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No matter what his position or experience in life, there is in everyone more latent than developed ability; far more unused than used power. -- James Cash Penney
Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things. -- Ansel Adams
If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be. -- John Heywood
I didn't grow up with my mother, and so losing her for real was like, some sort of latent childhood, some sort of unresolved issue. When she left for real, it was sort of like, I was done. -- Billy Corgan
Over the centuries, and even today, the Bible and Christian theology have helped justify the Crusades, slavery, violence against gays, and the murder of doctors who perform abortions. The words themselves are latent, inert, harmless - until they aren't. -- Amy Waldman
I think that the roots of racism have always been economic, and I think people are desperate and scared. And when you're desperate and scared you scapegoat people. It exacerbates latent tendencies toward - well, toward racism or homophobia or anti-Semitism. -- Henry Louis Gates
Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty, from the depths of honest men there emerges a brutish appetite - a thirst for extermination, a desire for blood. -- Federica Montseny
Science regards man as an aggregation of atoms temporarily united by a mysterious force called the life-principle. To the materialist, the only difference between a living and a dead body is that in the one case that force is active, in the other latent. -- Annie Besant
I firmly believe that we have more latent musical talent in America than there is in any other country. But to dig it out there must be good music throughout the land, a lot of it. Everyone must hear it, and such a process takes time. -- John Philip Sousa
Just as a new scientific discovery manifests something that was already latent in the order of nature, and at the same time is logically related to the total structure of the existing science, so the new poem manifests something that was already latent in the order of words. -- Northrop Frye
We can have skills training in mindfulness so that we are using our attention to perceive something in the present moment. This perception is not so latent by fears or projections into the future, or old habits, and then I can actually stir loving-kindness or compassion in skills training too, which can be sort of provocative, I found. -- Sharon Salzberg
Dudes," He said, "Do not follow other dudes to the bathroom." Isabelle sighed. "Latent homosexual panic will do you in every time -- Cassandra Clare
Latent genius is but a presumption. Everything that can be, is bound to come into being, and what never comes into being is nothing. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
I think I have serious latent Catholic guilt issues. -- Grimes
If you don't fix latent failures in your system, you're asking for trouble. -- John Gould
There is probably no heterosexual alive who is not preoccupied with his latent homosexuality. -- Norman Mailer
More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Opportunities? They are all around us ... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it. -- Orison Swett Marden
Water is the key to life, but in frozen form, it is a latent force. And when it vanishes, Earth becomes Mars. -- Frans Lanting
I must dedicate my life to teaching my people, for only education would make their lot less bitter, their latent power more strong. -- Y. C. James Yen
Does not the latent feeling that much of their striving is to no purpose tend to infuse large quantities of sham into men's work? -- William Allingham
My mother took me to a psychiatrist when I was fifteen because she thought I was a latent homosexual. There was nothing latent about it. -- Amanda Bearse
But heat can also be produced by the friction of liquids, in which there could be no question of changes in structure, or of the liberation of latent heat. -- Hermann von Helmholtz
During the 'ballad' years for me, the politics was latent; I was just falling in love with the ballads and my boyfriend. And there was the beauty of the songs. -- Joan Baez
At the time, acid made me consider questions of reality, the difference, as someone said, between words and silence. It also brought back a lot of latent religious feelings in me that I had turned my back on. -- Robert Stone
I was induced to establish several orders of merit, from conviction that emulation, well directed, becomes a useful servant; and, that the latent genius of some youth is more easily brought into action this way, than by the more sordid gratification of self-interest. -- Joseph Lancaster
White folks, no matter how well-meaning or open-minded, have no true idea what it's like to be black in America. That's not a slam against white people or an accusation of latent bigotry. But the fact is that we all live in an Anglo-dominated society. -- John Ridley
I argue that for every country to have an independent fuel cycle is the wrong way to go. Because any country which has a complete fuel cycle is a latent nuclear weapons country, in the sense that it is not far from making a nuclear weapon. -- Mohamed ElBaradei
Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self-employment and artistic autonomy. -- Marshall McLuhan
My mother attended the local church, Saint Nicolas, and consequently, I attended that church and its Sunday School. My only prizes from the Sunday School were 'for attendance,' so I presume my atheism, which developed when I left home to attend university, although latent, was discernible. -- Michael Smith
Terry said he had this new kid and his wife didn't want to live in England. He wanted to tour. He hated being in the studio. Terry liked seeing various bars the world over and getting smashed out of his brain. He was a sort of latent Keith Moon. -- Andy Partridge
