Ah, that shows you the power of music, that magician of magician, who lifts his wand and says his mysterious word and all things real pass away and the phantoms of your mind walk before you clothed in flesh.
- Mark Twain
The death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorated substance, a fresh flow of ideas, and splendidly revitalized color. In short, the power of a certain kind of dream is such that death need not indicate finality at all but rather signify a metaphysical and metaphorical leap forward.
- Aberjhani
Why do bad things happen? For pedagogical reasons, so that we can experience the power of Allah, catch a glimpse of Hell and fear it, so that we can practice seeking refuge in Him and, when relief comes give thanks to His mercy. Darkness was created so that, like plants, we could yearn and turn to the light.
- Leila Aboulela
He was muttering now and I could barely make out his words. "I'm going to die without ever feeling a woman's tits."
"Go ahead," I said. It was about time I used the power of my chichis for good and not for evil.
- Marta Acosta
Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.
- Lord Acton
Indeed in nothing is the power of the Dark Lord more clearly shown than in the estrangement that divides all those who still oppose him.
- J R R Tolkien
Folly it may seem. Indeed in nothing is the power of the Dark Lord more clearly shown than in the estrangement that divides all those who still oppose him.... We live now upon an island amid many perils, and our hands are more often upon the bowstring than upon the harp
- J R R Tolkien
Incomparably greater than the power of Sauron, concentrated in the One Ring, Morgoth's power was dispersed into the very matter of Arda: The whole of Middle-earth was Morgoth's Ring.
- J R R Tolkien
A people fired... with love of their country and of liberty, a zeal for the public good, and a noble emulation of glory, will not be disheartened or dispirited by a succession of unfortunate events. But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
- Abigail Adams
Appreciate the power of rumor, often malicious, no matter how preposterous, within the local populations you are seeking to help.
- Alvin Adams
We are now cruising at a level of two to the power of twenty-five thousand to one against and falling, and we will be restoring normality just as soon as we are sure what is normal anyway.
- Douglas Adams
No one can fail to see that the power of the Church among large numbers in many communities is today diminishing, or has already ceased.
- Felix Adler
How can the strength of one man stand against Jake and an army of demons?"
"He can," I countered, "if he has the power of Heaven on his side. After all, Christ was a man."
"He was also the Son of God, there's a difference."
"Do you think they could have crucified him if he wasn't human?" I asked. "He was flesh and blood, just like Xavier. You've been here so long you underestimate the power of humans. They're a force of nature.
- Alexandra Adornetto
The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.
- Theodor Adorno
The power of the man, with a mind shut down. The strength of the super human. The survival of the species. The deafness of a beast. That's the power of the penis.
- Deborah Ainslie
the power of beauty:what must the world be like for ugly women?
- Paulo Coelho
He knows that the gazelle's power lies in its strong legs. The power of the seagull
lies in the accuracy with which it can spear a fish. He has learned that the reason
the tiger does not fear the hyena is because he is aware of his own strength.
- Paulo Coelho
The only power you have on this planet is the power of your decisions.
- Paulo Coelho
...and the world we live in will be either better or worse, depending on whether we become better or worse. And that's where the power of love comes in. Because when we love, we always strive to become better than we are.
- Paulo Coelho
If God wanted us to act on instinct, we wouldn't have the power of reason.
- Jodi Picoult
The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.
- Louisa May Alcott
If I could have one superpower, I'd want to have the power of mind over matter. I'd want to be able to move things and people with my mind.
- Shaun Alexander
She could ask for anything, she thought dizzily, anything--an end to pain or world hunger or disease, or for peace on earth. But then again, perhaps these things weren't in the power of angels to grant, or they would already have been granted. And perhaps people were supposed to find these things for themselves.
- Cassandra Clare
I have a profound belief in the power of the Sacraments. I believe that in a Divine way the use of them teaches the teachable their inward meaning and therefore I think we need be in no hurry to attempt to teach new converts all that we think we know about them.
- Roland Allen
The good qualities in our soul are most successfully and forcefully awakened by the power of art. Just as science is the intellect of the world, art is its soul.
- Maxim Gorky
I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.
- Isabel Allende
The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older.
- Chris Van Allsburg
We brought death to our enemies, and I loved the power of it. And that final love, one I shared with my father, frightened me more than any battle ever could.
- Patricia Briggs
It brings joy in sorrow, victory in battle, light to darkness, life to the dead. That is the power of the blood-red jewel which men honor with the name The Philosopher's Stone.
- Hiromu Arakawa
Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.
- Plato
Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.
- Aristotle
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
- Aristotle
The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
- 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
If a man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all.
- Quintus Tullius Cicero
For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
- Matthew Arnold
The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better.
- Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.
- Arthur Ashe
For me alone Don Quixote was born and I for him. His was the power of action, mine of writing.
- Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Oh, God, to know you is life. To serve You is freedom. To praise you is the soul's joy and delight. Guard me with the power of Your grace here and in all places. Now and at all times, forever. Amen.
- Saint Augustine Of Hippo
Narrow is the mansion of my soul; enlarge Thou it, that Thou mayest enter in. It is ruinous; repair Thou it. It has that within which must offend Thine eyes; I confess and know it. But who shall cleanse it? or to whom should I cry, save Thee? Lord, cleanse me from my secret faults, and spare Thy servant from the power of the enemy. I believe, and therefore do I speak.
- Saint Augustine Of Hippo
Never question the power of one! Throughout history it has been the actions of only one person who has in inspired the movement of change.
- Steve Maraboli
Harness the power of today. Seize the blessings of today! Make something happen, enhance your life, make someone laugh, help a friend, love, love, love!
- Steve Maraboli
The strength of a man isn't seen in the power of his arms. It's seen in the love with which he EMBRACES you.
- Steve Maraboli
Understanding the beauty of our humanity unlocks the power of our spirituality.
- Steve Maraboli
The value of a moment is immeasurable. The power of just ONE moment can propel you to success and happiness or chain you to failure and misery.
- Steve Maraboli
She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths which have only recently begun to be seen in Europe and seem even now too great for its common intelligence.
- Sri Aurobindo
The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance.
- Jane Austen
The power of doing any thing with quickness is always much prized by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance. - Mr Darcy
- Jane Austen
Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter.
- Jane Austen
He was no fool; he knew that love existed. But he also believed in
the power of the mind, and perhaps even more importantly, the power of the will. Frankly, he saw no
reason why love should be an involuntary thing.
