Quotes about power
powerful law society
Society will be obeyed; if you refuse obedience, you must take the consequences. Society has only one law, and that is custom. Even religion itself is socially powerful only just so far as it has custom on its side. Philip Gilbert Hamerton
powerful healing people
People are beginning to recognize reggae music, and know it's a very powerful music, and researchers have been researching and coming up with reports that it's a great music, a healing music Peter Tosh
powerful school thinking
But the indeterminate future is somehow one in which probability and statistics are the dominant modality for making sense of the world. Bell curves and random walks define what the future is going to look like. The standard pedagogical argument is that high schools should get rid of calculus and replace it with statistics, which is really important and actually useful. There has been a powerful shift toward the idea that statistical ways of thinking are going to drive the future. Peter Thiel
powerful evil-people world
God created the possibility of evil; people actualized that potentiality. The source of evil is not God's power but mankind's freedom. Even an all-powerful God could not have created a world in which people had genuine freedom and yet there was no potentiality for sin, because our freedom includes the possibility of sin within its own meaning. Peter Kreeft
powerful our-world church
Adoration will heal our Church and thus our nation and thus our world... Adoration touches everyone and everything... [because it touches the Creator, Who touches everything and everyone]... When we adore, we plug into infinite dynamism and power. Adoration is more powerful for construction than nuclear bombs are for destruction
powerful opportunity thinking
Business is one of the most powerful institutions on Earth for creating wealth and opportunity and helping to lift people out of poverty. When you think about it that way, then business is not separate from development policy. Peter Blair Henry
powerful ego together
There comes a time when the bubble of ego is popped and you can’t get the ground back for an extended period of time. Those times, when you absolutely cannot get it back together, are the most rich and powerful times in our lives. Pema Chodron
powerful excellence vision
Few, if any, forces in human affairs are as powerful as shared vision. Peter Senge
powerful thinking self
Film is such a powerful medium. It's like a weapon and I think you have a duty to self-censor. Peter Jackson
power thinking should-have
I think all negotiations should take place at a round table and everybody should have to rotate counterclockwise once an hour so that even the perception of head of the table, or foot, are ritually obliterated. Pearl Cleage
powerful liars lying
Being a practiced liar doesn't mean you have a powerful imagination. Many good liars have no imagination at all; it's that which gives their lies such wide-eyed conviction. Philip Pullman
powerful stay-positive want
Why movies are so powerful is because you are right in there and you stay in there until they want you to come out, and then you've really gone somewhere. Rachel Griffiths
power night fire
I thought that my invincible power would hold the world captive, leaving me in a freedom undisturbed. Thus night and day I worked at the chain with huge fires and cruel hard strokes. When at last the work was done and the links were complete and unbreakable, I found that it held me in its grip. Rabindranath Tagore
powerful voice touching
The great event of the evening was Jenny Lind's appearance and her complete triumph. She has a most exquisite, powerful and really quite peculiar voice, so round, soft and flexible and her acting is charming and touching and very natural. Queen Victoria
powerful self-esteem love-yourself
Do you know how powerful you are? Puff Daddy
powerful dmt stronger
DMT is the most powerful hallucinogen there is. If it gets stronger than that I don't want to know about it. Terence McKenna
powerful men mystical-experiences
The thing that is so powerful about the psychedelics is that they perform on demand, which almost in principle you cannot expect of a mystical experience because that would be essentially man ordering God at man's whim, which is not how it's supposed to work.
powerful real lying
Meaning lies in the confrontation of contradiction - the coincidencia apositorum. That’s what we really feel, not these rational schemes that are constantly beating us over the head with the “thou shalts” and “thou should”, but rather a recovery of the real ambiguity of being and an ability to see ourselves as at once powerful and weak, noble and ignoble, future-oriented, past-facing.
powerful men thinking
Many people continue to think of sharks as man-eating beasts. Sharks are enormously powerful and wild creatures, but youre more likely to be killed by your kitchen toaster than a shark! Ted Danson
powerful passion men
Bush has done more to create passions for what they call terror than any other Administration in this nation's history. I get rather afraid when the most powerful man in the world talks to, and gets answers back from, God. Randall Robinson
powerful america leaving
I'm aware that because America is so powerful - with its tentacles reaching out to the world - one doesn't escape it by leaving. This is the most dangerous and disturbing time in my life.
power men stupidity
The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power. Ralph Waldo Emerson
powerful greatness use
Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
powerful blow light
Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason.
power men sometimes
All the elements, whose aid man calls in, will sometimes become big masters.
power men one-direction
The power of a man increases steadily by continuing in one direction.
power civilization black
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may well call it black diamonds. Every basket is power and civilization. For coal is a portable climate.
power firsts
Power is the first good.
power firsts delight
Every natural power exhilarates; a true talent delights the possessor first.
power past shooting
Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim.
power joy sake
Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor.
power records minorities
All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one.
power mind
There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.