Top 1200 Power Of Attraction Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

If women had power, what would men be but women who can't bear children? And what would women be but men who can?" "Hah!" went Tenar; and presently, with some cunning, she said, "Haven't there been queens? Weren't they women of power?" "A queen's only a she-king," said Ged. She snorted. "I mean, men give her power. They let her use their power. But it isn't hers, is it? It isn't because she's a woman that she's powerful, but despite it.

All politics is a struggle for power; the ultimate kind of power is violence.

Simplicity is power. The power to do less of what doesn't matter and more of what does.

All of my work is meant to evoke a whole bunch of different layers of discord between the attraction and repulsion that we feel toward our consumer habits and our consumer lives.

There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix

Power is not anything that's given away. Power is something you have to compete for.

And because it may be too great a temptation to human frailty, apt to grasp at power, for the same persons, who have the power of making laws, to have also in their hands the power to execute them, whereby they may exempt themselves from obedience to the laws they make, and suit the law, both in its making, and execution, to their own private advantage.

Some say knowledge is power, but that is not true. Character is power.

Many programs are built on the government's spending power, and the existence of an extraconstitutional limit on that power is a worrisome development.

Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.

Glamour, that trans-human aura or power to attract imitation, is a kind of vessel into which dreams are poured, and some vessels are simply worthier than others... A beautiful woman can turn heads but real glamour has a deeper pull... Glamour is the power to rearrange people's emotions, which, in effect, is the power to control one's environment.

We are like newborn children, Our power is the power to grow.

The class which has the power to rob upon a large scale has also the power to control the government and legalize their robbery.

Great is the power of steady misrepresentation; but the history of science shows that fortunately this power does not long endure.

Relationships are never about power, and one way to avoid the will to power is to choose to limit oneself - to serve.

Power is what calls the shots, and power is a white male game.

There is one thing the power of God and the power of Satan have in common: Neither can influence us unless we allow them to.

The qualities that get a man into power are not those that lead him, once established, to use power wisely.

You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything it wants.

What journalism is really about-it's to monitor power and the centres of power.

Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men. The fundamental threat to freedom is power to coerce, be it in the hands of a monarch, a dictator, an oligarchy, or a momentary majority. The preservation of freedom requires the elimination of such concentration of power to the fullest possible extent and the dispersal and distribution of whatever power cannot be eliminated — a system of checks and balances.

The founding fathers never once rationalized getting in power and having control so they could stay in power.

If there is a single power the West underestimates, it is the power of collective hatred.

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

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

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

Sports have the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire, the power to unite people in a way that little else does. It speaks to youth in a language they understand. Sports can create hope, where there was once only despair. It is more powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers. It laughs in the face of all types of discrimination. Sports is the game of lovers.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

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

Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.

I believe more in the power of drama than in the power of religion.

There's just a whole different attitude and vibe when you're not in power as when you're in power.

To create the power of competence without creating a corresponding direction to guide the use of that power is bad education.

It was extremely useful to grow up in front of the camera. It gives the camera no significance. I think it helped me have perspective on things. The attraction that Hollywood can have, I feel like I'm over that. Instead I just concentrate on acting.

No one can hold absolute power for long, controlled power endures.

It is very difficult to get legislation passed. But then the danger always is that you have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.

Therefore, if the earthly power errs, it shall be judged by the spiritual power ... but if the supreme spiritual power errs it can be judged only by God, and not by man ... Therefore we declare, state, define and pronounce that it is altogether necessary to salvation for every human creature to be subject to the Roman pontiff.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Intuition is natural by-product of flowering of a mature self-esteem and a sense of empowerment – not power over, but power to be

Every relationship is fundamentally a power struggle, and the individual in power is whoever likes the other person less.

We have to recognize that the freedom of the individual has to be protected not only from the power of the state, but even more so from economic and societal power.

Sex IS power. Identity is power. In western culture, there are no nonexploitative relationships. Everyone has killed in order to live.

Socialism easily accepts despotism. It requires the strongest execution of power -- power sufficient to interfere with property.

Procreative power & priesthood power are shared by husband & wife

It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.

Our problem is not that we don't have power, so much as that we tend to not use the power we have.

In our society, women are valued for their sexual attraction. I'd like to get away from the sex symbol idea of what beauty is. Actually, that's probably the farthest thing from beauty, because it's makeup and hair, it's pouty lips - it's not real.

'Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.

Kids really have a lot more power than they think they have. They have the power to change the world. And they should know it.

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

The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.

We have all been told that power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. I have long thought this is nonsense.

At a certain point in their existential experience, the oppressed feel an irresistible attraction toward the oppressor and his way of life. Sharing this way of life becomes an overpowering aspiration.

When I was a kid, I was obsessed with heavy metal, Van Halen, Motley Crue. The older I got, my tastes widened. I always felt an attraction to the attitudes of punk; also punk filmmakers, like Richard Kern.

When you go to a power place, if you are receptive, if you are able to quiet your thoughts and concentrate, a lot of that power can enter into you.

Nobody gives you power. Real power is something you take.

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

The power of home run hitters in the majors is different from those here. It's probably difficult for me to match that power now.

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

My every thought has the power either to wound or heal. I will use my thoughts wisely and respect their power.