Because when you cared about people, you handed them a little piece of your heart, and with those hands, they had the power to cause pain.
I was one of those. I meddled with dark powers. I summoned demons. I ate the entire little cheese, including the rind.
Well-meaning, helpful, good-natured attitudes of mind have not come to be honored on account of their usefulness, but because they are states of richer souls that are capable of bestowing and have their value in the feeling of the plenitude of life.
I meditate So that I can inundate My entire being With the omnipotent power of peace.
The misunderstanding of passion and reason, as if the latter were an independent entity and not rather a system of relations between various passions and desires; and as if every passion did not possess its quantum of reason
It was necessary that millions of men in whose hands lay the real power -- the soldiers who fired, or transported provisions and guns -- should consent to carry out the will of these weak individuals...
There are politics in sexual relationships because they occur in the context of a society that assigns power based on gender and other systems of inequality and privilege.
Dean: If there is a greater power, why is it he can't get you a new sweater? Jamie: Because, he's too busy looking for your brain.
Memories are powerful that way. They can bring a person back to another place and time and make them laugh or cry all over again.
It is true that words have power, and one of the things they are able to do is get out of someone’s mouth before the speaker has the chance to stop them.
When nobody knows who you are, you have no power. But when nobody knows who you are, you have no weakness.
It’s so windy tonight the window is rattling. I guess it’s time to turn off my fan and turn on my anti-hurricane machine that’s powered by love.
If you try to buy my body, I’ll sell you my shadow. My shadow would make a great day laborer, because it’s solar powered.
I like make-up sex. My imagination is so much more powerful than reality that it’s just better when I make it up.
at the center of every fairy tale lay a truth that gave the story its power.
It's our faith that activates the power of God.
Captain Bradbury's right eyebrow had now become so closely entangled with his left that there seemed no hope of ever extricating it without the aid of powerful machinery.
Simply put, mind power is placing a request, or a wish, if you will, and trusting that somehow it will come to be.
One of the sad things about contemporary journalism is that it actually matters very little. The world now is almost inured to the power of journalism. The best journalism would manage to outrage people. And people are less and less inclined to outra...
The United States is the world's best hope, but if you fetter her in the interests and quarrels of other nations, if you tangle her in the intrigues of Europe, you will destroy her power for good and endanger her very existence.
Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.
