Our Powers Quotes
53 quotes by 49 authors
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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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To enjoy freedom ... we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half the house in…
— Virginia Woolf
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To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that…
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Sports are too much with us. Late and soon, sitting and watching - mostly watching on television - we lay waste our powers of identification…
— Roger Angell
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I admire women who can be feminists and fight for women's rights, who believe in our powers as individuals and yet not apologize for beauty.
— Olivia Wilde
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Science has always promised two things not necessarily related; an increase first in our powers, second in our happiness or wisdom, and we have come…
— Joseph Wood Krutch
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Life is an apprenticeship to the constant renunciations, to the steady failure of our claims, our hopes, our powers, our liberty.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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The whole language of nature informs us, that in animated beings there is something above our powers of investigation; something which employs, combines, and arranges…
— Humphry Davy
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Few of us ever test our powers of deduction, except when filling out an income tax form
— Laurence J. Peter
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Our human responsibility for animal rights, plant rights, and the rights of the earth to its health and wholeness is self-evident. Whatever our beliefs about…
— Densey Clyne
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Labor is the instituted means for the methodical development of all our powers under the direction and control of the will.
— J. G. Holland
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I had rather ask an enlargement of power from the nation, where it is found necessary, than to assume it by a construction which would…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Visible things can be invisible. However, our powers of thought grasp both the visible and the invisible – and I make use of painting to…
— Rene Magritte
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Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without very accurate inquiry…
— Samuel Johnson
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To write honestly and with all our powers is the least we can do, and the most.
— Eudora Welty
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If we can only live once, then let it be a daring adventure that draws on all our powers Let our grandchildren delight to find…
— Julian Assange
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Some things are best left alone. Such as interfering in things which are beyond our powers.
— Jimmy Sangster
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It is only with distance that we are able to turn our powers of observation on ourselves, thus fashioning stories in which we are characters.
— Dani Shapiro
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Tolstoy said, 'The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed either by a change of life or by a change of conscience.' Many of…
— Randy Alcorn
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The most deadly poison of our times is indifference. And this happens, although the praise of God should know no limits. Let us strive, therefore,…
— Maximilian Kolbe
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