Powers Quotes
-
Of course former colonial powers are always more present and influential. They're the ones who need to defend the EU's values on the frontlines.
-
It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.
-
The spiritual rest, which God particularly intends in this Commandment, is this: that we not only cease from our labor and trade, but much more, that we let God alone work in us and that we do nothing of our own with all our powers.
-
And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend.
-
Sadness diminishes a man's powers.
-
And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere 'modernity' cannot kill.
-
We are all born with extraordinary powers of imagination, intelligence, feeling, intuition, spirituality, and of physical and sensory awareness. For the most part, we use only a fraction of these powers, and some not at all.
-
Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them.
-
A successful school has to engage all the people, all the powers, and all the capacities within it.
-
Baba Yaga: I've never heard of such a creature. What are his powers? Magic Mirror: He reads. He reads everything.
-
Hold your powers together for something good and let everything go that is for you without result and is not suited to you.
-
“Every war casts up certain small groups among ethnic populations: minorities too cowardly to fight openly, too insignificant to play any independent political part, but despicable enough to act as paid executioners to one of the fighting powers. In this war those people were the Ukrainian and Lithuanian Fascists.”
-
But the nuclear powers still cling tenaciously to their weapons.
-
[W]here other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given.
-
Women should marry when they are about eighteen years of age, and men at seven and thirty; then they are in the prime of life, and the decline in the powers of both will coincide.
-
My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
-
What is it that's taken hold of me, for me to carry on like this in relentless pursuit of something beyond my powers?
-
These powers of imagination and creativity are among the few things that set us apart from the rest of life on Earth. But they make all the difference.
-
Believing I had supernatural powers, I slammed into a brick wall.
-
With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look - for dizzier heights.
-
Captain Nemo pointed to this prodigious heap of shellfish, and I saw that these mines were genuinely inexhaustible, since nature's creative powers are greater than man's destructive instincts.
-
God has surely promised His grace to the humbled: that is, to those who mourn over and despair of themselves. But a man cannot be thoroughly humbled till he realizes that his salvation is utterly beyond his own powers, counsels, efforts, will and works, and depends absolutely on the will, counsel, pleasure and work of Another -- God alone.
-
Faith in oneself unlocks those hidden powers that all of us have, but that so few of us use.
-
Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
