In much of the world, there is a sense of an ultra-powerful CIA manipulating everything that happens, such as running the Arab Spring, running the Pakistani Taliban, etc. That is just nonsense.
In the long run, even a tyrannical government only has the power that the people confer on it and coming to understand history is the beginning of making things right.
If you're brave enough to love, and forgive, and call up the factofabulous memories... there's no curse in the world that has any power over you.
Music is a supernatural force on the earth. It has the power to transform the heart and mind.
Light and Darkness. One cannot exist without the other. There is no true Master, without the power of balance. ☥
Today, the technology is there to give early and normally ample warning when a powerful tornado approaches. When a tornado strikes, all of us are at risk.
Monsters almost always are culture's way of working out their fears and are thus inherently incredibly interesting and powerful.
Despite all of our efforts to control something, the world is much, much more powerful than us, and more deranged even than us.
I feel like the Internet has really freed everything up to an extent, hasn't it? That radio maybe doesn't have quite the power that it had before.
The Democrats just don't have a foreign policy that they're willing to defend, that they're willing to use to take down the president's. We're dealing with the power of suggestion here.
The super power that I would choose would be compassion. Because that's what I think it takes to make it through life-an understanding, a give and take. It saves an awful lot of resentment.
In order to restore our country to the principles on which it was founded, we need to elect leaders that believe in the principles of the party, not just the power of the party.
The blunt tools of legislation or union power can force a corporation to pay higher wages, but if employees don't create an equal amount of additional value, there's no net gain.
Merely that I have a World Wide Web page does not give me any power, any abilities, nor any status in the real world.
It is idle to waste time and discuss whether it was within our power and duty to see whether we could prepare a Bill better than the Remedial Bill.
Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.
I played a lot of sports and it's the plays in basketball that weren't worked out that are the ones that are just fantastic that you remember. We don't know the power that's within our own bodies.
It is feasible for someone who comes from a privileged background to understand the privilege they have had and to use the formal political arena in a way that would disperse power and engage with people in their own lives.
The Industrial Revolution caused a centuries-long shift in power to the West; globalization is now shifting the balance again.
A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
Had the decision belonged to Senator Kerry, Saddam hussein would still be in power today in Iraq. In fact, Saddam Hussein would almost certainly still be in control of Kuwait.
