Top 1200 Power Of Laughter Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

There is a great difference, then, between "power" and "authority." Power refers to one's ability to coerce others (through physical, economic, or other means) to do one's bidding. One can possess the means of power: physical strength, armaments, and money. But authority must be performed. Authority refers to one's ability to gain the trust and willing obedience of others. While power rests on intimidation, authority survives through inspiration.

You have to take things with a lot of laughter. I laugh with everyone; this way, I will be able to die happy.

To try to reform all the power structures at once would leave us with no power structure to use in our project. In any case, we will be able to see that absolute moral renewal could be attempted only by an absolute power and that a tyrannous force such as this must destroy the whole moral life of man, not renew it.

The 'religious spirit,' it's demonic, and it attempts to substitute a demonic power or a fleshly power for the power of the Holy Spirit. And the 'religious spirit' is more concerned with what we look like than what we really are.

The music in his laughter had a way of rounding off the missing notes in her soul.

Power is strength and the ability to see yourself through your own eyes and not through the eyes of another. It is being able to place a cicle of power at your own feet and not take power from someone else's circle.

There's nothing more contagious than the laughter of young children; it doesn't even have to matter what they're laughing about.

The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

What a fool cannot learn he laughs at, thinking that by his laughter he shows superiority instead of latent idiocy.

Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.

I am the laughter of the new-born child On whose soft-breathing sleep an angel smiled.

I've always felt that desire. To get a woman to throw back her head in laughter is a hot thing.

and our few good times will be rare because we have the critical sense and are not easy to fool with laughter

Laughter is healing and helpful and fun, and I see my role as an entertainer, and I want readers to leave my books smiling.

Greatness by nature includes a power, but not a will to power. ... The great man, whether we comprehend him in the most intense activity of his work or in the restful equipoise of his forces , is powerful, involuntarily and composedly powerful, but he is not avid for power. What he is avid for is the realization of what he has in mind , the incarnation of the spirit .

I would put belly laughing at the top of my highlights list. They always say that laughter is the best medicine.

In our house we don't take ourselves too seriously, and laughter is the best form of unity, I think, in a marriage.

Laughter not time destroyed my voice And put that crack in it, And when the moon's pot-bellied I get a laughing fit.

I'm not living the life I thought I would lead, but it does have meaning, purpose. There is love... there is joy... there is laughter.

Our defining gift as humans is our power to choose, including our power to choose our collective future. It is a gift that comes with a corresponding moral responsibility to use that power in ways that work to the benefit of all people and the whole of life.

Anyone who hears enough laughter and applause at a young age will become an actor, whether they intend to or not.

Not since Jimmy Carr have I seen a cold computer programme on stage generate so much laughter.

Here I was again tonight forcing laughter, faking smiles Same old tired, lonely place

I hoped that grief was similar to the other emotions. That it would end, the way happiness did. Or laughter.

Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.

There are people doing yoga in New York, dancing around; that's the power of India. You go to a nightclub somewhere in Spain and there's Amitabh Bachchan on the screen there, dancing around. That's the power of India. That's the power of Indian people.

But sea power has never led to despotism. The nations that have enjoyed sea power even for a brief period-Athens, Scandinavia, the Netherlands, England, the United States-are those that have preserved freedom for themselves and have given it to others. Of the despotism to which unrestrained military power leads we have plenty of examples from Alexander to Mao.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others... An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.... Power is not alluring to pure minds and is not with them the primary principle of contest.

Every day brings a chance to live free of regret and with as much joy, fun, and laughter as you can stand.

Money confers the power to command the labor of others. Love of money is love of power. And love of power is the root of evil.

No thought has any power. You have power. And when you identify and believe in the thought you give power to the thought.

If he didn't get out of here - right now - Harrier was either going to break into hysterical laughter or strangle somebody.

Beauty is for the artist something outside all orders of rank, because in beauty opposites are tamed; the highest sign of power, namely power over opposites; moreover, without tension: - that violence is no longer needed: that everything follows, obeys, so easily and so pleasantly - that is what delights the artist's WILL TO POWER.

All your power is in your awareness of that power, and through holding that power in your consciousness.

Life is a huge farce, and the advantage of possessing a sense of humour is that it enables one to defy fate with mocking laughter.

I honestly believe life is a combination of laughter and tears, and it's almost always better to laugh than to cry.

That's the chief lesson I have learned: the texture of our universe is one where there is no question at all but that good and laughter and justice will prevail.

I think I'm a nervous laugher. Like, when you're in a situation that you don't know what's going on, you go to laughter more than anything.

'Tickle Monster' is an interactive book and, by the nature of the story, bonds the parent and child through tickling and laughter.

Trying to figure things out was my gig. Without the human condition, there's no struggle, no pain and that means no laughter.

One just needs a little alertness to see and find out: Life is really a great cosmic laughter.

The talent of turning men into ridicule, and exposing to laughter those one converses with, is the qualification of little ungenerous tempers.

I'd rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.

I'm always awoken with the joyous sound and laughter of my son. That's the best part about being a mom.

The main thing that motivates me is laughter, and colors, and music, and dancing! And I do all of the above every day.

The Wickans know that the gift of power is never free. They know enough not to envy the chosen among them, for power is never a game, nor are glittering standards raised to glory and wealth. They disguise nothing in trappings, and so we all see what we'd rather not, that power is cruel, hard as iron and bone, and thrives on destruction. ~ Deadhouse Gates

Winter's notion of poetry is tragedy. It knows nothing of comedy. Its laughter was frozen on its lips long ago.

If there's one thing I could attribute my strength to, I would say it's the gift of laughter, which I inherited from my mother's side.

Were it part of our everyday education and comment that the corporation is an instrument for the exercise of power, that it belongs to the process by which we are governed, there would then be debate on how that power is used and how it might be made subordinate to the public will and need. This debate is avoided by propagating the myth that the power does not exist.

It is by vivacity and wit that man shines in company; but trite jokes and loud laughter reduce him to a buffoon.

A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people.

For electric power generation, we are very optimistic about solar-thermal technology, and we’re intrigued by the potential of enhanced geothermal energy to replace coal-based power generation. Traditional carbon capture and sequestration-based coal power generation is somewhat unlikely to be competitive.

It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.

O Poverty, thy thousand ills combined Sink not so deep into the generous mind, As the contempt and laughter of mankind.

There is laughter, shrill calls. Everyone is flirting, saying in nudges and jokes and blushing what they would do in private

I don't think any other emotion is the equivalent of laughter. So I do whatever I can to laugh all the time and to hide my pain.

There Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb The crowns o' the world; oh, eyes sublime With tears and laughter for all time!

I'm as addicted to 'Power' as I am 'Empire.' I'm just grateful. We get a chance to have two phenomenal shows that we can enjoy. So when 'Empire' is over, 'Power' starts. When 'Power' is over, 'Empire' starts.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.