Top 80 Potent Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Potent Quotes from famous people such as Igor Stravinsky, Thomas Friedman, Timothy McVeigh, Hamish Bowles, Platon, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and w

In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
Igor Stravinsky
Natural gas emits only half the carbon dioxide of coal when burned, but if methane leaks when oil companies extract it from the ground in a sloppy manner – methane is far more potent a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide – it can wipe out all the advantages of natural gas over coal.
Thomas Friedman
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill it teaches the whole people by its example.
Timothy McVeigh
Possessions. The very word is potent – suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.
Hamish Bowles
Photography can be a volatile situation. It can be very potent.
Platon
I may go so far as saying LeBron James may be the greatest player to ever play the game. Because he is so potent offensively that not only can he score at will, but he keeps everybody involved.
Scottie Pippen
My being bought as a politically outspoken artist is a more potent advertising tool for Apple than a 100 more explicit ads.
Anohni
Teen fandom is so potent. Any choice they make in pop culture forces the rest of the world to take notice.
Alycia Debnam-Carey
Through the potent example of his own life, President Obama enabled us to believe the best about America, and, therefore, about ourselves. That uplifting narrative – essentially equating the promise of America with his extraordinary life story – swept candidate Obama into the presidency.
Cynthia P. Schneider
We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.
Eric Hoffer
‘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.
Dick Morris
The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
Steven Biko
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.
Edward Grey
A shepherd, in whom the spirit of God works, is more highly esteemed before God than the wisest and most potent in self-wit, without the divine dominion.
Jakob Bohme
Despite the frequent use of coal miners as a potent political symbol, coal jobs are disappearing – and they’re not coming back.
Tom Steyer
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.
Howard Mumford Jones
I think the idea of losing your hair is still very potent, emotional thing.
Jennifer Saunders
I think I was drawn to black culture by the same things that have been drawing the entire world to it since the days of Richard Wright, Josephine Baker and Louis Armstrong. This culture is original, potent and seductive.
Thomas Chatterton Williams
It is mind-blowing to pause and think that a film as forward-facing and potent as ‘Do the Right Thing’ was released the same year as ‘Driving Ms. Daisy.’
Thomas Chatterton Williams
Prayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
Mahatma Gandhi
You don’t really know when the last time you’re going to do something is; the middle can often be a bit blurry. Firsts are very potent.
Jenny Han
Almost everyone shuts down when science becomes too technical; you’ve got to infuse it with entertainment and storytelling to make it effective. From high school on, science is taught in a very dry manner, which isn’t as potent.
Greg Graffin
In this war on truth we are all living in, ‘hoax’ is a potent, malicious, ugly little word and Trump has been using it more every year. So has Fox.
Brian Stelter
Medieval alchemists, despite their lust for gold, considered mercury the most potent and poetic substance in the universe. As a child, I would have agreed with them.
Sam Kean
I’m virile, vigorous, and potent!
G. Gordon Liddy
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.
Michael Moritz
It was very clear, if you grew up in the middle of Ireland, just how potent a force the Internet was and could be. I was always seduced by the potency of computers and the possibilities for which they could be leveraged.
Patrick Collison
Women are like wine: strong, spirited, full bodied, intoxicating, and potent. And we never cease to surprise.
Shefali Shah
What force is more potent than love?
Igor Stravinsky
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.
Robert Fulghum
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
Lucretius
The big cop-out would be to accept popularity rather th

The big cop-out would be to accept popularity rather than opting to try to create potent work. It’s so easy to do the popular thing, the expected thing, and that’s where you start to cheat yourself – and your fans, in the end – because there’s an inherent dishonesty in pandering and dishing up what everyone’s expecting.
The Edge
He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Anne Boleyn is an intriguing character. She seems to appeal to modern-day women in a very potent way. Because she was such an independently opinionated and spirited young woman, which at the time was unheard of.
Natalie Dormer
Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
Norman Schwarzkopf
Since being in India, I am more convinced than ever before that the method of nonviolent resistance is the most potent weapon available to oppressed people in their struggle for justice and human dignity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Melting permafrost in Greenland and the Arctic tundra is releasing vast amounts of methane, a potent climate-altering gas.
Tatiana Schlossberg
Human imagination is so much more potent than anything we could put down in words.
Matt Bomer
I think there’s a weapon of cynicism to say, ‘Protest doesn’t work. Organizing doesn’t work. Y’all are a bunch of hippies. You know, it doesn’t do anything,’ because, frankly, it’s said out of fear, because it is a potent force for political change.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Believe me, the drug of freedom is universally potent.
Natan Sharansky
Fear and greed are potent motivators. When both of these forces push in the same direction, virtually no human being can resist.
Andrew Weil
A third force, developing itself more slowly, becomes even more potent than the rest: the power of gold.
John Lothrop Motley
Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.
Manly Hall
The more potent, unasked question is how society at large reacts to eager, voluntary violence by females, and to the growing evidence that women can be just as aggressive as men.
Katherine Dunn
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 the Republican Party does not learn to understand unmarried women as the political force and potent voting bloc that they have become, we risk becoming the minority party.
Kellyanne Conway
Anytime there’s originality and comedy combined, it’s very potent for people who love comedy.
Martin Short
Politics is a potent way to empower women.
Preneet Kaur
When you meet someone, you meet their face. It’s the most potent part of the body to embellish.
Philip Treacy
Childhood, after all, is not an ending, but rather a state full of potent curiosity.
Rachel Cusk
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.
King George V
When I’m writing, I’m thinking about how the songs are going to play live. Fifty bars of rap don’t translate onstage. No matter how potent the music, you lose the crowd. They want a hook; they want to sing your stuff back to you.
Drake
Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.
Noel Coward
That’s the thing – you do a job like ‘Shameless,’ and suddenly that’s why you can get a job like ‘The Virgin Queen’, not because of all the classical theatre you’ve done. But we can be very snippy about television. It’s absolutely the most potent and powerful form of storytelling we have.
Anne-Marie Duff
When your move with your left hand can be just as potent as your right hand, I think that’s pretty special. I think that’s why Kyrie’s the best, because he finishes so well around the rim with his left or right.
Austin Rivers
I’m from Australia, where the film industry is potent but small.
Cate Blanchett
You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
J. Martin Kohe
The thing that runs through the British film industry even today is a lot of unsung movies are financially the bigger ones. Even though they weren’t always the greatest of movies, something in them was very potent which people loved.
Peter Capaldi
What makes clothing so potent is that people incorporate the fashion that they’re wearing into their identity. It becomes part of you and how you show yourself to the world.
Christopher Wylie
Chermoula is a potent North African spice paste that is ideal for smearing on your favourite vegetables for roasting.
Yotam Ottolenghi