Quotes of: Powerful-thing Keyword

power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutley

John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

At 18 to 20, I was probably one of the quickest things around, at the peak of my powers.

Michael Owen

If you're lucky enough to be famous, then it's great if you can use your fame and the power your fame gives you to draw attention to things that really matter.

Michael Schumacher

Our minds are incredibly powerful things.

Daniel Willey

Stupidity isn't the only thing humans carry inside of them. I'll show you that we also have the power to purify.

Yellow Tanabe

I have a really powerful urge to see things work.

Bill Budge

THAT'S WHAT POWERFUL MEN DO TO THIS COUNTRY - IT'S A BEAUTIFUL, SEXY, BREATHLESS COUNTRY, AND POWERFUL MEN USE IT TO TREAT THEMSELVES TO A THRILL! THEY SAY THEY LOVE IT BUT THEY DON'T MEAN IT. THEY SAY THINGS TO MAKE THEMSELVES APPEAR GOOD - THEY MAK...

A Prayer for Owen Meany

A preoccupation with power - black power, student power, flower power, poor power, 'the power structure' - is the striking aspect of the American political scene at the moment. Oddly enough, obsession with power goes hand in hand with a fear of power...

Carey McWilliams

One day you see a man walking down the road, the next day you come to his yard and find him dead... Why is it that he cannot do what the living do? It is because the thing that gave power to these parts is no longer there. That is the duppy, and that...

Charles A. Cornell

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

God gives us His strength by giving us His vision of things. Our seeing people as innocent is the only way to achieve God’s peace.

Enchanted Love: The Mystical Power Of Intimate Relationships

Power has always corrupted, my dear. Even the promise of power. It is a hard thing to look at through the fence for hundreds of years without wondering what it would be like on the other side.

All Fall Down

Power is violence, its promise, its deed. Power cares nothing for reason, nothing for justice, nothing for compassion. It is, in fact, the singular abnegation of these things – once the cloak of deceits is stripped away, this one truth is revealed.

Reaper's Gale

NEVER make ISSUES out of things especially wth children...the moment they become ISSUES..they are most likely to stay in their heads as issues of their lives ! That is where most adult ISSUES come from.....

Nucleus - Power Women: Lead from the Core

Leaders must be good listeners. It’s rule number one, and it’s the most powerful thing they can do to build trusted relationships.

Leading With Honor: Leadership Lessons from the Hanoi Hilton

Reality is non-directional, layered, and potential- all things at once and non-real in the sense that real is an unknown, so "real" is undefined and can not be experienced. Only your experience can be experienced, and that does not encompass everythi...

The Power of Perception

Procrastination threatens to rob us of those things that are most important in our lives.

The Power of Starting Something Stupid: How to Crush Fear, Make Dreams Happen, and Live without Regret

When things are good in your life, take the time to build and fortify your relationship with the Lord. Never become complacent about your relationship with Him, because there’s always room to grow DEEPER!

The Power of a Praying Woman

To understand karma, you must realize that thoughts are things. The very universe…is composed not of matter but of consciousness. Matter responds, far more than most people realize, to the power of thought. For will power directs energy, and energy...

Paramahansa Yoganandamahansa Yogananda

Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power an...

Wole Soyinka

I feel there's a power in theatre, but it's an indirect power. It's like the relationship of the sleeper to the unconscious. You discover things you can't afford to countenance in waking life. You can forget them, remember them a day later or not hav...

Tony Kushner