Top 1200 Power Plants Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Beautiful revelations of power are often written by the guy who got kicked around and didn’t have any power.

Black Power alone is no more insurance against social injustice than white power.

The competition of social power with State power is always disadvantaged, since the State can arrange the terms of competition to suit itself, even to the point of outlawing any exercise of social power whatever in the premises; in other words, giving itself a monopoly.

We are a nation founded on distrust of government power, and questioning that power is essential to promoting transparency and accountability.

Words that arise spontaneously out of the state of presence are charged with spiritual power: the power to awaken.

The human diet consists of just nine plants: corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet, beans, barley, rye and oats.

But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.

Power might feel tasty and good in the moment, but it will never be satisfying, never fill you up. Yep, no matter how much power you get, you will always feel empty. You just keep wanting more and more power.

Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.

Everyone knows the power of a song and it takes you back to that place. Just that power of words can heal.

Since day one, my inception, when I came into the world - I had my eyes on power. The WWE championship is power.

Pythagoras used to say that he had received as a gift from Mercury the perpetual transmigration of his soul, so that it was constantly transmigrating and passing into all sorts of plants or animals.

Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power.

When we experience the power of the Self, there is an absence of fear, there is no compulsion to control, and no struggle for approval or external power.

Our country needs power for its economic growth, and clean, green power is the best option.

Land health is the capacity for self-renewal in the soils, waters, plants, and animals that collectively comprise the land.

Cynics who say power is all that counts in politics forget that power without ideas is just improvisation.

If ... it is not in my power to arrive at the knowledge of any truth, I may at least do what is in my power, namely, suspend judgement.

My sense was that most of the elected officials in Washington - in their heart of hearts - really believe that the system can't be too bad because it produced them. And when people in power can stay in power they do very little to tinker with the apparatus that put them in power. We've seen it time after time after time.

Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking.

There is a supreme power and ruling force which pervades and rules the boundless universe. You are a part of this power

You can have the power to destroy, but it doesn't give you the power to reform, or improve, or build.

It's very personal in California to live within hours, and sometimes just a few miles, of earthquake faults when nuclear plants were being built.

I think the purpose of veganism is an appreciation for plants and veggies and fruit and to just eating cleaner... If you're going to go vegan, then really learn how to be.

I love indoor plants. It makes any room feel open, fresh and homey. Keeping them alive is always a fun challenge for me!

Art is transformative. It's not 2+2=4. It works like the sea. It changes geography through its constant and relentless movement, just the way plants and water shape the world.

Coercive power is the curse of the universe, coactive power, the enrichment and advancement of every human soul.

Her other mother smiled brightly and the hair on her head drifted like plants under the sea.

This evidence is overwhelming at this point. You eat more plants, you eat less other stuff, you live longer.

The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed.

Get a composter and let nature breakdown your compostable trash and use the remains as mulch for your plants.

That all may be so, but when I begin to exercise that power I am not conscious of the power, but only of the limitations imposed on me.

The truth of art consists in its power to break the monopoly that those in power exercise by defining what is real.

The love of power comes from a lack of the most important power, that of living a life of eternity with every creature.

Having power and being in a position of power can really blur your judgement, and it's not always that clear.

The contest of strength is not only a contest of military and economic power, but also a contest of human power and morale. Military and economic power is necessarily wielded by people.

Consciousness begins when brains acquire the power, the simple power I must add, of telling a story.

... the Power who gave a power, by its mere existence, signifies that it must be brought out towards perfection.

Choice is the doorway to our creative power. To unleash this power, we must begin from the state of beingness.

The real spiritual power is enabling beings to realize the nature of the mind. That's the power of Buddha activity.

I don't have power or money and one-sided media support or the inclination to stoop to any level for the sake of power.

The power of light is always bigger than the power of darkness.

In a democracy, the citizens are supposed to have all the power, and the government is supposed to be the means by which the citizens exercise that power. But when you have a surveillance state, the state has all the power, and citizens have very little.

Plants and flowers of the commonest kind can form a pleasing diary, because nothing which calls back to us the remembrance of a happy moment can be insignificant.

Within the context of the alchemical vocabulary, the psychedelic experience, as brought to us through plants long in the possession of Aboriginal people, appears to be the identical phenomena.

You were wise not to waste years in a lawsuit ... he who commences a suit resembles him who plants a palm-tree which he will not live to see flourish.

Old school feminism, coveting social power, is blind to woman's cosmic sexual power.

My books are always about someone obtaining a power to replace the previous sort of power that they held.

If you're just the person with power, exercising that power fearfully and angrily, you're going to be an operative of injustice and inequality.

Some say he isn’t machine washable, and all his potted plants are called ‘Steve’. All we know is he’s called the Stig.

The moment Germany rises as a great power, France gains a new importance as a cultural power.

Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses.

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.

Pakistan is riddled with problems that are rooted in the disproportionate power of the state. Aid has only boosted that power.

The content of a book holds the power of education and it is with this power that we can shape our future and change lives.

On the moon we have everything. Lettuce, and pumpkin pie and Amanita phalloides. We have cat-furred plants and horses dancing with their wings. All the locks are solid and tight, and there are no ghosts.

John Marshall's warning that the power to tax is the power to destroy has taken on far greater meaning... more specifically, the power of the Internal Revenue Service is threatening to destroy the freedom of religion , guaranteed by the First Amendment. As part of that guarantee, Congress has granted tax exemptions for churches to avoid excessive interference in their religious activities.

Power positions do not yield to arguments, however rationally and morally valid, but only to superior power.

God is the ultimate source of all power. All human power is therefore derived, limited, unstable and transient.

Not all powers are spectacular." Hestia looked at me. "Sometimes the hardest power to master is the power of yielding.