If he didn't want to fall in love, then by damn, he wasn't going to. It was as simple as that. Ithad to be as
simple as that.
- Julia Quinn
To care about words, to have a stake in what is written, to believe in the power of books - this overwhelms the rest, and beside it one's life becomes very small.
- Paul Auster
One should never underestimate the power of books.
- Paul Auster
The American woman is more stylish than any other in the world. She understands the power of good style and has the confidence to feel comfortable.
- Max Azria
The Power of Less is perfect for achieving goals: Limit yourself to fewer goals, and you'll achieve more. At the same time, we'll look at ways to narrow your focus on your projects, so that you can complete them more effectively and move forward on your goals. We'll apply limitations to our projects to increase our effectiveness.
- Leo Babauta
Passionately obsessed by anything we love--an avalanche of magic flattens the way ahead, levels, rules, reasons, dissents, bears us with it over chasms, fears, doubts. Without the power of that love...
- Richard Bach
C-sections and epidurals should be blessings to women, but I suddenly wondered if they had become a means from which to steal the magic of the power of birth away from a generation of mothers.
- P C Cast
At the very least i should fear you. some would say that I should hate you."
"Many would say that."
"Yet i neither fear nor hate you."
"You-you are comforting me. Giving me sanctuary. Why, Grandma?" Aurox asked.
"Because I believe in the power of love. I believe in chosing Light over Darkness-happiness over hatred-trust over skeptism,
- P C Cast
I remember you as the wind that breathes upon the forest
The murmur of leaves rustling
The rays of the sun.
I remember you as the power of trees growing
And the bud breaking into bloosom.
You are in my thoughts whenever i praise
All that is noble and true.
- P C Cast
I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
It is not short of amazing, the power of a great idea to weld men together. There was in it a peculiar, intense, vital spirit if you will, that I have never felt before in any strike.
- Ray Stannard Baker
Yet I also suspected that what I was seeing was but a part of the truth and perhaps not even the most important part; beneath these faces, these clothes, accents, rudenesses, was power and sorrow, both unadmitted, unrealized, the power of inventors, the sorrow of the disconnected.
- James Baldwin
The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
- James Baldwin
I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen.
- J G Ballard
In any event, it's done, said Papa-which are the words of a coward to the power of ten.
- Muriel Barbery
I had spared the stag's life. The power of that life belonged to me as surely as it belonged to the man who had taken it.
- Leigh Bardugo
I think the touchstone is to give consumers a full, fair choice without the power of a monopoly operating system pushing them in a direction that free competition might or might not achieve.
- Jim Barksdale
A habitual disuse of physical forces totally destroys the moral; and men lose at once the power of protecting themselves, and of discerning the cause of their oppression.
- Joel Barlow
A life-whether seamstress or poet, farmer or king-is measured not by length, but by the worth of its deeds, and the power of its dreams.
- T A Barron
To write does not mean to convert the real into words but to make the power of the word real.
- Augusto Roa Bastos
The power of death signifies that this real world can only have a neutral image of life, that life's intimacy does not reveal it's dazzling consumption until the moment it gives out.
- Georges Bataille
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Mom has the Touch. She knows what flowers go with what occasions, what hors d'oeuvres work with what people. She believes passionately in the power of food to heal, restore, and stimulate relationships, and she has built a following of loyal customers who really hope she's right. If she's wrong, says Sonia, no one wants to know. (Thwonk)
- Joan Bauer
The power of fiction is that it gives us, as readers, the opportunity to move inside another human being, to look out through that person's eyes, hear with her ears, think with his thoughts, feel with her feelings. It is the only form of art which can accomplish that feat so deeply, so completely. And thus it is the perfect bridge for helping us coming to know the other - the other inside as well as outside ourselves. (x)
- Marion Dane Bauer
...It is the Law that while Evil, unopposed, may accomplish terrible deeds, the power of Good can never be overthrown when opposed to Evil..
- L Frank Baum
I trust so much in the power of the heart and the soul; I know that the answer to what we need to do next is in our own hearts. All we have to do is listen, then take that one step further and trust what we hear. We will be taught what we need to learn.
- Melody Beattie
The message that I gave on the - on the steps today was that you need to stand for those things that are right and empower the individual. Believe in the power of one person. Don't believe that you can't do it. Everybody wants - everybody wants a shot. That we can all agree on. Beyond that, it becomes politics. I'm not talking politics.
- Glenn Beck
There are two ways of persuading men of the truths of our religion; one by the power of reason, the other by the authority of the speaker.
We do not use the latter but the former. We do not say: 'You must believe that because Scripture, which says it, is divine,' but we say that it must be believed for such and such a reason. But these are feeble arguments, because reason can be bent in any direction.
- Blaise Pascal
All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.
- Albert Camus
With the power of conviction, there is no sacrifice.
- Pat Benatar
The capacity to accept suffering for the sake of goodness, truth and justice is an essential criterion of humanity, because if my own well-being and safety are ultimately more important than truth and justice, then the power of the stronger prevails, then violence and untruth reigns supreme.
- Pope Benedict Xvi
The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.
- Walter Benjamin
Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.
- Bo Bennett
The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.
- Jeremy Bentham
In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state.
- Peter L Berger
This new war, like the previous one, would be a test of the power of machines against people and places; whatever its causes and justifications, it would make the world worse. This was true of that new war, and it has been true of every new war since...
I knew too that this new war was not even new but was only the old one come again. And what caused it? It was caused, I thought, by people failing to love one another, failing to love their enemies.
- Wendell Berry
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
A Man having found a Lion in his path undertook to subdue him by the power of the human eye; and near by was a Rattlesnake engaged in fascinating a small bird. "How are you getting on, brother?" the Man called out to the other reptile, without removing his eyes from those of the Lion.
- Ambrose Bierce
Let us discuss why poetry has lost the power of making men brave.
- E M Forster
The power of "can't": The word "can't" makes strong people weak, blinds people who can see, saddens happy people, turns brave people into cowards, robs a genius of their brilliance, causes rich people to think poorly, and limits the achievements of that great person living inside us all.
- Robert Kiyosaki
Parental looks rely a lot on brow positioning. Whereas the Dad Look involves the lowering of the brow as a whole, the Mom Look takes advantage of the power of the single, raised brow. Of Doom.
- Susan Bischoff
You must never underestimate the power of the eyebrow.