Heroism is latent in every human soul - However humble or unknown, they (the veterans) have renounced what are accounted pleasures and cheerfully undertaken all the self-denials - privations, toils, dangers, sufferings, sicknesses, mutilations, life-long hurts and losses, death itself - for some great good, dimly seen but dearly held. -- Joshua Chamberlain
If you are a parent, the horoscope will aid you to detect the evil latent in your child and teach you how to apply the ounce of prevention. It will show you the good points also, that you may make a better man or woman of the soul entrusted to your care. -- Max Heindel
In the Indian film industry, especially those of us who are in mainstream cinema, we invariably play a typical hero's role. More often than not, we cater to the public perception. However, there is a latent desire in most actors to do a role where you can go all out and experiment. -- Abhishek Bachchan
You know, I'm a big comic book fan. As a kid I used to collect them until there was a horrible mudslide in Hollywood and I lost my collection, but I was also at an early age the voice of 'Jonny Quest;' it was a cartoon; so I am kind of a latent fan boy. -- Tim Matheson
It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play, the minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason. -- Lord Acton
There are always signs that a reign is ending, and they are usually spotted not in the king himself but in his court. In the inner circle, latent jealousies between advisers spill into open conflict, as they angrily debate who is to blame for the calamity, chewing over each other's past errors and pointing the finger at old and nascent enemies. -- Hanna Rosin
States have two kinds of power: latent power and military power. -- John Mearsheimer
Life is the unfolding of the latent capacities of the soul. -- Sivananda
Art is the instinctive application of the knowledge latent in the subconscious. -- Austin Osman Spare
There's a huge latent market for software development that's just flat-out honest. -- Kent Beck
The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man. -- James Madison
No tempting form of error is without some latent charm derived from truth. -- Arthur Keith
Egypt has great potential because of the latent power of its human capital. -- Ahmed Zewail
Make yourself an efficient spark plug, igniting the latent energy of those about you. -- David Seabury
The generality of men have, like plants, latent properties, which chance brings to light. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A poet is one who can call forth the good latent in the human beast. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Concentration is the key that opens up to the child the latent treasures within him. -- Maria Montessori
There is a kind of latent omniscience, not only in every man, but in every particle. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Once I began to consider everything as being of potential interest, objects released latent layers of value. -- Alain de Botton
Silence and reserve suggest latent power. What some men think has more effect than what others say. -- Lord Chesterfield
It is comfortable to live in the belief that you are great, though your greatness is latent. -- Italo Svevo
Vermeer's woman reading a letter is as full of latent or subliminal kitsch as Tolstoy's War and Peace. -- John Bayley
In our view, derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction carrying dangers that, while latent, are potentially lethal. -- Warren Buffett
Jerry Jones and Chris Christie are probably the most important latent homosexual relationship since Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. -- Kinky Friedman
What a fool cannot learn he laughs at, thinking that by his laughter he shows superiority instead of latent idiocy. -- Marie Corelli
As we habitually engage our inner wisdom--in thought, word and deed-- the latent possibilities of living our highest wholeness awakens. -- LaShaun Middlebrooks Collier
The Auden/Kallman relationship had this to be said for it: It affirmed that it's better to be blatant than latent. -- Christopher Hitchens
The worrying thing is there's so much latent hatred of the guy [Donald Trump] and this guy isn't even president yet. -- Sacha Baron Cohen
But sometimes the future is latent in us without our knowing it, and our supposedly lying words foreshadow an imminent reality. -- Marcel Proust
What we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little books by Christians on other subjects--with their Christianity latent. -- C. S. Lewis
My last page is always latent in my first; but the intervening windings of the way become clear only as I write. -- Edith Wharton
I use images as signifiers that point to layers of history, lost communities or a latent collective whispering within a certain context. -- Shimon Attie
There was something awful about terror trapped behind silence. About latent emotions that couldn't be acted out." "Cole's thoughts on page 248 of Linger. -- Maggie Stiefvater
There sometimes wants only a stroke of fortune to discover numberless latent good or bad qualities, which would otherwise have been eternally concealed. -- Greville Janner, Baron Janner of Braunstone
Courageous dreaming allows you to create from the source, the quantum soup of the universe where everything exists in a latent or potential state. -- Alberto Villoldo
There is no stronger test of a person's character than power and authority, exciting as they do every passion, and discovering every latent vice. -- Plutarch
It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness. -- Edith Wharton
You have to be aware of all the latent possibilities that give a work its special character - its atmosphere, its moods, its contrasts. -- Alfred Brendel
There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
