Power Quotes
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At the end of the day, I do think there's a higher power, and the way I feel about things and choose to do things has an effect on that outcome.
Tionne Watkins TLC -
There is none of you but will hang me, I know, whenever you can clinch me within your power.
Bartholomew Roberts
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For a photographer, sharks are a stirring subject, possessing a perfect blend of grace and power. They have been sculpted by evolution and are ideally suited for whichever ecosystem they inhabit, from coral reefs to the open ocean.
Brian Skerry -
Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.
Douglas Coupland -
I hated being in a convent. It's another form of power. Manipulation. Because who can say - one God for the whole universe? I think there must be millions of gods! And they're not all of them very nice.
Leonora Carrington -
Minds vary in sensitiveness and in self-power, as bodies do in susceptibility of attraction and repulsion. When, when shall we learn that they are governed by laws as inexorable as physical laws, and that a man can as easily refuse to obey what has power over him as a steel atom can resist the magnet?
James Anthony Froude -
No matter what age people are, I hope the lesson is to be engaged. Understand what your government is doing. Follow them. Ask questions. There is a price to be paid for speaking truth to power, but you can live through it.
Valerie Plame -
One Power alone makes a Poet: Imagination. The Divine Vision.
William Blake
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Men in power always seem to get involved in sex scandals, but women don't even have a word for 'male bimbo.' Except maybe 'senator.
Elayne Boosler -
There is more power in unity than division.
Emanuel Cleaver -
The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.
John Stuart Mill -
One of the most meaningful things we can do as parents is teach our children the power of prayer, not just the routine of prayer.
Tad R. Callister -
You can power the entire U.S. vehicle fleet with 73,000 to 145,000 five-megawatt wind turbines. That would take between one and three square kilometers of footprint on the ground.
Mark Z. Jacobson -
Big waves are a whole different ball game. You're riding a wave with an immense amount of speed and power, generally over 10 meters. On the face of the wave, obviously life and death thoughts start to happen.
Kelly Slater
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And when people in power can stay in power they do very little to tinker with the apparatus that put them in power.
DeForest Soaries -
Our collective experience has shown that when women have the power to make their own choices, good things happen.
Madeleine Albright -
They who can no longer unlearn have lost the power to learn.
John Lancaster Spalding -
God has set before you an open door which no man has a right or power to shut. If you should be shut out, it will be by your own unbelief, and not for want of a warrant to come. Enter, then, without delay or hesitation. None can less afford to delay than the aged sinner. Now is the time. Now or never. You have, as it were, one foot already in the grave. Your opportunities will soon be over. Strive, then, I entreat you, to enter in at the strait gate.
Archibald Alexander -
The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes.
Alfred Marshall -
The waste from power plants is essentially what is left over when you burn coal. And as we all know, coal is a relatively dirty mineral.
Charles Duhigg
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As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.
Thomas Aquinas -
If those people in power never made any mistakes, we'd be done for as a democracy. But people keep making mistakes. History is a series of mistakes.
Zephyr Teachout -
Law! What do I care about the law? Ain't I got the power?
Cornelius Vanderbilt -
I always say that I think my job is behind home plate, call a good game, play some good defense, and also, I know I was not a power hitter.
Carlos Ruiz