Top 1200 Separation Of Powers Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Rent is the portion of the earth, which is paid to the landlord for the user of the original and indestructible powers of the soil

The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.

The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.

We must have the strictest adherence to security procedures to protect against compromise by hostile foreign powers.

Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent.

The propriety of a law, in a constitutional light, must always be determined by the nature of the powers upon which it is founded.

Sometimes we are devils to ourselves When we will tempt the frailty of our powers, Presuming on their changeful potency.

Our relations with the other powers of Europe have experienced no essential change since the last session.

The aim of education is to strengthen and multiply the powers and activities of the mind rather than to increase its possessions.

When you have one of the first brains of Europe up against you, and all the powers of darkness at his back, there are infinite possibilities.

Since the primitive times, the wealth of the popes was exposed to envy, their powers to opposition, and their persons to violence.

Seeing artistically does not happen automatically. We must constantly develop our powers of observation.

I am not wrong in the belief that its public funds are more secure than those of all the European powers.

The only way to meet the modern demon-stration of the powers of darkness is by a demonstration of the power of God.

It's a dream to play for England, so if I'm selected, I'd look forward to playing. But it's down to the powers above me.

For too long, Big-Tech has abused its powers and targeted the constitutional rights of American citizens.

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

We passed important laws to give the authorities responsible for investigation wide powers to defend us.

If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of their purgatorial sufferings), then for both lovers, and for all pairs of lovers without exception, bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.

I have seen people who practice yoga and Buddhism who are scared to death of the sorcery powers of others. This is absurd.

Nearness to nature... keeps the spirit sensitive to impressions not commonly felt and in touch with the unseen powers.

Andy Clark has several books you can find on Amazon, including 'Natural Born Cyborgs' and 'Being There.' I particularly recommend 'Being There' to anybody who still thinks the Cartesian separation of mind and body should be taken seriously.

As a general matter, if the president wants to withdraw from a treaty, he simply gets to do that. And that's part of the powers of the office.

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

Education demands, then, only this: the utilization of the inner powers of the child for his own instruction.

We are always at the mercy of powers greater than us, even when our power is at its highest level!

All the big powers they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right.

As anyone familiar with my scholarship knows, I am not a huge fan of inherent powers in most contexts.

When politicians don black robes and seize powers they do not have, they should be called out for what they are - usurpers and petty tyrants.

Anyone with a heart, with a family, has experienced loss. No one escapes unscathed. Every story of separation is different, but I think we all understand that basic, wrenching emotion that comes from saying goodbye, not knowing if we'll see that person again - or perhaps knowing that we won't.

We have entered an era vibrating with the din of small voices. Every citizen can be a reporter, can take on the powers that be.

If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.

I know there are certain powers who would rather have the champions be Eastern European because there's more money in it.

Computer users soon learn that the miraculous powers of personal computers are based on avoidance of error.

The whole frame of the Federal Constitution proves that the government which it creates was intended to be one of limited and specified powers.

Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.

Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.

I believe that the federal government has significant constitutional powers, but I don't think it's effective to impose pipelines on communities.

For the first rate poet, nothing short of a Queen or a Chimera is adequate for the powers of his praise.

Music can be soothing or invigorating ennobling or vulgarizing, philosophical or orgiastic. It has powers of evil as well as for good.

The president has immense powers, but he cannot spend money unless we, the people's representatives in Congress, have agreed that he can.

Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.

To be endowed with strength by nature, to be actuated by the powers of the mind, and to have a certain spirit almost divine infused into you.

All the big powers... they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right.

I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement, but we do not have to say that we are anticommunists just to fawn on foreign powers.

The powers that be understand that sexual freedom or liberation with any kind of joy means they are losing control.

To display the greatest powers, unless they are applied to great purposes, makes nothing for the character of greatness.

capital cannot be more beneficially employed, then in strengthening and aiding the productive powers of nature.

I think there are unseen powers who don't want pop music to be anything other than glorified Madonnas.

Either the distances betweem the distant quarters of the globe are diminished, or you have extended the powers of human action.

I remember, when I saw the first 'Austin Powers' movie, I was blown away by how fun and original it was.

The greatest calamity which could befall us would be submission to a government of unlimited powers.

Nothing is finer for the purposes of great productions than a very gradual ripening of the intellectual powers.

The principle of Yoga is the turning of one or of all powers of our human existence into a means of reaching divine Being.

August is the time when I can feel myself getting stronger as a comedian. I'm at the height of my powers come September.

The sole aim of the arts of scene-designing, costuming, lighting, is to enhance the natural powers of the actor.

When the most important decisions are made in secret, we lose our ability to check the powers that control.

Cities simply don't have the powers they need to radically innovate in cutting obesity or the number of disaffected teenagers.

Music, because of its specific and far-reaching metaphorical powers, can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.