Powerful

Famous quotes containing the word powerful:

    “Sentiment is the mightiest force in civilization; not sentimentality, but sentiment. Women will bring this into politics. Home, sweet home, is as powerful on the hustings as at the fireside.”
    —J. Ellen Foster (1840–1910)

    “In mockery I have set
    A powerful emblem up,
    And sing it rhyme upon rhyme
    In mockery of a time
    Half dead at the top.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “Come on, poor babe,
    Some powerful spirit instruct the kites and ravens
    To be thy nurses. Wolves and bears, they say,
    Casting their savageness aside, have done
    Like offices of pity.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)