Quotes of: Power-structure Keyword

The word of the mouth is a very powerful thing and you can say something about someone that is not necessarily true, but people will believe it and it will become a constant reminder and every time that your name is bought up, that will come up.

Blu Cantrell

Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time, Be crushed by the spirit of light.

Boris Pasternak

The attacks on the World Trade Center and the current economic recession, which is particularly powerful in New York City, have put a number of building plans on hold for the time being.

David Rockefeller

Children have very sharp powers of observation - probably sharper than adults - yet at the same time their emotional reactions are murky and much more primitive.

Donna Tartt

Easy was, like, spending time with Jennifer on set. Difficult stuff about character is, it was a little bit like just being the only one with no superhuman powers.

Goran Visnjic

I was brought up in an environment to believe that my opinion was important, that I had something to say, and that it was no less powerful because I was young, a girl, at the time really unattractive, definitely not the smartest kid in the class.

Megyn Kelly

By the Declaration of Independence, dreaded by the foes an for a time doubtfully viewed by many of the friends of America, everything stood on a new and more respectable footing, both with regard to the operations of war or negotiations with foreign ...

Mercy Otis Warren

The 1890s was an intensely patriotic decade for Americans. It was a time of neo-imperialism, when the European powers and the United States were establishing their flags around the globe.

Robert Dallek

One of the most powerful devices is to distort time, to go from human time to atomic time, geologic time. Sometimes you can actually accomplish that, with one unexpected word choice.

Robert Morgan

There's a basic principle about consumer electronics: it gets more powerful all the time and it gets cheaper all the time. that's true of all types of consumer electronics.

Trip Hawkins

We should conceive of ourselves not as rulers of Earth, but as highly powerful, conscious stewards: The Earth is given to us in trust, and we can screw it up or make it work well and sustainably.

Kim Stanley Robinson

The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.

Arthur Schopenhauer

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt: There ain't nothin' more powerful than the odor of mendacity!

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Father Brendan Flynn: Doubt can be a bond as powerful and sustaining as certainty. When you are lost, you are not alone.

Doubt

Dracula: I shall rise from my own death, to avenge hers with all the powers of darkness.

Dracula

Voldemort: There is no good and evil. There is only power, and those too weak to seek it.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Alfred: Please excuse my father. It makes him feel young and powerful to treat us like idiot children.

Legends of the Fall

Carl Van Loon: Your powers are a gift from God or whoever the hell wrote your life script.

Limitless

Cartman: [mocking the mole] Shut of ze power Cartman, zis is very important Cartman.

South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut

Willy Wonka: [referring to the soda-powered Wonkamobile] Behold the Wonkamobile. A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory