Powers Quotes
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As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
William Blake
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Seeing artistically does not happen automatically. We must constantly develop our powers of observation.
Eugene Delacroix
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I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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All my life I have studies the peculiar powers of music. It has a force of its own that few would deny.
Katherine Neville
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I found him well educated, with unusual powers of mind, but infected with misanthropy, and subject to perverse moods of alternate enthusiasm and melancholy.
Edgar Allan Poe
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The nucleus cannot operate without a cytoplasmic field in which its peculiar powers may came into play; but this field is created and moulded by itself. Both are necessary to development; the nucleus alone suffices for the inheritance of specific possibilities of development.
Edmund Beecher Wilson
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From the moment of birth, at every level, human beings who are more alike than different become polarized into two absolutely exclusive classes with very different and ill-distributed symbolic powers.
Nancy Mairs
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It would be much easier if we had the full powers of an independent country. Therefore I was anticipating being in that position by 2017
Alex Salmond
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It is a sin to regard the fact that God cannot do the impossible as a limitation on his powers.
Thomas Aquinas
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When somebody promises to do something, you have to think about whether that's something that you would be willing to see happen because the powers are simply too vast.
Benjamin Wittes
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Goddess-nurse of the young, give ear to my prayer, and grant that this woman may reject the love-embraces of youth and dote on grey-haired old men whose powers are dulled, but whose hearts still desire.
Homer
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Don't dissipate your powers; strive to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it will surely repent of every ill-judged outlay.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The bars could not hold me. Force could not control me. They tried to keep me down, but Jah put I around. Yes, I've been accused. Wrongly abused. But through the powers of the Most High, they've got to turn me loose.
Bob Marley
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We all possess more power and greater possibilities than we realize, and visualizing is one of the greatest of these powers.
Genevieve Behrend
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I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have the sense to do without my persuading them. That's all the powers of the President amount to.
Harry S Truman
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Freedom is when you really get your own powers which are within you.
Nirmala Srivastava
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Writing is the only trade I know of in which sniveling confessions of extreme incompetence are taken as credentials probative of powers to astound the multitude.
George V. Higgins
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A perfect writer would make words sing, dance, kiss, do the male and female act, bear children, weep, bleed, rage, stab, steal, fire cannon, steer ships, sack cities, charge with cavalry or infantry, or do anything that man or woman or the natural powers can do.
Walt Whitman
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Data is what powers all of us and our lives. It is ubiquitous among our now-connected lives. I love how it is now the oxygen of our Internet world.
Harper Reed
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She's an old woman possessed of great powers - but aren't all old women possessed of great powers? Occupational hazard, I think.
Catherynne M. Valente
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For each of us there is a set limit to our intellectual powers which we cannot pass.
Rene Descartes
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I will not use my legislative powers except in a very limited framework.
Mohammed Morsi
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Contemplate thy powers, contemplate thy wants and thy connections; so shalt thou discover the duties of life, and be directed in all thy ways.
Akhenaton
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I don’t know if I've got close enough in two recent paintings he made to what I was really trying to achieve. But at least I've tried, I've made the attempt. I've done what I could. I've gone as far as my powers permitted.
Bram van Velde