- Jack Black
Even though mother's issues are not front page news, they touch us all personally, some more than others, and I believe passionately in the power of grassroots engagement.
- Joan Blades
It's the power of the brand. We've never formally advertised.
- Sara Blakely
I absolutely believe in the power of tithing and giving back. My own experience about all the blessings I've had in my life is that the more I give away, the more that comes back. That is the way life works, and that is the way energy works.
- Ken Blanchard
Modest, conventional expectations weren't enough to lure Adam Brown away from the power of drug addiction that ensnared him. Instead, the college dropout already in his mid-twenties found only the big, near-impossible dream of being a Navy SEAL captivating enough to consistently draw him to different choices.
- Eric Blehm
The power of beauty
Lies within our soul
And how we choose
To see everything
It is not found from
The strokes of a make-up brush
Nor the acceptance from others
- Apple Blossom
I shuddered to think how completely the insane were in the power of their keepers, and how one could weep and plead for release, and all of no avail, if the keepers were so minded.
- Nellie Bly
Film provides an opportunity to marry the power of ideas with the power of images.
- Steven Bochco
The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
- W E B Du Bois
Fruit is always the miraculous, the created; it is never the result of willing, but always a growth. The fruit of the Spirit is a gift of God, and only He can produce it. They who bear it know as little about it as the tree knows of its fruit. They know only the power of Him on whom their life depends
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
- Edward De Bono
The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.
- Daniel J Boorstin
For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth,
Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech,
To stir men's blood: I only speak right on;
I tell you that which you yourselves do know;
- William Shakespeare
If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good.
- James Boswell
Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
- Samuel Johnson
There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.
- Samuel Johnson
Exactly. They're stupid. Who cares?"
"I care. They bother me. And that's why I'm stupid. That makes me exponentially more stupid than stupid. I'm stupid to the power of stupid." She waved her hand. The moon blew away.
"That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard." I looked at her out of the corner of my eye.
- Kami Garcia
I care. They bother me. And that's why I'm stupid. That makes me exponentially more stupid than stupid. I'm stupid to the power of stupid.
- Kami Garcia
I have withstood the power of convictions a long time; and therefore I fear I shall be finally left of God.
- David Brainerd
Poor is the power of the lead that becomes bullets compared to the power of the hot metal that becomes types.
- Georg Brandes
People sometimes talk about the power of first impressions, and believe me, there is truth to it.
- Ann Brashares
It seemed to travel with her, to sweep her aloft in the power of song, so that she was moving in glory among the stars, and for a moment she, too, felt that the words Darkness and Light had no meaning, and only this melody was real.
- Madeleine L Engle
Forget your pain. It was what I said when I took Father's hand in the drawing room yesterday, what I repeated again tonight. But I didn't mean this. I must be careful. Yet what bothers me isn't the power of the magic or how, to a person, they've all accepted it as truth. No, what unsettles me the most is how much I want to believe it too.
- Libba Bray
Respect the past, trust in the future and believe in the power of the imagination.-
- Nancy B Brewer
... self-control is not control by oneself through one's own willpower but rather control of oneself through the power of the Holy Spirit.
- Jerry Bridges
Neither, I must say with all due respect, is it the power of teachers and students. Basically the true and real power is with working people of all colors, of all beliefs, of all national origins.
- Harry Bridges
We've seen a massive attack on the freedom of the web. Governments are realizing the power of this medium to organize people and they are trying to clamp down across the world, not just in places like China and North Korea; we're seeing bills in the United States, in Italy, all across the world.
- Sergey Brin
What you call magic is nothing more than an act of the imagination fired by the senses, then given shape by the power of your aura.
- Michael Scott
The power of human thought grows exponentially with the number of minds that share that thought.
- Dan Brown
He respected the power of faith, the benevolence of churches, the strength religion gave so many people... and yet, for him, the one intellectual suspension of disbelief that was imperative if one were truly going to "believe" had always proved too big an obstacle for his academic mind. "I want to believe," he heard himself say.
- Dan Brown
Take, therefore, what modern technology is capable of: the power of our moral sense allied to the power of communications and our ability to organize internationally.That, in my view, gives us the first opportunity as a community to fundamentally change the world.
- Gordon Brown
I have always been a firm believer in God and the power of prayer, though to be honest, my faith has made for alist of questions I definitely want answered after I'm gone.
- Nicholas Sparks
Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.
- Thomas Browne
What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Never underestimate the power of a simple tool.
- Craig Bruce
The power of the people and the power of reason are one.
- Georg Buchner
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
- George Bernard Shaw
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
- George Bernard Shaw
She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
- George Bernard Shaw
Unfortunately, in today's world we have to be reminded that the power of an oath derives from the fact that in it we ask God to bear witness to the promises we make with the implicit expectation that He will hold us accountable for the manner in which we honor them.
- James L Buckley
I believe in the power of weakness.
- Pat Buckley
The power of the computer is starting to spread.
- Bill Budge
If you have never known the power of God's love, then maybe it is because you have never asked to know it - I mean really asked, expecting an answer.
- Frederick Buechner
Not all powers are spectacular." Hestia looked at me. "Sometimes the hardest power to master is the power of yielding.
- Rick Riordan
Egyptians believe in the power of the sunrise. They believe each morning begins not just a new day, but a new world.
- Rick Riordan
Sometimes the hardest power to master is the power of yielding. -Hestia
- Rick Riordan
I look upon an increase in the power of the State with the greatest fear because, although while apparently doing good by minimizing exploitation, it does the greatest harm to mankind by destroying individuality which lies at the heart of all progress.
- Mahatma Gandhi
The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.
- Mahatma Gandhi
If we examine every stage of our lives, we find that from our first breath to our last we are under the constraint of circumstances. And yet we still possess the greatest of all freedoms, the power of developing our innermost selves in harmony with the moral order of the universe, and so winning peace of heart whatever obstacles we meet.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Forgotten was presented to me by the drama department at LWT as a concept and I found it immediately intriguing and very powerful. I was completely led by the power of the piece and its dramatic potential.
- Amanda Burton
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
- Leo Buscaglia
The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants.
- George W Bush
The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.
- Laura Bush
I really learned the power of the tube on Sesame Street and how it can influence a very young mind.
- Ruth Buzzi
That a man can change himself...and master his own destiny is the conclusion of every mind who is wide-awake to the power of right thought.(Christian D. Larson)
- Rhonda Byrne
I've always been intrigued by the power of secrets. When is it justifiable to keep them from the ones we love? And does keeping them irrevocably change who we are?
