Quotes of: Executive-power Keyword

Except that love - that mysterious, vast, all-encompassing power - could not possibly be contained in a single word.

Seducing an Angel

Your powers of observation are formidable," Michael says and Darien giggles behind one perfectly manicured hand, like some sort of preppie geisha.

Snark and Circumstance

See, the world is full of things more powerful than us. But if you know how to catch a ride, you can go places,

Snow Crash

You will learn, but you have to act. You will be given, but you have to receive. Stretch your hands and take up your laurels by the power put in you!

Shaping the dream

The only value of this world lay in its power - at certain times - to suggest another world.

Songs of a Dead Dreamer

Sentence every immoral thought for detention and prosecution. Immorality is a powerful gadget that brings down great monuments of success. Don’t entertain immorality.

Shaping the dream

The objection to propaganda is not only its appeal to unreason, but still more the unfair advantage which it gives to the rich and powerful.

Sceptical Essays

Why should you, for a mere passing pleasure, risk the loss of those great powers with which you have been endowed?

The Sign of Four

This is the real power of joy, to make us certain that, beneath all grief, the most fundamental of realities is joy itself.

Sister Wendy's Meditations on Joy

I come from a place where everyone has great power, by your standards, and they steadfastly refuse to use it for self-aggrandizement ... anywhere ... ever.

Selection

Some things are so powerful and so beautiful that to see them will turn your soul inside out.

Single Dad Laughing

Hatred is the price that society extracts from its leaders for the honour, power and wealth it bestows unto them.

The Secret Red Book of Leadership

Let the power of yes take root in your heart and transform you life.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

It is in your power to withdraw yourself whenever you desire. Perfect tranquility within consists in the good ordering of the mind, the realm of your own.

Meditations

She encouraged herself to see her very small presence in the world as a good thing, a power, something that a hero might possess.

Mr. Fox

The power of things inheres in the memories they gather up inside them, and also in the vicissitudes of our imagination, and our memory--of this there is no doubt.

The Museum of Innocence

You’re saying the gods don’t have free will.” “The power to make mistakes,” Penny said. “Only we have that. Mortals.

The Magician King

People sometimes talk about the power of first impressions, and believe me, there is truth to it.

My Name Is Memory

The power to do was incredible. Incredibly isolating. If all places were the same to him, where did he belong?

MapHead: No.2

It is time to reverse this prejudice against conscious effort and to see the powers we gain through practice and discipline as eminently inspiring and even miraculous.

Mastery

These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television, but more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.

The Meaning of Sarkozy