Carolyn Heilbrun (Carolyn Gold Heilbrun) Quotes

Power is the ability to take one's place in whatever discourse is essential to action and the right to have one's part matter.

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• In uniform, I had to make judgments about the best course of action in combat when the only choices were 'bad' or 'worse.' As a member of the media, I only had to decide how to get the best 'shot' - preferably without getting shot.

  

  Oliver North
  • Bad
  • Action
  • Best

• I could never take orders from anyone.

  

  Gautam Adani
  • Never
  • Take
  • Could

• In conversion you are not attached primarily to an order, nor to an institution, nor a movement, nor a set of beliefs, nor a code of action - you are attached primarily to a Person, and secondarily to these other things.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Action
  • Movement
  • Beliefs

• I've gone out on limbs, flung far, and Forrest-Gumped my way into the center of the action.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Way
  • Action
  • Far

• The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Action
  • Happiness
  • Feelings

• Power is natural, but it can be improved with a lot of work. It's been something I've focused on for a couple of years because I saw it as a place where I could make improvements.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Work
  • Power
  • Couple

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

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Power
  • Man
  • Smart

• It is the Higher Power which does everything, and the man is only a tool. If he accepts that position, he is free from troubles; otherwise, he courts them.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Power
  • Man
  • Free

• A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • You
  • Take
  • Vacation

• Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Power
  • Kindness
  • Our

• Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Power
  • Truth
  • Evidence

• George Washington understood that the Bible is the place where God's records of right and wrong are kept.

  

  Randall Terry
  • God
  • Bible
  • Place

• What vital U.S. interest is imperiled in who comes to power in Podgorica, Montenegro? Why cannot Europe handle this problem in its own back yard?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Why
  • Power
  • Problem

• In the twilight, it was a vision of power.

  

  Upton Sinclair
  • Power
  • Vision
  • Twilight

• I have gone from being a 21-year-old with wide eyes to a 24-year-old woman. With success comes a lot of responsibility and power.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • Power
  • Success
  • Eyes

• Ukraine had quite serious impact on the many Russians. They could see that ordinary people in Ukraine which is a bordering state, very close to Russia, the people of this state are, they didn't want to tolerate anymore the power abuse by Ukrainian officials.

  Garry Kasparov
  • People
  • Power
  • Serious

• Bleachers comes from a different place. It's personal. It's just me putting myself out there as myself. It's very intense.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Different
  • Place
  • Personal

• By sincerity, a man gains physical, mental and linguistic straightforwardness, and harmonious tendency; that is, congruence of speech and action.

  

  Mahavira
  • Man
  • Action
  • Speech

• I wanted to follow the path of music and feel that power, and I couldn't turn back.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Music
  • Power
  • Feel

• I'm just grasping everything, getting as much knowledge as I can, and continuing to learn and not being afraid to take challenges and actually take action.

  

  Ha Ha Clinton-Dix
  • Action
  • Challenges
  • Being

• I have never been in favor of gay marriage, and I am not in favor of gay marriage.

  

  Pete Gallego
  • Marriage
  • Gay

• You look at the steamboat, the railroad, the car, the airplane - not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world, but they were popularized and extended by it. They were made possible by the financial architecture, the capital intensive operations invented and developed by the Anglo-Americans.

  

  Walter Russell Mead
  • World
  • American
  • Car

• The herculean task of a photographer is to capture a momentary frame as beautiful in reality, as it would be in a dream.

  

  Ansel Adams
  • Beautiful
  • Dream
  • Reality

• Power is the ability to take one's place in whatever discourse is essential to action and the right to have one's part matter.

  

  Carolyn Heilbrun
  • Power
  • Action
  • Place