Quotes of: Powerful-instrument Keyword

Nations, great nations have limitations. All nations have limitations. Even great powers have limitations.

Chuck Hagel

The French suffered such catastrophic losses in the First World War. It really was the end of them as a great world power, although they, quote, 'won.'

Edward Herrmann

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.

Joan Didion

I have great satisfaction in stating that our relations with France, Russia, and other powers continue on the most friendly basis.

James Monroe

We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.

Lyndon B. Johnson

There will be a meeting of the great powers who will disagree, and the next noise we hear will be the screeching of elevators going up and down from heaven to hell.

Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

Orison Swett Marden

Going into a shoot not fully knowing what I want to do - that excitement, that thing that happens, is just so powerful and makes such great pictures.

Terry Richardson

I realized that social media can be powerful force for good in the world and that acts of kindness can be scaled globally.

Amy Jo Martin

Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

Ayn Rand

Most people, 95% of people, are good people. It's the 5% who get seduced by power.

George Hickenlooper

In this culture, where entertainers and athletes wield such power, it seems only right to me that they try to make their influence a good one.

Pat Boone

He uses his good powers for evil, and that's when it gets to the dangerous side of it.

Rosario Dawson

We hate those in power in Washington D.C. and anything bad that happens to them is good for us.

Tom Metzger

It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.

Andrew Jackson

Holding our own government to account for the use of its power is, in my view, the highest mission of a U.S. news organization.

Barton Gellman

In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function. Its deliberative powers are paralyzed.

John Rawls

There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

But we both came to the decision that the powerful thing is to go into your fear, walk in there with it, don't walk away from it, and to try to be true to it.

Lee Tergesen

The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.

Noam Chomsky

In large commercial cities, the money power is, I fear irresistible. It is not by open corruption that it always, or even most generally, operates.

Roger B. Taney