Powerful

Famous quotes containing the word powerful:

    Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits.
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    I sometimes despair of getting anything quite simple and honest done in this world by the help of men. They would have to be passed through a powerful press first, to squeeze their old notions out of them, so that they would not soon get upon their legs again.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.
    David Hume (1711–1776)