Quotes of: Power-plant Keyword

Learn to fish (income), share your fish (community service), teach others to fish (multiply yourself). Then find another sidestream, with different fish (diversify income). And before THAT sidestream dries up, plant a garden (manage risk), like Thoma...

Jennifer Ritchie Payette

It is a more rational belief that man may become a brute than that a brute may become a man; and it is an easier faith that plants and animals may dwindle down into an elemental atom, than that this atom should embrace in its organization, and evolve...

David Brewster

The early influences, in many ways, were in Baltimore. I was passing open windows where there might be a radio playing something funky. In the summertime, sometimes there'd be a man sitting on a step, playing an acoustic guitar, playing some kind of ...

Jerry Leiber

Thorin Oakenshield: [Last words] Farewell, Master Burglar. Go back to your books... and your armchair... plant your trees, watch them grow. If more people... valued home above gold... this world would be a merrier... place...

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

Things don't just happen in this world of arising and passing away. We don't live in some kind of crazy, accidental universe. Things happen according to certain laws, laws of nature. Laws such as the law of karma, which teaches us that as a certain s...

Sharon Salzberg

Vic Munoz: Mr Robert Plant, he signed-signed my t-shirt five minutes ago! Please don't smear it. Oh, dear God. Please don't smear it. But five minutes ago, he touched this pen. He touched this pen!

Almost Famous

It is plainly evident that, in a country where land was to be had for the asking, fuel for the cutting, corn for the planting and harvesting, and game and fish for the least expenditure of labor, no man would long serve for another, and any system of...

Alice Morse Earle

For me, one of the major reasons to move beyond just the planting of trees was that I have tendency to look at the causes of a problem. We often preoccupy ourselves with the symptoms, whereas if we went to the root cause of the problems, we would be ...

Wangari Maathai

A woman has her Juno, just as a man has his Genius; they are names for the sacred power, the divine spark we each of us have in us. My Juno can't "get into" me, it is already my deepest self. The poet was speaking of Juno as if it were a person, a wo...

Lavinia

Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do so.

Biblical

Who has power in his hands has no need to lie; he uses violence.

Turkish

One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim.

Children of Dune

We accomplish much more when we are working WITH Him than when we are working for Him!

Coffee Hour with Chicklit Power A Cup of Encouragement for the Day

Your goodness must have some edge to it -- else it is none.

Culture, Behavior, Beauty, Books, Art, Eloquence, Power, Wealth, Illusions

Without inspiration, we’re all like a box of matches that will never be lit.

Chords of Strength: A Memoir of Soul, Song and the Power of Perseverance

Attention has its most powerful expression in purposeful action.

Change: Realizing Your Greatest Potential

It is the power of questions that embolden us and keep us as expectant children, all the while developing the power of human consciousness.

The Circle of Six: Emily's Quest

The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye.

The Conduct of Life: A Philosophical Reading

She was falling apart beneath my hands, and I was falling apart beneath her. My power was her power, and together, we sent each other soaring.

Declaration

It was a BuSab axiom that all power blocs tended toward aristocratic forms, that the descendants of decision makers dominated the power niches.

The Dosadi Experiment

The only thing worse than cruelty is delegated cruelty.

Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy