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“Mountains! how one's heart leaps up at the very word! There is a charm connected with mountains so powerful, that the merest mention of them, the merest sketch of their magnificent features kindles the imagination, and carries the spirit at once into the bosom of their enchanted regions.”
William Howitt (1792–1879) said by 1879 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Guide me, O Thou great Jehovah, Pilgrim through this barren land; I am weak, but Thou art mighty; Hold me with Thy powerful hand; Bread of heaven! Feed me till I want no more.”
William Williams Pantycelyn (1717–1791) said by 1791 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 263.
“The liberal tradition has its roots in the Enlightenment, that period in the eighteenth-century Europe when intellectuals and political leaders had a powerful sense that reason could be employed to make the world a better place.”
John Mearsheimer (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Simply put, the most powerful state is the one that prevails in a dispute.”
John Mearsheimer (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A potential hegemon, as emphasized throughout this book, must be wealthier than any of its regional rivals and must possess the most powerful army in the area.”
John Mearsheimer (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“China, in short has the potential to be considerably more powerful than even the United States.”
John Mearsheimer (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Keep a government poor and weak and it's your servant; when it is rich and powerful it becomes your master.”
H. Beam Piper (1904–1964) first seen 1958 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Colonel Andrew Jackson Hickock in Lone Star Planet (1958)
“Yet it is groupthink around here. Everybody is so paranoid and saying: Oh, we can’t object to this lobby. Because this lobby is so powerful, we can’t object to them. Look, it isn’t about the ideas; it is about the freedom of speech.”
Rand Paul (born 1963) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 4 February 2019 about jewish lobby in ‘Combating BDS Act’ in the Senate
“,,, powerful intelligence, a formidable receptacle of culture and gifted with words.”
Epifanio de los Santos (1871–1928) said by 1928 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As a quote by Jaime C. De Veyra in "81 Years of Premio Zobel Legacy of Philippine Literature in Spanish" by Lourdes Castrillo Brillantes. Vibal Publishing House, Inc. 2006.
“A thunderous boo is one thousand times stronger, nobler, and more powerful than a standing ovation. Admiration corrupts.”
Nelson Rodrigues (1912–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It behooves all of us to have everyone experience their deepest, most beautiful, most profound and powerful self, because those people are more apt to give their gift to everyone else rather than shudder in fear.”
Jennifer Beals (born 1963) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview, H Monthly (10 February 2009).
“In paying homage to the martyrs of Metz Yeghern, we understand that we must take steps forward, come together for the sake of our national dreams and goals. We must build a powerful and democratic State by doing everything possible for the future day of our country and people.”
Tigran Sargsyan (born 1960) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Message on Armenian Genocide Victims Remembrance Day (24 April 2010).
“The reason why fear is so powerful is because you believe it to be stronger than you.”
Steve Maraboli (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sometimes the prison of fear is so powerful there's no need to lock the cell doors. Your fear creates a willingness to self-imprison.”
Steve Maraboli (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself.”
Steve Maraboli (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Fear comes from a lack of understanding how powerful you really are.”
Steve Maraboli (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Difficult trials will naturally evoke powerful emotions in us. How would your circumstances look today if you chose to focus first on God’s promises?”
James MacDonald (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The most powerful presentations were based on legal precedents, especially Calvin's Case (1608), which, it was claimed, proved on the authority of Coke and Bacon that subjects of the King are by no means necessarily subjects of Parliament.”
Bernard Bailyn (1922–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Processions of priests and religiosi have been for several days past praying for rain; but the gods are either angry, or nature is too powerful.”
Tim Powers (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The corporate state is an immensely powerful machine, ordered, legalistic, rational, yet utterly out of human control, wholly and perfectly indifferent to any human values.”
Charles A. Reich (1928–2019) said by 2019 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“there is every reason to fear that the State is growing ever more powerful, more autonomous, more indifferent to its own inhabitants.”
Charles A. Reich (1928–2019) said by 2019 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The crucial fact to realize about all the powerful machinery of the Corporate State — its laws, structure, political system — is that it possesses no mind.”
Charles A. Reich (1928–2019) said by 2019 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I prefer a powerful and proud Jewish State that is hated by the entire world than an Auschwitz that is loved by one and all.”
Meir Kahane (1932–1990) said by 1990 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Now when I talk about love, I'm not talking about emotional bosh; I'm not talking about some weak, sentimental something; I'm talking about something strong and powerful. I'm talking about something that is active good will, not just a passive, dead something.”
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968) said by 1968 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Let us rise up tonight with a greater readiness. Let us stand with a greater determination. And let us move on in these powerful days, these days of challenge to make America what it ought to be. We have an opportunity to make America a better nation. And I want to thank God, once more, for allowing me to be here with you.”
