#powerful

That's a powerful lucky rabbit's foot. I got the part in Gone With the Wind because of it. I got my Warner contract, thanks to it. ↗

— Hattie McDaniel

#contract #foot #gone #gone with the wind #got

It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#better #fair #idle #intellect #powerful

If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside. ↗

— Adam Michnik

#deaf #likely #more #much #outside

Step by step a powerful and enterprising race has driven them back from the Atlantic to the West until at last there is scarcely a spot of ground upon which the Indians have any certainty of maintaining a permanent abode. ↗

— Nelson A. Miles

#any #atlantic #back #certainty #driven

There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

#laws #nation #obeys #passion #powerful

And realising that humour is the most powerful way to make a political statement and say the things that you want to say. And it's not used enough, at least not in the U.S. ↗

— Michael Moore

#humour #least #make #most #most powerful

But we both came to the decision that the powerful thing is to go into your fear, walk in there with it, don't walk away from it, and to try to be true to it. ↗

— Lee Tergesen

#be true #both #came #decision #fear

As a scientist, my attention became totally focused on global warming some 15 years ago by the elegant and powerful measurements of carbon dioxide trapped in ice cores taken as much as 2 miles deep from the great East Antarctica ice sheet. ↗

— John Olver

#antarctica #attention #became #carbon #carbon dioxide

We all fight over what the label 'feminism' means but for me it's about empowerment. It's not about being more powerful than men - it's about having equal rights with protection, support, justice. It's about very basic things. It's not a badge like a fashion item. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#badge #basic #basic things #being #empowerment

The power of television - it's so present in our lives, we don't even know how powerful it is. ↗

— Melissa Leo

#how #know #lives #our #our lives