The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear.
But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there.
Bad art has the power to deform a people just as good art generates new reflection, growth, vision, and hope.
Such is the amazing power of stories to link us to our past and lead us all the way back to the present.
If Beyoncé Knowles and Miley Cyrus represent the latest branch of feminism, then surely the male-dominated power elite must be aroused with concern.
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.
There's something really powerful when I, for example, hear Bob Marley's 'Exodus' - we know where we're going. We know where we're from.
If you've written a powerful book about a woman and your publisher then puts a 'feminine' image on the cover, it 'types' the book.
Books can capture injustices in a way that stays with you and makes you want to do something about them. That's why they are so powerful.
Everything which made Abraham Lincoln the loved and honored man he was, it is in the power of the humblest American boy to imitate.
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.
