Quotes of: Government-power Keyword

Yawns are not the only infectious things out there besides germs. Giggles can spread from person to person. So can blushing. But maybe the most powerful infectious thing is the act of speaking the truth.

Vera Nazarian

People "at the top" are eager to attribute their position to their own intellect, savvy, and hard work. The reality is much more complicated. Personal connections, family environment, and what appears to be plain luck determine how successful a perso...

Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters

I'd been surprised by the depth of emotion that was invested in that curiously archaic phrase 'great power'. What would it mean, I'd asked myself, to the lives of working journalists, salaried technocrats and so on if India achieved 'great power stat...

Countdown

He (Comings) has in the past performed successful energy-converting experiments, creating a ringing resonance by injecting certain frequencies into piezo-electric crystals. When the crystal was in resonance with the plenum of space, the power output ...

Breakthrough Power: How Quantum-Leap New Energy Inventions Can Transform Our World

...nameless hideous monsters are freaking terrifying. You always fear what you don't know, what you don't understand, and the first step to having understanding of something is to know what to call it. It's a habit of mine to give names to anything I...

Skin Game

One of my goals is to reduce the possible negative moments in life that I can have direct influence over. Bad situations and events will inevitably happen in everyone's life, at some point, but your reaction can affect the situation more than the ini...

Mushroom Medicine: The Healing Power of Psilocybin & Sacred Entheogen History

Parvati has wrathful incarnations surely, As Durga, Kali, Shitala Devi, Tara, Chandi, She has benevolent forms like Katyayani, Kamalatmika, Bhuvaneshwari, Lalita, Gauri. Parvati as the Goddess of Power does be, Who source of all forms and of all bein...

Lord Shiv & Family: In English Rhyme

And do you know why we have not the power to attain this Stoic ideal? It is because we refuse to believe in our power. Nay, of a surety, there is something else which plays a part: it is because we are in love with our vices; we uphold them and prefe...

Letters from a Stoic

There is power in a Lady who trusts in God-a lady who has put all her eggs in God’s basket. Women possess some gift that touches the heart of God. This gift is so powerful that Jeremiah, the weeping prophet who was known for his great compassion fo...

The Proverbs 31 Lady: Unveiling Her Secrets Before Saying I Do

There is nothing in the world so difficult as that task of making up one's mind. Who is there that has not longed that the power and privilege of selection among alternatives should be taken away from him in some important crisis of his life, and tha...

Phineas Finn

Haters hate that’s what they do. Gossiper’s gossip. Doers do. Talkers talk. Workers work. Lovers love. Singers sing, worshipers worship. Fighters fight, winners win. Believers believe that’s what they do. Just find out what are you. So that you...

De philosopher Dj kyos

How many humans over thousands of years have stood thus with their horses, seeing in them the lines of universal perfection, the majesty of grace and power, feeling stronger and more beautiful themselves for their contact with the magical power of su...

Margot Page

There's always been something deeply disturbing about the Abbott government's attitude to women.

Richard Flanagan

Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I'm angry about bankers. About the government.

Terry Pratchett

The laws governed people’s happiness. To be lawless was to be happy.

Soulmates

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.

Letters of Thomas Jefferson

Isn’t the media supposed to keep government responsible?

The Third Buddha

Patriotism is merely deeply-rooted government brand loyalty.

Voice of Reason

Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.

War and Peace

We need a government that is what we are at our best. Smart, efficient, pragmatic and compassionate.

Deval Patrick

The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.

James Monroe