Quotes of: Powerful-man Keyword

Scripture is wrought with a clear message of Jesus’ utter disregard for appearance and social rank. In Judean society, it was a major taboo for a man to even speak to a woman who was not his own wife or daughter; yet Jesus interacted regularly with...

The Mockingbird Parables: Transforming Lives Through the Power of Story

How often the priest had heard the same confession--Man was so limited: he hadn't even the ingenuity to invent a new vice: the animals knew as much. It was for this world that Christ had died: the more evil you saw and heard about you, the greater th...

The Power and the Glory

I had to find Mr. Brentwood. And I had to save him. Zeus, Inc. had saved the world 50 years ago when we had depleted our energy resources. The very same Zeus, Inc. that now powered a majority of the known world. And that power had come from the man h...

Zeus, Inc.

There is no limit of degradation to which power cannot bring anyone even with the loftiest principles. We would hope that being unprepared for power, they would be ineffective. Their task is not "seize power" (those who use this term show that they s...

Anarchism: Arguments For and Against

The power to lead is the power to mislead, and the power to mislead is the power to destroy.

Thomas S. Monson

Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.

Allegiant

Christianity set itself the goal of fulfilling man’s unattainable desires, but for that very reason ignored his attainable desires. By promising man eternal life, it deprived him of temporal life, by teaching him to trust in God’s help it took aw...

Lectures on the Essence of Religion

Freedom or prison--what's the difference? A man must develop unwavering will power subject only to his reason.

The First Circle

the illusion that power lies within the hands of the common man is more important than legitimate efficiency within the government.

The Black Banner

Your mind should be on one thing and one thing only: gaining enough power to be free to live your own purpose and not another man’s.

The Blackguard

The ego exists as a powerful force in Western man that cannot be dismissed or denied. The therapeutic goal is to integrate the ego with the body and its striving for pleasure and sexual fulfilment.

Bioenergetics

Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea.

Coming Up for Air

When a man is on the road to power he buys everyone a drink. Once elected he tries to close the saloons.

Road to Reckoning: A Novel

By my soul I swear, there is no power in the tongue of man to alter me.

The Merchant of Venice

Young man, names are powerful things. You don’t just go around using them for no reason.

The Lightning Thief

When man has love he is no longer at the mercy of forces greater than himself, for he, himself, becomes the powerful force

Love

What man does not seek the power of his dreams, and believe in his ability to match the grace of his illusions.

This Side of a Wilderness

Every decent con man knows that the simplest truth is more powerful than even the most elaborate lie.

Uncommon Criminals

It is beyond the power of the human intellect to encompass all the causes of any phenomenon. But the impulse to search into causes is inherent in man's very nature.

War and Peace

Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.

Samuel Johnson

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.

Thomas Carlyle