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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man.
Men do not fear a powerful hostile army as the powers of hell fear the name and protection of Mary.
Prayer is not a substitute for work; it is an effort to work further and be efficient beyond the range of one's powers.
We never know we are beings till we love. And then it is we know the powers and potentialities of human existence.
Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.
I firmly believe that Scotland's place is in the U.K., and I do not believe in powers for power's sake.
Of all treasures of knowledge, the most vital is the knowledge of God, his existence, powers, love, and promises.
For the educated, the authority of science rested on the strictness of its methods; for the mass, it rested on the powers of explanation.
There is not a single Muslim leader today who has the courage and commitment to defend Islam and Muslims, they are all in awe of the United States and other Western powers, and are indebted to them.
I fail to see what difference it makes whether it be supernatural or not--so long as it is malefic, possesses great powers and life span and has the ability to change its shape at will.
For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence; for thus it is better secured from the oppression of the ruling powers, and because this secrecy gives a greater zest to the whole.
Money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace & conspire against it in times of adversity.
I had rather ask an enlargement of power from the nation, where it is found necessary, than to assume it by a construction which would make our powers boundless.
This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind's best thoughts, and my soul's triumph over the powers of darkness.
My powers of empathy, my ability to reach into another's heart, cannot penetrate the blank stares of those who would murder innocents with abstract, serene satisfaction.
Klaus Toppmoller: hair like David Gower and dress sense like Austin Powers.
In Zen there is a sense of blending, of stepping out of your body and mind and gaining access to powers and abilities that are far beyond the minds of mortal men.
The thing about Red Lanterns is that, while they have light powers and they have a power battery, they also have this weird shamanistic kind of blood magic side to them.
The NSA has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times a year since Congress gave it broad new powers in 2008.
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
Suffering comes from not understanding or a full potential or full powers within ourselves to heal, to nurture, to nourish.
Until relatively recently, law enforcement's ability to determine an individual's location and track their movements was largely limited to natural human powers of observation.
I don't have any premonitions. I don't have any supernatural powers. I just have a typical woman's intuition, and I go with that.
Convictions are the mainsprings of action, the driving powers of life. What a man lives are his convictions.
Faith in your own powers and confidence in your individual methods are essential to success.
We all wish we had super powers. We all wish we could do more than we can do.
No powers determine our lives more completely than those we think we have under our control. I
I think that artworks are like these spiritual objects: I think that they have energies and powers beyond what the eye can see.
Broken people misuse their power while people who have values don't use their powers in a way that harms.
Our ancient laws expressly declare that those who are but delegates themselves shall not delegate to others powers which require judgment and integrity in their exercise.
A man of over thirty might be held to be at the height of his powers, but not necessarily of his wisdom.
A morality clause is a grey area that the powers that be say if it is immoral, than it's immoral, and you are getting fired.
We have parliamentary democracy. It is the prime minister who runs the show, who is the chief executive of the country. The president must have powers defined under the 1973 constitution, nothing more.
Humankind struggles with collective powers for its freedom, the individual struggles with dehumanization for the possession of his soul.
Not all powers are spectacular." Hestia looked at me. "Sometimes the hardest power to master is the power of yielding.
The range of weapons at the disposal of military powers is terrifying in its capacity to damage the world and its inhabitants, perhaps even to bring humanity's long story to its end.
A difference must be made between a decision against the constitutionality of a law of Congress and of a State. The former acts as a restriction on the powers of this government, but the latter as an enlargement.
The Enlightenment attacked religion - Christianity, mainly - for two reasons: that it was a set of ideological delusions, and that it was a system of institutional oppression, with immense powers of persecution and intolerance.
If ministers forget their ruler and establish relationships with foreign powers in order to advance the interests of their confederates, there will be scant reason for subordinates to obey their superiors.
I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self evident, "that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living": that the dead have neither powers nor rights over it.
Men of great conversational powers almost universally practise a sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration which deceives for the moment both themselves and their auditors.
The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and all their external senses are remarkably acute.
My work speaks of the finite and the infinite, of the macroscopic and the microscopic, the internal and external, by the masculine and feminine powers, but sex is like a snake, it slithers through everything.
Faith in oneself unlocks those hidden powers that all of us have, but that so few of us use.
In my first year in Congress, I introduced a War Powers Resolution to end the war in Yemen.
The greater your powers of self-delusion, the greater will be the apparent efficacy of this untruth.
This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.
Blood is drawn! I am impressed-though my hell-spawned powers will heal it! Besides... next to giving pain my favourite sport's to feel it.
The man who eats to live, who is friends with the five powers - earth, water, ether, sun and air - who is a servant of God, the Creator of all these, ought not to fall ill.
I've always been a massive fan of Batman. He didn't have any powers, so it meant that anyone could be Batman.
Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good.
Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us.
What is it that's taken hold of me, for me to carry on like this in relentless pursuit of something beyond my powers?
Other crack teams get bat boomerangs and wall-climbing powers; we get Aquatruck.
If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach.
Abortion is a denial of one of those powers which make women women.
Some things are best left alone. Such as interfering in things which are beyond our powers.
Even the heavenly powers and the angels in their splendor and the principalities, both visible and invisible, must either believe in the Blood of Christ, or else face damnation.
I do not hesitate to say that the limitation on naval craft between the great naval powers was too high.
Thoughts are strange things. they have 'representational' powers: a thought typically represents the world as being one way or another. A sensation, by contrast, seems to just sit there.
