Imagination tends to be truly useful if accompanied by the power of mental control - if the worlds in one's head can be purposefully manipulated and distinguished from the real one outside it.
There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.
When you are cast for a role, it's because of everything that makes you who you are in that moment in time. No one else has that. That's a unique, powerful thing to hold.
If feminism wasn't powerful, if feminism wasn't influential, people wouldn't spend so much time putting it down.
Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come - even if it came in a - living room - or to someone - with a humble living.
I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.
Radagast: A dark power has found its way back into the world.
Justine Hanna: You prefer the normal routine. We fuck, then you lose the power of speech.
Saruman: The power of Isengard is at your command, Sauron, Lord of the Earth.
Mystique: [as Bobby] Never use your power against another mutant.
It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own.
In a democracy there are only two types of power: there's organized people and organized money, and organized money only wins when people aren't organized.
Don't underestimate the cosmetic power of sunglasses. It's worth spending a bit of money on a quality pair. I usually go for Dior or Louis Vuitton.
Let us face it: in the world today, money and economic strength remain more powerful arguments than the number of people you represent.
Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.
At fifteen one is first beginning to realize that everything isn't money and power in this world, and is casting about for joys that do not turn to dross in one's hands.
The nature of honesty is that if someone has information or knows something about you that you don't want heard, then they have power over you.
If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression.
For the victor peace means the preservation of the position of power which he has secured. For the vanquished it means resigning himself to the position left to him.
In missionary work, as in all else, preparation precedes power. Encouragement to prepare while still very young can make a tremendous difference.
Nothing exasperates the spirit in man more than power which seems unconquerable and which makes impotent all protest.