We fear no one knows our potential, ability, power, and talent. We fear to learn about our capability and capacity so we keep it latent. -- Debasish Mridha
Life is not a set campaign, but an irregular work, and the main forces in it are not overt resolutions, but latent and half-involuntary promptings. -- Walter Bagehot
Development does not start with goods; it starts with people and their education, organization, and discipline. Without these three, all resources remain latent, untapped, potential. -- E. F. Schumacher
Truth can arrive within the story and ride latent - a bit incognito - within a story, and people are more prone to receive it. -- Max Lucado
all the categories which we employ to describe conscious mental acts, such as ideas, purposes, resolutions, and so on, can be applied tothese latent states. -- Sigmund Freud
A man without passion is only a latent force, only a possibility, like a stone waiting for the blow from the iron to give forth sparks -- Henri Frederic Amiel
There's always a latent or inferred image in my writing. And I can almost always assume if I do a drawing that it will eventually have text. -- Raymond Pettibon
Good is latent in every living thing and simply needs to be called into active expression through the gracious application of respect, sympathetic understanding, gentleness and love. -- J. Boone
Itâ??s often said that those who are unduly bothered by gays are latent homosexuals. Isnâ??t it possible that people obsessed with racism are themselves racist. -- Ann Coulter
The power of the Plus Factor is potential but it is not self-activating. It is latent in human beings and will remain latent until it is activated. -- Norman Vincent Peale
The vital straining towards an ideal, definite but latent, when it dominates a whole life, may express that ideal more fully than could the best chosen words. -- George Santayana
Talented performers flock to the best and brightest leaders, and these leaders in turn lift the lids off their people and uncork the latent talent inside of them. -- John C. Maxwell
Whether dark presages of the night proceed from any latent power of the soul during her abstraction, or from any operation of subordinate spirits, has been a dispute. -- Joseph Addison
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Photography, too, reduces the world to strips and rectangles; photographers scrutinize the surfaces of reality in hope of unlocking the potential for significance that is latent within them. -- Frank Gohlke
The spiritual thirst that is latent in everybody can never come to a place of fulfillment unless people begin to think of each other as potential brothers and sisters. -- Malidoma Patrice Some
Every person has the latent ability to read minds and influence the physical world without touching it, but they don't have the ability to connect with the power source. -- Maria V. Snyder
For my own part I am persuaded that everything advances by an unchangeable law through the eternal constitution and association of latent causes, which have been long before predestined. -- Quintus Curtius Rufus
It has been said that self-respect is the gate of heaven, and the most cursory observation shows that a degree of reserve adds vastly to the latent force of character. -- Henry Theodore Tuckerman
Nature does nothing in vain. Therefore, it is imperative for persons to act in accordance with their nature and develop their latent talents, in order to be content and complete. -- Aristotle
Hitler's oratory moved people and appealed to their hopes and dreams. But his speeches malevolently twisted hope into some gnarled ghastly entities, and appealed to the latent, darkest prejudices of Germans. -- Richard M Perloff
The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man; and we see them everywhere brought into different degrees of activity, according to the different circumstances of civil society. -- James Madison
If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be -- John Heywood
Those traits that pass into hybrid association entirely or almost entirely unchanged, thus themselves representing the traits of the hybrid, are termed dominating and those that become latent in the association, recessive. -- Gregor Mendel
Ability for stupendous toil is lodged in every human spirit, a grand gift from the God of nature; but only the persevering worker knows what this latent power is able to achieve. -- Elias Lyman Magoon
Ever since [Donald]Trump has been opening his big mouth, you`re seeing all these bitter people, latent racists who are becoming emboldened. You`re seeing some ugly stuff happening around this country. -- Bernie Sanders
The probity that scintillizes in the superfices of your persons informs my ratiocinating faculty, in a most stupendous manner, of the radiant virtues latent within the precious caskets and ventricles of your minds. -- Francois Rabelais
A day will come when beings, now latent in our thoughts and hidden in our loins, shall stand upon Earth as a footstool and laugh, and reach out their hands amidst the stars. -- H. G. Wells
Philosophy alone can boast (and perhaps it is no more than the boast of philosophy), that her gentle hand is able to eradicate from the human mind the latent and deadly principle of fanaticism. -- Edward Gibbon
Every natural form is latent within us, originates in the soul whose essence is eternity, whose essence we cannot know but which most often intimates itself to us as the power to love and create. -- Hermann Hesse
the prudent business mind must not only think of competing with the prevailing giants in the market but must also not be oblivious of the latent deft of the masses who are yet to dare -- Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Tattooed men who are not behind bars are either latent criminals or degenerate aristocrats. If someone who is tattooed dies in freedom, then he does so a few years before he would have committed murder. -- Adolf Loos

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