[I]t is the writer's duty to write fiction which promotes virtue, the good, the beautiful, and above all, the true.... It is the writer's duty to hate injustice, to defy the powerful, and to speak for the voiceless. To be... the severest critics of our own societies.
- Edward Abbey
Simply because humankind have the power now to meddle or 'manage' or 'exercise stewardship' in every nook and cranny of the world does not mean that we have a right to do so. Even less, the obligation.
- Edward Abbey
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
In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to motivate them to give as much to the lives of others as they would give to their own; and to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves.
- Aberjhani
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
The irrational thoughts were the ones with the power to burn holes in your gut.
- Keith Ablow
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
The federal government neither has the power to site transmission lines, nor do we build them. That's done, as people know, in their own communities. The siting decisions and the permitting is done at the local level, or by state governments if it's interstate in nature. And federal government - this is one area we have no authority.
- Spencer Abraham
...Let me say that I do think decency and civilization would insist that the writer take sides with the powerless. Clearly, there's no moral obligation to write in any particular way. But there is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless. I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his powerless subjects.
- Chinua Achebe
What kind of power was it if everybody knew that it would never be used? Better to say that it was not there, that it was no more than the power in the anus of the proud dog who tried to put out a furnace with his puny fart.... He turned the yam with a stick.
- Chinua Achebe
There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.
- Chinua Achebe
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
The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people's hands, that is, to give them the power at all times to defend it in the legislature and in the courts of justice.
- John Adams
The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.
- Walter Lippmann
Oh, and she told me that men want only one thing.
And on that note, I must give praise and thanks to the powers that be. I don't want much else from them either.
- Darynda Jones
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
Be quiet or I'll be forced to flick you."
"Ooh," he mocked. "The ultimate threat. I don't think I've ever been flicked before."
"Are you suggesting I can't hurt you?"
"On the contrary, I think you have the power to do great damage.
- Alexandra Adornetto
Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.
- Theodor Adorno
The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.
- Theodor Adorno
I never knew I had the power to hurt him, only that he possessed the power to hurt me.
- Ann Aguirre
My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage.
- Clay Aiken
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
Knowledge was always the power that kept the Universe in its place and the stars turning in their orbits.
- Paulo Coelho
We must love because we are loved by God. We must be conscious of death if we are to have a proper understanding of life. We must struggle in order to grow, but without falling into the trap of the power we gain through that struggle, because we know that power is worthless. Finally, we must accept that our eternal soul is, at this moment, caught in the web of time with all its opportunities and its limitations.
- Paulo Coelho
Somewhere along the line, organized religion stopped being about faith, and started being about who had the power to keep the faith. You said that the purpose of religion was to bring people together. But does it, really? Or does it-knowingly, purposefully, and intentionally--break them apart?
- Jodi Picoult
If God wanted us to act on instinct, we wouldn't have the power of reason.
- Jodi Picoult
To be strong, and beautiful, and go round making music all the time. Yes, she could do that, and with a very earnest prayer Polly asked for the strength of an upright soul, the beauty of a tender heart, the power to make her life a sweet and stirring song, helpful while it lasted, remembered when it died.
- Louisa May Alcott
The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.
- Louisa May Alcott
We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.
- Louisa May Alcott
If someone wanted to have a grudge against me, or didn't agree with my lifestyle, the way I breathed, the space I took up on this planet, they had an open door to 'report' to the powers that be.
- Mark Alders
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
Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.
- Muhammad Ali
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
one must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us."
"I'm not sure a book has ever changed me," said Will. "well, there is one volume that promises to teach one how to turn oneself into an entire flock of sheep---
- Cassandra Clare
She had never imagined she had the power to make someone else so happy. And not a magical power, either--a purely human one.
- Cassandra Clare
How strange to have the power to literally transform yourself into other people, and yet be so unable to put yourself in their place.
- Cassandra Clare
(The fact that this was a fairly accurate portrait of my own mother is a quick indicator of how difficult it once was for me to tell the difference between myself and the powerful woman who had raised me.)
