Quotes of: Staying-power Keyword

A powerful friend becomes a powerful enemy.

Ethiopian

The greatest power is not money power, but political power.

Walter Annenberg

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Holiday Hospital Stay Poetry Collection 2012: An Original Poetry Collection Inspired by My 2012 Holiday Hospital Stay

Political skills are essential career competencies to get ahead and stay ahead.

The Politics of Promotion: How High-Achieving Women Get Ahead and Stay Ahead

Some things change, and some things stay the same. The things that change are the things that I wish stayed the same, and the things that stay the same are the things I wish changed.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

What the Dalai Lama had to resolve was whether to stay in Tibet or leave. He wanted to stay, but staying would have meant the total destruction of Tibet, because he would have died and that would have ripped the heart out of his people.

Martin Scorsese

Cooper: Tell him Murph. Make him stay. Make... Make him stay Murph. Make him stay Murph! Don't let me leave Murph! Do... Don't let me leave Murph! NO, NO, NO, NO! Murph: It was you.

Interstellar

There is no limit of degradation to which power cannot bring anyone even with the loftiest principles. We would hope that being unprepared for power, they would be ineffective. Their task is not "seize power" (those who use this term show that they s...

Anarchism: Arguments For and Against

The power to lead is the power to mislead, and the power to mislead is the power to destroy.

Thomas S. Monson

During my stay in the United States, I witnessed the spontaneous formation of committees in a country for the pursuit and prosecution of a man who had committed a great crime. In Europe, a criminal is an unhappy man who is struggling for his life aga...

Democracy in America

Your self-confidence is simply the part of your brain that tells you whether or not you should try something different or new or believe in yourself, and just as a Jedi truly believes that it is within their power to control their thoughts and stay i...

Develop Jedi Self-Confidence: Unleash the Force within You

It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past. No punishment has ...

Eichmann in Jerusalem : A Report on the Banality of Evil

Fame turns out to be a powerful instrument of grace because it humbles its chosen victims in a hurry. You sail into it, your canvas swelled with grandiosity, and when your fifteen minutes are over and you are becalmed, you realize that grandiosity ca...

Fear of Fifty

These leaders are like the drug lords who ruled America’s ghettos in the crack age, men (and some women) interested in just two things: staying in power, and hoovering up enough of what’s left of the cash on their blocks to drive around in an Esc...

Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America

The demons of despair will always try to hold you back from enjoying your life. Either they will try to haunt you with your failures of your past or torment you with your worries of the future. Refuse to entertain them by rising above and staying in ...

Hearts for Haiti: Book of Poetry & Inspiration

And yet, Lacedaemonians, you still delay, and fail to see that peace stays longest with those, who are not more careful to use their power justly than to show their determination not to submit to injustice. On the contrary, your ideal of fair dealing...

The History of the Peloponnesian War

Marrying Cal, the scion of a family whose wealth dated to the Industrial Revolution and had multiplied through every turn of the American economy since, ought to have eased her worries about failing to climb as high as she believed she deserved. But ...

The Submission

I never trusted the women i was involved with to tell the truth,because the truth never changes,but as i knew so well,people did.I knew it wasn't everyone,some women did have staying power,but it was impossible to tell which ones they were.Women shou...

My Legendary Girlfriend

The potential, for anything, was overwhelming to a degree that bothered him. It wasn’t, he thought, the idea of power. It certainly wasn’t that nervous feeling T.C. would get in the pit of his stomach when he knew he had an incredible opportunity...

Stays Crunchy in Milk

as a lobbyist he had long ago concluded there was no difference in how Democrats and Republicans conducted the business of government. The game stayed the same: It was always about favors and friends, and who controlled the dough. Party labels were m...

Sick Puppy

But it was a matter of great consolation to her, that what brought evil to herself would bring good to her sister; and Elinor, on the other hand, suspecting that it would not be in her power to avoid Edward entirely, comforted herself by thinking, th...

Sense and Sensibility