Top 1200 Power Lines Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

The men who seem to know most of God's power have had great, unspeakable longings, at times, for a fresh consciousness of that power.

Music doesn't hurt anybody, that's what's amazing. Everything is in there, every kind of human emotion, from the darkest to the lightest. And it has power. Unbelievable power.

I felt guilty throughout the whole time, but I was seduced. The power of these drugs, sex, power, and money, was extremely strong for me.

Plato compared the intellect to a charioteer guiding the powerful horses of the passions, i.e., he gave it both the power of perception and the power of control.

Ultimately, power only really listens to power, and if government is to be improved, we must be able to threaten its existence, not merely its reputation.

What is hateful is not rebellion but the despotism which induces the rebellion; what is hateful are not rebels but the men, who, having the enjoyment of power, do not discharge the duties of power; they are the men who, having the power to redress wrongs, refuse to listen to the petitioners that are sent to them; they are the men who, when they are asked for a loaf, give a stone.

Our founders insisted that protecting the states' power to govern themselves was vital to limit the power of Washington and preserve freedom.

Fear unchecked grows exponentially. Love poured forth has the power to remove it. Thus is the power of God in our lives

A writer is a palmist, reading the lines of the planet.

Menacing lines of black tomorrows on the horizon.

The power of the story sheds a light and great perspective on well known facts. The power of cinema draws on that collective history.

There’s only one power in the world great enough to help us rise above the difficult things we face: the power of God.

I do believe that power needs to be returned to the states. I think that we've got way too much power in Washington. This is where I'm focused: way too much power in Washington.

I talk out the lines as I write them.

I was a hard worker, and I always knew my lines.

Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them.

In a fallen world marked by human depravity and deep-seated sin, in a world where Hitler and Stalin had recruited millions of followers to commit mass murder, love must harness power and seek justice in order to have moral meaning. Love without power remained impotent, and power without love was bankrupt.

Feels like I'm in a play and I don't know all my lines.

I'm not interested in story lines or trash-talk.

There is an art, a science to gaining power. There is a natural force or inclination in all of our beings to accumulate power. The problem that we come into is conditioning.

If there is anything of power in The Salvation Army today, it is because God has had all the adoration of my heart, all the power of my will, and all the influence of my life.

Know your lines and don't bump into the furniture.

The basic lesson of our relativistic universe is that things change. Any power must always meet a greater power.

It is my hypothesis that the fundamental source of conflict in this new [post-Cold-War] world will not be primarily ideological or primarily economic. The great divisions among humankind and the dominating source of conflict will be cultural. Nation states will remain the most powerful actors in world affairs, but the principal conflicts of global politics will occur between nations and groups of different civilizations. The clash of civilizations will dominate global politics. The fault lines between civilizations will be the battle lines of the future.

It was lovely, and tempting, to exert power over men and to shine before others, but power also had its perditions and perils.

Listen, there is no equality without the loss of power. Someone is going to have to lose power. That is really uncomfortable for some people to actually think about, but in order for marginalized people to gain power, white, cisgender, straight, people are going to have to lose some and that's just how it is.

There's an amazing power that music has, and it definitely had its power over me as a boy. I just saw fit to keep exploring it.

I don't want the power. When a project is given to me, and I say yes, I'm gonna oblige everybody who has the power to try to make it work.

The power is within you. It always has been. How far are you willing to expand the horizons of your thinking and stir that power awake?

No pickup lines! They're the worst. But I love jokes.

Power is at the root of the human experience. Our attitudes and beliefs--positive or negative--are all extensions of how we define and use power.

Power tends to confuse itself with virtue, and a great nation is peculiarly susceptible to the idea that its power is a sign of God's favor.

'Learn your lines.' I want that on my gravestone.

The manager cannot share his power with division superintendent or foreman or workman, but he can give them opportunities for developing their power.

You cannot reduce the power of story with the tag of money because it's not a share market. So you must know the seriousness of the power of storytelling.

Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves.

China is clearly going to be the number one economic power and it is already full of potential.. with lots of population and the buying power increasing by the day. .

The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake... but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy. It is the instinct which drove America to the Pacific, all through the nineteenth century, the desire to be able to find a restaurant open in case you want a sandwich, to be a free agent, live by one's own rules.

The bad boys get all the best lines.

I was very, very concerned about President Obama and how much executive order and how much executive power he tried to exert. But I think I want to be, and I think congress will be, a check on any executive, Republican or Democrat, that tries to grasp too much power. And really, a lot of the fault is not only presidents trying to take too much power, it's Congress giving up too much power.

God draws straight with crooked lines.

you're an expert at sorry and keeping the lines blurry

I'm so busy these days. I forget everything but my lines.

The thing is, when you put a button in someone's hand and give them the power of yes or no, no is a shorter word. People just say no. The power lies in who can say no the most. But, real power, though, lies in the opportunity to say yes. I think people ultimately realize that, but not when they're in the spotlight.

This has all the appearance of a foreign power trying to undermine structures of legitimacy of an American election. That is a serious matter. If I were the media, I would be wary of using anything that came out of these document dumps which serves the purpose of a foreign power. But, at the very least, Americans have to discount this. This is an attempt to hijack and change American democracy by a foreign power. It can't be accepted.

I have a prejudice against people with money. I have known so many, and none have escaped the corruption of power. In this I am a purist. I love people motivated by love and not by power. If you have money and power, and are motivated by love, you give it all away.

Cordless vacuums are designed for quick jobs, but you need enough power to do the job; you don't want the power waning over time.

Even in war there should be lines you didn't cross.

Learn your lines.' I want that on my gravestone.

All political institutions are manifestations and materializations of power; they petrify and decay as soon as the living power of the people ceases to uphold them.

It's more fun to color outside the lines.

The more power a government has the more it can act arbitrarily according to the whims and desires of the elite, and the more it will make war on others and murder its foreign and domestic subjects. The more constrained the power of governments, the more power is diffused, checked, and balanced, the less it will aggress on others and commit democide.

When you exercise your will power you release the power of life energy - not when you merely wish passively to be able to obtain an objective.

There is no greater source of strength and power for me in my life than going still, being quiet and recognizing what real power is.

My looks have changed. I have laugh lines - not wrinkles.

The purpose of history is to explain the present - to say why the world around us is the way it is. History tells us what is important in our world, and how it came to be. It tells us what is to be ignored, or discarded. That is true power - profound power. The power to define a whole society.

The person of power uses their power to open up their mind to higher levels all the time, which creates tremendous happiness.

You follow what you think is right. There are lines that I won't cross.

Neither a state nor a bank ever have had unrestricted power of issuing paper money without abusing that power.

I'm all for a good rivalry as long as lines are drawn.