- Elizabeth Gilbert
If people don't think they have the power to solve their problems, they won't even think about how to solve them.
- Saul Alinsky
The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
- J Martin Kohe
She'd always known he didn't love her. But it was easier to bear when he didn't know she loved him. That way they were even. Now he knew he had all the power.
- Sarah Addison Allen
Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.
- John Ruskin
A skilled Transition Team leader will set the general goals for a Transition, and then confer on the other team leaders working with him the power to implement those goals.
- Richard V Allen
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
What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.
- 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
To go elsewhere would mean starting all over. Learning as a child does. I have been a child already. I will not yield one bit, one speck of the power and influence I have now.
- Aaron Allston
There is a fallacy that the powerful emotion of youth mellows with time. Not true. One learns to control and suppress it. But it doesn't lessen. It simply hides and concentrates itself in more discreet places. When one accidentally stumbles into one of these abysses, the pain is spectacular.
- Nicole Krauss
There were a lot of illegal, deadly things stored in Beckett's car, but the only thing he kept hidden was the CD he now pulled out from under the driver's seat. He slipped it in the player and turned on the power, letting the classical music sweep over him like a cool breeze. It was the soundtrack of his boys. The music that saved them. Blake's music.
- Debra Anastasia
It is because good is always stronger than evil. Always remember that, Antonio. The smallest bit of good can stand against all the powers of evil in the world and it will emerge triumphant.
- Rudolfo Anaya
Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total well-being, we also have the power to choose positive behaviors and responses. In that choice we change our every experience of life!
- Greg Anderson
When you want to take over a city, you have to destroy the illusion of safety it provides. You have to hit the large well-protected establishments, find the powerful people who run them and are viewed as invincible, and kill them. You want to destroy the morale first. Once the people's resolve is gone and everyone is scared for their own skin, the city is yours.
- Ilona Andrews
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
No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.
- Barbara De Angelis
Whatever you fear most has no power--it is your fear that has the power
- Oprah Winfrey
The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
- Oprah Winfrey
Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.
- Oprah Winfrey
Every natural form is latent within us, originates in the soul whose essence is eternity, whose essence we cannot know but which most often intimates itself to us as the power to love and create.
- Hermann Hesse
We believe no more in Bonaparte's fighting merely for the liberties of the seas than in Great Britain's fighting for the liberties of mankind. The object is the same, to draw to themselves the power, the wealth and the resources of other nations.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
Yes, across the board, these gentlemen understand they have the power to make a difference and even educate people to injustices that are occurring in their worlds.
- Alexis Arguello
He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act
- Plato
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
It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.
- 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
Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.
- Saint Basil
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
I stared at the doors and rewound the evening wondering how I got myself in this latest predicament. Without lemon drops to blame (I had diet with my spicy beef burrito), I could only blame the power tools. Now what normal girl got turned on by power tools? I was so weird!
- Kristen Ashley
Heroes are made by the paths they choose, not the powers they are graced with.
- Brodi Ashton
Who loses hope first? And who never gives up? Because it's not the supernatural abilities that set mythical characters apart. It's the decisions the human characters make, in impossible situations, that have us still talking about them centuries later. Heroes are made by the paths they choose, not the powers they are graced with.
- Brodi Ashton
He'd heard about Holly putting some magical whammy on him, bringing to life the legend of the Chosen that gave a vampire the power to exist on sexual energy rather than blood. Forced to have sex on a regular basis. Doctor's orders. Lucky bastard.
- Sharon Ashwood
The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence.
- Mary Astell
The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.
- Brooks Atkinson
Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.
- Margaret Atwood
We're ankle deep in blood, and all because we ate the birds, we ate them a long time ago, when we still had the power to say no.
- Margaret Atwood
The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
- Thomas Carlyle
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
- Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
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
Such is the strength of the burden of habit. Here I have the power to be but do not wish it. There I wish to be but lacks the power. On both grounds, I'm in misery.
