#powerful

When he is most powerful, nothing does he become. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #literature #literature-quotes #nothing #poetry

No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. ↗

— Alan Turing

#american #brain #company #developing #i

Love is the greatest power of all, and it can never be corrupted. ↗

— Gillian Shields

#powerful #love

I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, had you said it was going to happen no one would have believed you. The system seemed powerful and unbreakable. Suddenly overnight it blew away like dust. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#away #before #believed #berlin #berlin wall

I think the Lord's Prayer is a very powerful prayer. And the prayer of St. Francis. ↗

— Dennis Kucinich

#i #i think #lord #powerful #prayer

Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#powerful #than #think #treacherous #words

What a powerful thing to know: That one's own desires are mappable onto strangers; that what one finds in oneself will most certainly be found in The Other. ↗

— George Saunders

#desires #finds #found #know #most

America has a critical role to play as the most powerful member of the world community. ↗

— Adam Schiff

#america #community #critical #critical role #member

Under Hitler it was the entrepreneurial and professional classes who were the first victims of Nazi boycotts and exclusion. Today it is Israel, the most powerful symbol of Jewish national resurgence in two millennia. ↗

— Jack Schwartz

#entrepreneurial #exclusion #first #hitler #israel

One of the things is that the good intentions of Prohibition, from reading over the years and from becoming obsessed with the research of gangs in New York City, seems to have allowed crime figures at the time, like Luciano, Capone, Torrio and Rothstein, to organize to become more powerful, which pulled all the way through until the '70s. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#become #becoming #capone #city #crime