Alexander Pushkin Quotes
What grace could all your worldly power bringTo One whose crown of thorns has made him King,The Christ who gave His body to the flails,Who humbly bore the lance and piercing nails?Or do you fear the rabble might disgrace The One.
Quotes to Explore
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I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.
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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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The point - the power to hurt - of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.
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There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.
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The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.
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Perhaps gaining power doesn't cause people to act like takers. It simply creates the opportunity for people who think like takers to express themselves.
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I'm not a stand up at all, it's such a fear of mine. My sister does it, and she's really great at it.
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The thing with Stephen King is that everyone dies, and everyone comes back to life. So you never know with his mind where things go. It's the same with Steven Spielberg, too.
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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.
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I really admire people who have a natural sense of style. They have a super power.
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California is infamous for passing things and then waking up and saying, 'What the hell did we just pass?'
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I have a thousands wants; it's hard to really hone in on just a few.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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North Korea faded to black in the early 1990s. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, which had propped up its old Communist ally with cheap fuel oil, North Korea's creakily inefficient economy collapsed. Power stations rusted into ruin.
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I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning news shows on TV and felt strongly about issues of power, control, sexuality and race.
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I do work on a little bit of weights just to get my power up.
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I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.
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Each social formation, through each of its material activities, exerts its influence upon the civic whole; and each of its ideas and ideals wins also its place and power.
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I think the touchstone is to give consumers a full, fair choice without the power of a monopoly operating system pushing them in a direction that free competition might or might not achieve.
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My mother was a leading lady in a local theatre in Birmingham, Alabama, where I grew up.
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The most despised sector of Hollywood are the writers. A good writer is quickly promoted to a 'concept man' - and then a producer - because he's too valuable to simply be a writer.
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At some point, you just learn to surrender to your path.
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I grew up in a city, I'm a city person - I go on holiday and I'm bored.
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What grace could all your worldly power bringTo One whose crown of thorns has made him King,The Christ who gave His body to the flails,Who humbly bore the lance and piercing nails?Or do you fear the rabble might disgrace The One.
