Casey Miller (Casey Geddes Miller) Quotes
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It's been 80 years since the Senate has confirmed a Supreme Court nominee who was nominated during an election. And particularly when the court hangs in the balance, it makes no sense whatsoever to give Barack Obama the power to jam through a judge in the final election year.
Ted Cruz -
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
Edmund Burke -
Nanotechnology will let us build computers that are incredibly powerful. We'll have more power in the volume of a sugar cube than exists in the entire world today.
Ralph Merkle -
I've always loved the power of stories to transport me to another world, to imagine extraordinary possibilities, to experience things I may not have access to in my regular life - like being a superhero! Also, I would always put on shows for my family and the neighbors; I guess I was an actor before I even knew it.
Kandyse McClure -
On the one hand, she is cut off from the protection awarded to her sisters abroad; on the other, she has no such power to defend her interests at the polls, as is the heritage of her brothers at home.
Florence Kelley -
We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.
Manuel Puig
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The power of collecting money from the people is not to be rejected because it has sometimes been oppressive. Public credit is as necessary for the prosperity of a nation as private credit is for the support and wealth of a family.
Oliver Ellsworth -
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
I just believe in the goodwill of people, the power of people to do something positive.
Eddie Izzard -
Today it's almost impossible to do it unless you are an actress or writer with power... I wouldn't hesitate right this minute to hire a talented woman if the subject matter were right.
Ida Lupino -
We have the power to make the world we seek, but only if we have the courage to make a new beginning, keeping in mind what has been written.
Barack Obama -
But perhaps that was just the way of power: no such thing as too much.
N. K. Jemisin
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For the poet, the imagination is paramount, and . . . he dwells apart in his imagination, as the philosopher dwells in his reason, and as the priest dwells in his belief … The imagination is the power of the mind over the possibilities of things.'
Wallace Stevens -
It is the fallacy of all intellectuals to believe that intellect can grasp life. It cannot, because it works in terms of symbols and language. There is another factor involved: consciousness. If the flame of consciousness is low, a symbol has no power to evoke reality, and intellect is helpless.
Colin Wilson -
It's a rare film that has staying power. 'A Christmas Story' is not just a funny movie but something that connects with people.
Peter Billingsley -
An actor has power, and their power is very simple: it's the power to say no.
Ken Stott -
Major power and telephone grids have long been controlled by computer networks, but now similar systems are embedded in such mundane objects as electric meters, alarm clocks, home refrigerators and thermostats, video cameras, bathroom scales, and Christmas-tree lights - all of which are, or soon will be, accessible remotely.
Charles C. Mann -
Imagine you are walking along, and you trip over something and you turn around and find that it is a huge diamond. You would pick it up and do everything in your power to take care of that diamond because it might take care of you for the rest of your life.
Chad Michael Murray
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America has no real idea of the extent to which it abuses its authority and power.
Anohni -
Humans are possessed, to some degree, with the power of foresight. Yet we so often learn things the hard way, through disaster.
David Grinspoon -
The theoretically unrestricted right to develop power, to wage war against other states, is antisocial and is doubly dangerous, because the state as a mass entity represents a low moral and intellectual level.
Christian Lous Lange -
From antiquity, people have recognized the connection between naming and power.
Casey Miller