- Emily Giffin
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
- Voltaire
The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.
- Voltaire
Well, when I was younger, I lied all the time, because once you understand the power of lying, it's really like magic because you transform reality for people.
- Louis C K
Everything in life is miraculous. It rests within the power of each of us to awaken from a dragging nightmare of life made up of unimportant tasks and tedious useless little habits to see life as it really is, and to rejoice in its exquisite wonderfulness.
- James Branch Cabell
I may be alone in this, but I do sense the power of film, in that movies have the ability to literally change people's minds. That's pretty powerful stuff when you consider that.
- Nicolas Cage
My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.
- Carly Fiorina
Perhaps it is a testament to the power of modern marketing savvy that an obese man with heart disease and high blood pressure became one of the richest snake oil salesmen ever to live, selling a diet that promises to help you lose weight, to keep your heart healthy and to normalize your blood pressure.
- T Colin Campbell
Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate.
- Gilbert K 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 K Chesterton
True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.
- Gilbert K Chesterton
Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.
- Tony Robbins
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
- Tony Robbins
Never underestimate the power of a brillian stylist.
- Suzanne Collins
I can hear President Snow's voice in my head. 'On the seventy-fifth anniversary, as a reminder to the rebels that even the strongest among them cannot overcome the power of the capital, the male and female tributes will be reaped from their existing pool of victors.
- Suzanne Collins
The system has for its object an increase of persons that are to intervene between the producer and the consumer, living on the product of the land and labour of others, diminishing the power of the first, and increasing the number of the last.
- Henry Charles Carey
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
- George Carlin
The vampire's eyes were open, and he was staring at her intently. It was as though he were trying to speak to her with simply the power of a glare.
Alexia did not speak glare-ish.
- Gail Carriger
The power of noble deeds is to be preserved and passed on to the future.
- Joshua Chamberlain
If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.
- Oswald Chambers
The world is not moved by love or actions that are of human creation. And the church is not empowered to live differently from any other gathering of people without the Holy Spirit. But when believers live in the power of the Spirit, the evidence in their lives is supernatural. The church cannot help but be different, and the world cannot help but notice.
- Francis Chan
The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.
- Chanakya
These things were...well...they were dreams-made-real. And once dreams became real, they escaped the power of the dreamer and became their own deadly things, capable of independent action.
- Stephen King
Philosophy, if it cannot answer so many questions as we could wish, has at least the power of asking questions which increase the interest of the world, and show the strangeness and wonder lying just below the surface even in the commonest things of daily life.
- Bertrand Russell
Among these surprising possibilities, doubt suggests that perhaps there is no table at all. Philosophy, if it cannot answer so many questions as we could wish, has at least the power of asking questions which increase the interest of the world, and show the strangeness and wonder lying just below the surface even in the commonest things of daily life.
- Bertrand Russell
The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.
- Winston Churchill
The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
- Winston Churchill
The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Valor consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man cannot have his flank turned, cannot be out-generalled, but put him where you will, he stands. This can only be by his preferring truth to his past apprehension of truth; and his alert acceptance of it, from whatever quarter; the intrepid conviction that his laws, his relations to society, his Christianity, his world may at any time be superseded and decease.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We have become, by the power of a glorious evolutionary accident called intelligence, the stewards of life's continuity on earth. We did not ask for this role, but we cannot abjure it. We may not be suited to it, but here we are.
- Stephen Jay Gould
World-peace can be achieved when the power of love replaces the love of power.
- Sri Chinmoy
As I have studied the Bible and the Book of Mormon, I have come to know through the power of the Spirit of God, that these books contain the fullness of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
- Clayton Christensen
I have healed the sick by the power of the God. I have spoken with the gift of tongues.
- Clayton Christensen
Katherine Grey was born with the power of managing old ladies, dogs, and small boys, and she did it without any apparent sense of strain.
- Agatha Christie
Men have the power of thinking that they may avoid sin.
- John Chrysostom
If a man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
The first issue to be settled is whether socialism has a right to exist Are its allegations concerning the present system true? Is industry proceeding on a principle of fraud? I wish to test the power of recent economic theory to give an exact answer to this question.
- John Bates Clark
Not stories told by wolf or man to frighten children, of Wolfbane and of werewolves, of grasht and goblins and of silly vampires, fables to frighten cowards with the threat of evil and of sin. But the power that lives beyond those stories, and makes them strong indeed, that lives in nightmares and in sleep. That is ribbed into the very fabric of conscious being. The power of love and hate.
- David Clement Davies
from Bill Clinton speech-
People are more impressed by the power of our example rather than the example of our power..
- Bill Clinton
They should be impressed by the power of our example, not the example of our power.
- Bill Clinton
People around the world have always been more impressed by the power of our example than by the example of our power.
- Bill Clinton
Because primarily of the power of the Internet, people of modest means can band together and amass vast sums of money that can change the world for some public good if they all agree.
- William J Clinton
The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet.
- William Cobbett
I wanted a woman who had the body and the power of a real pilot. I interviewed hundreds of woman, but Jessica just seemed perfect for the part. I couldn't get her out of my head. I continued to bother her and she finally gave in.
- Rob Cohen
Mrs. Earwig (pronounced Ar-wige, at least by Mrs. Earwig) believed in shiny wands, and magical amulets and mystic runes and the power of the stars, while Granny Weatherwax in cups of tea, dry biscuits, washing every morning in cold water and, well...mostly she believed in Granny Weatherwax.
- Terry Pratchett
Words are the litmus paper of the minds. If you find yourself in the power of someone who will use the word "commence" in cold blood, go somewhere else very quickly. But if they say "Enter", don't stop to pack.
- Terry Pratchett
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
- Robert A Heinlein
The source and center of all man's creative power... is his power of making images, or the power of imagination.
- Robert Collier
He has a number of curious facts in illustration of the power of mere goodness to protect against outrage.
- George Combe
Without the power of the Industrial Union behind it, Democracy can only enter the State as the victim enters the gullet of the Serpent.
- James Connolly
He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
- Joseph Conrad
My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel it is, before all, to make you see. That and no more, and it is everything. If I succeed, you shall find there according to your deserts: encouragement, consolation, fear, charm all you demand; and, perhaps, also that glimpse of truth for which you have forgotten to ask.
- Joseph Conrad
We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our personality is built up; to be without the power of imagining them is to be a low-grade idiot.
