1. "What sets the new synthetic insecticides is their enormous biological potency."
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Rachel Carson, Silent Spring
2. "P3- modernised poverty combines the lack of power over circumstances with a loss of personal potency"
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Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society
3. "the sheer convenience of online political activism reduces its political potency."
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Robert B. Reich, Beyond Outrage: Expanded Edition: What has gone wrong with our economy and our democracy
4. "I take a lull from my CamelBak and choke at its potency. It tastes like bad decisions. It's perfect."
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Tucker Max, Assholes Finish First
5. "The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and the power of movement, of action, in man."
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Quote by D.H. Lawrence
6. "The short story form allows evocation, suggestion, implication. Its potency often lies in what it does not say."
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Quote by Isobelle Carmody
7. "Some dreams never leave you, because they’re more than just dreams. They’re truth, distilled to purest potency."
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Brian Hodge, Whom the Gods Would Destroy
8. "I think I added pepper too early in the cooking – did you know it loses its potency?"
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Freya North, Secrets
9. "...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."
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Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
10. "Between the desire And the spasm, Between the potency And the existence, Between the essence And the descent, Falls the Shadow."
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T.S. Eliot, The Complete Poems and Plays