Of the powers conferred upon the General Government by the Constitution of the United States much the most important are those given… — Samuel Freeman Miller Copy Share Image
There are many powers in the world, for good or for evil. Some are greater than I am. Against some I have… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“I let go of our invisibility and do something I haven't done in a while: I reach for the doorknob. ~Willow Mosby,… — Courtney Nuckels Copy Share Image
In Africa through the 1990s, with notable exceptions in Senegal and Uganda, nearly all the ruling powers denied they had a problem… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
Writers such as Richard Powers and the late David Foster Wallace have shown the path to a newer generation of writers for… — Giles Foden 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
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
And after death something new begins, over which all the powers of the world of death can have no more control. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer 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
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
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
'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
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
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
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
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
“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 the immutable patterns of history is the rise and fall of great powers. Those that survive are the ones that… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
The human family is at a critical juncture. The world is moving through a great transition. This transition is economic, as the… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
“The time is at hand and you shall see... Three powers unlocked for you are the key. "From Eleventh Elementum” — J.L. Bond Copy Share Image
There are four Powers: memory and intellect, desire and covetousness. The two first are mental and the others sensual. The three senses:… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
You have powers you never dreamed of. You can do things you never thought you could do. There are no limitations in… — Darwin P Kingsley Copy Share Image
Magic is the practice of causing change through the use of powers as yet not defined or accepted by science. — Scott Cunningham Copy Share Image
Whenever anyone challenges anything, the powers that be try to paint them as extremists or radicals or whatever. And I think that's… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Oh man. If I had magic powers... I would hope that I would use them for good. I think I would. But… — Nick Stahl Copy Share Image
Israel expanded beyond its original boundaries only because the Arab powers attacked Israel and the U.N. demarcation unsuccessfully in 1948. The endless… — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
Not all powers are spectacular." Hestia looked at me. "Sometimes the hardest power to master is the power of yielding. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
My favourite superhero? I have a soft spot for Batman, because he doesn't have any super powers - he's just a person.… — Peter Dinklage Copy Share Image
You don't have to have magic unicorn powers. You work at it, and you get better. It's like anything: You sit there… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
That's not the part of the story that I'm interested in, anyway. The part that I'm interested in is all the personal… — Brad Bird Copy Share Image
I would love to do some straight drama. A lot of times it's not up to the actor, it's up to the… — Lea Salonga Copy Share Image
Great powers that have no reason to fight with each other, but are merely concerned with their own survival, nevertheless have little… — John Mearsheimer Copy Share Image
“It is nineteenth century up-to-date with a vengeance. And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
You can see how he changed on the surface. But at the core of it all, I think Superman has remained the… — Jim Lee Copy Share Image
I think that artworks are like these spiritual objects: I think that they have energies and powers beyond what the eye can… — Dan Colen Copy Share Image