- Saint Augustine Of Hippo
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
- Marcus Aurelius
It is within our power not to make a judgement about something, and so not disturb our minds; for nothing in itself possesses the power to form our judgements.
- Marcus Aurelius
Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.
- Marcus Aurelius
The power to change your life lies in the simplest of steps.
- Steve Maraboli
We all make mistakes, have struggles, and even regret things in our past. But you are not your mistakes, you are not your struggles, and you are here NOW with the power to shape your day and your future.
- Steve Maraboli
Once you understand how powerful you are within, you exponentially increase the power and potentiality of everything outside of you.
- Steve Maraboli
Why would you give someone the power to tell you that you can't go further when they don't even know how far you've come?
- Steve Maraboli
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
When you truly embrace your human impermanence you connect with the power you have, and influence you have, over the time you have.
- Steve Maraboli
Today is a new day. Don't let your history interfere with your destiny! Let today be the day you stop being a victim of your circumstances and start taking action towards the life you want. You have the power and the time to shape your life. Break free from the poisonous victim mentality and embrace the truth of your greatness. You were not meant for a mundane or mediocre life!
- 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
I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.
- Saint Teresa Of Avila
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
Know that ever about you stands the reality of love, and each moment you have the power to transform your world by what you have learned.
- Richard Bach
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.
- Richard Bach
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
You're never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true.
- 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
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a new heaven first found the power thereto in his own hell.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
By a great man, however, we mean a man who, because of his spiritual gifts, his character, and other qualities, deserves to be called great and who as a result earns the power to influence others.
- Fredrik Bajer
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
In overlooking, denying, evading this complexity--which is nothing more than the disquieting complexity of ourselves--we are diminished and we perish; only within this web of ambiguity, paradox, this hunger, danger, darkness, can we find at once ourselves and the power that will free us from ourselves. It is this power of revelation that is the business of the novelist, this journey toward a more vast reality which must take precedence over other claims.
- James Baldwin
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
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
People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives.
- Albert Bandura
In fact I think now we've reached a point now, where the powers that be really have sort of vested interest in all of us being stoned out as much as possible all the time so we don't know what's going on, and we don't care.
- Lester Bangs
Vulnerability, like he had the power to hurt
her or pleasure her in a way no other man
could. For the first time, he was uncomfortable with the idea of having complete power over her
- Maya Banks
While I have never been a regular churchgoer, I'm anything but immune to the power and the majesty of the religious experience.
- Joseph Barbera
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
You begged me for clemency once," he called over the dead reaches of the Fold, over the hungry shrieks of the horrors he had made. "Is this your idea of mercy?"
Another bullet hit the sand, only inches from us. Yes, I thought as the power rose up inside me, the mercy you taught me.
- Leigh Bardugo
The stag had been showing me my strength-not just the price of mercy but the power it bestowed. And mercy was something the Darkling would never understand.
- Leigh Bardugo
Magic is the first and last religion of the world. It has the power to make us whole, to open our eyes to the Dominions and return us to ourselves. Everything that isn't us is also ourselves. We're joined to everything that was, is and will be. From one end of the Imajica to another. From the tiniest mote dancing over this flame to the Godhead Itself.
- Clive Barker
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
But I've been turning over in my mind the question of nostalgia, and whether I suffer from it. I certainly don't get soggy at the memory of some childhood knickknack; nor do I want to deceive myself sentimentally about something that wasn't even true at the timelove of the old school, and so on. But if nostalgia means the powerful recollection of strong emotionsand a regret that such feelings are no longer present in our livesthen I plead guilty.
- Julian Barnes
He walks in daylight. But, like a demon, he's weaker then. He seems to have the powers of a god, but no followers. What would you call him? (Xypher)
I wouldn't call him anything that didn't make him deliriously happy. (Simone)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Because I've lost my children, too, and I know the ache that lives inside the heart that no amount of solace or alcohol will squelch. I know what it's like to have the powers of a god and to not be able to hold the one thing that means the most to me. And if you think for one minute that I would ever serve that to another being, even Artemis, who I'd like to torture for eternity, then go ahead and call down your army on me. I would deserve whatever death they give. (Sin)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
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
Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.