- Charles Horton Cooley
- Mark Twain
The death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorated substance, a fresh flow of ideas, and splendidly revitalized color. In short, the power of a certain kind of dream is such that death need not indicate finality at all but rather signify a metaphysical and metaphorical leap forward.
- Aberjhani
Why do bad things happen? For pedagogical reasons, so that we can experience the power of Allah, catch a glimpse of Hell and fear it, so that we can practice seeking refuge in Him and, when relief comes give thanks to His mercy. Darkness was created so that, like plants, we could yearn and turn to the light.
- Leila Aboulela
He was muttering now and I could barely make out his words. "I'm going to die without ever feeling a woman's tits."
"Go ahead," I said. It was about time I used the power of my chichis for good and not for evil.
- Marta Acosta
Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.
- Lord Acton
Indeed in nothing is the power of the Dark Lord more clearly shown than in the estrangement that divides all those who still oppose him.
- J R R Tolkien
Folly it may seem. Indeed in nothing is the power of the Dark Lord more clearly shown than in the estrangement that divides all those who still oppose him.... We live now upon an island amid many perils, and our hands are more often upon the bowstring than upon the harp
- J R R Tolkien
Incomparably greater than the power of Sauron, concentrated in the One Ring, Morgoth's power was dispersed into the very matter of Arda: The whole of Middle-earth was Morgoth's Ring.
- J R R Tolkien
A people fired... with love of their country and of liberty, a zeal for the public good, and a noble emulation of glory, will not be disheartened or dispirited by a succession of unfortunate events. But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
- Abigail Adams
Appreciate the power of rumor, often malicious, no matter how preposterous, within the local populations you are seeking to help.
- Alvin Adams
We are now cruising at a level of two to the power of twenty-five thousand to one against and falling, and we will be restoring normality just as soon as we are sure what is normal anyway.
- Douglas Adams
No one can fail to see that the power of the Church among large numbers in many communities is today diminishing, or has already ceased.
- Felix Adler
How can the strength of one man stand against Jake and an army of demons?"
"He can," I countered, "if he has the power of Heaven on his side. After all, Christ was a man."
"He was also the Son of God, there's a difference."
"Do you think they could have crucified him if he wasn't human?" I asked. "He was flesh and blood, just like Xavier. You've been here so long you underestimate the power of humans. They're a force of nature.
- Alexandra Adornetto
The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.
- Theodor Adorno
The power of the man, with a mind shut down. The strength of the super human. The survival of the species. The deafness of a beast. That's the power of the penis.
- Deborah Ainslie
the power of beauty:what must the world be like for ugly women?
- Paulo Coelho
He knows that the gazelle's power lies in its strong legs. The power of the seagull
lies in the accuracy with which it can spear a fish. He has learned that the reason
the tiger does not fear the hyena is because he is aware of his own strength.
- Paulo Coelho
The only power you have on this planet is the power of your decisions.
- Paulo Coelho
...and the world we live in will be either better or worse, depending on whether we become better or worse. And that's where the power of love comes in. Because when we love, we always strive to become better than we are.
- Paulo Coelho
If God wanted us to act on instinct, we wouldn't have the power of reason.
- Jodi Picoult
The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.
- Louisa May Alcott
If I could have one superpower, I'd want to have the power of mind over matter. I'd want to be able to move things and people with my mind.
- Shaun Alexander
She could ask for anything, she thought dizzily, anything--an end to pain or world hunger or disease, or for peace on earth. But then again, perhaps these things weren't in the power of angels to grant, or they would already have been granted. And perhaps people were supposed to find these things for themselves.
- Cassandra Clare
I have a profound belief in the power of the Sacraments. I believe that in a Divine way the use of them teaches the teachable their inward meaning and therefore I think we need be in no hurry to attempt to teach new converts all that we think we know about them.
- Roland Allen
The good qualities in our soul are most successfully and forcefully awakened by the power of art. Just as science is the intellect of the world, art is its soul.
- Maxim Gorky
I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.
- Isabel Allende
The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older.
- Chris Van Allsburg
We brought death to our enemies, and I loved the power of it. And that final love, one I shared with my father, frightened me more than any battle ever could.
- Patricia Briggs
It brings joy in sorrow, victory in battle, light to darkness, life to the dead. That is the power of the blood-red jewel which men honor with the name The Philosopher's Stone.
- Hiromu Arakawa
Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.
- Plato
Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.
- Aristotle
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
- Aristotle
The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
- 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
If a man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all.
- Quintus Tullius Cicero
For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
- Matthew Arnold
The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better.
- Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.
- Arthur Ashe
For me alone Don Quixote was born and I for him. His was the power of action, mine of writing.
- Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Oh, God, to know you is life. To serve You is freedom. To praise you is the soul's joy and delight. Guard me with the power of Your grace here and in all places. Now and at all times, forever. Amen.
- Saint Augustine Of Hippo
Narrow is the mansion of my soul; enlarge Thou it, that Thou mayest enter in. It is ruinous; repair Thou it. It has that within which must offend Thine eyes; I confess and know it. But who shall cleanse it? or to whom should I cry, save Thee? Lord, cleanse me from my secret faults, and spare Thy servant from the power of the enemy. I believe, and therefore do I speak.
- Saint Augustine Of Hippo
Never question the power of one! Throughout history it has been the actions of only one person who has in inspired the movement of change.
- Steve Maraboli
Harness the power of today. Seize the blessings of today! Make something happen, enhance your life, make someone laugh, help a friend, love, love, love!
- Steve Maraboli
The strength of a man isn't seen in the power of his arms. It's seen in the love with which he EMBRACES you.
- Steve Maraboli
Understanding the beauty of our humanity unlocks the power of our spirituality.
- Steve Maraboli
The value of a moment is immeasurable. The power of just ONE moment can propel you to success and happiness or chain you to failure and misery.
- Steve Maraboli
She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths which have only recently begun to be seen in Europe and seem even now too great for its common intelligence.
- Sri Aurobindo
The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance.
- Jane Austen
The power of doing any thing with quickness is always much prized by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance. - Mr Darcy
- Jane Austen
Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter.
- Jane Austen
He was no fool; he knew that love existed. But he also believed in
the power of the mind, and perhaps even more importantly, the power of the will. Frankly, he saw no
reason why love should be an involuntary thing.
