Top 1200 Power Lines Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

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

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

Dancin' in the welfare lines.

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.

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

The power of Liverpool Football Club is the collective. We always do everything together; this is our power.

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

I always know my lines.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

I know My God commands, whose power no power resists.

I'm terrible at learning lines.

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

We think we have no power when in fact we have more than enough power.

It is probably true quite generally that in the history of human thinking the most fruitful developments frequently take place at those points where two different lines of thought meet. These lines may have their roots in quite different parts of human nature, in different times or different cultural environments or different religious traditions: hence if they actually meet, that is, if they are at least so much related to each other that a real interaction can take place, then one may hope that new and interesting developments may follow.

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.

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.

The power of laughter & love would beat out the power of fear every time.

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

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

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

The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments, not on my gender.

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

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

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

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

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

The longer a politician bears power, the more he is controlled by that power.

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

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

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

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.

Taste consists in the power of judging; genius in the power of executing.

The most fundamental form of integrative power is the power of love.

What I really love is my scotch. It's the power, the power of positive drinking.

Our need for innovation has shifted power closer to the source of that power-Us. We are the future.

There comes a period of the imagination to each--a later youth--the power of beauty, the power of looks, of poetry.

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.

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.

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.

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

I don't write punch lines.

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

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

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.

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

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.

The power you have over someone who loves you is greater than any other power you'll ever have.

Everybody steals my lines.

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.

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

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