Potency Quotes

“Those candle flames were like the lives of men. So fragile. So deadly. Left alone, they lit and warmed. Let run rampant, they would destroy the very things they were meant to illuminate. Embryonic bonfires, each bearing a seed of destruction so potent it could tumble cities and dash kings to their knees.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

“I thought I saw how stories of this kind could steal past a certain inhibition which had paralysed much of my own religion in childhood. Why did one find it so hard to feel as one was told one ought to feel about God or the sufferings of Christ? I thought the chief reason was that one was told one ought to. An obligation to feel can freeze feelings. And reverence itself did harm. The whole subject was associated with lowered voices; almost as if it were something medical. But supposing that by casting all these things into an imaginary world, stripping them of their stained-glass and Sunday School associations, one could make them for the first time appear in their real potency? Could one not thus steal past those watchful dragons? I thought one could.”
― C.S. Lewis

“The greatest forces lie in the region of the uncomprehended.”
― George MacDonald, A Dish of Orts

“Your voice is the most potent magic in existence.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

“I should feel energized and powerful, invulnerable and potent, but all I feel is lost.”
― Kelly Thompson, The Girl Who Would Be King

“The illumination of a great star is potent and powerful enough to make other stars around it great.”
― Ikechukwu Izuakor, Great Reflections on Success

“There comes a time when you're so in tune with God that your spoken word becomes God’s Word, and it has the necessary potency to back it up. #Elijah”
― Ufuoma Apoki

“Women's movement has an effect on potency.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

“I did not ask the sign how my husband fared in whatever space was allotted to him in the universe. I did not ask the fate of Sandy. Or Sam. Those things are forbidden, as entreating the angels with prayer. I know that very well, one cannot ask for a life, or two lives. One can only warrant the hope of an increasing potency in each man’s heart.”
― Patti Smith, Year of the Monkey

“In every dream, there lays a cost to be paid. The potency and relevance of your ideas will determine the cost to be paid!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“Potency is defined as a hidden opportunity, ability, strength, being able to display itself in certain conditions”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Real sex is worship, not just physical performance.”
― Lebo Grand

“All that his tipsiness did was to make him five times more his natural self than in normal times. And Mr. Geard's natural self was a thing of mountainous potency.”
― John Cowper Powys, A Glastonbury Romance

“Spitzfindgikeiten des bloßen Begriffs waren die Gestehungkosten für die Entdeckung der Dialektik, Aristotelisch-Hegelsche Teleologie ging der Tendenz, Augustinisches Sabbatreich dem Reich der Freiheit vorauf. Und nicht zuletzt, ganz zuletzt geht die Aristotelische Deckung des δυνάμει ὄν, des In-Möglichkeit-Seins mit der Materie als tragender Materie jeder utopischen Substraterweiterung der Materie vorher; ob auch der Aristotelische Materie-Begriff in großer Philosophie rückwärts wie großen Teils auf vorwärts oft vereinsamt blieb.”
― Ernst Bloch, Gesamtausgabe der Werke.: Das Materialismusproblem, seine Geschichte und Substanz: Band 7: Das Materialismusproblem, seine Geschichte und Substanz

“For example, a monk’s celibacy might armor the pelvis. It blocks orgasmic release and reinforces emotional numbness. Reich’s solution was orgastic potency. This is the ability to fully surrender to orgasm. It dissolves armor and restores vitality.”
― Laurence Galian, Crossing the Forbidden Highway: The Untold Story of Orgone, Body Therapy, and Suppressed Emotion