We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.
Mary McLeod Bethune

Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest! What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.
Mignon McLaughlin

There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again.
Cat Stevens

Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way.
David Lynch

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
Geoffrey Chaucer

While The United States is the most powerful nation the world has ever seen, it is also the most detested nation that the world has ever known.
Harold Pinter

Words can be very powerful. I find them very difficult.
Bryan Ferry

I am subject to very powerful lows. When you have highs, you have terrible lows. When you pinpoint that you are responsible for everything that happens to you, it is very frightening.
Jeanne Moreau

It shows the truth - that the real meaning of a word is only as powerful or harmless as the emotion behind it.
Sarah Silverman

Being on a Michael Bay set is... well, it's the only set I've ever been on. But I would imagine there's no set that's run quite like it. It's big, it's loud, it's powerful, it's intense, it's dirty, it's hot, it's sweaty - and it's really exciting. There's never a dull moment; there's never a quiet moment.
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley

Ideas are more powerful than people.
Jim DeMint

Women don't realize how powerful they are.
Judith Light

The attacks on the World Trade Center and the current economic recession, which is particularly powerful in New York City, have put a number of building plans on hold for the time being.
David Rockefeller

I've been spoiled by this project. I was given the script and went in to read, realizing that this was a powerful story and one that wasn't told very often.
Wentworth Miller

But man has still another powerful resource: natural science with its strictly objective methods.
Ivan Pavlov

But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.
Bryan Ferry

Appetite, craving for food, is a constant and powerful stimulator of the gastric glands.
Ivan Pavlov

Official truths are often powerful illusions.
John Pilger

Funny, I don't feel any more powerful today than yesterday.
Jerry B. Jenkins