#potent

I think what's going on in Guantanamo Bay and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A. I wouldn't say it's the cause of terrorism, but it has given impetus and excuses to potential terrorists to lash out at our country and justify their despicable acts. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#bay #cause #country #despicable #disgrace

We know that if al Queda or one of these terrorist organizations were to get a weapon of mass destruction from Iraq, that they would have no hesitation about using it to catastrophic consequences; the potential is for hundreds of thousands of casualties. ↗

— Paul Cellucci

#al #casualties #catastrophic #consequences #destruction

Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#changing the world #creative #everybody #express #moment

I always try to be alert to the potential for repetition, for a decaying orbit with regard to my use of technique, etc. ↗

— Jeff Vandermeer

#always #decaying #etc #i #i always

There's a lot of potential that goes unused in places like South Central L.A., a lot of brilliant, smart people who just don't have that chance to show it. ↗

— Ice Cube

#central #chance #goes #just #like

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

#being #business #certainly #doing #focused

It doesn't matter if you're born in a duck yard, so long as you are hatched from a swan's egg! ↗

— Hans Christian Andersen

#beauty #dreams #ducks #empowerment #fairy-tales

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

#eager #evidence #females #growing #how

I remember feeling that technology was like trying to draw with your foot. In a ski boot. It was the most indirect way to work imaginable, but the potential had us all excited. I started in stop motion. ↗

— Chris Wedge

#direct way #draw #excited #feeling #foot

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. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#constraint #contrary #every #law #laws