John Locke Quotes

Brutes abstract not. -- If it may be doubted, whether beasts compound and enlarge their ideas, that way, to any degree; this, I think, I may be positive in, that the power of abstracting is not at all in them; and that the having of general ideas is that which puts a perfect distinction betwixt man and brutes, and is an excellency which the faculties of brutes do by no means attain to.

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• I want to have some effect on the way the world works in whatever way I can, and I also want to have the power to help get the movies that I think are important made.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • World
  • Important
  • Power

• I thought that I'd have a briefcase-and-power-suit career.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Power
  • Career
  • Thought

• All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Time
  • World
  • Power

• I'm very close with my higher power. I have a very strong connection with it.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Power
  • Strong
  • Connection

• I love discovering compelling new ideas and doing what I can to help spread the word about them.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Help
  • Ideas
  • Doing

• There is simply no limitation on the realistic power of the U.N. over us.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Power
  • U.S.
  • Limitation

• I think pop music is a great place to get new ideas across.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
  • Great
  • Music
  • Ideas

• Adolescence, that swampy zone between safety and power, is best patrolled by adults armed with sense and mercy, not guns and a badge.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Power
  • Best
  • Safety

• If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you're deluding yourself.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Power
  • Desire
  • Politics

• A typical smart phone has more computing power than Apollo 11 when it landed a man on the moon.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Power
  • Man
  • Smart

• I believe in one power, and that is the hand of God. I respect all religions.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • God
  • Believe
  • Power

• When you come through a business education, a lot of what they teach you is to make decisions through analysis, and logic and rationale, and I'm a big believer in that. But I also believe in the power of instinct. The truth is you're never going to have a perfect answer or view of how it is going to work.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Business

• Once the Afghan people vote and they choose their President with direct, secret ballot from all over the country, there will be a lot of difference in this country and a lot of legitimate power to flow with implementation.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • People
  • Country
  • Power

• It's not possible for two countries to be the leading dominant political power at the same time.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Time
  • Power
  • Political

• I will do everything in my power to ensure that our United Nations can live up to its name, and be truly united; so that we can live up to the hopes that so many people around the world place in this institution, which is unique in the annals of human history.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• During that space walk there will be some repositioning of the power so that the arm can be fully controlled by the robotic station that is in the Lab.

  

  Umberto Guidoni
  • Power
  • Space
  • Walk

• When women and men can shed an equal quantity of tears in public, that's when we'll have equal power.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Men
  • Women
  • Power

• I will fight in the United States Senate this year to fund a servicing mission to Hubble by 2008, a mission that would potentially increase Hubble's power and efficiency by a factor of 10 and allow us to look back almost to the beginning of the universe.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Power
  • Universe
  • Beginning

• If we are to assume that North Korea becomes a nuclear-power state, of course the danger of having an all-out nuclear war, that possibility is very slim.

  

  Lee Myung-bak
  • Power
  • War
  • Danger

• When the heat and motion of blind impulses and passions distract it on all sides, we can neither give nor receive anything truly. But when we find our centre in our soul by the power of self-restraint, by the force that harmonizes all warring element

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Power
  • Soul
  • Giving

• With that kind of money, I could have invaded some country.

  

  Clint Eastwood
  • Country
  • Money

• Don't need to say please to no man for a happy tune.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Men
  • Happy
  • Needs

• My hope would be that, as we're moving through the world right now, we're able to get that psychological or emotional peace by seeing very concretely our kids doing better and being more hopeful and having greater opportunities.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Kids
  • Hope

• Brutes abstract not. -- If it may be doubted, whether beasts compound and enlarge their ideas, that way, to any degree; this, I think, I may be positive in, that the power of abstracting is not at all in them; and that the having of general ideas is that which puts a perfect distinction betwixt man and brutes, and is an excellency which the faculties of brutes do by no means attain to.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Power
  • Ideas
  • Distinction