Quotes about power
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When you have enough power to do what you always wanted to do, then you see what the guy always wanted to do. Robert Caro
power shot
When you have a five-minute power play and you don't get a shot on goal, that deflates you.
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The power of being in the physical presence of another person delivers real benefits. Henry Cloud
powerful side tried
When I write, I have always tried to be on the side of the weak. The side of the powerful is not literature's side. Elfriede Jelinek
powerful
We only had Kalashnikov rifles. Now we have more powerful weapons. Adnan Pachachi
powerful thinking influence
I don't think [Dylan and the Beatles] influenced me a lot. I think it was inevitable; they were so powerful that you couldn't really escape the influence. Paul Simon
powerful law justice
Justice Stevens is one of those who are most sensitive to the least powerful in our society.
powerful thinking pale
Every time the industry gets powerful, and corporate thinking dominates what the music is, then the music really pales.
powerful writing southern
Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that. Robert Morgan
powerful choices unexpected
One of the most powerful devices is to distort time, to go from human time to atomic time, geologic time. Sometimes you can actually accomplish that, with one unexpected word choice.
power want be-here-now
The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible. Ram Dass
powerful perception important
It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
powers recognize
We all are going to outplay and outperform what we do and it's up to the powers that be to recognize that and acknowledge that. Brian Kelly
powerful rap exercise
Skepticism's bad rap arises from the impression that, however necessary the activity, it can only be regarded as a negative removal of false claims. Not so... Proper debunking is done in the interest of an alternate model of explanation, not as a nihilistic exercise. The alternate model is rationality itself, tied to moral decency--the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known. Stephen Jay Gould
powerful airplane men
The oppressive weight of disaster and tragedy in our lives does not arise from a high percentage of evil among the summed total of all acts, but from the extraordinary power of exceedingly rare incidents of depravity to inflict catastrophic damage, especially in our technological age when airplanes can become powerful bombs. (An even more evil man, armed only with a longbow, could not have wreaked such havoc at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415.
powerful views common-sense
Science is not 'organized common sense'; at its most exciting, it reformulates our view of the world by imposing powerful theories against the ancient, anthropocentric prejudices that we call intuition.
powerful silly men
Darwinian evolution may be the most truthful and powerful idea ever generated by Western Science, but if we continue to illustrate our conviction with an indefensible, unsupported, entirely speculative, and basically rather silly story, then we are clothing a thing of beauty in rags - and we should be ashamed, "for the apparel oft proclaims the man.
power office desire
Those in power need checks and restraints lest they come to identify the common good for their own tastes and desires, and their continuation in office as essential to the preservation of the nation. William O. Douglas
power skating stars start tour
This tour is power packed with skating stars from start to finish.
powerful angel order
Ringing assurance that we are not alone... That we are assisted and defended by a powerful and glorious order of invisible Beings. Billy Graham
powerful hymns people
...hymns have been a powerful instrument of God to draw people closer to His Word and the saving riches therein.
powerful attitude animal
MAN is a social animal, gregarious by nature, and finds his greatest sense of security and satisfaction in the company of others who share his interests and attitudes. Of all the many groups into which humans have collected themselves, of all the many tribes, clans, organizations, and societies throughout history, none has been so powerful, so far-reaching, or more universal than the church.
power stop
We will do everything in our power to stop it.
power sure transition
We will do everything in our power to make sure that transition is a comfortable one. Roger Martin
powerful stuff expecting
Truth can be really powerful stuff if you're not expecting it. Kurt Vonnegut
power elements finance
Fascism in power is the open, terroristic dictatorship of the most reactionary, the most chauvinistic, the most imperialistic elements of finance capitalism. Karl Marx
power age politics
I begin to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyranny, who sways, not as it hath power, but as it is suffered. William Shakespeare
power question
There is no question there is a lot of watt-power there.
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Our power play just isn't getting us any goals.
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Our power play has got to get better.
power pushed third
Our power play got us back into the game. And we pushed in the third and got the ones we needed. Dave Tippett
powerful father real
You belong to the biblical race of Nephilim. Your real father was an angel who fell from heaven. You're half mortal." The boy's dark eyes lifted, meeting Chauncey's. "Half fallen angel." Chauncey's tutor's voice drifted up from the recesses of his mind, reading passages from the Bible, telling of a deviant race created when angels cast from heaven mated with mortal women. A fearsome and powerful race. A chill that wasn't entirely revulsion crept through Chauncey. "Who are you? Becca Fitzpatrick
powerful imagination influence
The wolf exerts a powerful influence on the human imagination. It takes your stare and turns it back on you Barry Lopez