Powers Quotes · Page 3

Great powers reserve the right to police bad actors in their neighborhoods.

— Thomas P.M. Barnett

We are always at the mercy of powers greater than us, even when our power is at its highest level!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I used to have super powers, but my therapist took them away:(

— Anonymous

“to put it very, very simply: If you have powers and you’re not in the Court, then you’re a Pawn.”

— Daniel O'Malley

Girls have unique powers; they get wet without water, bleed without injury and make boneless things hard ..

— Anonymous

You know, great powers don't get angry, great powers don't make decisions hastily in a crisis.

— John R. Allen

I ain't got no magical powers and mystical trips and all that kind of crap. It's kind of silly.

— Charles Manson

The powers that be don’t want athletes or boxers to become as smart as they are.

— Bernard Hopkins

“The power we hold comes with an added responsibility to inspire through words or actions and build someone else's life. Our power…

— Tina Sequeira

We are gods. Our tools make us gods. In symbiosis with our technology, our powers are expanding exponentially and so, too, our…

— Jason Silva

SIS, the Secret Intelligence Service, also known as MI6, also has no executive powers and operates abroad on CIA lines, but with…

— John le Carre

I always get forwarded these weird pictures of people getting Kenny Powers tattoos. That's probably the craziest thing I've ever seen: Somebody…

— Danny McBride

All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry…

— Swami Vivekananda

“There are but two powers in the world, the sword and the mind. In the long run the sword is always beaten…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The thing about Red Lanterns is that, while they have light powers and they have a power battery, they also have this…

— Charles Soule

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

If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from,…

— Maynard James Keenan

When you're lucky enough to get paid a nice chunk of change to write a movie or a TV show, you have…

— Beau Willimon

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

We are all born with extraordinary powers of imagination, intelligence, feeling, intuition, spirituality, and of physical and sensory awareness. For the most…

— Ken Robinson

My Calvinism persuades me that we are open to God, in the sense that we are not delimited, not organisms with fixed…

— Marilynne Robinson

The capacity of the commonwealth government created under the local constitution to exercise governmental powers in local affairs is like that of…

— Dick Thornburgh

Now what other evil powers do you have that I should know about?” – Abigail “I can roll my tongue.” – Sundown…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

But he said Blanket Hill should be a national monument. And so we came out of his chambers feeling, though while we…

— William Kunstler

“Jude was down there. He was down there. And the last place I would ever leave Jude was alone in the dark.”

— Alexandra Bracken

“If only I had used my powers for good instead of for trivia!”

— Hermester Barrington

“Jude was down there. He was down there. And the last place I would ever leave Jude was alone in the darl.”

— Alexandra Bracken

Greater powers and resources do not guarantee tactical superiority.

— Sun Bin

War expands government powers. The trouble is that, when the war goes away, the government powers do not.

— P. J. O'Rourke

I do not accept the right of big powers to change governments as and when it affects their interests.

— Tariq Ali

The romance that can never really gel because of the powers that be... that's a great conflict.

— David Nutter

Without passion, the powers-that-be can run roughshod over you.

— Bette Midler

The powers of the mind are like the rays of the sun when they are concentrated they illumine.

— Swami Vivekananda

“I want to be known for my powers like a SUPER HERO and I am serious about it.”

— Mikki Koomar

My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.

— Isaac Newton

We passed important laws to give the authorities responsible for investigation wide powers to defend us.

— George Pataki

“There are in the world, two powers. The sword and the spirit. The spirit has always vanquished the sword.”

— Napoleon

To write honestly and with all our powers is the least we can do, and the most.

— Eudora Welty

I know that I haven’t powers enough to divide myself into one who earns and one who creates.

— Tillie Olsen

“Powers that be, powers of three, let Caterina's destiny be all that I see.”

— Rachel Harris