Best Great Power Quotes
194 Great Power quotes by 171 unique authors
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The Boer War occurred 37 years ago. Boer means farmer. Many criticized a great power like Britain for trying to wipe out the Boers. Upon…
— Henry Hamilton Beamish
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Great power which incites great envy, hurls some men to destruction; they are drowned in a long splendid stream of honors.
— Juvenal
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I don’t want to sound like I’m on dope, but that hour is a high; it’s as good as you can feel. A wonderful, wonderful…
— Phyllis Diller
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Why are we proud? We are proud, first of all, because from the beginning of this Nation, a man can walk upright, no matter who…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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To generate great power you must first totally relax and gather your strength, and then concentrate your mind and all your strength on hitting your…
— Joe Hyams
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I have always been a big fan of the character and am more of a moviegoer than a comic book guy, there is always something…
— Christopher Nolan
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No man dares to condemn the Christian faith today, because the Christian faith has not been tried. Not until men get rid of the thought…
— Phillips Brooks
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I want to stress again that human rights are not peripheral to the foreign policy of the United States. Our pursuit of human rights is…
— Jimmy Carter
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In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and…
— Ivan Turgenev
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With Great power comes great need to take a nap
— Nico
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The priesthood of God has become the eminent power for good in the world. We are no longer a handful of people on the fringes…
— James E. Faust
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The military profession, especially is the long-established great powers, is deeply pessimistic about the likelihood that people and countries will behave well under stress. Professional…
— Gwynne Dyer
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The common sense of mankind demands that law shall not stop with the punishment of petty crimes by little people. It must also reach men…
— Robert H. Jackson
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The lesson of the Federation should be that the lesson is over. Australia must have a new idea of itself. We have to strike out…
— Paul Keating
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We are not depending on a reed shaken by the wind, but on the Priniciple of Life Itself, for all that we have or ever…
— Ernest Holmes
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I believe strongly and sincerely that with the deep-rooted wisdom and dignity, the innate respect for human lives, the intense humanity that is our heritage,…
— Kwame Nkrumah
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Great power can come from memorizing scriptures. To memorize a scripture is to forge a new friendship. It is like discovering a new individual who…
— Richard G. Scott
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I can imagine no greater disservice to the country than to establish a system of censorship that would deny to the people of a free…
— Woodrow Wilson
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In the zazen posture, your mind and body have, great power to accept things as they are, whether agreeable or disagreeable.
— Shunryu Suzuki
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Breathing meditation can quiet the mind, open the body, and develop a great power of concentration.
— Jack Kornfield
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A great power imposes the obligation of exercising restraint, and we did not live up to this obligation. I think this affected many of the…
— Leo Szilard
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The man who can see all gray, and red, and purples in a peach, will paint the peach rightly round, and rightly altogether. But the…
— John Ruskin
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Genius is not a single power, but a combination of great powers. It reasons, but it is not reasoning; it judges, but it is not…
— Edwin Percy Whipple
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I regard music therapy as a tool of great power in many neurological disorders -- Parkinson's and Alzheimer's -- because of its unique capacity to…
— Oliver Sacks
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The great powers of the world may have done wonders in giving the world an industrial and military look but the great gift still has…
— Steven Biko
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