Zitat des Tages über Potent:
In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
If the union between England and America is a powerful factor in the cause of peace, a new Triple Alliance between the Teutonic race and the two branches of the Anglo-Saxon race will be a still more potent influence in the future of the world.
It's a pity that if someone who has a really profoundly potent art to share chooses not to or doesn't fit into this very thin slice of what's desirable and marketable, chances are the public will never get a chance to hear what they're doing.
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill it teaches the whole people by its example.
Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.
History shows that there is no more potent engine for reform than the passion of voters who feel betrayed by the politicians they hoped would do the right thing.
No government is here forever. And there are other forces - the most potent force in our society, in fact, big business - doing good for the environment.
Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience.
I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war.
Despite the metadata attached to each tweet, and despite trails of retweets and 'favorite' tweets, the Twitter corpus lacks the latticework of hyperlinks that makes Google's algorithms so potent. Twitter's famous hashtags - #sandyhook or #fiscalcliff or #girls - are the crudest sort of signposts, not much help for smart searching.
We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.
What force is more potent than love?
The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.
Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.
He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
Some scientists claim - although these claims are contentious - that they can form deadly isomers with simple X-rays and that hafnium can multiply the power of these X-rays to an astounding degree, converting them into gamma rays up to 250 times more potent than the X-rays.
When he died, Emerson was thought of as the representative American writer par excellence, and his point of view was still so potent that William James was honored to be asked to speak at a centenary celebration.
Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.
When you meet someone, you meet their face. It's the most potent part of the body to embellish.
Amazon may be the most beguiling company that ever existed, and it is just getting started. It is both missionary and mercenary... That has always been a potent combination.
I think the idea of losing your hair is still very potent, emotional thing.
A third force, developing itself more slowly, becomes even more potent than the rest: the power of gold.
A common allegiance to form of expression that is identified with no single national unit is likely to prove one of the most potent symbols of the freedom of the human spirit that the world has yet known.
There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future.
Well, marriage doesn't function in the way it used to in terms of deciding our fate, but it's in our heads, and it determines a lot of our actions. Like, right now, if you think about gay marriage - and they just started having the first gay marriages in New York - it shows what a potent idea marriage remains for people.
A common creation demands a common sacrifice, and perhaps not the least potent argument in favour of a constructed international language is the fact that it is equally foreign, or apparently so, to the traditions of all nationalities.
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.
Every filmmaker's just going to keep trying to make it the best you can make it: make it as potent and interesting and entertaining and exciting and tough and sexy as you can.
The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish.
You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
'Yes' is a far more potent word than 'no' in American politics. By adopting the positions which animate the political agenda for the other side, one can disarm them and leave them sputtering with nothing to say.
My being bought as a politically outspoken artist is a more potent advertising tool for Apple than a 100 more explicit ads.
Mr. Speaker, genocide is the most potent of all crimes against humanity because it is an effort to systematically wipe out a people and a culture as well as individual lives.
Recently I saw Kasparov and he looked to me as still young and potent champion.
