Quotes of: Powerful Keyword

It is, then, not simply a question of black power or white power, but of how meaningfully to reenfranchise power. This, as I think Martin Luther King understood, is the real point, the real gift to America, of the struggle of the black people. In acc...

The Hidden Wound

Journey through the Power of the Rainbow represents a condensed compendium of literary efforts from a life dedicated to transforming the themes of injustice, grief, and despair that we all encounter during some unavoidable point of our existence into...

Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

Truly powerful people have great humility. They do not try to impress, they do not try to be influential. They simply are. People are magnetically drawn to them. They are most often very silent and focused, aware of their core selves. ... They never ...

Living with Joy: Keys to Personal Power and Spiritual Transformation

bitch power is the juice, the sweat, the blood that keeps pop music going. Rick James helped me understand the lesson of the eighth-grade dance: Bitch power rules the world. If the girls don't like the music, they sit down and stop the show. You gott...

Love Is a Mix Tape

This effort [to establish racism, sexism and homophobia as morally heinous in law] also casts the law in particular and the state more generally as neutral arbiters of injury rather than as themselves invested with the power to injure. Thus, the effo...

States of Injury: Power and Freedom in Late Modernity

I think it is important to recognize one’s power, one’s capacities, and one’s dreams. We were actually talking about this in the last men’s group we had. We were talking about these dreams they had as kids and how they just disappeared. They ...

To the Survivors

The Power of Less is perfect for achieving goals: Limit yourself to fewer goals, and you’ll achieve more. At the same time, we’ll look at ways to narrow your focus on your projects, so that you can complete them more effectively and move forward ...

The Power Of Less: The Fine Art of Limiting Yourself to the Essential

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

The present is a battleground . . . where rival what-ifs compete to become the future 'what-is.' How does one what-if prevail over its adversaries? The answer . . . 'Military and political power, of course!' is a postponement, for what is it that dir...

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

The happiness of being envied is glamour. Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your experience with those who envy you. You are observed with interest but you do not observe with interest - if you do, ...

Ways of Seeing

In a nutshell, the process they [abusers in a ritual abuse group] use on survivors is designed to: break the will and personality of the person until they become as nothing... with no will of their own...no identity...then they... rebuild the person ...

Who Dares Wins

There is no power like that of prevailing prayer - of Abraham pleading for Sodom, Jacob wrestling in the stillness of the night, Moses standing in the breach, Hannah intoxicated with sorrow, David heartbroken with remorse and grief, Jesus in sweat an...

Samuel Chadwick

A woman has her Juno, just as a man has his Genius; they are names for the sacred power, the divine spark we each of us have in us. My Juno can't "get into" me, it is already my deepest self. The poet was speaking of Juno as if it were a person, a wo...

Lavinia

Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do so.

Biblical

Who has power in his hands has no need to lie; he uses violence.

Turkish

One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim.

Children of Dune

We accomplish much more when we are working WITH Him than when we are working for Him!

Coffee Hour with Chicklit Power A Cup of Encouragement for the Day

Your goodness must have some edge to it -- else it is none.

Culture, Behavior, Beauty, Books, Art, Eloquence, Power, Wealth, Illusions

Without inspiration, we’re all like a box of matches that will never be lit.

Chords of Strength: A Memoir of Soul, Song and the Power of Perseverance

Attention has its most powerful expression in purposeful action.

Change: Realizing Your Greatest Potential

It is the power of questions that embolden us and keep us as expectant children, all the while developing the power of human consciousness.

The Circle of Six: Emily's Quest