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Potency Quotes

Giving is the highest expression of potency. In the very act of giving, I experience my strength, my wealth, my power. This experience of heightened vitality and potency fills me with joy. I experience myself as overflowing, spending, alive, hence as joyous. Giving is more joyous than receiving, not because it is a deprivation, but because in the act of giving lies the expression of my aliveness. Erich Fromm
...daily receiving the old physician in his study; or visiting the laboratory, and, for recreation's sake, watching the processes by which weeds were converted into drugs of potency. Nathaniel Hawthorne
The word "feral" has a kind of magic potency which allied itself to two other words, "ferocious" and "free." To revert to a feral state! T. H. White
Refrain to-night; And that shall lend a kind of easiness. To the next abstinence, the next more easy; For use almost can change the stamp of nature, And either master the devil or throw him out. With wondrous potency. William Shakespeare
Between the idea. And the reality. Between the motion. And the act. Falls the Shadow For Thine is the Kingdom. Between the conception. And the creation. Between the emotion. And the response. Falls the Shadow Life is very long. Between the desire. And the spasm. Between the potency. And the existence. Between the essence. And the descent. Falls the Shadow For Thine is the Kingdom. For Thine is. Life is. For Thine is the. This is the way the... T. S. Eliot
David Herbert Lawrence quote: "The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and the..."
The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and the power of movement, of action, in man. David Herbert Lawrence
For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. John Milton
It doesn’t matter how many years go by, how much therapy I embark on, how much I try to achieve that elusive thing known as perspective, which is supposed to put all past wrongs into their rightful and diminished place, that happy place where all the talk is of lessons learned and inner peace. No one will ever understand the potency of my memories, which are so solid and vivid that I don’t need a psychiatrist to tell me they are driving me crazy. My subconscious has not buried them, my... Elizabeth Wurtzel
Between the desire. And the spasm, Between the potency. And the existence, Between the essence. And the descent, Falls the Shadow. T. S. Eliot
Aphrodite put off her famous belt, in which all the charms of love are woven, potency, desire, lovely whispers, and the force of seduction, which takes away foresight and judgment even from the most reasonable people. Jeffrey Eugenides
Yehudi Menuhin quote: "The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to..."
The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency - half tiger, half poet. Yehudi Menuhin
Ralph Ellison quote: "If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has..."
If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy. Ralph Ellison
If we look at music history closely, it is not difficult to isolate certain elements of great potency which were to nourish the art of music for decades, if not centuries. George Crumb
Palestine is our unforgettable historic home. The very name would be a force of marvelous potency for summoning our people together. Theodor Herzl
William Westmoreland quote: "As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency..."
As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency of public opinion - and I worried about it. William Westmoreland

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