Potentia Quotes & Sayings

Artists are the people among us who realize creation didn't stop on the sixth day. — Joel-Peter Witkin

Thank God for YouTube. Every Thanksgiving, I'm bombarded with 'Turkey Lurkey Time.' — Donna McKechnie

Hope you've been keeping your nose clean," DS Bradshaw said, trying to be jovial as he sipped a bottle of beer. I wondered what the police force would make of the fact that he was drinking alcohol at barely half past three in the afternoon. I would inform them at the first given opportunity, and also of his professional misconduct re Mum. — Matthew Crow

The Latin motto over Poindexter's new Pentagon office reads Scientia Est Potentia - "knowledge is power." Exactly: the government's infinite knowledge about you is its power over you. — William Safire

He called it potentia because there's nothing quite like Latin for disguising the fact you're making it up as you go along. — Ben Aaronovitch

As an artist, i feel lucky to have been given the gift of creativity so that i may share my vision of a better world. I will never forget what it was like to be poor and that is why it is so important to me that my work be accessible to all people. For me, art can reflect the celebration of the simple and good things in life. This is the most important to me. — Romero Britto

The hypothesis behind invisible writings was laughably complicated. All books are tenuously connected through L-space and, therefore, the content of any book ever written or yet to be written may, in the right circumstances, be deduced from a sufficiently close study of books already in existence. Future books exist in potentia, as it were, in the same way that a sufficiently detailed study of a handful of primal ooze will eventually hint at the future existence of prawn crackers. — Terry Pratchett

He who can at all times sacrifice pleasure to duty approaches sublimity. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Scientia potentia est.

Knowledge is power. — Thomas Hobbes

People have many ways to be lousy to one another, as you'll find out when you're older, but I think that all bad behavior stems from plain old selfishness. — Stephen King

Every master was once a disaster. — T. Harv Eker

But hope is not about what we expect. It is an embrace of the essential unknowability of the world, of the breaks with the present, the surprises. Or perhaps studying the record more carefully leads us to expect miracles - not when and where we expect them, but to expect to be astonished, to expect that we don't know. And this is grounds to act. — Rebecca Solnit

It is time we recognized that belief is not a private matter; it has never been merely private. In fact, beliefs are scarcely more private than actions are, for every belief is a fount of action in potentia. — Sam Harris

There's such good writing now on television and I don't see a lot of great writing on films sadly. — Scott Speedman

Life, the raw material, is only lived in potentia until the artist deploys it in his work. — Lawrence Durrell

If you could see your perfect image in the mirror it would remove all your fear. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

Julian was good at being in love. But he was clever enough to know that what he really liked about being in love was the state of unconsummated tension ... One had to believe that these lovely creatures were, in potentia, the longed for intimate friend from whom nothing need be hidden, by whom everything would be understood, forgiven and admired. But Julian was clever and observant enough to see that love was at its most intense before it was reciprocated. — A.S. Byatt

He has the special quality of virginity, most and least ambiguous of states: ignorance, yet at the same time, power in potentia, and, furthermore, unknowingness, which is not the same as ignorance. — Angela Carter