Quotes of: World-power Keyword

The sage of Nazareth may satisfy those who have never faced the problem of evil in their own lives; but to talk about an ideal to those who are under the thralldom of sin is a cruel mockery. Yet if Jesus was merely a man like the rest of men, then an...

Christianity and Liberalism

The Bretton Woods saga unfurled at a unique crossroads in modern history. An ascendant anticolonial superpower, the United States, used its economic leverage over an insolvent allied imperial power, Great Britain, to set the terms by which the latter...

The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order

I need a break after school," she told me later. "School is hard because a lot of people are in the room, so you get tired. I freak out if my mom plans a play date without telling me, because I don't want to hurt my friends' feelings. But I'd rather ...

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

Extroverts are more likely to take a quick-and-dirty approach to problem-solving, trading accuracy for speed, making increasing numbers of mistakes as they go, and abandoning ship altogether when the problem seems too difficult or frustrating. Introv...

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

Wal-Mart is so large, its reach so great, that it has created an ecosystem in which its suppliers and competitors, and their suppliers and competitors, and their customers, all operate. Wal-Mart sets the metabolism, it sets the rules, of that ecosyst...

The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works - and How It's Transforming the American Economy

You have immense power--power to overcome, power to achieve, power to possess, and power to prosper, making you incredibly irresistible.

Becoming Incredibly Irresistible: A Guide to Living the Abundant Life

The politicians think the journalists have power, the journalists think bankers have power, bankers think lawyers have power. The truth is, nobody has power.

Rory Stewart

The power to define the situation is the ultimate power.

Jerry Rubin

So long as we do not know definitely what we want, our forces will be scattered, and so long as our forces are scattered, we will accomplish but little, or fail entirely. When we know what we want, however, and proceed to work for it with all the pow...

Christian D. Larson

Words have power. The power to soothe. The power to skewer someone through the heart. The power to render someone speechless.

Collateral

All problems are illusions of the mind.

Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action.

Malcolm X

To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.

Rafael Correa

The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.

Malcolm X

But it is impossible to divide a cube into two cubes, or a fourth power into fourth powers, or generally any power beyond the square into like powers; of this I have found a remarkable demonstration. This margin is too narrow to contain it.

Pierre de Fermat

If we don't press in to the things of God, we will get sucked in to the things of this world!" EL

A Cup of Hope for the Day: Coffee Hour with Chicklit Power

I can't accept that a work of fiction should be either immoral or moral. It should merely show the world as it is and have no moral bias.

Earthly Powers

Love doesn’t rule the world. The lust for power and dominance over others is what drives men – always has, always will.

The Breaking Dawn

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Orison Swett Marden

We live on a planet that is amazing, beautiful, and full of wonder but not protected from powerful destructive forces of nature. We are capable of doing wonderful and selfless things but also self-absorbed and harmful things. This is the world we liv...

Adam Hamilton