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Power Quotes (4801 Quotes)
Know that wealth, sex-delights, power, learning are all bondage. This is the beginning of wisdom.
This is absurd and nothing more than the agony of people trying to cling to power. Thousands of people will take to the streets because they cannot be denied a right to choose.
I think empathy is a beautiful thing. I think that's the power of film though. We have one of the most powerful, one of the greatest communicative tools known to man.
Pikes Peak is a nice track and it is a lot of fun to drive. The high altitude does have an effect on the power of the engine, but Honda does a great job of adjusting to the thin air. We have some new things on the car that I think will help make us more competitive. I'd like to see our luck change at Pikes Peak.
Power plays are such a big part of college hockey.
Dictators don't like to give up power freely, and in this case, Lukashenko is no exception. So I think what he would like to do and feels that the only way he can stay safe and secure is by staying in power using any method.
the states should have ultimate authority over resource production, including the power to prevent it, in the deep waters off their coasts.
The ball stopped moving in the fourth quarter. We were content to play finesse basketball instead of power basketball. When they got hot, I thought we tightened up a bit. We did make plays down the stretch, however, to win it.
China has 22 percent of the world's population. It is an industrial and potential military power, ... What we need to do is make sure we work closely with the Chinese people, so that we can coexist peacefully in terms of the overall world peace issue.
A person with an eating disorder will always say they're full, but I was always hungry. I liked feeling hunger because it felt like power.
He (City Auditor Bill Morrissey) should not have the power to deprive those people of voting on the referendum.
The essence of this strategic partnership is to provide a countervailing influence to China ... to act as a restraint on the exercise of Chinese power.
With the way the wind blows out there, if you try to play long ball, you'll be in trouble. We'll probably be a team that doesn't have a lot of power, but makes a lot of contact, plays good defense and has a strong pitching staff.
Scientific power is like inherited wealth attained without discipline. You read about what others have done, and you take the next step. You can do it very young. You can make progress very fast.
And when people in power can stay in power they do very little to tinker with the apparatus that put them in power.
While rationalism at the individual level is a plea for more personal autonomy from cultural norms, at the social level it is often a claim- or arrogation- of power to stifle the autonomy of others.
The director-general has no magic wand ... things do not work this way in the WTO. We can catalyse, we can broker, we sometimes can lead, but at the end of the day ... member states have the decision-making power.
The net is a gift to humanity by humanity. But its power may overload and explode the very fiber that makes us human. The only way to prevent this is to maintain and strengthen our moral and spiritual filters, and most importantly those of our children...
I condemn what happened in Madrid, but it is suspicious. If tomorrow there will be another bombing, in France for example, who will gain power? Of course not Jacques Chirac, but Le Pen.
While no one today could have had the power to prevent the earthquake from happening, we do have the power to stop the next wave the deaths and despair caused by freezing temperatures and disease, by lack of shelter, food and water,
Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power.
I was in pain, it was really tough to move and I couldn't move fast. But I really wanted to stay on court because this is my only preparation for the Australian Open. I had to do my best to stay out there so I had to do the right things within my power.
The polls are pretty clear that voters want limits on the government's power. This is really an argument not about fighting terrorism but about checks and balances and unbridled government authority.
What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.
Beauty is a terrible power!
Mysterious power, whence hope ethereal springs Sweet heavenly relic of eternal things Inspiring oft deep thoughts of things divine The past, the present, and the future time. Thy reminiscences transport the soul To memorys Paradiseits future goal.
Neither, I must say with all due respect, is it the power of teachers and students. Basically the true and real power is with working people of all colors, of all beliefs, of all national origins.
He is a strong young player and he has good power, pace and skill. Obviously he lacks a little bit of experience but together with Justin Hoyte he will provide good competition for (current first choice right-back) Lauren.
To enable men to exercise that power is the object of protection.
We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.
A school's reputation can easily be lost through bad behavior on the buses. There is always a degree of uncertainty about the extent of power outside school and this will clarify that right.
I think Alan and really played a unique role here. He certainly expanded the power of the Fed, in the sense that he came to be the all purpose authority on economic matters -- he was commenting on trade policy, tax policy.
There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
I have no concern with any economic criticisms of the communist system I cannot inquire into whether the abolition of private property is expedient or advantageous. But I am able to recognize that the psychological premisses on which the system is based are an untenable illusion. In abolishing private property we deprive the human love of aggression of one of its instruments... but we have in no way altered the differences in power and influence which are misused by aggressiveness.
I'm convinced it was a miracle, in every sense of the word. We attribute all of this to the power of the Lord. Through the whole experience, it's brought us all closer together as a family.
I believe - though I may be wrong, because I'm no expert - that this war is about what most wars are about: hegemony, money, power and oil.
We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward. Extreme party action, if continued in such a time, would ruin the party. Moderation is its only chance. The party out of power gains by all partisan conduct of those in power.
In the Western Hemisphere the adherence of the United States to the Monroe Doctrine may force the United States, however reluctantly, in flagrant cases of such wrong doing or impotence, to the exercise of an international police power.
To win true peace, a man needs to feel himself directed, pardoned, and sustained by a supreme power, to feel himself in the right road, at the point where God would have him be - in order with God and the universe. This faith gives strength and calm.
You have those nights, but we haven't done anything different on the power play in the last two games. We've had the same number of scoring chances. The puck has just found its way to the back of the net lately. The good thing is the effort has been pretty consistent.
I wouldn't say I am a power hitter. I am a gap-to-gap guy. If I hit one like I did today, so be it.
Our society has lost confidence in the power of reason, except perhaps scientific reason.
Without any limits on the government's eminent domain power, every home, church, or corner store
And set forth to them parable of the life of this world like water which We send down from the cloud so the herbage of the earth becomes tangled on account of it, then it becomes dry broken into pieces which the winds scatter and Allah is the holder of power over all things.
The thing about Shakespeare is, whatever his politics were, the one thing he wasn't was an anarchist. He believes there's something called power, and he believes that somebody has to take it. And that you can't pretend power doesn't exist. And to me, Bush is a person who understands American power, and what it can do. But unfortunately, he's used it in a way that reveals its limitations, and that's the tragedy, if you like.
In a confrontation with the politics of power, the soft center has always melted away.
My own judgment of how the world is gonna end is that there will be a country led by a madman that will build a nuclear bomb with so much force, so much power, that it will be dropped somewhere on the face of this earth and that the earth will lose its place.
Vision is perhaps our greatest strength... it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown.
Irresponsible power is inconsistent with liberty, and must corrupt those who exercise it.