Quotes about pow
powerful technology giving
Today, the technology is there to give early and normally ample warning when a powerful tornado approaches. When a tornado strikes, all of us are at risk. Spencer Bachus
powerful color smell
In examining witnesses, I learned to ask general questions so as to elicit details with powerful sensory associations: the colors, the sounds, the smells that lodge an image in the mind and put the listener in the burning house. Sonia Sotomayor
powerful self profound
A perfect historian must possess an imagination sufficiently powerful to make his narrative affecting and picturesque; yet he must control it so absolutely as to content himself with the materials which he finds, and to refrain from supplying deficiencies by additions of his own. He must be a profound and ingenious reasoner; yet he must possess sufficient self-command to abstain from casting his facts in the mould of his hypothesis. Thomas B. Macaulay
power downfall
Power, safely defied, touches its downfall.
power reputation
The reputation of power IS power. Thomas Hobbes
powerful people atheism
In a Democracy, look how many Demagogs that is how many powerful Orators there are with the people.
power long leviathan
The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.
powerful hypocrite opportunity
After all, acknowledging unfairness then calls decent people forth to correct those injustices. And since most persons are at their core, decent folks, the need to ignore evidence of injustice is powerful: To do otherwise would force whites to either push for change (which they would perceive as against their interests) or live consciously as hypocrites who speak of freedom and opportunity but perpetuate a system of inequality. Tim Wise
powerful thinking would-be
One way to think about the magnitude of the changes to come is to think about how you went about your business before powerful Web search engines. You probably wouldn't have imagined that a world of answers would be available to you in under a second. The next set of advances will have an different effect, but similar in magnitude. Tim Berners-Lee
powerful way revolution
The crises of our time, it becomes increasingly clear, are the necessary impetus for the revolution now under way. And once we understand nature's transformative powers, we see that it is our powerful ally, not a force to feared our subdued. Thomas Kuhn
powerful heart soul
God works with power, and can make the unwilling willing; if He undertakes the conversion of a soul, it will be converted. All the pious workings of our heart towards God are the fruit and consequence of the powerful working of His grace in us. Thomas Goodwin
powerful things-in-life luck
Talent is luck. The important thing in life is courage. Woody Allen
power earth passing
A power is passing from the earth. William Wordsworth
power names imagination
Imagination, which in truth Is but another name for absolute power And clearest insight, amplitude of mind, And reason, in her most exalted mood.
powerful poetry feelings
I have said that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity: the emotion is contemplated till, by a species of reaction, the tranquillity gradually disappears, and an emotion, kindred to that which was before the subject of contemplation, is gradually produced, and does itself actually exist in the mind.
power getting-high waste
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.
powerful poetry feelings
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
powerful america errors
The important point was that whatever errors America had made [in Vietnam] "we are so powerful [according to Secretary Kissinger] that Hanoi is simply unable to defeat us militarily" and must therefore eventually be forced to compromise. William Shawcross
powerful book play
Comics play a trite but lusty tune on the C natural keys of human nature. They rouse the most primitive, but also the most powerful, reverberations in the noisy cranial sound-box of consciousness, drowning out more subtle symphonies. Comics scorn finesse, thereby incurring the wrath of linguistic adepts. They defy the limits of accepted fact and convention, thus amortizing to apoplexy the ossified arteries of routine thought. William Moulton Marston
powerful people focus
The most powerful people on earth are focus groups. William J. Clinton
powerful communication ambition
Communications and commerce are global; investment is mobile; technology is almost magical; and ambition for a better life is now universal. We earn our livelihood in peaceful competition with people all across the earth. Profound and powerful forces are shaking and remaking our world, and the urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy.
powerful community example
What happened to us in September, 2001, is a microcosmic but painful and powerful example of the fact we live in an inter-dependent world that is not yet an integrated global community.
powerful patriotic world
You are the most powerful cultural force in the world.
powerful science data
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them. William James
powerful giving vision
Positive images of the future are a powerful and magnetic force... They draw us on and energize us, give us courage and will to take on important initiatives. Negative images of the future also have a magnetism. They pull the spirit downward in the path of despair..
power people corrupt-power
Power doesn't corrupt people; people corrupt power. William Gaddis
powerful thinking layers
I think that I've always written about things that are very personal, but initially, I coded everything. I buried everything under layers of code, but the signifiers of my emotionality were there, for me. I knew where the magnets were, behind the gyprock, and the magnets were very powerful. I think they had to be powerful for me, otherwise the reader wouldn't have a reciprocal experience. William Gibson
powerful smell stronger
Smells are so powerful and evocative, sometimes stronger than visual cues. Will Cotton
powerful grief aphrodisiac
Grief is nature’s most powerful aphrodisiac. Will Ferrell
powerful animal personality
I became entirely given over to extreme dread. The fear was so powerful that it seemed to make my personality completely evaporate... 'Whitley' ceased to exist. What was left was a body and a state of raw fear so great that it swept about me like a thick, suffocating curtain, turning paralysis into a condition that seemed close to death...I died and a wild animal appeared in my place. Whitley Strieber
powerful real emotion
It shows the truth - that the real meaning of a word is only as powerful or harmless as the emotion behind it. Sarah Silverman
powerful eye russia
We have trade missions back and forth. We - we do - it's very important when you consider even national security issues with Russia as Putin rears his head and comes into the airspace of the United States of America, where - where do they go? It's Alaska. It's just right over the border. It is from Alaska that we send those out to make sure that an eye is being kept on this very powerful nation, Russia, because they are right there. They are right next to - to our state Sarah Palin
powerful psychics two
A powerful connection between two people is a potent psychic factor that exists regardless of either person's opinion about the relationship. Sarah Ban Breathnach