Quotes of: Powerful-man Keyword

The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.

E. B. White

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.

Camryn Manheim

It is not according to my mode of doing things, to bring a suit against a man that I have the power in my own hands to punish.

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Woody Allen sets are very quiet. Extraordinary sense of power from a man who doesn't do anything except just stand there.

F. Murray Abraham

The powers of a man's mind are directly proportioned to the quantity of coffee he drinks.

James Mackintosh

As a woman who has some sort of power, you have to have a man that can take that. It's hard to find those men.

Jessica Simpson

By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.

George Santayana

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

Robert South

A typical smart phone has more computing power than Apollo 11 when it landed a man on the moon.

Nancy Gibbs

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Abraham Lincoln

What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.

Boris Pasternak

A man becomes as attractive as an attractive woman when he becomes successful and is publicly noted. Power's an aphrodisiac.

Curtis Jackson

On a day when secrets shall be out The man shall have no power nor any helper.

Various

If you ignore what a man desires, and you deny the very source of his power.

Walter Lippmann

He is a free man, not because is in a poition of political power and influence that you will never be able to achieve, and not because he has more character and heart in his fingertip than you have in your entire being, but because he is a man, and i...

The Black Banner

This is the most enormous extension of vision of which life is capable: the projection of itself into other lives. This is the lonely, magnificent power of humanity. It is . . . the supreme epitome of the reaching out.

The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature

Every man with a little leisure and enough money for railway tickets, every man, indeed, who knows how to read, has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

Jesting Pilate

man is free, in so far as he has the power of contradicting himself and his essential nature. Man is free even from his freedom; that is, he can surrender his humanity

Systematic Theology, Vol 2: Existence and the Christ

The only crime of the Government is that it governs. The unpardonable sin of the supreme power is that it is supreme. I do not curse you for being cruel. I do not curse you (though I might) for being kind. I curse you for being safe!

The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

Walking is the only form of transportation in which a man proceeds erect - like a man - on his own legs, under his own power. There is immense satisfaction in that.

Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast