Top 1200 Separation Of Powers Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Awareness cannot be taught, and when it is present it has no context. All contexts are created by thought and are therefore corruptible by thought. Awareness simply throws light on what is, without any separation whatsoever.

I am a conservative Republican, but I believe in democracy and the separation of church and state. The conservative movement is founded on the simple tenet that people have the right to live life as they please as long as they don't hurt anyone else in the process.

Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated.

Separation of church and state in Virginia, instead of weakening Christianity, as the conservatives of the Revolution had feared, really aided it in securing a power over men far greater than it had known in the past.

It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing.

I think: the powers like to talk about "freedom" in order to wash the population's brains.

Secular thinkers have a separation between thinking and doing. They don't have a grasp of the balance sheet. The doers are selling us potted plants and pizzas while the thinkers are a little bit unworldly. Religions both think and do.

I think the greatest legacy of the 1960s was the general feeling that not only can you fight the powers that be, but you can win.

I'm really excited for people to be able to see what else I can do, besides high heels and magic powers.

I think the story should always determine the visual approach. There are situations where you want things to feel alive and like life, and there are situations that should have some magic and the separation with the grain.

We the people are sick and tired of the criminalization of immigrants, sick to our hearts to see Trump's family separation policies rip families apart across our country.

With the rise of America, the global balance of power shifted away from the old European powers.

I've only ever chosen men who happen to spend a lot of time out of the country, who have jobs that take them all over the world, and I think that's interesting because my father was absent, and then home, and I've always been in relationships where there's separation.

Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

People acting in their own self-interest is the fuel for all the discovery, innovation, and prosperity that powers the world.

Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.

Almost every yogi that appeared in the book [The Yoga of Max's Discontent] is either somebody I have seen and met and spoken to, or someone who is in my three degrees of separation - I know the source who talks to me about it so well that I believe his story.

The notion that anything can be invented wholly and that these invented things are classified as 'fiction' and that other writing, presumably not made up, is called 'nonfiction' strikes me as a very arbitrary separation of things.

Hold your powers together for something good and let everything go that is for you without result and is not suited to you.

We are so blessed as artists and entertainers, and we should use our powers to raise awareness of things where we can.

It is evident from their writings that the Founding Fathers would never have tolerated the separation that we have embraced today. They knew that religious principles provided morality and self-control - the lifeblood for the survival of any self-governing community.

The Constitution of the United States doesn't change the powers of the president based on the number by which you get elected.

We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.

Peace is a virtual, mute, sustained victory of potential powers against probable greeds

When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

I know that there are no limits to which the powers of privilege will not go to keep the workers in slavery

What's brilliant about the United States system of government is separation of power. Not only the executive, legislative, judicial branches, but also the independence of the military from civilians, an independent media and press, an independent central bank.

Happiness is... the grace of being permitted to unfold... all the spiritual powers planted within us.

When we become hollow bones there is no limit to what the Higher Powers can do in and through us in spiritual things.

Students are very engaged by the issues, and it's not surprising because food choices are one of the few powers a child has.

All my life I have studies the peculiar powers of music. It has a force of its own that few would deny.

Let the separation between you and the world be final and irreversible. Say, 'Here I go for Christ and His Cross, for the faith of the Bible, for the laws of God, for holiness, for trust in Jesus; and never will I go back, come what may.

[I]n the next place, to show that unless these departments be so far connected and blended as to give to each a constitutional control over the others, the degree of separation which the maxim requires, as essential to a free government, can never in practice be duly maintained.

If there were a map of the solar system, but instead of stars it showed people and their degrees of separation, my star would be the one you had to travel the most light-years from to get to his. You would die getting to him.

I've moved around so much my whole life, and I've gotten so used to being the Other in situations - the foreigner, the outsider. The first time I've ever felt like there was no separation between me and the other elements was in music.

Encroachment upon the powers and rights of States also goes against the grain of the Constitution and federal principles.

I remember watching an Iranian film, 'A Separation.' When the film ended, I felt like going to Iran, getting that family together, hug them and just being with them.

The human race has entered a stage where we are all dependent on each other. No other country or nation should be regarded in total separation from another, let alone pitted against another.

Step aside, boys. I have the evil powers for this.” – Abigail “My lady got mad skills.” – Sundown

I have a friend that has five kids and she went through a trial separation with her husband, and she didn't have time to be upset. Every now and then, she'd call me on the cell phone and just cry.

Donald Trump's big goal is to become the richest man in the world, abusing the powers of the presidency.

What we call powers, secrets of nature, and force, are all within. In the external world are only a series of changes.

So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be!

I would love to do something like Austin Powers to show off my comic timing.

Principle III: Presumptive rights are the conditions under which individual powers normally develop.

My impression, is that prayer is one of the most basic forms of magic. That it's harnessing the powers of your mind.

Whatever one's religion in his private life may be, for the officeholder, nothing takes precedence over his oath to uphold the Constitution and all its parts - including the First Amendment and the strict separation of church and state.

To me the separation of church and state is a thread that ought to run through public policy so that we can always recognize that we make laws in this country, based not on theology of any particular group, but on the basis of a commonly shared values of the Constitution itself.

It's probably easier for rappers as far as a respect level. 'Cause with singers, the powers that be tend to feel that we're stupid.

It will follow that that government ought to be clothed with all powers requisite to complete execution of its trust.

Extensive powers not exercised as far as was necessary have, I believe, scarcely ever failed to ruin the possessor.

Separation anxiety is assuaged by constant connection. Young people announce every detail of their lives on services like Twitter not to show off, but to avoid the closed door at bedtime, the empty room, the screaming vacuum of an isolated mind.

The Princess's so-called 'time and space speech' at the end of '93 about a year after the formal separation, looking back on it it's called her retirement from public life but we've seen in fact it's nothing of the kind.

Once involved in the school-prayer fight, I rapidly became aware of, and appalled by, the political and economic power of the Church in America -all based on the violation of one of our nation's canon laws: the separation of church and state.

Drugs shouldn't be used for recreation although they can be, but ultimately the point of psychedelics is to put you in touch with the powers of the universe.

A smile remains the most inexpensiv gift I can bestow on anyone and yet its powers can vanquish kingdoms.

We all possess more power and greater possibilities than we realize, and visualizing is one of the greatest of these powers.

Wearing a bath towel around the school yard and pretending it's a cape doesn't mean you have magical powers.

True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There's no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected.

To die quickly in one's eighth decade at the very top of one's powers is an enviable end, and not an occasion for mourning.