Quotes about pow
power thinking iron
It is not the weariness of mortality, but the strength of divinity, which we have to recognize in all mighty things; and that is just what we now never recognize, but think that we are to do great things by help of iron bars and perspiration. Alas! we shall do nothing that way but lose some pounds of our own weight. John Ruskin
power stronger association
The power of association is stronger than the power of beauty; therefore, the power of association is the power of beauty.
powerful sea fishing
No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.
power people liberty
Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. John Quincy Adams
powerful blood squids
The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money. Matt Taibbi
powerful book player
There really are two Americas, one for the grifter class and one for everybody else. In everybody-else land, the world of small businesses and wage-earning employees, the government is something to be avoided, an overwhelming, all-powerful entity whose attentions usually presage some kind of financial setback, if not complete ruin. In the grifter world, however, government is a slavish lapdog that the financial companies that will be the major players in this book use as a tool for making money.
powerful age stronger
After a certain age, you felt a need not to be alone. It grew stronger, like a radio frequency, until finally it was so powerful that you were forced to do something about it. Meg Wolitzer
powerful confused dark
He is the dark prince. The all-powerful one. The leader of the creatures of the night." Then Meena said, "I'm confused then. I thought the prince of darkness was the devil." [......] "Wait," Meena said, blinking. " Are you saying....." "Yes," Alaric said. "That is exactly what I'm saying." Jon looked blank. "I don't understand. Is he the devil or not?" "Lucien Antonescu," Alaric said. "is a vampire. Not just any vampire, but the ruler of all vampires. Meg Cabot
powerful hormones very-powerful
Hormones are very powerful things. We are helpless in their wake.
powerful hypnosis ideas
An idea accepted as true from any source can be every bit as powerful as hypnosis. Maxwell Maltz
powerful silly thinking
After I returned to New Jersey, I thought I was safe, because I did not think Kenny G could leave the bad place, which I realize is silly now - because Kenny G is extremely talented and resourceful and a powerful force to be reckoned with. Matthew Quick
powerful believe eye
Looking into another person's eyes for an extended period of time proved to be a powerful thing. And if you don't believe me, try it yourself.
powerful speak
Americans don't like powerful figures who punch down, that is, who pick on someone less powerful and less able to speak for themselves than they are. Mark Shields
powerful rooms performances
A powerful performance will transform everyone in the room. Marina Abramovic
powerful artist voice
Galás is a great artist with a very powerful voice.
powerful being-true prove
When something ought to be true then it proves to be a very powerful truth. Marilynne Robinson
powerful struggle biblical
Anybody who has read any biblical scholarship knows that every scholar struggles over completely intractable problems with the original texts, or what they have to work from. It's one of the great, powerful, mysterious objects that have come down through history. This does not translate into literal interpretation for me.
powerful children lying
Within the child lies the fate of the future. Whoever wishes to confer some benefit on society must preserve him from deviations and observe his natural ways of acting. A child is mysterious and powerful and contains within himself the secret of human nature. Maria Montessori
powerful children secret
A child is mysterious and powerful; And contains within himself the secret of human nature.
powerful views long
Despite long-standing claims by elites that Blacks, women, Latinos, and other similarly derogated groups in the United States remain incapable of producing the type of interpretive, analytical thought that is labeled theory in the West, powerful knowledges of resistance that toppled former social structures of social inequality repudiate this view. Members of these groups do in fact theorize, and our critical social theory has been central to our political empowerment and search for justice. Patricia Hill Collins
powerful survival adequate
Knowledge without wisdom is adequate for the powerful, but wisdom is essential to the survival of the subordinate
powerful powerful-women murder
Murder is about power and the more powerful women get the more it will change the good that they do and the bad that they do. Patricia Cornwell
powerful children two
Leslie had learned two valuable things about the fae that day. They were powerful and charming -- and they ate children and puppies. Patricia Briggs
powerful people world
People as old and powerful as he should never be given someone to love. For Anna he would destroy the world.
powerful media messengers
The media is the message and the messenger, and increasingly a powerful one. Pat Mitchell
powerful years earth
The United States will remain the most powerful nation on Earth for the next 10, 15 years, but the context in which she holds her power has now radically altered. Paddy Ashdown
power men doe
The measure of a man is what he does with power. Plato
powerful philosophy gay
Homosexuality is regarded as shameful by barbarians and by those who live under despotic governments just as philosophy is regarded as shameful by them, because it is apparently not in the interest of such rulers to have great ideas engendered in their subjects, or powerful friendships or passionate love - all of which homosexuality is particularly apt to produce.
powerful people minorities
Absolute dominion of a powerful people by a minority always produces national aggression. Philip Wylie
powerful fear sacrifice
Fear is the State's psychological weapon of choice to frighten citizens into sacrificing their basic freedoms and rule-of-law protections in exchange for the security promised by their all-powerful government. Philip Zimbardo
powerful hero people
... In contrast to the "banality of evil," which posits that ordinary people can be responsible for the most despicable acts of cruelty and degradation of their fellows, I posit the "banality of heroism," which unfurls the banner of the heroic Everyman and Everywoman who heed the call to service to humanity when their time comes to act. When that bell rings, they will know that it rings for them. It sounds a call to uphold what is best in human nature that rises above the powerful pressures of Situation and System as the profound assertion of human dignity opposing evil.
powerful hero variables
Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge.
powerful character compassion
The "Lucifer Effect" describes the point in time when an ordinary, normal person first crosses the boundary between good and evil to engage in an evil action. It represents a transformation of human character that is significant in its consequences. Such transformations are more likely to occur in novel settings, in "total situations," where social situational forces are sufficiently powerful to overwhelm, or set aside temporally, personal attributes of morality, compassion, or sense of justice and fair play.