Quotes of: Powerful-man Keyword

From: The Crown of Telus She opened her eyes, saw the crown sitting on her bedside table, and wished that it was all a dream. The crown of Trist was nothing special. It had no gemstones, no gold or silver filigree; instead it was simple, a metal circ...

William Laws

The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants.

George W. Bush

What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.

Isabel Allende

Knowledge is power, power corrupts. Study hard, be evil.

Anonymus

I know that every atom of life in all this universe is bound up together. I know that pebble cannot be thrown into the ocean without distrubing every drop of water in the sea. I know that every life is inextricably mixed and woven with every other li...

Evidence of Things Unseen

A man doesn't know till he tries it how killing uncongenial work is, and how it destroys the power of doing what one's fit for, even if there's time for both.

The Custom of the Country

Power resides only where men believe it resides. [...] A shadow on the wall, yet shadows can kill. And ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow.

A Clash of Kings

Whatever is above will be managed by the powers above you. Don’t live as a man, pretending to be God. Do what you can do; leave what you can’t to God!

Daily Drive 365

...The arbitrary power of the Government is unlimited, and unexampled in history; freedom of the Press, of opinion and of movement are as thoroughly exterminated as though the proclamation of the Rights of Man had never been.

Darkness at Noon

Man with his new powers became rich like Midas but all that he touched had gone dead and cold.

English Literature in the Sixteenth Century excluding Drama

Running an expedition can bring out the worst in a man. It can make you a power-crazed monster.

House of the Tiger King: The Quest for a Lost City

Man-made computers are limited in their performance by finite processing speed and memory. So, too, the cosmic computer is limited in power by its age and the finite speed of light.

Paul Davies

Man is constantly being assured today that he has more power than ever before in history, but his daily experience is one of powerlessness.

Ideas Have Consequences

A sign of power in a man is not only when people follow what he suggests, but also when people make a conscious effort to do the exact opposite of what he suggests.

Killosophy

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

A Room of One's Own

Even if a man has everything - money, power, the key to eternal life - he still is nothing if he is without a family to love him and for him to love.

Saving Anya

The greatest create of power you have on earth, whether you are an angel, a spirit, a man or woman or child is to help others.

Servant of the Bones

A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss.

Nature

And I must believe that man has the power to know the right, to choose between good and evil and know that his choice has made a difference...

The Mists of Avalon

I do not think that a man's rise to power is necessarily the climax of his life or that his loss of office should be equated with his fall.

The Prophet Armed: Trotsky, 1879-1921

John Mandrake was an attractive young man, and the scent of power hung about him, sweet and intoxicating, like honeysuckle in the evening air.

Ptolemy's Gate