Cyclops: Wait a second! You said this machine draws its power from Magneto, and that it weakened him. Prof. Charles Francis Xavier: Yes, in fact it nearly killed him. Wolverine: He's going to transfer his power to Rogue and use her to power the machi...
I don't really know what it is about vampires that makes them such a powerful symbol, metaphor, whatever in people's consciousness. But I do know they're tremendously powerful. I mean, there's a vampire on 'Sesame Street.' And Count Chocula. I don't ...
If the planters carry politics into the fields they will find it bad business.
Fashion is more powerful than any tyrant.
Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
The barking dog gives you no power -- it gives you fear.
Standing still is never an option so long as inequities remain embedded in the very fabric of the culture.
The violence of language consists in its effort to capture the ineffable and, hence, to destroy it, to seize hold of that which must remain elusive for language to operate as a living thing.
Palin was a political Hail Mary, a long bomb in the closing minutes of a game that John McCain and Co. were certain to lose. They didn't care if she had the policy or political or emotional capacity to serve as vice president, let alone president. Th...
I got my first camera when I was 21 - my boyfriend gave it to me for my birthday - but at that point politics was my life, and I viewed the camera as a tool for expressing my political beliefs rather than as an art medium.
Time is in essence separation; separation produces pain; pain poesis; and poesis is what constitutes the unending stream of human life in this world.
We become full human agents, capable of understanding ourselves, and hence of defining our identity, through our acquisition of rich human languages of expression.
POLITENESS must carry the true weight of SINCERITY and INTEGRITY for it to be a true act of POLITENESS.
But the thing about Literature is, well, basically it encapsulates all the disciplines - it's history, philosophy, politics, sexual politics, sociology, psychology, linguistics, science. Literature is mankind's organised response to the world around ...
As a traveler, I've often found that the more a culture differs from my own, the more I am struck by its essential humanity.
If I could turn you on, if I could drive you out of your wretched mind, if I could tell you I would let you know.
If you do politics the right way, I believe, you can actually make people's lives better. And integrity is the minimum ante to get into the game.
China is a political beast, with the Party at its heart, and the importance of political and regulatory due diligence cannot be overstated.
We are now parents. The love for our offspring has opened up fresh fountains of love for each other. Edwin Stanton to his wife.
Like Midas, the Rationalist is always in the unfortunate position of not being able to touch anything, without transforming it into an abstraction; he can never get a square meal of experience.
Unfortunately, the true force which propels our endless political disputes, our constant struggles for political advantage, is often not our burning concern for democracy, it is often of our dedication to the principle of the rule of law.