If he didn't want to fall in love, then by damn, he wasn't going to. It was as simple as that. Ithad to be as
simple as that.
- Julia Quinn
To care about words, to have a stake in what is written, to believe in the power of books - this overwhelms the rest, and beside it one's life becomes very small.
- Paul Auster
One should never underestimate the power of books.
- Paul Auster
The American woman is more stylish than any other in the world. She understands the power of good style and has the confidence to feel comfortable.
- Max Azria
The Power of Less is perfect for achieving goals: Limit yourself to fewer goals, and you'll achieve more. At the same time, we'll look at ways to narrow your focus on your projects, so that you can complete them more effectively and move forward on your goals. We'll apply limitations to our projects to increase our effectiveness.
- Leo Babauta
Passionately obsessed by anything we love--an avalanche of magic flattens the way ahead, levels, rules, reasons, dissents, bears us with it over chasms, fears, doubts. Without the power of that love...
- Richard Bach
C-sections and epidurals should be blessings to women, but I suddenly wondered if they had become a means from which to steal the magic of the power of birth away from a generation of mothers.
- P C Cast
At the very least i should fear you. some would say that I should hate you."
"Many would say that."
"Yet i neither fear nor hate you."
"You-you are comforting me. Giving me sanctuary. Why, Grandma?" Aurox asked.
"Because I believe in the power of love. I believe in chosing Light over Darkness-happiness over hatred-trust over skeptism,
- P C Cast
I remember you as the wind that breathes upon the forest
The murmur of leaves rustling
The rays of the sun.
I remember you as the power of trees growing
And the bud breaking into bloosom.
You are in my thoughts whenever i praise
All that is noble and true.
- P C Cast
I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
It is not short of amazing, the power of a great idea to weld men together. There was in it a peculiar, intense, vital spirit if you will, that I have never felt before in any strike.
- Ray Stannard Baker
Yet I also suspected that what I was seeing was but a part of the truth and perhaps not even the most important part; beneath these faces, these clothes, accents, rudenesses, was power and sorrow, both unadmitted, unrealized, the power of inventors, the sorrow of the disconnected.
- James Baldwin
The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
- James Baldwin
I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen.
- J G Ballard
In any event, it's done, said Papa-which are the words of a coward to the power of ten.
- Muriel Barbery
I had spared the stag's life. The power of that life belonged to me as surely as it belonged to the man who had taken it.
- Leigh Bardugo
I think the touchstone is to give consumers a full, fair choice without the power of a monopoly operating system pushing them in a direction that free competition might or might not achieve.
- Jim Barksdale
A habitual disuse of physical forces totally destroys the moral; and men lose at once the power of protecting themselves, and of discerning the cause of their oppression.
- Joel Barlow
A life-whether seamstress or poet, farmer or king-is measured not by length, but by the worth of its deeds, and the power of its dreams.
- T A Barron
To write does not mean to convert the real into words but to make the power of the word real.
- Augusto Roa Bastos
The power of death signifies that this real world can only have a neutral image of life, that life's intimacy does not reveal it's dazzling consumption until the moment it gives out.
- Georges Bataille
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Mom has the Touch. She knows what flowers go with what occasions, what hors d'oeuvres work with what people. She believes passionately in the power of food to heal, restore, and stimulate relationships, and she has built a following of loyal customers who really hope she's right. If she's wrong, says Sonia, no one wants to know. (Thwonk)
- Joan Bauer
The power of fiction is that it gives us, as readers, the opportunity to move inside another human being, to look out through that person's eyes, hear with her ears, think with his thoughts, feel with her feelings. It is the only form of art which can accomplish that feat so deeply, so completely. And thus it is the perfect bridge for helping us coming to know the other - the other inside as well as outside ourselves. (x)
- Marion Dane Bauer
...It is the Law that while Evil, unopposed, may accomplish terrible deeds, the power of Good can never be overthrown when opposed to Evil..
- L Frank Baum
I trust so much in the power of the heart and the soul; I know that the answer to what we need to do next is in our own hearts. All we have to do is listen, then take that one step further and trust what we hear. We will be taught what we need to learn.
- Melody Beattie
The message that I gave on the - on the steps today was that you need to stand for those things that are right and empower the individual. Believe in the power of one person. Don't believe that you can't do it. Everybody wants - everybody wants a shot. That we can all agree on. Beyond that, it becomes politics. I'm not talking politics.
- Glenn Beck
There are two ways of persuading men of the truths of our religion; one by the power of reason, the other by the authority of the speaker.
We do not use the latter but the former. We do not say: 'You must believe that because Scripture, which says it, is divine,' but we say that it must be believed for such and such a reason. But these are feeble arguments, because reason can be bent in any direction.
- Blaise Pascal
All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.
- Albert Camus
With the power of conviction, there is no sacrifice.
- Pat Benatar
The capacity to accept suffering for the sake of goodness, truth and justice is an essential criterion of humanity, because if my own well-being and safety are ultimately more important than truth and justice, then the power of the stronger prevails, then violence and untruth reigns supreme.
- Pope Benedict Xvi
The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.
- Walter Benjamin
Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.
- Bo Bennett
The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.
- Jeremy Bentham
In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state.
- Peter L Berger
This new war, like the previous one, would be a test of the power of machines against people and places; whatever its causes and justifications, it would make the world worse. This was true of that new war, and it has been true of every new war since...
I knew too that this new war was not even new but was only the old one come again. And what caused it? It was caused, I thought, by people failing to love one another, failing to love their enemies.
- Wendell Berry
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
A Man having found a Lion in his path undertook to subdue him by the power of the human eye; and near by was a Rattlesnake engaged in fascinating a small bird. "How are you getting on, brother?" the Man called out to the other reptile, without removing his eyes from those of the Lion.
- Ambrose Bierce
Let us discuss why poetry has lost the power of making men brave.
- E M Forster
The power of "can't": The word "can't" makes strong people weak, blinds people who can see, saddens happy people, turns brave people into cowards, robs a genius of their brilliance, causes rich people to think poorly, and limits the achievements of that great person living inside us all.
- Robert Kiyosaki
Parental looks rely a lot on brow positioning. Whereas the Dad Look involves the lowering of the brow as a whole, the Mom Look takes advantage of the power of the single, raised brow. Of Doom.
- Susan Bischoff
You must never underestimate the power of the eyebrow.
- Jack Black
Even though mother's issues are not front page news, they touch us all personally, some more than others, and I believe passionately in the power of grassroots engagement.
