2,137 Quotes About Powerful
- Author Emile M. Cioran
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Hungarian Language — savage it may be but of a beauty that has nothing human about it, with sonorities of another universe, powerful and corrosive, appropriate to prayer, to groans and to tears, risen out of hell to perpetuate its accent and its aura…words of nectar and cyanide.
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- Author Eric Clapton
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It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be introduced to us and I absorbed it totally, and it changed my complete outlook on music.
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- Author Frank Capra
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I think the human spirit is a real powerful spirit. It has no limits and it has no ends. And I hate to see it put in any kind of box - pink or green.
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- Author Geoffrey Chaucer
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Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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- Author George Carlin
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As powerful as anyone may claim God to be, somehow he always needs money.
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- Author Gilbert K. Chesterton
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An enormous amount of modern ingenuity is expended on finding defences for the indefensible conduct of the powerful. As I have said above, these defences generally exhibit themselves most emphatically in the form of appeals to physical science. And of all the forms in which science, or pseudo-science, has come to the rescue of the rich and stupid, there is none so singular as the singular invention of the theory of races.
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- Author Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Powerful men who have powerful passions use much of their strength in forging chains for themselves.
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- Author Giorgio de Chirico
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When I close my eyes my vision is even more powerful.
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- Author Grover Cleveland
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I know there is a Supreme Being who rules the affairs of men and whose goodness and mercy have always followed the American people, and I know He will not turn from us now if we humbly and reverently seek His powerful aid.
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