Quotes of Potent - somelinesforyou

“ We often use strong language not to express a powerful emotion but to evoke it in us. ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ Questions about political theatre always overlook America's most powerful and effective political theatre, which is always thriving: the American musical. The politics is conservative but, to my mind, effective and insidious. ”

- John Lahr

“ You are never strong enough that you don't need help. ”

- Cesar Chavez

“ Strong people don't need strong leaders. ”

- Ella Baker

“ I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right. ”

- Tallulah Bankhead

“ What does not destroy me, makes me strong. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ He who conquers others is strong. He who conquers himself is mighty. ”

- Lao tzu

“ When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do. ”

- Sir William Blake

“ Words are as strong and powerful as bombs, as napalm. ”

- Dorothy Day

“ It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong. ”

- Wendell Willkie

“ He who has a strong enough why can bear almost any how. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause. ”

- Victor Hugo

“ There is no poison on earth more potent, nor half so deadly, as a partial truth mixed with passion. ”

- Michael J. Tucker

“ Perhaps I am stronger than I think. ”

- Thomas Merton

“ This was the most unkindest cut of all; For when the noble Caesar saw him stab, Ingratitude, more strong than traitor's arm, Quite vanquish'd him; then burst his mighty heart. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave. ”

- Bible

“ Strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age. ”

- Bible

“ If we are strong, our character will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be of no help. ”

- John F. Kennedy

“ The will is the strong blind man who carries on his shoulders the lame man who can see. ”

- Arthur Schopenhauer

“ Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes; lesser ones exist on wishes and inclinations. ”

- Kenneth Hildebrand

“ No power is strong enough to be lasting if it labors under the weight of fear. ”

- Cicero

“ Fear is stronger than arms. ”

- Aeschylus

“ Strong people are made by opposition, like kites that go up against the wind. ”

- Frank Harris

“ It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government. ”

- George Will

“ Words — so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. ”

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

“ What force is more potent than love? ”

- Igor Stravinsky

“ The words `I am…' are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you're claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you. ”

- A.L. Kitselman
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