Dominant Quote by Gertrude Atherton Download Open image “power, after it has ceased from troubling, is the dominant passion in human nature.” — Gertrude Atherton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dominant Human nature Humans Passion Power
The compensation of growing old ... was simply this; that the passion remains as strong as ever, but one has gained -- at last!… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The appetite for power is old and irrepressible in humankind, and in its action almost always destructive. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
“The power of passion can empower you with constant success and achievements if it is guided by positive intentions and used for good goals only. You can achieve many great accomplishments in life if the power of passion is developed properly and based on win-win-win goals for you and others. When the force of positive passion is directed to great… — Master Del Pe Copy Share
Unfortunately, however, power is sweet, and the man who in the beginning seeks power merely in order to have scope for his benevolence is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“power becomes a slave to passion so easily, and to an unacknowledged passion easiest of all.” — Walter Jon Williams Copy Share Image
When you allow desire, anger and frustration to dominate you, you are losing power. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you. — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
It takes power to stand up and to choose what experiences we allow to take root or to even come into our lives. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is nothing so carking as the pangs of unsatisfied curiosity. — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
The only two good words that can be said for a hurricane are that it gives sufficient warning of its approach, and that it… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
The world, and the great and free United States in particular, is full of narrow-minded, ignorant, moronic, bigoted, cowardly, self-righteous, anemic, pig-headed, stupid, puritanical,… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
Men are not amusing during the shooting season; but, after all, my dear, men were not especially designed to amuse women. — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
genius must ever be imperfect. Life is not long enough nor slow enough for both brain and character to grow side by side to… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
No country can reach a high stage of civilization without a leisure class. — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
The market may never coalesce around one basic design, or even around two or three dominant devices. — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
A social group can, indeed must, already exercise 'leadership' before winning governmental power (this is indeed one of the principal conditions for the winning… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
The behavior and reactions of the oppressed, which lead the oppressor to practice cultural invasion, should evoke from the revolutionary a different theory of… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
I never minded giving my opinions. They are just opinions, and I had studied music and I had strong feelings. I was happy for… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
The full implications of feminism will evolve over time, as we organize, experiment, think, analyze, and revise our ideas and strategies in light of… — Charlotte Bunch Copy Share Image
For me, movies and television are interesting because they are the dominant storytelling form of our time. My first love will always be fiction,… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
I have often noticed that the two nuclear powers on the Indian subcontinent, India and Pakistan, attribute to Kashmiris an inferior intellect, a lineage,… — Nyla Ali Khan Copy Share Image
In the 1950s and early 1960s, psychoanalysis swept through the intellectual community, and it was the dominant mode of thinking about the mind. People… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
As you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life. It means fear is no longer a dominant factor in what… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
My mum is deeply, deeply a man's woman, a man's muse. Maybe because I'm a kid from the '80s, I'm a bit more dominant.… — Lou Doillon Copy Share Image
Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place,… — Alice Meynell Copy Share Image
In their heyday, comics were a dominant force in popular culture, but that's over. — Garry Trudeau Copy Share Image
