Best Great Power Thoughts
194 Great Power quotes by 171 unique authors
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We've always known we'd eventually be called upon to open our shirts and save the day, and the superhero was a crude, hopeful attempt to…
— Grant Morrison
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And yes,Percy,of course they are now in our United States. Look at your symbol,the eagle of Zeus. Look at the statue of Prometheus in Rockefeller…
— Rick Riordan
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He had learned that close-held secrets could often be cracked by going all the way to the top and there making himself unbearably unpleasant. He…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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There is a trick to flying. The angels told me." He had smiled at my wide-eyed awe. "You need to forget everything you know as…
— Anne Fortier
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Persistence isn't very glamorous. If genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration, then as a culture we tend to lionize the one percent.…
— Susan Cain
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The gift of mental power comes from God, Divine Being, and if we concentrate our minds on that truth, we become in tune with this…
— Nikola Tesla
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There is absolutely no point in sitting around and feeling sorry for yourself. The great power you have is to let go ... focus on…
— Minnie Driver
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If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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He who has great power should use it lightly.
— Seneca the Younger
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If a rhinoceros were to enter this restaurant now, there is no denying he would have great power here. But I should be the first…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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There are two Americas. One is the America of Lincoln and Adlai Stevenson; the other is the America of Teddy Roosevelt and the modern superpatriots.…
— J. William Fulbright
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What is important is that you should know reality. You should know exactly what is right and what is wrong. For that, as I told…
— Nirmala Srivastava
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Undeveloped though the science [of chemistry] is, it already has great power to bring benefits. Those accruing to physical welfare are readily recognized, as in…
— Henry Taube
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For the Kremlin, it is more feasible to preserve its great-power status in cooperation with the United States than in confrontation.
— Ivan Krastev
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The United States, like any great power, is always going to have an intelligence operation, and some electronic surveillance is obligatory in the modern world.
— Jeffrey Toobin
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Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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The Supreme Court, in 2005, emphasized and contrasted the great power of Congress under the Commerce Clause to regulate interstate commerce versus much more limited…
— Barbara Ann Radnofsky
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The Carrion Crow and Turkey-Buzzard possess great power of recollection, so as to recognise at a great distance a person who has shot at them,…
— John James Audubon
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From the material point of view the proposal is unacceptable, for France, without further territory in Europe being taken from her, could be so crushed…
— Edward Grey
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Therefore God is one, if that which admits of so great power can be nothing else: and yet those who deem that there are many…
— Lactantius
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Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination…
— Carl Clinton Van Doren
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But among them now were a large number of Communists in positions of great power within the new union movement, some of them actually moving…
— John T. Flynn
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A young man, be his merit what it will, can never raise himself; but must, like the ivy round the oak, twine himself round some…
— Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
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Conditions are ripe for triumph. We will win. And we will wield great power here.
— Daniel Ortega
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A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]
— Bible
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