Powerful

Famous quotes containing the word powerful:

“A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)

“Women of my age in America are at the mercy of two powerful and antagonistic traditions. The first is the ultradomestic fifties with its powerful cult of motherhood; the other is the strident feminism of the seventies with its attempt to clone the male competitive model.... Only in America are these ideologies pushed to extremes.”
—Sylvia Ann Hewitt (20th century)

“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)