The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.
Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.
I didn't grow up around wild horses, no. But I've appreciated their beauty and their power ever since I can remember.
Here is a fundamental conflict in educated society: We are not supposed to value beauty so highly, and yet who can defend against its sheer power to move, its rhetorical force?
Scientists are being portrayed by much of the power structure in politics and business as having a vested interest - that they're just out to get more grant money by exaggerating the threats.
But the basic difficulty still remains: It is the expansion of Federal power, about which I wish to express my alarm. How easily we embrace such business.
Women writers have been told, forever, that our stories were not valuable. Not as valuable as men's stories about wars, business, power.
I have set up several businesses as social businesses, and I am a great believer that the power of business should be used for good.
Although I don't like the way the Chinese do business, I continue to do business in China. I have to. They're the next world power.
There is not a single Muslim leader today who has the courage and commitment to defend Islam and Muslims, they are all in awe of the United States and other Western powers, and are indebted to them.
My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.
Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love.
He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.
You cannot represent cool. You've got to be cool. You've got to be authentic. I think, after all these years, that is how I define cool. It is being authentic. That is powerful.
I have snakes, three sharks, moray eels, piranhas, five scorpions and a bird spider. All of them are predators. They are dangerous but it's cool to have strong and powerful pets.
As women, we know that we must always find ways to change the process because the present institutions want to hold on to power and keep the status quo.
An occupying power has no right to make significant alterations in the character of the occupied society, to change the laws all around, without a strong security reason and so forth.
You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.
Furthermore, it is not distorting history to say that it was largely through the efforts and propaganda of our International Federation that the government of the U.S.S.R. was recognized by the majority of the great powers.
All, or nearly all, the advantage there is in fixing any constitutional limits to the power of a government, is simply to give notice to the government of the point at which it will meet with resistance.
