Potent

Famous quotes containing the word potent:

“Thinking about suicide is a potent consolation: it helps us to get through many a bad night.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“Graves at my command
Have waked their sleepers, oped, and let ‘em forth
By my so potent art. But this rough magic
I here abjure.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the building stones of explosives, stimulants, poisons, opiates, perfumes and stenches.”
—Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)