Quotes with power

Quotes 441 till 460 of 958.

  • Marguerite Duras No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation.
    Marguerite Duras
    French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
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  • Cal Thomas No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins 'we the people', not 'us the government'.
    Cal Thomas
    American columnist and author (1942 - )
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  • Hannah Arendt No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • Jacob Bronowski No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
    Jacob Bronowski
    British Scientist, Author (1908 - 1974)
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  • Harry Emerson Fosdick No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
    Harry Emerson Fosdick
    American minister (1878 - 1969)
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  • Edgar Sheffield Brightman No totalitarians, no wars, no fears, famines or perils of any kind can really break a man's spirit until he breaks it himself by surrendering. Tyranny has many dread powers, but not the power to rule the spirit.
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  • Pearl S. Buck None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.
    Pearl S. Buck
    American novelist (1892 - 1973)
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  • Barbara Demick North Korea faded to black in the early 1990s. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, which had propped up its old Communist ally with cheap fuel oil, North Korea's creakily inefficient economy collapsed. Power stations rusted into ruin.
    Barbara Demick
    American journalist
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  • Charles Dickens Not in our heads but in our hearts lies the power, that leads us to great deeds.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Betty Ford Not my power, but the power of the position, a power which could be used to help.
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    Betty Ford
    American First Lady (1918 - 2011)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Not necessity, not desire -no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Bob Schwartz Not only don't diets work, they're actually designed to fail. It's not you or your lack of will power that's the problem. It's that diets by their very nature simply don't work.
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  • Sholem Asch Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.
    Sholem Asch
    Polish-Jewish novelist, dramatist, and essayist (0 - 1957)
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  • Nido Qubein Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.
    Nido Qubein
    American businessman (1948 - )
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Francis Bacon Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Anthony Robbins Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.
    Anthony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Marcus Aurelius Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Rebecca West Now different races and nationalities cherish different ideals of society that stink in each other's nostrils with an offensiveness beyond the power of any but the most monstrous private deed.
    Rebecca West
    British author (1892 - 1983)
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