Quotes of: Abuse-of-power Keyword

You may discover your purpose, but if you take it for granted, you will abuse yourself.

Leaders' Watchwords

Through PETA, we rescue animals in roadside zoos and circuses. They are some of the most abused animals in the country.

Sam Simon

Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.

Tacitus

Within the E.U., in a wider context, people are increasingly recognising the need to prevent the abuse of free movement.

Theresa May

For too long, Americans have fallen victim to financial abuses at the hands of predatory lenders that operate in the shadows.

Kay Hagan

First wrong by brow-beater abuses the body of law. And the revenge of brow-beaten announces that there is no law in state. Says Bhutta

M.K. Bhutta

The story of 'Prometheus' is the idea that if you're given a gift from the gods, do not abuse it, and do not think you can compete.

Ridley Scott

I hate it when people use the word 'sorry' aggressively, as in, 'Sorry, but I hate you.' Sorry's an important word, and it shouldn't be abused.

Robert Webb

The results of any traumatic experience, such as abuse, can only be resolved by experiencing, articulating, and judging every facet of the original experience within a process of careful therapeutic disclosure.

Alice Miller

When you live in an alcoholic family or an abusive family, you tiptoe, you don't want to step on any mines.

Glenn Beck

I certainly believe in limited government but protecting children against injury abuse is certainly inside my sphere of things that the government should do.

Mitch Daniels

Wendy Malick and Valerie Bertinelli make fun of me, but I take care of my health - I don't abuse it.

Betty White

I grew up in an abusive home and was told on a daily basis by my father that I would never amount to anything and that I looked like a boy.

Janice Dickinson

When you have police officers who abuse citizens, you erode public confidence in law enforcement. That makes the job of good police officers unsafe.

Mary Frances Berry

I had been, you know, held in the closet for two months and, you know, abused in all manner of ways. I was very good at doing what I was told.

Patty Hearst

I am so leading the life that I want and wanted and dreamed of as a kid. I'm trying very hard not to abuse it or take advantage of it.

Kevin Spacey

Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.

James F. Cooper

The abuse of detainees in U.S. custody has severely undermined our Nation's position in the world.

Diane Watson

I don't think the very fact that I'm a woman makes me suddenly more vulnerable or more inherently used and abused.

Esme Bianco

People have a right to have their lives witnessed; if we coexist with the systems that abuse people, then we have a duty to understand.

Beeban Kidron