I would rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my powers and dominion. — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
“Metatron's powers are eternal. They include super strength, super speed, the ability to erect an impenetrable force field, and other unique skills.” — Laurence St. John Copy Share Image
The greater the burden a man takes upon his shoulders, the stronger he must be to carry it. No words are unmentionable,… — Bjornstjerne Bjornson Copy Share Image
People don't seem to understand that the separation of powers is not about the power of these branches; it's there to protect… — Jonathan Turley Copy Share Image
Over the years, the writers at DC Comics softened Wonder Woman's powers in ways that would have infuriated Marston. During the 1960s,… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
'Faces' became more than a film. It became a way of life, a film against the authorities and the powers that prevent… — John Cassavetes Copy Share Image
Then there's going to be another project I am involved with, in fact, I'm going back to film it next week. It's… — Jeremy Bulloch Copy Share Image
God is everywhere present by His power. He rolls the orbs of heaven with His hand; He fixes the earth with His… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
You've gained some powers by your entrance into other dimensions and you use them to attack others or to make others miserable,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“They had been at the center of something vast, but as usual with the affairs of the Powers, no one knew quite… — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
One of my favorite things to do is formulate powers for a character, then come up with their corresponding weaknesses and liabilities.… — Kresley Cole Copy Share Image
It was both necessary and desirable for us to be so strong at sea that no Sea Power could attack us without… — Bernhard von Bulow Copy Share Image
Liberty does not exist where rights are on one side and power on the other. To be liberty, rights must be armed… — Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II Copy Share Image
I often think of setting as an important character in my story. 'Dark Powers' takes place in Doncaster, a Maryland Eastern Shore… — Ruth Glick Copy Share Image
Take the perspective of a journalist or scientist. Really study what's around you. What are people wearing, what do the interiors of… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
Beauty is the greatest of human powers. Any power without counterbalance or control becomes autocratic and leads to abuse and to folly.… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Poetry had great powers over me from my childhood, and today the poems live in my memory which I read at the… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
But he said Blanket Hill should be a national monument. And so we came out of his chambers feeling, though while we… — William Kunstler Copy Share Image
China has existed within very roughly its present borders for over two millennia and for virtually the whole of that period saw… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
Modern society has evolved to the point where we counter the old-fashioned fatalism surrounding the word 'cancer' by embracing the idea of… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
Somehow super power and hero are so synonymous that they get combined into one word, 'superhero,' whereas I'm kind of more interested… — Doug Liman Copy Share Image
“A God-tuned master: Innocent of all personal motives, and employing the creative will bestowed on him by the Creator, a yogi rearranges… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
The capacity of the commonwealth government created under the local constitution to exercise governmental powers in local affairs is like that of… — Dick Thornburgh Copy Share Image
“deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, powers that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Now what other evil powers do you have that I should know about?” – Abigail “I can roll my tongue.” – Sundown… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Blessed are the powers that grant me magic. I promise to use their gift well. To help mend my world. To help… — Janni Lee Simner Copy Share Image
There are contradictory tendencies in American society. There's a huge range of activities that one can engage in that mark it as… — Norman Finkelstein Copy Share Image
We are all born with extraordinary powers of imagination, intelligence, feeling, intuition, spirituality, and of physical and sensory awareness. For the most… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
My Calvinism persuades me that we are open to God, in the sense that we are not delimited, not organisms with fixed… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
The 1890s was an intensely patriotic decade for Americans. It was a time of neo-imperialism, when the European powers and the United… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
My roles in comedies from 'Austin Powers' to 'Tommy Boy' to 'Wayne's World,' were sort of comedic 'straight man' parts. My character… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
The greatest power in the universe is the power of unity, of oneness. All other powers are secondary. It is the only… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I feel if I had super powers I will be a Villain. The police would always be looking for me, for some… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
If he had to have strange powers, Aden wished they could have been more like hers. That voodoo voice would have made… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
But it is impossible to divide a cube into two cubes, or a fourth power into fourth powers, or generally any power… — Pierre de Fermat Copy Share Image
“...we cannot fail to recognise the influence which the progressive control over natural forces exerts on the social relationships between men, since… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Their powers are regulated by each other, and follow each other in the order of their birth. For from Faith arises Self-restraint;… — The Church Fathers Copy Share Image
Anyone can write an academic piece directed at other academics. To write something that delivers an argument and a gripping storyline to… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
So, anything that avoids a conflict that could draw in, unhappily again, outside powers such as the United States or revisit, for… — William Kirby Copy Share Image
The tenth amendment said the federal government is supposed to only have powers that were explicitly given in the Constitution. I think… — David Malpass Copy Share Image
