Powers Quotes
1705 quotes by 1141 authors
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They both seemed to understand that describing it was beyond their powers, the gratitude that spreads through your body when a burden gets lifted, and…
— Tom Perrotta
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When we approach love and creativity with the level of conviction that the powers-that-be in the world today are approaching hatred and destruction, then and…
— Marianne Williamson
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Man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other men but to…
— Charles Darwin
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There are four Powers: memory and intellect, desire and covetousness. The two first are mental and the others sensual. The three senses: sight, hearing and…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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Weight, force and casual impulse, together with resistance, are the four external powers in which all the visible actions of mortals have their being and…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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Schools still operate as if all knowledge is contained in books, and as if the salient points in books must be stored in each human…
— Sugata Mitra
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Decolonization actually boosted slavery. As foreign powers withdrew from the colonies, people were enslaved by their own countrymen. And we see it in Africa, we…
— Loretta Napoleoni
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I always feel like hard work leads the way, and from there, I leave it up to the powers that be.
— James Wolk
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Our policy is to deepen the relations with all the countries in the world - monarchies, kingdoms, large powers - we want to respect all…
— Hugo Chavez
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If you have to be the antagonist, you often have a lot more creative powers. You have a lot more color to you.
— William Atherton
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All European tradition, Marxism included, has conspired to defy the natural order of all things. Mother Earth has been abused, the powers have been abused,…
— Russell Means
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Barack Obama is not a man of The Gut, and it is driving official Washington crazy. This is a good thing, because resisting The Gut…
— Charlie Pierce
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Let us do whatever is required to qualify for the Holy Ghost as our companion and then let us go forward fearlessly so that we…
— Henry B. Eyring
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You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete…
— Malcolm X
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Maharaj-ji, in my first darshan, my first meeting with him, showed me his powers. At that point I was impressed with the power. But subsequently,…
— Ram Dass
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You can see how he changed on the surface. But at the core of it all, I think Superman has remained the same - a…
— Jim Lee
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Many of the benefits from keeping terrorism fear levels high are obvious. Private corporations suck up massive amounts of Homeland Security cash as long as…
— Glenn Greenwald
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Poetry had great powers over me from my childhood, and today the poems live in my memory which I read at the age of 7…
— Bayard Taylor
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War expands government powers. The trouble is that, when the war goes away, the government powers do not.
— P.J. O'Rourke
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We are gods. Our tools make us gods. In symbiosis with our technology, our powers are expanding exponentially and so, too, our possibilities.
— Jason Silva
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