Potential Quotes

I try to stop and take a 10-second break and ask myself before I do something: One, is this going to improve my life for my children, or two, will there be a potential for something to go wrong here?
Tom Sizemore

Life, Children, Two

America has faced much more difficult times, including potential national extinction, without flinching.
Nick Clooney

America, Difficult, Times

I love the idea that biodiesel has the potential to support farmers, especially the family farms.
Daryl Hannah

Love, Family, Idea

You buy a house and you get it checked out and you feel like you've kind of made your mark here in some way. And then an act of God just comes up the coast and has the potential to just completely wipe it clean. Weather like that is certainly humbling.
James Van Der Beek

God, Made, Weather

Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.
Iris Chang

Evil, Social, Dangerous

All of my books have the potential to become movies, it's just a question of finding a studio who wants to get behind me and put up the money to make the movie.
Jackie Collins

Money, Movies, Put

If you take a really good book, then the potential is for a really good film. But you've got to get it right.
Christopher Hampton

Good, Book, Film

Often I think the novels I read won't make very good movies - I better not say which I'm looking at for potential films! - but it's nice to have an excuse to just sit and read for a whole day.
Christopher Hampton

Good, Movies, Nice

There certainly was a lot of potential in the air for doing a magazine which focused on the way business, in particular, was being transformed by the Internet.
James Daly

Business, Internet, Air

The REM and Nirvana successes don't mean much to me except as a potential distraction for bands who want to cash in on the trend. Don't try to sound like someone else. REM and Nirvana don't sound like anyone else.
Greg Ginn

Someone, Mean, Try

I don't think I'm even close to fulfilling my potential. And I think also that, unlike a pianist or a flutist, an actor has an instrument that is constantly changing.
Kerry Washington

Actor, Close, Changing

I saw the S.B.A. with just enormous potential, and that's what I told the president - this is really a jewel.
Karen Mills

President, Jewel, Enormous

There are many alternatives to embryonic stem cell research, alternatives with great potential. We need to support these and oppose creating life for the sole purpose of destroying it.
Ernest Istook

Life, Great, Purpose

We people of the Earth exist because our potential was there in the Big Bang, 13.7 billion years ago, as the universe exploded into being.
Bob Brown

Big, Universe, Earth

While maintaining our nuclear potential at the proper level, we need to devote more attention to developing the entire range of means of information warfare.
Boris Yeltsin

Means, Attention, While

The potential for Home Star to create jobs is proven and real. In Vermont, our statewide energy efficiency utility, Efficiency Vermont, created more than 430 jobs in 2007 and 2008, generating more than $40 million in income.
Peter Welch

Home, Real, Energy

Space offers extraordinary potential for commerce and adventure, for new innovations and new tests of will. As Americans, we can't help but reach for the stars. It's our nature. It's our destiny.
Bill Frist

Nature, Help, Destiny

In examining the potential of individuals, we must focus on their strengths and not just their mistakes. We cannot be limited by what they may have spilled in the kitchen.
William Pollard

Mistakes, Focus, May

Anytime a large, emergency spending bill makes its way through Congress, the potential for mischief is great.
Chris Chocola

Great, Through, Makes

If you look at my career, I've never gone to a team that had fulfilled their potential.
Ruud Gullit

Career, Team, Gone

The news today that Bush has vowed to veto any legislation that reviews the security implications of the Dubai Port World's potential management of our ports is ludicrous and the entire Democratic Party is calling him to task for it.
John Conyers

Today, Him, Security

Our children are our greatest resource and Head Start grants help them reach their full potential.
Christopher Dodd

Greatest, Children, Help

We as a people, as a state, and as a community, have too much promise, too much potential, and too much at stake to go any other way than forward. We are too strong in our hearts, too innovative in our minds, and too firm in our beliefs to retreat from our goals.
Bill Richardson

Forward, Strong, Minds

Our concerns about what we saw in Australia: an economy clearly tied to China has hitched its wagon to the tail of the tiger. In terms of the general complacency, what we heard over and over from investors and clients and potential clients is, 'yes, yes, there are some excesses, but the government will figure out a way.'
James Chanos

Government, Economy, General

Before you approach a production entity or even a potential producer, you should write up a treatment and register your show with the Writers Guild of America.
Penelope Spheeris

Before, America, Write

War is murder. And the military preparations now being made for a potential major confrontation are aimed at collective murder. In a nuclear age the victims would be numbered by the millions. This naked truth must be faced.
Alva Myrdal

Age, Truth, War

China is important to the world in that they are a force and on the move. Exposing them to figurative art opens up a potential for artistic expression far greater than anyone would ever have dreamed possible until today. It is this very spirit of the struggle and determination to triumph that inspires creative expression.
Richard MacDonald

Art, Today, Struggle

It does not make sense that we are allowing known potential weapons, not unlike those the 9-11 hijackers used to overcome the crews of four airplanes, to be taken aboard passenger aircraft.
Dave Reichert

Sense, Used, Known

For me, the risks in terms of opening that brewpub were fairly high. I put my house up as collateral, I invested the liquid money I had and two years of my time to get it over, but that's really not much of a risk for what the potential reward was if it worked.
John Hickenlooper

Time, Money, Two

We are a country with great potential. We have the political will to make deep changes in a just and equitable way, to put our country back on a development path, to meet the challenges of a new world.
Georgios A. Papandreou

Great, Deep, Political

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