- Roland Barthes
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
The sight of nature fascinates, the family tie has a sweet enchantment and patriotism gives the religious spirit a fiery devotion to the powers that it reveres.
- Bruno Bauer
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
You don't have to believe in Hell. All you need is to hear someone who really does, who believes in it this minute, today, the way people believe in 1685 all you have to do is see his face, his voice when he says the word... and than you know that anyone who can imagine Hell has the power to make it real for other people.
- Peter S Beagle
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
Look, calling somebody in a wheelchair handicapable doesnt all of a sudden give them the power to climb stairs or the ability to grab Ho-Hos off the top shelf.
- Glenn Beck
Genuine heroism for man is still the power to support contradictions, no matter how glaring or hopeless they may seem.
- Ernest Becker
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
CALIGULA: I'm the only true artist Rome has known - the only one, believe me - to match his inspiration with his deeds.
CHEREA: That's only a matter of having the power.
CALIGULA: Quite true. Other artists create to compensate for their lack of power. I don't need to make a work of art; I live it.
- Albert Camus
It is supposed that power corrupts,' the caterpillar said in a voice as untroubled as time itself. yet the powerful are often corrupt before they are powerful. In fact, I find that they too often become powerful by being corrupt. Whether real or perceived, a lack of power can also corrupt.
- Frank Beddor
You have to have the power to employ pain, to repent, to be illuminated, you must have the opportunity and even the time.
- Saul Bellow
Boredom is an instrument of social control. Power is the power to impose boredom, to command stasis, to combine this stasis with anguish. The real tedium, deep tedium, is seasoned with terror and with death.
- Saul Bellow
In every community there is a class of people profoundly dangerous to the rest. I don't mean the criminals. For them we have punitive sanctions. I mean the leaders. Invariably the most dangerous people seek the power. While in the parlors of indignation the right-thinking citizen brings his heart to a boil. (p. 51)
- Saul Bellow
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
Man's gift of seeing resemblances is nothing other than a rudiment of the powerful compulsion in former times to become and behave like something else.
- Walter Benjamin
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
Give yourself an even greater challenge than the one you are trying to master and you will develop the powers necessary to overcome the original difficulty.
- William Bennett
The moment you begin a serious study of the scriptures, you will find greater power to resist temptation. You will find the power to avoid deception. You will find the power to stay on the straight and narrow path.... When you begin to hunger & thirst after those words, you will find life in greater abundance.
- Ezra Taft Benson
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
It's all a question of imagination. Our responsibility begins with the power to imagine.
- Haruki Murakami
The power to concentrate was the most important thing. Living without this power would be like opening one's eyes without seeing anything.
- Haruki Murakami
Each one of us has the power and must develop the will to be the hero of his own life. We believe in goals, in purposes, in achievement and in the joy of living.
- Andrew Bernstein
All the world, as a matter of fact, is a mosaic of little places invisible to the powers that be. And in the eyes of the powers that be all these invisible places do not add up to a visible place. They add up to words and numbers.
- Wendell Berry
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
There is a force that drives everything in this universe;
you may call it anything you like, names that fit in tongue;
when you're close to it, you have the power to do anything.
- Toba Beta
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
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
- Ambrose Bierce
Let us discuss why poetry has lost the power of making men brave.
- E M Forster
That's not the part of the story that I'm interested in, anyway. The part that I'm interested in is all the personal stuff. I tried to base the powers on family archetypes.
- Brad Bird
He saw clearly the truth other men didn't. If you gave anyone the power to hurt you, soon enough, they were going to use it.
- Jessica Bird
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
At the point the money hits your hands, you have the power to determine your financial future.
- 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
Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.
