I wanted a woman who had the body and the power of a real pilot. I interviewed hundreds of woman, but Jessica just seemed perfect for the part. I couldn't get her out of my head. I continued to bother her and she finally gave in.
~By Rob Cohen ~
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
I was perceiving myself as good as a man or equal to a man and as powerful and I wanted to look ambiguous because I thought that was a very interesting statement to make through the media. And it certainly did cause quite a few ripples and interest and shock waves.
~By Annie Lennox ~
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
~By P. J. O'Rourke ~
We played for power and impact.
~By John Gallagher ~
Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.
~By George A. Smith ~
My main aim has always been to do good quality films with roles that have some substance. With Power and Beauty there were loads of things that I liked about the movie, which made me opt for it.
~By Natasha Henstridge ~
Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.
~By Charles Fillmore ~
Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.
~By Henry A. Wallace ~
I had no idea until I joined the games industry and met some of the power players, particularly those running large public companies, that much of this world is run by complete clowns.
~By Mike Wilson ~
Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.
~By Raoul Vaneigem ~
The success of the second 'Austin Powers' caught us by surprise a little bit. We had decided not to do even a second one, unless the audience wanted it and we could do something better.
~By Jay Roach ~
If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect.
~By Maimonides ~
We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the power it confers and the burden it imposes. We learn how it can delight, give breathing space and protect.
~By Sissela Bok ~
Then there is the worst part of Christianity, which is awful: power, corruption, manipulation... But then again, these feature are ever present in any organization.
~By Bruce Kent ~
It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis.
~By Luis Barragan ~
My organs are too powerful... I manufacture blood and fat too rapidly.
~By Robert Baldwin ~
I do not mean that you could continue to do this with propriety or even with safety; I merely assert that the power is, in point of fact, in your hands. And for such a power, what a responsibility to God and man!
~By Jay Alan Sekulow ~
I am now the target of the most powerful man in this country, with an army of aides whose major responsibility today seems to be to attack me and get rid of me.
~By Gerald Walpin ~
I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
It was only when I realized how actors have the power to move people that I decided to pursue acting as a career.
~By Cate Blanchett ~
Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
~By Aristotle ~
We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.
~By Maria Montessori ~
A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.
~By Mark Rutherford ~
And, as I have said, it's made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren't external, how astonishing the mediums become! Victor Hugo said of his voices that they were like his own mental powers multiplied by five.
~By James Merrill ~
Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.
~By Saskya Pandita ~
I know that if the peace movement takes its message boldly to the Negro people a powerful force can be secured in pursuit of the greatest goal of all mankind. And the same is true of labor and the great democratic sections of our population.
~By Paul Robeson ~
Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.
~By William C. Bryant ~
Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is.
~By Rebecca West ~
Never underestimate the power of a simple tool.
~By Craig Bruce ~
Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy.
~By Denis Waitley ~
I do resent that when you're in the most cool, powerful time of your life, which is your 40s, you're put out to pasture. I think women are so much cooler when they're older. So it's a drag that we're not allowed to age.
~By Rosanna Arquette ~
Once more, Never think that you can live to God by your own power or strength; but always look to and rely on him for assistance, yea, for all strength and grace.
~By David Brainerd ~
No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.
~By Barbara de Angelis ~
I like to make music, I like rap music. Even if I'm white, I support that music. If I want to support it or any other white kid wants to support it more power to them.
~By Kid Rock ~
The United States armed forces and coalition troops deserve recognition and support for their work to remove Saddam Hussein from power, and ensure the safety and security of the American people, civilians abroad, and the people of Iraq.
~By Mark Kennedy ~
God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
~By Marcus Fabius Quintilian ~
I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'
~By Abigail Adams ~
My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage.
~By Clay Aiken ~
Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.
~By Samuel Smiles ~
Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.
~By Stephen Covey ~
People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.
~By Don DeLillo ~
Power has to be insecure to be responsive.
~By Ralph Nader ~
I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.
~By Sally Quinn ~
Because of the power of television, I was visible to everybody all over the world. But there are many things in the theater that are more fulfilling and that I look forward to doing more. But really, I love it all: theater, film, television.
~By Charlotte Rae ~
The bizarre world of cards is a world of pure power politics where rewards and punishments are meted out immediately.
~By Ely Culbertson ~
The civilized world needs to think about a decision when single politicians are not allowed to stay in power.
~By Vladimir Zhirinovsky ~
God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.
~By Richard Dawkins ~
I wanted to hold onto and exploit the power of narrative. This is not only a book about a great storyteller, but there have to be stories about the storyteller.
~By Stephen Greenblatt ~
If the Holy Spirit can take over the subconscious with our consent and cooperation, then we have almighty Power working at the basis of our lives, then we can do anything we ought to do, go anywhere we ought to go, and be anything we ought to be.
~By E. Stanley Jones ~
But the nuclear powers still cling tenaciously to their weapons.
~By Joseph Rotblat ~
The test audience holds a great deal of power in the process of filmmaking in the United States.
~By Brendan Fraser ~
Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
There may or may not be a God or gods; the Siblings do not concern themselves with proving or disproving such a thing. By definition, gods are more powerful than men, and thus quite able to fend for themselves without help.
~By Steve Perry ~
Information can bring you choices and choices bring power - educate yourself about your options and choices. Never remain in the dark of ignorance.
