Catherine the Great Quotes
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People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.
F. Murray Abraham -
The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.
Ferdinand Foch -
Faith is the complete reliance on the power and goodness of Spirit and the firm belief that you are always connected to this goodness. Always affirm your faith and not your doubt.
Wayne Dyer -
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 -
The stabilising power of economic union was one of the reasons the E.U. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Najib Razak -
I'm 34 years old. In most jobs, your early 30s to early 40s are your power years.
Sam Yagan
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This nation loves singing and loves acting.
Kate Smith -
Noah and his family were the only loyal and obedient subjects to the legal power: they alone were saved.
Orson Pratt -
No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.
Hannah Arendt -
Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.
Saint Basil -
I love being a wife and homemaker - because it's my choice. My husband doesn't expect me to do it. I don't mind doing things for him because he does so much for me; we both feel that way so there is no power struggle.
Salma Hayek -
I have always felt strongly about empowering women. I'm living proof that, with confidence and by believing in yourself, you can accomplish any goal.
Queen Latifah
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With young people, I always say, 'You're not doing anyone any favours by withholding your power.' As women, we do that a lot because we are afraid of being misunderstood or perceived as too strong. But the older I'm getting, the more I realise you have to let that go.
Idina Menzel -
...'world peace' imposed by a dominant power assisted by a few partners is unlikely... only world peace driven by a recognition of the threat to everyone's survival is the most likely source of salvation...
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
We simply must do everything we can in our power to slow down global warming before it is too late... The science is clear. The global warming debate is over.
Arnold Schwarzenegger -
Thought is something limitless and independent, and has been mixed with no thing but is alone by itself. ... What was mingled with it would have prevented it from having power over anything in the way in which it does. ... For it is the finest of all things and the purest.
Anaxagoras -
A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified, From the Marxist point of view, which expresses the historical interests of the proletariat, the end is justified if it leads to increasing the power of man over nature and to the abolition of the power of man over man.
Leon Trotsky -
Gender is a key marker of power and powerlessness. Most of the structures of how our world works are biased in terms of men.
Mary Beard
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We have teams pressing us. We have teams that are almost in the same situation as we are. It would be great for us to step ahead of them and up the ladder in our standings.
Phil Jackson -
Even animals who sometimes seem unlovable to humans, have also feelings. They can suffer just as we do.
Sabrina Marie Le Beauf -
Well, honestly I feel like an ordinary woman.
Jennifer Aniston -
My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split between two opposite poles of ambiguity.
Kenzaburo Oe -
Power without a nation's confidence is nothing.
Catherine the Great