- Joan Blades
It's the power of the brand. We've never formally advertised.
- Sara Blakely
I absolutely believe in the power of tithing and giving back. My own experience about all the blessings I've had in my life is that the more I give away, the more that comes back. That is the way life works, and that is the way energy works.
- Ken Blanchard
Modest, conventional expectations weren't enough to lure Adam Brown away from the power of drug addiction that ensnared him. Instead, the college dropout already in his mid-twenties found only the big, near-impossible dream of being a Navy SEAL captivating enough to consistently draw him to different choices.
- Eric Blehm
The power of beauty
Lies within our soul
And how we choose
To see everything
It is not found from
The strokes of a make-up brush
Nor the acceptance from others
- Apple Blossom
I shuddered to think how completely the insane were in the power of their keepers, and how one could weep and plead for release, and all of no avail, if the keepers were so minded.
- Nellie Bly
Film provides an opportunity to marry the power of ideas with the power of images.
- Steven Bochco
The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
- W E B Du Bois
Fruit is always the miraculous, the created; it is never the result of willing, but always a growth. The fruit of the Spirit is a gift of God, and only He can produce it. They who bear it know as little about it as the tree knows of its fruit. They know only the power of Him on whom their life depends
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
- Edward De Bono
The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.
- Daniel J Boorstin
For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth,
Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech,
To stir men's blood: I only speak right on;
I tell you that which you yourselves do know;
- William Shakespeare
If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good.
- James Boswell
Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
- Samuel Johnson
There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.
- Samuel Johnson
Exactly. They're stupid. Who cares?"
"I care. They bother me. And that's why I'm stupid. That makes me exponentially more stupid than stupid. I'm stupid to the power of stupid." She waved her hand. The moon blew away.
"That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard." I looked at her out of the corner of my eye.
- Kami Garcia
I care. They bother me. And that's why I'm stupid. That makes me exponentially more stupid than stupid. I'm stupid to the power of stupid.
- Kami Garcia
I have withstood the power of convictions a long time; and therefore I fear I shall be finally left of God.
- David Brainerd
Poor is the power of the lead that becomes bullets compared to the power of the hot metal that becomes types.
- Georg Brandes
People sometimes talk about the power of first impressions, and believe me, there is truth to it.
- Ann Brashares
It seemed to travel with her, to sweep her aloft in the power of song, so that she was moving in glory among the stars, and for a moment she, too, felt that the words Darkness and Light had no meaning, and only this melody was real.
- Madeleine L Engle
Forget your pain. It was what I said when I took Father's hand in the drawing room yesterday, what I repeated again tonight. But I didn't mean this. I must be careful. Yet what bothers me isn't the power of the magic or how, to a person, they've all accepted it as truth. No, what unsettles me the most is how much I want to believe it too.
- Libba Bray
Respect the past, trust in the future and believe in the power of the imagination.-
- Nancy B Brewer
... self-control is not control by oneself through one's own willpower but rather control of oneself through the power of the Holy Spirit.
- Jerry Bridges
Neither, I must say with all due respect, is it the power of teachers and students. Basically the true and real power is with working people of all colors, of all beliefs, of all national origins.
- Harry Bridges
We've seen a massive attack on the freedom of the web. Governments are realizing the power of this medium to organize people and they are trying to clamp down across the world, not just in places like China and North Korea; we're seeing bills in the United States, in Italy, all across the world.
- Sergey Brin
What you call magic is nothing more than an act of the imagination fired by the senses, then given shape by the power of your aura.
- Michael Scott
The power of human thought grows exponentially with the number of minds that share that thought.
- Dan Brown
He respected the power of faith, the benevolence of churches, the strength religion gave so many people... and yet, for him, the one intellectual suspension of disbelief that was imperative if one were truly going to "believe" had always proved too big an obstacle for his academic mind. "I want to believe," he heard himself say.
- Dan Brown
Take, therefore, what modern technology is capable of: the power of our moral sense allied to the power of communications and our ability to organize internationally.That, in my view, gives us the first opportunity as a community to fundamentally change the world.
- Gordon Brown
I have always been a firm believer in God and the power of prayer, though to be honest, my faith has made for alist of questions I definitely want answered after I'm gone.
- Nicholas Sparks
Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.
- Thomas Browne
What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Never underestimate the power of a simple tool.
- Craig Bruce
The power of the people and the power of reason are one.
- Georg Buchner
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
- George Bernard Shaw
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
- George Bernard Shaw
She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
- George Bernard Shaw
Unfortunately, in today's world we have to be reminded that the power of an oath derives from the fact that in it we ask God to bear witness to the promises we make with the implicit expectation that He will hold us accountable for the manner in which we honor them.
- James L Buckley
I believe in the power of weakness.
- Pat Buckley
The power of the computer is starting to spread.
- Bill Budge
If you have never known the power of God's love, then maybe it is because you have never asked to know it - I mean really asked, expecting an answer.
- Frederick Buechner
Not all powers are spectacular." Hestia looked at me. "Sometimes the hardest power to master is the power of yielding.
- Rick Riordan
Egyptians believe in the power of the sunrise. They believe each morning begins not just a new day, but a new world.
- Rick Riordan
Sometimes the hardest power to master is the power of yielding. -Hestia
- Rick Riordan
I look upon an increase in the power of the State with the greatest fear because, although while apparently doing good by minimizing exploitation, it does the greatest harm to mankind by destroying individuality which lies at the heart of all progress.
- Mahatma Gandhi
The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.
- Mahatma Gandhi
If we examine every stage of our lives, we find that from our first breath to our last we are under the constraint of circumstances. And yet we still possess the greatest of all freedoms, the power of developing our innermost selves in harmony with the moral order of the universe, and so winning peace of heart whatever obstacles we meet.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Forgotten was presented to me by the drama department at LWT as a concept and I found it immediately intriguing and very powerful. I was completely led by the power of the piece and its dramatic potential.
- Amanda Burton
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
- Leo Buscaglia
The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants.
- George W Bush
The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.
- Laura Bush
I really learned the power of the tube on Sesame Street and how it can influence a very young mind.
- Ruth Buzzi
That a man can change himself...and master his own destiny is the conclusion of every mind who is wide-awake to the power of right thought.(Christian D. Larson)
- Rhonda Byrne
I've always been intrigued by the power of secrets. When is it justifiable to keep them from the ones we love? And does keeping them irrevocably change who we are?
