Quotes of: Powerful-man Keyword

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

Winston Churchill

In any case I just cannot imagine attaching so much importance to any food or treat that I would grow irate or bitter at the mention of the suffering of animals. A pig to me will always seem more important than a pork rind. There is the risk here of ...

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

How can the strength of one man stand against Jake and an army of demons?" "He can," I countered, "if he has the power of Heaven on his side. After all, Christ was a man." "He was also the Son of God, there's a difference." "Do you think they could h...

Hades

A man's magic demonstrates what sort of person he is, what is held most deeply inside of him. There is no truer gauge of a man's character than the way in which he employs his strength, his power. I was not a murderer. I was not like Victor Sells. I ...

Storm Front

It is a secret which every intellectual man quickly learns, that, beyond the energy of his possessed and conscious intellect, he is capable of a new energy (as of an intellect doubled on itself), by abandonment to the nature of things; that, beside h...

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hub: Sometimes the things that may or may not be true are the things a man needs to believe in the most. That people are basically good; that honor, courage, and virtue mean everything; that power and money, money and power mean nothing; that good al...

Secondhand Lions

Government is nothing more than the combined force of society or the united power of the multitude for the peace, order, safety, good, and happiness of the people... There is no king or queen bee distinguished from all the others by size or figure or...

John Adams

At the approach of danger there are always two voices that speak with equal force in the heart of man: one very reasonably tells the man to consider the nature of the danger and the means of avoiding it; the other even more reasonable says that it is...

Leo Tolstoy

Regardless of whether you are a man or a woman, everyone births things into reality.

Chakra Awakening: Transform Your Reality Using Crystals, Color, Aromatherapy & the Power of Positive Thought

And I know an eighteenth charm, and that charm is the greatest of all, and that charm I can tell no man, for a secret that no one knows but you is the most powerful secret there can ever be.

American Gods

Mastering the art of seduction gives one a great power, and like any power, it's to be wielded with responsibility; a man who wields the art of seduction without a sense of responsibility and restraint is a walking proximity bomb of viral epidemics, ...

Mike Norton

Darth Vader: Your powers are weak, old man. Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi: You can't win, Darth. If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.

Star Wars

But the older he grew and the more intimately he came to know his brother, the oftener the thought occurred to him that the power of working for the general welfare – a power of which he felt himself entirely destitute – was not a virtue but rath...

Anna Karenina

What would man be without sunshine and the power of love; he would be nothing.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view.

Ernst Mach

Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers.

Gerrit Smith

There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man's reasoning powers.

Bernard Baruch

As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.

William Blake

He is a young man with a future of power and opportunity and we are young women destined to be either wives and mothers at the very best, or spinster parasites at the worst.

The Boleyn Inheritance

Woman's power lies in man's passion, and she knows how to use it, if man doesn't understand himself. He has only one choice: to be the tyrant over or the slave of woman.

Venus in Furs

Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great and powerful one.

The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible