#potent

Well, marriage doesn't function in the way it used to in terms of deciding our fate, but it's in our heads, and it determines a lot of our actions. Like, right now, if you think about gay marriage - and they just started having the first gay marriages in New York - it shows what a potent idea marriage remains for people. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#actions #deciding #determines #fate #first

White people are potential humans - they haven't evolved yet. ↗

— Louis Farrakhan

#haven #humans #people #potential #white

If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others. ↗

— Anthony Burgess

#christ #others #potential #unseen #will

God's angels often protect his servants from potential enemies. ↗

— Billy Graham

#god #his #often #potential #protect

Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future. ↗

— Marilyn Ferguson

#choose #future #hour #liberate #past

What you believe about God has the greatest potential for good or harm in your life. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#believe #god #good #greatest #harm

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

#alone #common #determination #educated #education

Finally, treat domestic energy production as the economic necessity it is and the job creator it can be. Drill, and frack, and lease, and license, unleash in every way the jobs potential in the enormous energy resources we have been denying ourselves. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#creator #denying #domestic #drill #economic

Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#madmen #makes #potential

The REM and Nirvana successes don't mean much to me except as a potential distraction for bands who want to cash in on the trend. Don't try to sound like someone else. REM and Nirvana don't sound like anyone else. ↗

— Greg Ginn

#bands #cash #distraction #else #except