- Jim Bishop
Don't let me get into your head. I will twist it and alter it until even you won't recognize yourself. You cannot begin to comprehend the power I possess. I can harm you in any way impossible.
- Troy Bisson
- Edward Abbey
Simply because humankind have the power now to meddle or 'manage' or 'exercise stewardship' in every nook and cranny of the world does not mean that we have a right to do so. Even less, the obligation.
- Edward Abbey
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
In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to motivate them to give as much to the lives of others as they would give to their own; and to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves.
- Aberjhani
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
The irrational thoughts were the ones with the power to burn holes in your gut.
- Keith Ablow
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
The federal government neither has the power to site transmission lines, nor do we build them. That's done, as people know, in their own communities. The siting decisions and the permitting is done at the local level, or by state governments if it's interstate in nature. And federal government - this is one area we have no authority.
- Spencer Abraham
...Let me say that I do think decency and civilization would insist that the writer take sides with the powerless. Clearly, there's no moral obligation to write in any particular way. But there is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless. I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his powerless subjects.
- Chinua Achebe
What kind of power was it if everybody knew that it would never be used? Better to say that it was not there, that it was no more than the power in the anus of the proud dog who tried to put out a furnace with his puny fart.... He turned the yam with a stick.
- Chinua Achebe
There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.
- Chinua Achebe
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
The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people's hands, that is, to give them the power at all times to defend it in the legislature and in the courts of justice.
- John Adams
The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.
- Walter Lippmann
Oh, and she told me that men want only one thing.
And on that note, I must give praise and thanks to the powers that be. I don't want much else from them either.
- Darynda Jones
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
Be quiet or I'll be forced to flick you."
"Ooh," he mocked. "The ultimate threat. I don't think I've ever been flicked before."
"Are you suggesting I can't hurt you?"
"On the contrary, I think you have the power to do great damage.
- Alexandra Adornetto
Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.
- Theodor Adorno
The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.
- Theodor Adorno
I never knew I had the power to hurt him, only that he possessed the power to hurt me.
- Ann Aguirre
My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage.
- Clay Aiken
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
Knowledge was always the power that kept the Universe in its place and the stars turning in their orbits.
- Paulo Coelho
We must love because we are loved by God. We must be conscious of death if we are to have a proper understanding of life. We must struggle in order to grow, but without falling into the trap of the power we gain through that struggle, because we know that power is worthless. Finally, we must accept that our eternal soul is, at this moment, caught in the web of time with all its opportunities and its limitations.
- Paulo Coelho
Somewhere along the line, organized religion stopped being about faith, and started being about who had the power to keep the faith. You said that the purpose of religion was to bring people together. But does it, really? Or does it-knowingly, purposefully, and intentionally--break them apart?
- Jodi Picoult
If God wanted us to act on instinct, we wouldn't have the power of reason.
- Jodi Picoult
To be strong, and beautiful, and go round making music all the time. Yes, she could do that, and with a very earnest prayer Polly asked for the strength of an upright soul, the beauty of a tender heart, the power to make her life a sweet and stirring song, helpful while it lasted, remembered when it died.
- Louisa May Alcott
The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.
- Louisa May Alcott
We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.
- Louisa May Alcott
If someone wanted to have a grudge against me, or didn't agree with my lifestyle, the way I breathed, the space I took up on this planet, they had an open door to 'report' to the powers that be.
- Mark Alders
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
Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.
- Muhammad Ali
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
one must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us."
"I'm not sure a book has ever changed me," said Will. "well, there is one volume that promises to teach one how to turn oneself into an entire flock of sheep---
- Cassandra Clare
She had never imagined she had the power to make someone else so happy. And not a magical power, either--a purely human one.
- Cassandra Clare
How strange to have the power to literally transform yourself into other people, and yet be so unable to put yourself in their place.
- Cassandra Clare
(The fact that this was a fairly accurate portrait of my own mother is a quick indicator of how difficult it once was for me to tell the difference between myself and the powerful woman who had raised me.)
- Elizabeth Gilbert
If people don't think they have the power to solve their problems, they won't even think about how to solve them.