- Emily Giffin
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
- Voltaire
The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.
- Voltaire
Well, when I was younger, I lied all the time, because once you understand the power of lying, it's really like magic because you transform reality for people.
- Louis C K
Everything in life is miraculous. It rests within the power of each of us to awaken from a dragging nightmare of life made up of unimportant tasks and tedious useless little habits to see life as it really is, and to rejoice in its exquisite wonderfulness.
- James Branch Cabell
I may be alone in this, but I do sense the power of film, in that movies have the ability to literally change people's minds. That's pretty powerful stuff when you consider that.
- Nicolas Cage
My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.
- Carly Fiorina
Perhaps it is a testament to the power of modern marketing savvy that an obese man with heart disease and high blood pressure became one of the richest snake oil salesmen ever to live, selling a diet that promises to help you lose weight, to keep your heart healthy and to normalize your blood pressure.
- T Colin Campbell
Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate.
- Gilbert K 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 K Chesterton
True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.
- Gilbert K Chesterton
Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.
- Tony Robbins
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
- Tony Robbins
Never underestimate the power of a brillian stylist.
- Suzanne Collins
I can hear President Snow's voice in my head. 'On the seventy-fifth anniversary, as a reminder to the rebels that even the strongest among them cannot overcome the power of the capital, the male and female tributes will be reaped from their existing pool of victors.
- Suzanne Collins
The system has for its object an increase of persons that are to intervene between the producer and the consumer, living on the product of the land and labour of others, diminishing the power of the first, and increasing the number of the last.
- Henry Charles Carey
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
- George Carlin
The vampire's eyes were open, and he was staring at her intently. It was as though he were trying to speak to her with simply the power of a glare.
Alexia did not speak glare-ish.
- Gail Carriger
The power of noble deeds is to be preserved and passed on to the future.
- Joshua Chamberlain
If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.
- Oswald Chambers
The world is not moved by love or actions that are of human creation. And the church is not empowered to live differently from any other gathering of people without the Holy Spirit. But when believers live in the power of the Spirit, the evidence in their lives is supernatural. The church cannot help but be different, and the world cannot help but notice.
- Francis Chan
The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.
- Chanakya
These things were...well...they were dreams-made-real. And once dreams became real, they escaped the power of the dreamer and became their own deadly things, capable of independent action.
- Stephen King
Philosophy, if it cannot answer so many questions as we could wish, has at least the power of asking questions which increase the interest of the world, and show the strangeness and wonder lying just below the surface even in the commonest things of daily life.
- Bertrand Russell
Among these surprising possibilities, doubt suggests that perhaps there is no table at all. Philosophy, if it cannot answer so many questions as we could wish, has at least the power of asking questions which increase the interest of the world, and show the strangeness and wonder lying just below the surface even in the commonest things of daily life.
- Bertrand Russell
The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.
- Winston Churchill
The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
- Winston Churchill
The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Valor consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man cannot have his flank turned, cannot be out-generalled, but put him where you will, he stands. This can only be by his preferring truth to his past apprehension of truth; and his alert acceptance of it, from whatever quarter; the intrepid conviction that his laws, his relations to society, his Christianity, his world may at any time be superseded and decease.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We have become, by the power of a glorious evolutionary accident called intelligence, the stewards of life's continuity on earth. We did not ask for this role, but we cannot abjure it. We may not be suited to it, but here we are.
- Stephen Jay Gould
World-peace can be achieved when the power of love replaces the love of power.
- Sri Chinmoy
As I have studied the Bible and the Book of Mormon, I have come to know through the power of the Spirit of God, that these books contain the fullness of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
- Clayton Christensen
I have healed the sick by the power of the God. I have spoken with the gift of tongues.
- Clayton Christensen
Katherine Grey was born with the power of managing old ladies, dogs, and small boys, and she did it without any apparent sense of strain.
- Agatha Christie
Men have the power of thinking that they may avoid sin.
- John Chrysostom
If a man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
The first issue to be settled is whether socialism has a right to exist Are its allegations concerning the present system true? Is industry proceeding on a principle of fraud? I wish to test the power of recent economic theory to give an exact answer to this question.
- John Bates Clark
Not stories told by wolf or man to frighten children, of Wolfbane and of werewolves, of grasht and goblins and of silly vampires, fables to frighten cowards with the threat of evil and of sin. But the power that lives beyond those stories, and makes them strong indeed, that lives in nightmares and in sleep. That is ribbed into the very fabric of conscious being. The power of love and hate.
- David Clement Davies
from Bill Clinton speech-
People are more impressed by the power of our example rather than the example of our power..
- Bill Clinton
They should be impressed by the power of our example, not the example of our power.
- Bill Clinton
People around the world have always been more impressed by the power of our example than by the example of our power.
- Bill Clinton
Because primarily of the power of the Internet, people of modest means can band together and amass vast sums of money that can change the world for some public good if they all agree.
- William J Clinton
The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet.
- William Cobbett
I wanted a woman who had the body and the power of a real pilot. I interviewed hundreds of woman, but Jessica just seemed perfect for the part. I couldn't get her out of my head. I continued to bother her and she finally gave in.
- Rob Cohen
Mrs. Earwig (pronounced Ar-wige, at least by Mrs. Earwig) believed in shiny wands, and magical amulets and mystic runes and the power of the stars, while Granny Weatherwax in cups of tea, dry biscuits, washing every morning in cold water and, well...mostly she believed in Granny Weatherwax.
- Terry Pratchett
Words are the litmus paper of the minds. If you find yourself in the power of someone who will use the word "commence" in cold blood, go somewhere else very quickly. But if they say "Enter", don't stop to pack.
- Terry Pratchett
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
- Robert A Heinlein
The source and center of all man's creative power... is his power of making images, or the power of imagination.
- Robert Collier
He has a number of curious facts in illustration of the power of mere goodness to protect against outrage.
- George Combe
Without the power of the Industrial Union behind it, Democracy can only enter the State as the victim enters the gullet of the Serpent.
- James Connolly
He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
- Joseph Conrad
My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel it is, before all, to make you see. That and no more, and it is everything. If I succeed, you shall find there according to your deserts: encouragement, consolation, fear, charm all you demand; and, perhaps, also that glimpse of truth for which you have forgotten to ask.
- Joseph Conrad
We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our personality is built up; to be without the power of imagining them is to be a low-grade idiot.
- Charles Horton Cooley
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