Elizabeth Chadwick Quotes

To have power and contentment at the same time, that is a rare thing indeed.

Elizabeth Chadwick

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• Rare

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• Doing the right thing has power.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Power
  • The Right Thing

• When I was in high school, my parents had this power over me - if I ever lied or got caught doing something that I shouldn't be doing, then I would no longer be able to go to L.A. and continue to pursue the acting thing.

  

  Dan Byrd
  • School
  • Power
  • High

• The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Power
  • More
  • Dangerous

• If the Chinese will not learn the true principles of government, all else will be useless. Knowledge is power, and although a country may be weak, still, if it possess but a modicum of knowledge, the enemy will not be able to completely overthrow it; although that country may be in danger, the race will not be extirpated.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Country
  • May
  • Power

• Core strength and stability is very important to me. Tennis is all about rotation of the body and my ability to create power. I incorporate a lot of abdominal, back and glute exercises into my gym sessions.

  

  Samantha Stosur
  • Important
  • Power
  • Body

• 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

• There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • World
  • Women
  • Power

• This radical transformation of world power relationships reflects primarily in the case of both the USA and the USSR the growth of the productive forces.

  

  Earl Browder
  • World
  • Power
  • Growth

• I just believe in the goodwill of people, the power of people to do something positive.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • People
  • Believe
  • Power

• 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
  • People
  • Women
  • Power

• Absolutely not, because in acting I've found a domain that suits me perfectly. And that is so utterly rare.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Acting
  • Suits
  • Perfectly

• Whatever you want, you have the power to attain it. The man or woman who calmly and matter-of-factly accepts this pronouncement at face value will soon find himself working magical accomplishments far beyond that which he previously dreamed possible.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Power
  • Man
  • Value

• The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Power

• Alan Cranston understood power not as a reflection of status but as a tool with a purpose.' – Sen. Joseph Biden December 31, 2000 on Meet the Press

  

  Alan Cranston
  • Power
  • Purpose
  • Reflection

• The politician may change sides so frequently as to find himself always in the majority, but most politicians have a preference for one party to the other, and subordinate their love of power to this preference.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • May
  • Power
  • Party

• When you fuse Christianity with power, it isn't long before Christians start imposing the cross on others rather than taking it up for themselves.

  

  Andrew Sullivan
  • Up
  • Long
  • Power

• Iran would have become a nuclear power had President Obama not united most of the world in boycotting Iranian oil sales, which crippled Iran's economy and forced it to negotiate. Other presidents tried to stop Iran's nuclear program. They failed. Obama succeeded.

  

  Bob Beckel
  • World
  • Power
  • Stop

• I was born to play Hercules. I have loved and honored the mythology over the years - since I was a kid. When I first broke into Hollywood, 'Hercules' was one of the movies that I - not chased, because I didn't have the power to chase anything - but always had in the back of my mind.

  

  Dwayne Johnson
  • Mind
  • Power

• YouTube has always been a diary for me. I'm here to share what I do, share my life, and if people want to watch, more power to them. But regardless of my intention, if people are looking at what I do and am treating it like I'm a role model, it doesn't matter whether or not I want to be.

  

  Tyler Oakley
  • People
  • Life
  • Power

• Women in Washington - and in positions of power anywhere - should be subjected to the same criticisms and held to the same standards as men. That does not include the assumption that any successful woman has attained her position through flattery, feminine wiles, or her ability to provide maternal comfort to a more powerful man.

  

  Donna Brazile
  • Men
  • Women
  • Power

• The will to power is the will to ecstasy is the will to surrender is the will to submit and, in extremis, to die. Or to put it another way, the rage to attain a freedom and happiness one's psyche cannot accept creates enormous anxiety and ends in self-punishing despair.

  

  Ellen Willis
  • Power
  • Freedom
  • Die

• During my time as a state legislator, I've pushed for significant investment in public school districts. In Congress, I would look forward to increasing federal public investment in education through initiatives like Race to the Top.

  

  Hakeem Jeffries
  • Time
  • School
  • Education

• Whatever is referred to must exist. Let us call this the axiom of existence.

  

  John Searle

• To have power and contentment at the same time, that is a rare thing indeed.

  

  Elizabeth Chadwick
  • Power
  • Contentment
  • Rare