- Saul Alinsky
The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
- J Martin Kohe
She'd always known he didn't love her. But it was easier to bear when he didn't know she loved him. That way they were even. Now he knew he had all the power.
- Sarah Addison Allen
Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.
- John Ruskin
A skilled Transition Team leader will set the general goals for a Transition, and then confer on the other team leaders working with him the power to implement those goals.
- Richard V Allen
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
What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.
- 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
To go elsewhere would mean starting all over. Learning as a child does. I have been a child already. I will not yield one bit, one speck of the power and influence I have now.
- Aaron Allston
There is a fallacy that the powerful emotion of youth mellows with time. Not true. One learns to control and suppress it. But it doesn't lessen. It simply hides and concentrates itself in more discreet places. When one accidentally stumbles into one of these abysses, the pain is spectacular.
- Nicole Krauss
There were a lot of illegal, deadly things stored in Beckett's car, but the only thing he kept hidden was the CD he now pulled out from under the driver's seat. He slipped it in the player and turned on the power, letting the classical music sweep over him like a cool breeze. It was the soundtrack of his boys. The music that saved them. Blake's music.
- Debra Anastasia
It is because good is always stronger than evil. Always remember that, Antonio. The smallest bit of good can stand against all the powers of evil in the world and it will emerge triumphant.
- Rudolfo Anaya
Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total well-being, we also have the power to choose positive behaviors and responses. In that choice we change our every experience of life!
- Greg Anderson
When you want to take over a city, you have to destroy the illusion of safety it provides. You have to hit the large well-protected establishments, find the powerful people who run them and are viewed as invincible, and kill them. You want to destroy the morale first. Once the people's resolve is gone and everyone is scared for their own skin, the city is yours.
- Ilona Andrews
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
No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.
- Barbara De Angelis
Whatever you fear most has no power--it is your fear that has the power
- Oprah Winfrey
The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
- Oprah Winfrey
Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.
- Oprah Winfrey
Every natural form is latent within us, originates in the soul whose essence is eternity, whose essence we cannot know but which most often intimates itself to us as the power to love and create.
- Hermann Hesse
We believe no more in Bonaparte's fighting merely for the liberties of the seas than in Great Britain's fighting for the liberties of mankind. The object is the same, to draw to themselves the power, the wealth and the resources of other nations.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
Yes, across the board, these gentlemen understand they have the power to make a difference and even educate people to injustices that are occurring in their worlds.
- Alexis Arguello
He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act
- Plato
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
It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.
- 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
Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.
- Saint Basil
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
I stared at the doors and rewound the evening wondering how I got myself in this latest predicament. Without lemon drops to blame (I had diet with my spicy beef burrito), I could only blame the power tools. Now what normal girl got turned on by power tools? I was so weird!
- Kristen Ashley
Heroes are made by the paths they choose, not the powers they are graced with.
- Brodi Ashton
Who loses hope first? And who never gives up? Because it's not the supernatural abilities that set mythical characters apart. It's the decisions the human characters make, in impossible situations, that have us still talking about them centuries later. Heroes are made by the paths they choose, not the powers they are graced with.
- Brodi Ashton
He'd heard about Holly putting some magical whammy on him, bringing to life the legend of the Chosen that gave a vampire the power to exist on sexual energy rather than blood. Forced to have sex on a regular basis. Doctor's orders. Lucky bastard.
- Sharon Ashwood
The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence.
- Mary Astell
The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.
- Brooks Atkinson
Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.
- Margaret Atwood
We're ankle deep in blood, and all because we ate the birds, we ate them a long time ago, when we still had the power to say no.
- Margaret Atwood
The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
- Thomas Carlyle
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
- Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
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
Such is the strength of the burden of habit. Here I have the power to be but do not wish it. There I wish to be but lacks the power. On both grounds, I'm in misery.
- Saint Augustine Of Hippo
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
- Marcus Aurelius
It is within our power not to make a judgement about something, and so not disturb our minds; for nothing in itself possesses the power to form our judgements.
