Quotes with power

Quotes 561 till 580 of 958.

  • Josiah Gilbert Holland Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a person's power.
    Josiah Gilbert Holland
    American Author (1819 - 1881)
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  • Edgar Quinet Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as much depth and power as in the infinitely great.
    Edgar Quinet
    French poet, historian and politician (1803 - 1875)
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  • Bhumibol Adulyadej Section 7 of the Constitution doesn't grant a power for the king to do whatever he wishes.
    Bhumibol Adulyadej
    Thai King (1927 - 2016)
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  • Herbert Marcuse Self-determination, the autonomy of the individual, asserts itself in the right to race his automobile, to handle his power tools, to buy a gun, to communicate to mass audiences his opinion, no matter how ignorant, how aggressive, it may be.
    Herbert Marcuse
    German political philosopher (1898 - 1979)
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • George Bernard Shaw She has lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Charles de Gaulle Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
    Charles de Gaulle
    French statesman (1890 - 1970)
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  • Bjork Solar power, wind power, the way forward is to collaborate with nature - it's the only way we are going to get to the other end of the 21st century.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Arundhati Roy Sometimes I think the world is divided into those who have a comfortable relationship with power and those who have a naturally adversarial relationship with power.
    Arundhati Roy
    Indian author (1961 - )
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  • Bell Hooks Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power - not because they don't see it, but because they see it and they don't want it to exist.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Bryant H. McGill Sometimes power is all a person has, so they will protect it even unto their own destruction, for without power they have nothing.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Arnold J. Toynbee Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.
    Arnold J. Toynbee
    British historian and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Og Mandino Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.
    Og Mandino
    American author (1923 - 1996)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • John Ruskin Spiritual power begins by directing animal power to other than egoistic ends.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Charles Swindoll Stand still... and refuse to retreat. Look at it as God looks at it and draw upon His power to hold up under the blast.
    Charles Swindoll
    American Pastor, writer
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  • Freda Adler Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.
    Freda Adler
    American criminologist and educator (1934 - )
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  • Orville Wright Success four flights Thursday morning all against twenty one mile wind started from Level with engine power alone speed through air thirty one miles longest 57 second inform Press home Christmas.
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  • Wilferd Arlan Peterson Success is focusing the full power of all you are one what you have a burning desire to achieve.
    Wilferd Arlan Peterson
    American author (1900 - 1995)
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  • James Russell Lowell Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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