Power Quotes
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When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.
Emile Coue -
The more intense a spiritual leader's appetite for power, the more he is concerned to limit it to others.
Emil Cioran
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I'm rather cynical about the way the honours system is used, frankly. A whole lot of the honours system is used for political purposes by the government in power.
Peter Higgs -
What if you had the ability to make EVERYDAY the BEST day of your life? You do! You see, we have the opportunity to make everyday our best, through the power of our perspective. The quality of our lives has little to do with what happens to us, but is always determined by the perspective we choose to view our lives from.
Hal Elrod -
You need to find the power within to make [things] happen for yourself. When you realize this, you are unstoppable.
Christina Aguilera -
Being a man is the continuing battle for one's life. One loses a bit of manhood with every stale compromise to the authority of any power in which one does not believe.
H. Rap Brown -
Behind the panic: financial warfare over future of global bank power
F. William Engdahl -
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.
Alexander Pushkin
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But perhaps that was just the way of power: no such thing as too much.
N. K. Jemisin -
So long as free land exists, the opportunity for a competency exists, and economic power secures political power.
Frederick Jackson Turner -
As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.
Boris Pasternak -
He alone is aware of the truth, and if all men were aware of it, there would be an end of life. In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. But his kingship is kingship over nothing. It brings no powers and privileges, only loss of faith and exhaustion of the power to act. Its world is a world without values.
Colin Wilson -
Either the USSR was not the country of socialism, in which case socialism didn’t exist anywhere and doubtless, wasn’t possible: or else, socialism was that, this abominable monster, this police state, the power of beasts of prey.
Jean-Paul Sartre -
The power of the Latin classic is in character, that of the Greek is in beauty. Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
Matthew Arnold
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I could name you a dozen superheroes whose powers I'd like to have. But if I could have any power in the world, it would be the power to read or watch a creative work and absorb the technical skill of the people who made it. Because then I could have even more fun writing. That's my core identity. I'm a writer. I just love telling stories.
Kurt Busiek -
Never underestimate the repellent power of a negative mental attitude. It can prevent life's lucky breaks from benefiting you.
W. Clement Stone -
I consider myself a line drive hitter with power. I just try to put my best swing on the ball every time.
Albert Pujols -
You could get the money, you can get the power, but keep your eyes on the final hour.
Lauryn Hill Fugees -
If we are to assume that North Korea becomes a nuclear-power state, of course the danger of having an all-out nuclear war, that possibility is very slim.
Lee Myung-bak -
Every state in America has an end of life directive or durable power of attorney provision. For the peace of mind of your children and your spouse as well as the comfort of knowing the government won't make these decisions, it's a very popular thing. Just not everybody's aware of it.
Johnny Isakson
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You can't be at your full creative power if you are sedated.
Charlie Haden -
In order every one in our homeland learns principles of democracy and the peaceful transition of power, and in order to stabilize and develop multiple choices in democratic practice.
Ali Abdullah Saleh -
The poet who speaks out of the deepest instincts of man will be heard. The poet who creates a myth beyond the power of man to realize is gagged at the peril of the group that binds him. He is the true revolutionary: he builds a new world.
Babette Deutsch -
No one can fail to see that the power of the Church among large numbers in many communities is today diminishing, or has already ceased.
Felix Adler