~By Joy Page ~
This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation.
~By Carroll Quigley ~
Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
Nanotechnology will let us build computers that are incredibly powerful. We'll have more power in the volume of a sugar cube than exists in the entire world today.
~By Ralph Merkle ~
With the people, especially a people seized of property, resides the aggregate of original power.
~By Ezra Stiles ~
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
~By Erica Jong ~
The system has for its object an increase of persons that are to intervene between the producer and the consumer, living on the product of the land and labour of others, diminishing the power of the first, and increasing the number of the last.
~By Henry Charles Carey ~
There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.
~By Orison Swett Marden ~
The Myth of Male Power dealt much more with the political issues, the legal issues, sexual harassment, date rape, women who kill, and those issues were very much more interfaced with the agendas of feminism.
~By Warren Farrell ~
In our system of democracy, our government works on a system of checks and balances. Instead of stripping power from the courts, I believe we should follow the process prescribed in our Constitution - consideration of a Constitutional amendment.
~By Dennis Cardoza ~
In your hands or that of any other person, so much power would, no doubt, be dangerous. I am the only man in the world whom it would be safe to trust with it. Remember, I am a prophet!
~By Joseph Smith, Jr. ~
Because people of color will definitely, definitely become the power base in the Western Hemisphere.
~By Edward James Olmos ~
If Congress does its job in this regard, the residents of Puerto Rico will be empowered to act in their own self-interest and express their future political status aspirations accordingly.
~By Dick Thornburgh ~
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.
~By Peace Pilgrim ~
The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.
~By Benito Mussolini ~
Baseball presents a living heritage, a game poised between the powerful undertow of seasons past and the hope of next day, next week, next year.
~By John Thorn ~
I can assure you we are a responsible nuclear power.
~By Manmohan Singh ~
Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
~By Lord Acton ~
If a radical devolution of powers was possible, it would have been done before. The assumption of states' rights is gone. There's no support for it in the Supreme Court and there's no support for it in public opinion.
~By James Q. Wilson ~
One of the most powerful devices is to distort time, to go from human time to atomic time, geologic time. Sometimes you can actually accomplish that, with one unexpected word choice.
~By Robert Morgan ~
Our single greatest challenge is the ability to move power to markets outside North Dakota.
~By John Hoeven ~
The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.
~By Spiro T. Agnew ~
Whoever sets any bounds for the reconstructive power of the religious life over the social relations and institutions of men, to that extent denies the faith of the Master.
~By Walter Rauschenbusch ~
As attorney general, I can either look into it or I can ignore it because they're a bunch of powerful legislators... and I'm afraid they're going to cut my budget.
~By Ben Chandler ~
Some people even went off to form another band, Power Station.
~By Roger Andrew Taylor ~
I think empathy is a beautiful thing. I think that's the power of film though. We have one of the most powerful, one of the greatest communicative tools known to man.
~By Michelle Rodriguez ~
It is because I believe that it is in the power of such nations to lead the world back into the paths of peace that I propose to devote myself to explaining what, in my opinion, can and should be done to banish the fear of war that hangs so heavily over the world.
~By Arthur Henderson ~
The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
~By Victor Hugo ~
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
~By Tony Robbins ~
If the militarily most powerful - and least threatened - states need nuclear weapons for their security, how can one deny such security to countries that are truly insecure? The present nuclear policy is a recipe for proliferation. It is a policy for disaster.
~By Joseph Rotblat ~
I think we have a good team, but soccer fans will know that we're in a really tough group. The three teams in our group are really strong. The Czech Republic is a very good team, Italy is traditionally a powerhouse, and Ghana is one of the best teams in Africa.
~By Claudio Reyna ~
With twelve horse power at our command, we considered that we could permit the weight of the machine with operator to rise to 750 or 800 pounds, and still have as much surplus power as we had originally allowed for in the first estimate of 550 pounds.
~By Orville Wright ~
Allied supplies of arms to Russia, and the manpower reserves of Russia have been sufficient to bring continuous counter-attacks against our Eastern Front.
~By Hjalmar Schacht ~
But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
~By Alan Paton ~
And I hope America will realise, as the only superpower now, it really must use its power in a way that's going to build up the world, and to support the United Nations.
~By George Carey ~
We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other - in balance with it... The acting out of that dual respect I would name as precisely the source of our power.
~By Barbara Deming ~
While The United States is the most powerful nation the world has ever seen, it is also the most detested nation that the world has ever known.
~By Harold Pinter ~
Hateful is the power, and pitiable is the life, of those who wish to be feared rather than loved.
~By Cornelius Nepos ~
Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Just start thinking peace, and the message will spread quicker than you think.
~By Yoko Ono ~
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
~By John Adams ~
It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.
~By Winston Churchill ~
We kind of agree with Mao that political power comes largely from the barrel of a gun. And we get it that if you want a friend you should get a dog.
~By Ron Bloom ~
If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?
~By Mary Wollstonecraft ~
My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.
~By Arnold Schwarzenegger ~
I don't think politicians should be allowed into power who are not familiar with their bodies, because that's where our bottom line is. And I know that they would make totally different decisions if they felt responsible simply for their own bodies.
~By Twyla Tharp ~
Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it qualifies them to furnish in their own personality a good bit of the motive power to the mad pace.
~By Kate Chopin ~
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