Powerful

Famous quotes containing the word powerful:

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

“There was a heavy power in her eyes which laid hold of his whole being, as if he had drunk some powerful drug. He had been feeling weak and done before. Now the life came back into him, he felt delivered from his own fretted, daily self.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)

“It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes.”
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)