Quotes about power
powerful america accountability
We cannot have a just society that applies the principle of accountability to the powerless and the principle of forgiveness to the powerful. This is the America in which we currently reside. Chris Hayes
powerful unique japan
The Japanese bureaucracy is unique. It is also very powerful, although it is now the object of so much criticism. Many of Japans brightest made it a pillar of strength and continuity.
powerful opiates charm
The helpless ecstasy of loosing himself in her charm was a powerful opiate rather than a tonic. F. Scott Fitzgerald
powerful cells iraq
The once all-powerful ruler of Iraq was found in a hole, and now sits in a prison cell. George W. Bush
powerful hero sacrifice
One of the worst days in America's history saw some of the bravest acts in Americans' history. We'll always honor the heroes of 9/11. And here at this hallowed place, we pledge that we will never forget their sacrifice.
powerful eight years
Eight years was awesome and I was famous and I was powerful.
powerful war past
As a nation we have, over the past seven years, been rebuilding our intelligence with powerful capabilities that many thought we would no longer need after the Cold War. We have been rebuilding our clandestine service, our satellite and other technical collection, our analytical depth and expertise. George Tenet
powerful successful israel
One of the myths propagated by the enemies of Israel is that there is an all-powerful Zionist conspiracy. That is a false accusation. Nevertheless, that AIPAC has been so successful in suppressing criticism has lent some credence to such false beliefs. George Soros
powerful organization earth
We are the most powerful nation on earth. No external power, no terrorist organization can defeat us. But we can defeat ourselves by getting caught in a quagmire.
powerful book order
It said what he would have said, if it had been possible for him to set his scattered thoughts in order. It was the product of a mind similar to his own, but enormously more powerful, more systematic, less fear-ridden. The best books, he perceived, are those that tell you what you know already. George Orwell
power bombs faces
But the thing that I saw in your face no power can disinherit: No bomb that ever burst shatters the crystal spirit.
powerful fiction certain
All fiction has to have a certain amount of truth in it to be powerful. George R. R. Martin
powerful may needs
As powerful as anyone may claim God to be, somehow he always needs money. George Carlin
power world arbitrary
The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth. Frederick Law Olmsted
powerful evil mind
That coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and inquisitiveness; that practical, inventive turn of mind, quick to find expedients; that masterful grasp of material things, lacking in the artistic but powerful to effect great ends; that restless, nervous energy; that dominant individualism, working for good and evil, and withal that buoyancy and exuberance which comes with freedom - these are the traits of the frontier. Frederick Jackson Turner
powerful heart love-is
Of all powers, love is the most powerful and the most powerless. It is the most powerful because it alone can conquer that final and most impregnable stronghold which is the human heart. It is the most powerless because it can do nothing except by consent. Frederick Buechner
powerful fighting supernatural-forces
It's my belief that when you're dealing with the supernatural, the supernatural still has to trump we mortals, it still has to be more powerful than we are. You can't really defeat it. You can live to fight another day but it's very rare that a human being can actually destroy a supernatural force. Frank Spotnitz
power shoes rounds
But from the hoop's bewitching round, Her very shoe has power to wound. George Edward Moore
powerful way persons
Beauty can make you powerful in a way that isn't good for you. Being OK is better for the person I have become. Felicity Huffman
powerful parent influence
The influence of one's parents is powerful and permanent. Faye Wattleton
powerful challenges identity
Staying chaste until marriage, a commandment of my faith, was one of the most difficult challenges of my young life. I had a powerful sense that if I did not get a grip on my identity, my ethics, and my religion, I would go off the rails. Feisal Abdul Rauf
powerful people focus
What offends me the most when I hear criticisms about this so-called Africa bias is how quick we are to focus on the words and propaganda of a few powerful, influential individuals, and to forget about the millions of anonymous people who suffer from their crimes. Fatou Bensouda
power should
Properly, we should read for power. Ezra Pound
powerful book missionary
A missionary who is inspired by the Spirit of the Lord must be led by that Spirit to choose the proper approach to be effective. We must not forget that the Lord Himself provided the Book of Mormon as His chief witness. The Book of Mormon is still our most powerful missionary tool. Let us use it. Ezra Taft Benson
powerful trying found
What I have found is that even when you try to transform existing structures they are so powerful they often overwhelm, seduce, and control you. Eve Ensler
powerful real self-esteem
We get off track. Capitalism takes us off track. You get off the "real" and get on the "wheel." The "wheel" becomes the winning and losing, the succeeding and failing, the "I will achieve." All that stuff becomes so preoccupying, particularly if you're born with low self-esteem, or no sense of yourself, or even if you're just born in the consumer culture. It's very powerful.
powerful littles way
Dance is holy, sexual, and it's a way of being very powerful and a little dangerous without being violent.
powerful broken stronger
Broken things are powerful."Things about to break are stronger still.The last shot from the brittle bow is truest. Eugene McCarthy
powerful mean intelligent
And when comfort is what we want, one of the most powerful tonics alternative medicine offers is the word 'natural.' This word implies a medicine untroubled by human limitations, contrived wholly by nature or God or perhaps intelligent design. What 'natural' has come to mean to us in the context of medicine is 'pure' and 'safe' and 'benign'. But the use of 'natural' as a synonym for 'good' is almost certainly a product of our profound alienation from the natural world. Eula Biss
powerful book science
What more powerful form of study of mankind could there be than to read our own instruction book? Francis Collins
powerful real religion
Science is...a powerful way, indeed - to study the natural world. Science is not particularly effective...in making commentary about the supernatural world. Both worlds, for me, are quite real and quite important. They are investigated in different ways. They coexist. They illuminate each other.
powerful worry crazy-love
Worry implies that we don't quite trust God is big enough, powerful enough, or loving enough to take care of what's happening in our lives. Francis Chan
powerful love-you knowing
The very fact that a holy, eternal, all-knowing, all-powerful, merciful, fair, and just God loves you and me is nothing short of astonishing.