Top 1200 Thirst For Power Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Our culture has filled our heads but emptied our hearts, stuffed our wallets but starved our wonder. It has fed our thirst for facts but not for meaning or mystery. It produces "nice" people, not heroes.

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

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

The idea of eternity lives in all of us. We thirst to live in a belief which raises our small personality to a higher coherence - a coherence which is human and yet superhuman, absolute and yet steadily growing and developing, ideal and yet real.

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

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

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.

There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix

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

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.

I just love those [saying of Christ ]: "Father forgive them, they know not what they do. I thirst. It is finished. Into Your hands I commit My spirit. Today you will be with Me in paradise." That was really the heart of the second book I wrote called No Wonder They Call Him Savior.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Judiciously show a cat milk, if you wish her to thirst for it. Judiciously show a dog his natural prey, if you wish him to bring it down one day.

'Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.

Some say knowledge is power, but that is not true. Character is power.

I wasn't sent here to find angels! I wasn't sent here to dream of them. I wasn't sent here to hear them sing! I was sent here to be alive. To breathe and sweat and thirst and sometimes cry.

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

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

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

All politics is a struggle for power; the ultimate kind of power is violence.

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

Let's choose today to quench our thirst for the 'good life' we thinks others lead by acknowledging the good that already exists in our lives. We can then offer the universe the gift of our grateful hearts.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Procreative power & priesthood power are shared by husband & wife

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.

The ultimate self is free from sin, free from old age, free from death and grief, free from hunger and thirst, which desires nothing and imagines nothing.

Humans needed water or they would die, but dirty water killed as surely as thirst. You had to boil it before you drank it. This culture around tea was a way of tiptoeing along the knife edge between those two ways of dying.

The founding fathers never once rationalized getting in power and having control so they could stay in power.

You cannot imagine the craving for rest that I feel-a hunger and thirst. For six long days, since my work was done, my mind has been a whirlpool, swift, unprogressive and incessant, a torrent of thoughts leading nowhere, spinning round swift and steady.

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.

When you go to a power place, if you are receptive, if you are able to quiet your thoughts and concentrate, a lot of that power can enter into you.

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

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

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

Simplicity is power. The power to do less of what doesn't matter and more of what does.

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

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.

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.

The church and religion has lost tremendous power and positive power.

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

Capitalism and the thirst for profit without limits of the capitalist system are destroying the planet...Climate change has placed all humankind before a great choice: to continue in the ways of capitalism and death, or to start down the path of harmony with nature and respect for life.

"If any man thirst, let him come and drink from the rivers of living water" (cf. John 7:38). Where shall he who thirsts come? To heretics where the fountain and river of water is in no way life-giving? Or to the Church, which is One?

The most fundamental form of integrative power is the power of love.

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

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

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

Socialism easily accepts despotism. It requires the strongest execution of power -- power sufficient to interfere with property.

The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed.

How much power is there in a thousand noisy engines? I tell you, there is more power in a single blade of grass.