Top 1200 Sea Power 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.

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

The one power a man has that cannot be stripped from him is the power to do nothing.

Procreative power & priesthood power are shared by husband & wife

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

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

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.

An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.

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

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

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.

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

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

I never had, or wished for, power over you. That isn't true, of course. I wanted the greatest power of all. but not advantage, or authority.

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

The concept of power we admire is power over someone else.

I am interested in power and in the idea of one country exerting power over another. The Soviets took this to an extreme.

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.

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

All leaders must have some power. Without power, you can't be a leader.

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.

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.

Power with God will be the gauge of real power with men.

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

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

All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.

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 power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.

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

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.

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

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

The thing to keep in mind is that laws are framed by those who happen to be in power and for the purpose of keeping them in power.

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

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

Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

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.

Every schoolchild knows that Columbus set out across the sea to prove that the world was round. But the belief in a spherical earth had a long and illustrious pedigree, as Columbus himself was well aware. . . . "The second reason that inspired the Admiral [Columbus] to launch his enterprise and helped justify his giving the name 'Indies' to the lands which he discovered was the authority of many learned men who said that one could sail westward from the western end of Africa and Spain to the eastern end of India, and that no great sea lay between."

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.

A lobster, when left high and dry among the rock, does not have the sense enough to work his way back to the sea, but waits for the sea to come to him. If it does not come, he remains where he is and dies, although the slightest effort would enable him to reach the waves, which are perhaps within a yard of him. The world is full of human lobsters; people stranded on the rocks of indecision and procrastination, who, instead of putting forth their own energies, are waiting for some grand billow of good fortune to set them afloat.

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.

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

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

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

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

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

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

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

It is always from the depths of its impotence that each power center draws its power, hence their extreme maliciousness, and vanity

The most enduring sort of power is realizing the power within.

It may come as a surprise to some academics, but there is a marked relationship between economic power and political power.

Sometimes power is all a person has, so they will protect it even unto their own destruction, for without power they have nothing.

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

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

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.

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

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

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

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

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