I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country. – Samina Baig
Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me. – Walt Whitman
Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come – even if it came in a – living room – or to someone – with a humble living. – Stefan Hell
I’m never gonna be a Carlos Santana – an instrumentalist. I just like songs. It’s three minutes of something that can be very powerful. – Steve Forbert
China needs a powerful Europe, but Europe can only be strong if each and every one of its members attains rapid economic development. – Victor Ponta
Every country that’s ever been the most powerful country in the world ceases to be the most powerful country in the world at some point. – Steve Earle
I think theater is powerful. The best experiences I had in the theater are more powerful than the best experiences I had in movies. – William H. Macy
If you come from Africa with your economic poverty and your cultural riches, and you meet someone like Peter Gabriel or a person from a big record company, and they tell you that what you are doing is marvelous, that makes you feel powerful. – Youssou N’Dour
Wherever there is injustice, there is anger, and anger is like gasoline – if you spray it around and somebody lights a matchstick, you have an inferno. But anger inside an engine is powerful: it can drive us forward and can get us through dreadful moments and give us power. I learnt this with my discussions with nuclear policy makers. – Scilla Elworthy
Women’s currency is their looks. Like it or not, the most powerful woman is an 18-year-old woman. – Susan Cheever
Our main reasons for fearing males having sex with males is that you really had to construct a more powerful social role to keep men in their place than you did to keep women in their place. – Warren Farrell
I actually think the reason I am interested in certain parts is because I was such a dweeb in high school. When you are such a loser, it’s a helpful way in to a lot of characters because even very powerful people are not all that powerful, really. – Sigourney Weaver
Director Gary Ross has created an adaptation that is faithful in both narrative and theme, but he’s also brought a rich and powerful vision of Panem, its brutality and excesses, to the film as well. His world building’s fantastic, whether it be the Seam or the Capitol. – Suzanne Collins
Cinema is visually powerful, it is a complete experience, reaches a different audience. It’s something I really like. I like movies. – Yann Martel
I believe that the human motive to share is very powerful. The human motive to profit is also very powerful, and I think that the profit motive and the sharing motive are not exclusive. – Tim O’Reilly
In examining witnesses, I learned to ask general questions so as to elicit details with powerful sensory associations: the colors, the sounds, the smells that lodge an image in the mind and put the listener in the burning house. – Sonia Sotomayor
Chile isn’t the biggest, richest or most powerful country in the world, but we should dedicate ourselves to transforming it into the best country in the world. We don’t have a single minute to lose. – Sebastian Pinera
As a consumer, you want to associate with brands whose powerful presence creates a halo effect that rubs off on you. – Tom Peters
IPS cells can become a powerful tool to develop new drugs to cure intractable diseases because they can be made from patients’ somatic cells. – Shinya Yamanaka
I’d say I’m quite powerful so I’m not afraid of jumps or acrobatic elements. The hardest part is… get on the beam and stay there on top of it! – Vanessa Ferrari
The president and the administration had a duty to defend the Defense of Marriage Act, but powerful constituencies of the president did not want the president to defend it. And unfortunately, politics trumped duty. – Trent Franks
When I shoot at the range, I don’t feel personally powerful but like the custodian of something powerful. I feel like a successful disciplinarian of something radically alien and potent. Analyze this sensation all you want; you still can’t make it go away. – Walter Kirn
If, as they say, the threat of the hangman’s noose has a powerful way of focusing one’s attention, the same can be said of pregnancy. – Walter Cronkite
Evangelical Christians, who once were a ridiculed irrelevant sectarian movement, have, over just three decades, become a powerful voting bloc that can no longer be ignored. – Tony Campolo
The most powerful political voices are those with a different way of seeing and processing the world and the sounds that emanate from it. – Saul Williams
There are legitimate, even powerful arguments, to be made against the Bush administration’s foreign policy. But those arguments are complicated, hard to explain, and, in the end, not all that sensational. – Tucker Carlson
I realized little by little that words are very powerful, and taking those words to encourage people rather than tear them apart was the desire of my heart. – Tracie Peterson
There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us. – Sophocles