Quotes about power
powerful heart tough
Her heart was heavy because it was open, and so things filled it, and so things rushed out of it, but still the heart kept beating, tough and frighteningly powerful and meaning to shrug off the rest of her and continue on its own. Helen Oyeyemi
powerful people acting
When I came into the acting profession, it was quite hierarchical. You didn't sit at the same table as the leading actor. Sir Laurence Olivier, Sir John Gielgud... these were very, very intimidating and powerful people. Helen Mirren
powerful love-life blessing
Life is the greatest of blessings and death the worst of evils.... all great, powerful souls love life. Heinrich Heine
powerful player color
Black is a color of power and strength, and to see all those players, with the captains linking their arms in front - it's a powerful picture. Hayden Fry
powerful connections unexpected
The unexpected connection is more powerful than one that is obvious. Heraclitus
power men protection
The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection. Henry Ward Beecher
powerful men law
If any man is rich and powerful he comes under the law of God by which the higher branches must take the burnings of the sun, and shade those that are lower; by which the tall trees must protect the weak plants beneath them.
power men hands
A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind.
powerful thinking bombs
I think that American salesmanship can be a weapon more powerful than the atomic bomb. Henry J. Kaiser
powerful together use
Impart additional strength to our happy Union.?Diversified as are the interests of its various parts, how admirably do they harmonize and blend together!?We have only to make a proper use of the bounties spread before us, to render us prosperous and powerful. Henry Clay
powerful real soul
The physicality of a real relationship - one that encompasses mind, body and soul - ultimately makes it more fulfilling and powerful than any virtual relationship ever could be. Henry Cloud
powerful mean people
There are plenty of risks when we encourage "investment" or commoditization of natural resources, as power dynamics may mean that poor people (who are often marginalized and have less power) are sidelined by more powerful interests when money is involved. Helene D. Gayle
powerful unique discovery
Possession of a program with unique analytic capabilities puts a scientist in as much of a priveleged position to make new discoveries as the possession of a powerful telescope. Heinz Pagels
powerful reading progress
I have learned so much from working with other poets, travelling and reading with them, spending days discussing poems in progress. There is the sense that we are all, as writers, part of something which is more powerful than any of us. Helen Dunmore
powerful stories longing
The human longing for story is so powerful, so primitive, that it seems like something not learned, but locked into our genes.
powerful mean past
Everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him. It is the moment when his emotions achieve their most powerful sway over him, and afterward when you say to this person "the world today" or "life" or "reality" he will assume that you mean this moment, even if it is fifty years past. The world, through his unleashed emotions, imprinted itself upon him, and he carries the stamp of that passing moment forever. John Knowles
power thinking focus
Don't dissipate your powers; strive to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it will surely repent of every ill-judged outlay. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
powerful aids force
Be valiant and powerful forces will come to your aid.
power males female
Power is neither male nor female.
power names pieces
Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.
powerful men thinking
Nothing is more odious than the majority, for it consists of a few powerful leaders, a certain number of accommodating scoundrels and submissive weaklings, and a mass of men who trot after them without thinking, or knowing their own minds.
power unity division
The nation voted us to power to see unity and communal harmony, not for any division or communality. Khaleda Zia
powerful rocks scary
sometimes the shifting of rocks is deep, deep below, and it's powerful and scary down there, but that all we feel on the surface is a slight tremor. Only a slight tremor. Khaled Hosseini
powerful down-and sometimes
She thought of Aziza's stutter, and of what Aziza had said earlier about fractures and powerful collisions deep down and how sometimes all we see on the surface is a slight tremor.
powerful blood
Blood is a powerful thing
powerful optimism absence
I returned to Kabul after a 27-year absence. I came away with some optimism but not as much as I had hoped for. The two major issues in Afghanistan are a lack of security outside Kabul (particularly in the south and east) and the powerful warlords ruling over the provinces with little or no allegiance to the central government. The other rapidly rising concern is the narcotic trade which, if not dealt with, may turn Afghanistan into another Bolivia or Colombia.
powerful children home
The message of Passover remains as powerful as ever. Freedom is won not on the battlefield but in the classroom and the home. Teach your children the history of freedom if you want them never to lose it. Jonathan Sacks
powerful mean people
We say no to lots of things that would please us. I would like to punch people every now and then, but I don't. I would like to have something for free rather than pay for it. I would like to skip to the front of the line... I don't mean to brush aside the taste of meat, which is a powerful attraction. But its power is not without limit. Jonathan Safran Foer
powerful mirrors telescopes
She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.
powerful intelligent one-day
If we were to one day encounter a form of life more powerful and intelligent than our own, and it regarded us as we regard fish, what would be our argument against being eaten?
powerful play interesting
Powerful women are the most interesting to play. Naomie Harris
powerful believe messages
I'm always interested in telling stories that have a message because I really do believe that film is so powerful.
powerful self-esteem broken
Aging in women is 'unbeautiful' since women grow more powerful with time, and since the links between generations of women must always be broken. Naomi Wolf