Jane Austen Quotes
But there are some situations of the human mind in which good sense has very little power.Jane Austen
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Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions.
C. Wright Mills -
All dictators, the rich and famous, to the lowest security guard who holds a gun, easily forget that power is transitory.
F. Sionil Jose -
Man has evolved a mutual relationship with nature on earth, but his power to change its surface has grown so tremendously that this may become a curse instead of a blessing.
Walter Gropius -
That men should live honestly, quietly, and comfortably together, it is needful that they should live under a sense of God's will, and in awe of the divine power, hoping to please God, and fearing to offend Him, by their behaviour respectively.
Isaac Barrow -
Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.
Karen Salmansohn -
What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended.
Barack Obama
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If I would go up on a high note, Eddie would want a low one. That's how petty the situation had become.
Sammy Hagar Van Halen -
A zombie apocalypse isn't the most jovial situation.
Danai Gurira -
If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you're deluding yourself.
Beau Willimon -
The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.
Vaclav Havel -
Love truly does have the power to transcend evil. It can get us through the most unspeakable of events and give us the strength to keep on putting one foot in front of the other.
Naomi Benaron -
When it comes to inmates, we have boiled them down to just the few things we know about them - their crime, their current life situation, their identification number. But the reality is they were something before they were their crime.
Uzo Aduba
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If every small nation with a border dispute believes they can go ahead and launch a pre-emptive war and that it will be approved by the greatest power, that is a very dangerous thing.
Walter Cronkite -
I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty.
Barbara Kruger -
When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.
Viktor E. Frankl -
I had the misfortune of being born in a horrendous situation.
Ralph Baer -
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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Action gives power. Entire harmony pervades the universe of God. All the heavenly beings are in constant activity; and the Lord Jesus, in His life work, has given an example for every one.
Ellen G. White -
Prayer imparts the power to walk and not faint.
Oswald Chambers -
The power of excellence is overwhelming. It is always in demand, and nobody cares about its color.
Daniel James, Jr. -
I may be a nut, but I'm fastened to a good bolt, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Adrian Rogers -
Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.
H. L. Mencken -
But there are some situations of the human mind in which good sense has very little power.
Jane Austen