Quotes with power

Quotes 941 till 958 of 958.

  • Aaron Hill You talk no more of that gay nation now,
    Where men adore their wives, and woman's power
    Draws reverence from a polished people's softness,
    Their husbands' equals, and their lovers' queens;
    Free without scandal; wise without restraint;
    Their virtue due to nature, not to fear.
    Zara (1735) Act I, Sc. 1.
    Aaron Hill
    English dramatist and writer (1685 - 1750)
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  • Carl Hagelin You want to play in every game, and you especially don't want to be in the penalty box for five minutes and give the other team a chance to get a power play, and you don't want to hurt anyone on the other team.
    Carl Hagelin
    Swedish ice hockey player (1988 - )
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  • Eli Stanley Jones Your powers are dead or dedicated. If they are dedicated, they are alive with God and tingle with surprising power. If they are saved up, taken care of for their own ends, they are dead.
    Eli Stanley Jones
    American missionary and theologian (1884 - 1973)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • William Wordsworth … with an eye made by quite by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Aristotle A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Cal Thomas America's most dangerous diseases have developed an immunity to politics. We suffer not from a failure of political organization or power, but a failure of love.
    Cal Thomas
    American columnist and author (1942 - )
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  • Ambrose Bierce Beauty. The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Alfred Marshall But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities.
    Alfred Marshall
    British economist (1842 - 1924)
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  • Alfred Marshall But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities.
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  • Ambrose Bierce Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Bruce Bueno de Mesquita Dictators, unlike Democrats, depend on a small coterie to sustain their power. These backers, generally drawn from the military, the senior civil service, and family or clan members, have a synergistic relationship with their dictator. The dictator delivers opportunities for them to become rich, and they protect him from being overthrown.
    Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
    American political scientist (1946 - )
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  • Ambrose Bierce Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Simone Weil Purity is the power to contemplate defilement.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Simone Weil The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled - because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Simone Weil To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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