Quotes of: Powerful-force Keyword

Michael: My father is no different than any powerful man, any man with power, like a president or senator. Kay Adams: Do you know how naive you sound, Michael? Presidents and senators don't have men killed. Michael: Oh. Who's being naive, Kay?

The Godfather

Senator Roark: Power don't come from a badge or a gun. Power comes from lying. Lying big, and gettin' the whole damn world to play along with you. Once you got everybody agreeing with what they know in their hearts ain't true, you've got 'em by the b...

Sin City

The story being told in 'Star Wars' is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again. Power corrupts, and when you're in charge, you start doing things that you think ...

George Lucas

Like many traditional feminists, I became one of the boys, only better. For a while it gave me a buzz to win at their game, but ultimately, that kind of power just goes nowhere. Traditional feminism excludes men and so perpetuates conflict. I am not ...

Scilla Elworthy

Gratitude, like faith, is a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it grows, and the more power you have to use it on your behalf. If you do not practice gratefulness, its benefaction will go unnoticed, and your capacity to draw on its gifts will ...

Alan Cohen

True healers know that wellness is the order of the day, so they do not allow themselves, even for a moment, to see anything other than that. So, the power of the healer is in the power to influence the one who needs to be healed into a vibration tha...

Abraham Hicks

Rejoice, o my soul; To the True Source, God, all power belongs; Which abides forever. Rejoice, o my soul; It’s a witnessing privilege, To Christ’s resurrection power; Empowerment to greater works. Rejoice, o my soul; Don’t give in to comparison...

Love

Words! What power they hold. Once they have rooted in your psyche, it is difficult to escape them. Words can shape the future of a child and destroy the existence of an adult. Words are powerful. Be careful how you use them because once you have pron...

Vashti Quiroz-Vega

From the union of power and money, from the union of power and secrecy, from the union of government and science, from the union of government and art, from the union of science and money, from the union of ambition and ignorance, from the union of g...

Wendell Berry

I know more about my father than I used to know: I know he wanted to be a pilot in the war but could not, because the work he did was considered essential to the war effort… I know he grew up on a farm in the backwoods of Nova Scotia, where they di...

Cat's Eye

[R]eligion was the race's first (and worst) attempt to make sense of reality. It was the best the species could do at a time when we had no concept of physics, chemistry, biology or medicine. We did not know that we lived on a round planet, let alone...

The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever

Cruelty and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal.

A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael

Survival, it is called. Often it is accidental, sometimes it is engineered by creatures or forces that we have no conception of, always it is temporary.

Crossing to Safety

... the best way of killing a rose is to force it open when it is still only the promise of a bud.

The Cave

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Clouds of Witness

...seeking refuge from a world in which huge and mysterious forces were let loose to destruction.

Dragonfly in Amber

How true is the saying that man was forced to invent work in order to escape the strain of having to think.

Death on the Nile

Dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice.

Eleven Minutes

The cruelest thing you can do to someone is force them to hurt alone

The Enchantress Returns

Destiny doesn't ask you if you want it Syn, it just forces it into your lap and deal with it. -RYDER

Fighting Destiny

If you require force to promote your ideal, there is something wrong with your ideal.

Gods of Ruin: A Political Thriller