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968) said by 1968 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If the Russians still adhered to the Greek Orthodox religion, if they had instituted parliamentary government, and if they had a completely free press which daily vituperated us, then - provided they still had armed forces as powerful as they have now - we should still hate them if they gave us ground for thinking them hostile.”
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All-powerful god, who am I but the fear that I inspire in others?”
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Government simply cannot make up their minds, or they cannot get the Prime Minister [Stanley Baldwin] to make up his mind. So they go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.”
Winston Churchill (1874–1965) first seen 1932 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: While England Slept: A Survey of World Affairs, 1932–1938 (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1938), pp. 326-7
“In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest.”
Aesop (620–564 BC) said by 564 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We must always remember that, as Americans, we all have a common enemy -- an enemy that is dangerous, powerful and relentless. I refer, of course, to the federal government.”
Dave Barry (born 1947) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Washington Post December 19, 2004 (Second Source: A video of Dave Barry reacting to a university response to this quote)
“Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.”
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) said by 1881 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nature is more powerful than education; time will develop everything.”
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) said by 1881 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.”
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) said by 1881 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the great contention between the patriotic and the cosmopolitan principle which has hardly begun and on the issue of which the fate of this island as a powerful community depends, Lord George Bentinck appeared to be produced to represent the traditionary influences of our country in their most captivating form.”
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) first seen 1852 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lord George Bentinck: A Political Biography (1852), p. 583
“None are so interested in maintaining the institutions of the country as the working classes. The rich and the powerful will not find much difficulty under any circumstances in maintaining their rights, but the privileges of the people can only be defended and secured by popular institutions.”
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) first seen 1860 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to a working men's club (1867), quoted in William Flavelle Monypenny and George Earle Buckle, The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield. Volume II. 1860–1881 (1929), p. 297
“[I]t is not merely our fleets and armies, our powerful artillery, our accumulated capital, and our unlimited credit on which I so much depend, as upon that unbroken spirit of her people, which I believe was never prouder of the Imperial country to which they belong. Gentlemen, it is to that spirit that I above all things trust.”
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) first seen 1872 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech to the Conservatives of Manchester (3 April 1872), quoted in Selected Speeches of the Late Right Honourable the Earl of Beaconsfield, Volume II, ed. T. E. Kebbel (1882), p. 522
“Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.”
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) said by 1881 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.”
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) said by 1881 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“An insular country, subject to fogs, and with a powerful middle class, requires grave statesmen.”
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) said by 1881 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or a newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) first seen 1906 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Essay on William Dean Howells (1906)
“Pensions are the favors of the powerful, and dangerous to any great intellect. It is only here and there down throughout the ages that a Voltaire is born who does not fall a victim to their blandishments.”
Clarence Darrow (1857–1938) said by 1938 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Silence, much more powerful than before, much more shot through with the meaning of life and the accumulated wisdom of history.”
James A. Michener (1907–1997) said by 1997 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If, when the chips are down, the world's most powerful nation, the United States of America, acts like a pitiful, helpless giant, the forces of totalitarianism and anarchy will threaten free nations and free institutions throughout the world.”
Richard Nixon (1913–1994) first seen 1970 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Address to the nation on the situation in Southeast Asia (April 30, 1970); in Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard Nixon, 1970, p. 409
“Are you quite sure that all those bells and whistles, all those wonderful facilities of your so-called "powerful" programming languages belong to the solution set rather than to the problem set?”
Edsger W. Dijkstra (1930–2002) first seen 1976 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dijkstra (1976) A Discipline of Programming, Prentice-Hall, 1976, p. xiv.
“When we had no computers, we had no programming problem either. When we had a few computers, we had a mild programming problem. Confronted with machines a million times as powerful, we are faced with a gigantic programming problem.”
Edsger W. Dijkstra (1930–2002) first seen 1986 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dijkstra (1986) Visuals for BP's Venture Research Conference (EWD 963).
“The only ambition of this great powerful frame was to do nothing, to grovel in idleness and satiation from hour to hour. He wanted to eat well, sleep well, to abundantly satisfy his passions, without moving from his place, without running the risk of the slightest fatigue.”
Émile Zola (1840–1902) first seen 1886 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ch. 5 (tr. E. A. Vizetelly, 1886)
“The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical. This is a powerful group of paired concepts generated by the complementarity of conceptuality.”
Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Corporations are neither physical nor metaphysical phenomena. They are socioeconomic ploys — legally enacted game-playing — agreed upon only between overwhelmingly powerful socioeconomic individuals and by them imposed upon human society and its all unwitting members.”
Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Relying on words to lead you to the truth is like relying on an incomplete formal system to lead you to the truth. A formal system will give you some truths, but as we shall soon see, a formal system, no matter how powerful—cannot lead to all truths.”
Douglas Hofstadter (born 1945) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.”
Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) first seen 1857 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 18 March 1857