George Bernard Shaw Quotes
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.George Bernard Shaw
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People tend to judge presidents on how the economy performs, and yet we don't expect them to have the power to do much about it. Or we don't want them to exercise that power, if they were to have it.
Barbara Ehrenreich -
Doing the right thing has power.
Laura Linney -
The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.
Barry Commoner -
We give you the facts. I told you information is power - knowledge is power. We can't be in an ideological battle to redeem the soul of this country if we don't have the facts.
Tavis Smiley -
Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.
Karen Salmansohn -
Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
Baruch Spinoza
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Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God's Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.
Queen Elizabeth II -
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
Edmund Burke -
But you will understand by yourselves that the matter applies equally well to the organization of the officials of justice, of administrative officials, etc; these are likewise organized instruments of power in certain societies.
Ferdinand Lassalle -
If you want to provoke, you should provoke someone who is stronger than you, otherwise you are misusing your power.
Lars von Trier -
My scientific work is much more practically minded - to change something, to effect something. And the music I do is much more soft power, about changing minds.
Pardis Sabeti -
I'm 34 years old. In most jobs, your early 30s to early 40s are your power years.
Sam Yagan
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Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
'Sucker Punch' is a big girl power movie.
Carla Gugino -
We must use all the tools of American power in resolving disputes, including diplomacy. And we must have sufficient congressional debate and oversight before ever putting another U.S. solider in harm's way.
Barbara Lee -
Given the daunting challenges that we face, it's important that president elect Obama is prepared to really take power and begin to rule day one.
Valerie Jarrett -
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 -
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
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The Stuart sovereigns of England steadily attempted to strengthen their power, and the resistance to that effort caused an immense growth of Parliamentary influence.
Albert Bushnell Hart -
Weakness ever sympathizes with vice, because vice is a weakness which assumes the mask of strength. Madness holds reason in horror, and on all subjects it delights in the exaggerations of falsehood. The cause of all bewitchments, the poison of all philtres, the power of all sorcerers are there.
Eliphas Levi -
I do not pretend to sustain the order. At the time of its publication I was insensed by a reprimand recieved from Washington for permitting acts which the Jews, within my lines, were engaged in.
Ulysses S. Grant -
I always figured I would live long enough to see a black president. The movies predicted it. Usually, Morgan Freeman.
John Roger Stephens -
Chuck Norris knows the last digit of PI.
Chuck Norris -
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
George Bernard Shaw