- Marcus Aurelius
Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.
- Marcus Aurelius
The power to change your life lies in the simplest of steps.
- Steve Maraboli
We all make mistakes, have struggles, and even regret things in our past. But you are not your mistakes, you are not your struggles, and you are here NOW with the power to shape your day and your future.
- Steve Maraboli
Once you understand how powerful you are within, you exponentially increase the power and potentiality of everything outside of you.
- Steve Maraboli
Why would you give someone the power to tell you that you can't go further when they don't even know how far you've come?
- Steve Maraboli
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
When you truly embrace your human impermanence you connect with the power you have, and influence you have, over the time you have.
- Steve Maraboli
Today is a new day. Don't let your history interfere with your destiny! Let today be the day you stop being a victim of your circumstances and start taking action towards the life you want. You have the power and the time to shape your life. Break free from the poisonous victim mentality and embrace the truth of your greatness. You were not meant for a mundane or mediocre life!
- 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
I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.
- Saint Teresa Of Avila
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
Know that ever about you stands the reality of love, and each moment you have the power to transform your world by what you have learned.
- Richard Bach
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.
- Richard Bach
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
You're never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true.
- 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
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a new heaven first found the power thereto in his own hell.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
By a great man, however, we mean a man who, because of his spiritual gifts, his character, and other qualities, deserves to be called great and who as a result earns the power to influence others.
- Fredrik Bajer
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
In overlooking, denying, evading this complexity--which is nothing more than the disquieting complexity of ourselves--we are diminished and we perish; only within this web of ambiguity, paradox, this hunger, danger, darkness, can we find at once ourselves and the power that will free us from ourselves. It is this power of revelation that is the business of the novelist, this journey toward a more vast reality which must take precedence over other claims.
- James Baldwin
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
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
People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives.
- Albert Bandura
In fact I think now we've reached a point now, where the powers that be really have sort of vested interest in all of us being stoned out as much as possible all the time so we don't know what's going on, and we don't care.
- Lester Bangs
Vulnerability, like he had the power to hurt
her or pleasure her in a way no other man
could. For the first time, he was uncomfortable with the idea of having complete power over her
- Maya Banks
While I have never been a regular churchgoer, I'm anything but immune to the power and the majesty of the religious experience.
- Joseph Barbera
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
You begged me for clemency once," he called over the dead reaches of the Fold, over the hungry shrieks of the horrors he had made. "Is this your idea of mercy?"
Another bullet hit the sand, only inches from us. Yes, I thought as the power rose up inside me, the mercy you taught me.
- Leigh Bardugo
The stag had been showing me my strength-not just the price of mercy but the power it bestowed. And mercy was something the Darkling would never understand.
- Leigh Bardugo
Magic is the first and last religion of the world. It has the power to make us whole, to open our eyes to the Dominions and return us to ourselves. Everything that isn't us is also ourselves. We're joined to everything that was, is and will be. From one end of the Imajica to another. From the tiniest mote dancing over this flame to the Godhead Itself.
- Clive Barker
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
But I've been turning over in my mind the question of nostalgia, and whether I suffer from it. I certainly don't get soggy at the memory of some childhood knickknack; nor do I want to deceive myself sentimentally about something that wasn't even true at the timelove of the old school, and so on. But if nostalgia means the powerful recollection of strong emotionsand a regret that such feelings are no longer present in our livesthen I plead guilty.
- Julian Barnes
He walks in daylight. But, like a demon, he's weaker then. He seems to have the powers of a god, but no followers. What would you call him? (Xypher)
I wouldn't call him anything that didn't make him deliriously happy. (Simone)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Because I've lost my children, too, and I know the ache that lives inside the heart that no amount of solace or alcohol will squelch. I know what it's like to have the powers of a god and to not be able to hold the one thing that means the most to me. And if you think for one minute that I would ever serve that to another being, even Artemis, who I'd like to torture for eternity, then go ahead and call down your army on me. I would deserve whatever death they give. (Sin)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
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
Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.
