQ, and specific training, who had powerful transpersonal experiences and continues to subscribe to the materialistic monism of Western science.

Worse that drugs is drug trafficking. Much worse. Drugs are a disease, and I don't think that there are good drugs or that marijuana is good. Nor cigarettes. No addiction is good. I include alcohol. The only good addiction is love. Forget everything else.

From afar, it seems like a war without a solution and like a long sacrifice for the entire country. So when a president appears who tries to open a path to peace, I think that deserves support, because there is a lot of pain, and if they try to settle scores, the war will never end. But there is an opportunity. I would feel selfish if I did not help in any way.

That's the thing about pain, it demands to be felt.

States are violent institutions. The government of any country, including ours, represents some sort of domestic power structure, and it's usually violent. States are violent to the extent that they're powerful, that's roughly accurate.