- Roland Barthes
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
The sight of nature fascinates, the family tie has a sweet enchantment and patriotism gives the religious spirit a fiery devotion to the powers that it reveres.
- Bruno Bauer
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
You don't have to believe in Hell. All you need is to hear someone who really does, who believes in it this minute, today, the way people believe in 1685 all you have to do is see his face, his voice when he says the word... and than you know that anyone who can imagine Hell has the power to make it real for other people.
- Peter S Beagle
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
Look, calling somebody in a wheelchair handicapable doesnt all of a sudden give them the power to climb stairs or the ability to grab Ho-Hos off the top shelf.
- Glenn Beck
Genuine heroism for man is still the power to support contradictions, no matter how glaring or hopeless they may seem.
- Ernest Becker
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
CALIGULA: I'm the only true artist Rome has known - the only one, believe me - to match his inspiration with his deeds.
CHEREA: That's only a matter of having the power.
CALIGULA: Quite true. Other artists create to compensate for their lack of power. I don't need to make a work of art; I live it.
- Albert Camus
It is supposed that power corrupts,' the caterpillar said in a voice as untroubled as time itself. yet the powerful are often corrupt before they are powerful. In fact, I find that they too often become powerful by being corrupt. Whether real or perceived, a lack of power can also corrupt.
- Frank Beddor
You have to have the power to employ pain, to repent, to be illuminated, you must have the opportunity and even the time.
- Saul Bellow
Boredom is an instrument of social control. Power is the power to impose boredom, to command stasis, to combine this stasis with anguish. The real tedium, deep tedium, is seasoned with terror and with death.
- Saul Bellow
In every community there is a class of people profoundly dangerous to the rest. I don't mean the criminals. For them we have punitive sanctions. I mean the leaders. Invariably the most dangerous people seek the power. While in the parlors of indignation the right-thinking citizen brings his heart to a boil. (p. 51)
- Saul Bellow
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
Man's gift of seeing resemblances is nothing other than a rudiment of the powerful compulsion in former times to become and behave like something else.
- Walter Benjamin
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
Give yourself an even greater challenge than the one you are trying to master and you will develop the powers necessary to overcome the original difficulty.
- William Bennett
The moment you begin a serious study of the scriptures, you will find greater power to resist temptation. You will find the power to avoid deception. You will find the power to stay on the straight and narrow path.... When you begin to hunger & thirst after those words, you will find life in greater abundance.
- Ezra Taft Benson
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
It's all a question of imagination. Our responsibility begins with the power to imagine.
- Haruki Murakami
The power to concentrate was the most important thing. Living without this power would be like opening one's eyes without seeing anything.
- Haruki Murakami
Each one of us has the power and must develop the will to be the hero of his own life. We believe in goals, in purposes, in achievement and in the joy of living.
- Andrew Bernstein
All the world, as a matter of fact, is a mosaic of little places invisible to the powers that be. And in the eyes of the powers that be all these invisible places do not add up to a visible place. They add up to words and numbers.
- Wendell Berry
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
There is a force that drives everything in this universe;
you may call it anything you like, names that fit in tongue;
when you're close to it, you have the power to do anything.
- Toba Beta
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
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
- Ambrose Bierce
Let us discuss why poetry has lost the power of making men brave.
- E M Forster
That's not the part of the story that I'm interested in, anyway. The part that I'm interested in is all the personal stuff. I tried to base the powers on family archetypes.
- Brad Bird
He saw clearly the truth other men didn't. If you gave anyone the power to hurt you, soon enough, they were going to use it.
- Jessica Bird
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
At the point the money hits your hands, you have the power to determine your financial future.
- 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
Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.
- Jim Bishop
Don't let me get into your head. I will twist it and alter it until even you won't recognize yourself. You cannot begin to comprehend the power I possess. I can harm you in any way impossible.
- Troy Bisson
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