As a people of faith, we know that prayer is a powerful instrument. And as one Nation under God, we know that many times our most powerful tool is prayer.
~By Nick Rahall ~
The crises of our time, it becomes increasingly clear, are the necessary impetus for the revolution now under way. And once we understand nature's transformative powers, we see that it is our powerful ally, not a force to feared our subdued.
~By Thomas Kuhn ~
The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
~By Ferdinand Foch ~
To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.
~By Liz Smith ~
Playing a character who's dealing not only with a superpower but having a normal relationship is easy to associate with, because I feel that everyone has been through it.
~By Shawn Ashmore ~
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express.
~By George A. Smith ~
There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.
~By John Galsworthy ~
One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.
~By Morihei Ueshiba ~
The Connection Machine was the most powerful supercomputer in the world. It is a complex supercomputer and it will take forever to completely describe how it works.
~By Philip Emeagwali ~
No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.
~By James F. Cooper ~
They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.
~By Christian Nestell Bovee ~
Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.
~By Candace Bushnell ~
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
~By Edgar Allan Poe ~
Ukraine had quite serious impact on the many Russians. They could see that ordinary people in Ukraine which is a bordering state, very close to Russia, the people of this state are, they didn't want to tolerate anymore the power abuse by Ukrainian officials.
~By Garry Kasparov ~
The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.
~By James Allen ~
When you poll all of the economists, uh, across America that I think are intellectually honest they would all, or maybe not all, but 95% of them 96% of them would say you know we really have got a powerful economy.
~By Donald Evans ~
Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.
~By Frederick Henry Hedge ~
Until democracy in effective enthusiastic action fills the vacuum created by the power of modern inventions, we may expect the fascists to increase in power after the war both in the United States and in the world.
~By Henry A. Wallace ~
The whole process of getting licenses to broadcast, which took place decades ago, was done behind closed doors by powerful lobbies, and wealthy commercial interests got all the licenses with no public input, no congressional input for that matter.
~By Robert McChesney ~
America's most dangerous diseases have developed an immunity to politics. We suffer not from a failure of political organization or power, but a failure of love.
~By Cal Thomas ~
If you wanted to dissect the structure of living cells, genetic analysis was an extremely powerful method, so my interest turned to that.
~By Joshua Lederberg ~
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.
~By Matt Drudge ~
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
~By Edmund Burke ~
The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
I thought maybe, just by never preaching, never doing any of that stuff because it doesn't work. By just maybe the power of example and some laughs, maybe somebody might go take a walk.
~By Liza Minnelli ~
At the moment I am a little bit politician, yes. I think that could be my next step. It is not because I want power, it is because of what I think I could do for the people.
~By Haile Gebrselassie ~
Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments.
~By Andrew Jackson ~
He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
~By Walter Scott ~
The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.
~By Blaine Lee ~
Anyone who seeks power wants absolute power.
~By Robert Shea ~
One of the most powerful tools for empowering individuals and communities is making certain that any individual who wants to receive a quality education can do so.
~By Christine Gregoire ~
Sony could have $50 million and a sound stage and A-list actors and never make the same film. The constraints on this film became the essence of this film, became the power of this film.
~By Joshua Leonard ~
The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.
~By John Ruskin ~
We can't just throw a switch and say Indian Point is going to be safe, we have to look long-term because it will ultimately be decommissioned and we have to work aggressively now to bring in new sources of power.
~By George Pataki ~
The attractive idea that we can now have a parliament of man with authority to control the conduct of nations by legislation or an international police force with power to enforce national conformity to rules of right conduct is a counsel of perfection.
~By Elihu Root ~
The coal industry has helped fuel this Nation for 150 years, and coal can be used to heat our homes, power our economy, and protect our Nation for at least another 150 years if we continue to use it.
~By Tim Murphy ~
He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
~By Joseph Conrad ~
The fifties - they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment and its power to satisfy.
~By Elizabeth Hardwick ~
Conscious of my own weakness, I can only seek fervently the guidance of the Ruler of the Universe, and, relying on His all-powerful aid, do my best to restore Union and peace to a suffering people, and to establish and guard their liberties and rights.
~By George B. McClellan ~
Blessing is the soveraign act of God, and the power of benediction like the power of God.
~By John Pearson ~
Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.
~By Arnold J. Toynbee ~
More than anything, people want the reality of the discussion at hand. If what is going on in that building is the real thing, if the transforming love and power of Jesus Christ is being experienced, you can sit on a metal folding chair or in a plush theater seat.
~By Bill Hybels ~
What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
Why? Because we're very well down this process as it is - flawed as it is - and we're counting on getting more power plants on line by the end of 2003 so we have a surplus of power.
~By Gray Davis ~
There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
~By Walt Whitman ~
Yes, across the board, these gentlemen understand they have the power to make a difference and even educate people to injustices that are occurring in their worlds.
~By Alexis Arguello ~
Some have said that the power of a Redeemer would depend upon two things: first, upon the richness of the self that was given; and second, upon the depths of the giving. Friend and foe alike are agreed on the question of the character of Jesus Christ.
~By E. Stanley Jones ~
The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived.
~By Rebecca West ~
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
It's interesting to note that all revolutionary literature was written by pastors. These guys were involved in a revolution against the mightiest power that the world had ever seen.
~By Randall Terry ~
The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
~By J. Martin Kohe ~
Because people of color will definitely, definitely become the power base in the Western Hemisphere.
~By Edward James Olmos ~
I cured with the power that came through me.
~By Black Elk ~
It is high time to compel man by the might of right to give woman her political, legal and social rights. She will find her own sphere in accordance with her capacities, powers and tastes; and yet she will be woman still.
~By Ernestine Rose ~
If power made one evil, then God would be the Devil.
~By Jonah Goldberg ~
The inability of those in power to still the voices of their own consciences is the great force leading to change.
~By Kenneth Kaunda ~
Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.
~By Ovid ~
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
~By Aristotle ~
It is important to consider whether the sample size selected by the Environmental Genome Project will provide sufficient power to discover most alleles relevant to gene-environment interactions.
~By Samuel Wilson ~
Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
And when power ballads come back, we'll get big hair again.
~By Jerry Cantrell ~
When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
~By Henry Miller ~
Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position, politically and economically, feel obliged by a kind of implicit force to live up to culture's image of what is female.
~By Susan Griffin ~
All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star.
~By Francis Thompson ~
Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view.
~By Ernst Mach ~
My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer.
~By Anna Lee ~
Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!
~By Walter Savage Landor ~
One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.
~By Francoise Sagan ~
Parenting, as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power, entails lower status, less power, and less control of resources than paid work.
~By Nancy Chodorow ~
Sir, I am no sycophant or worshipper of power anywhere.
~By Benjamin F. Wade ~
Here is my general approach to the energy companies. You have already charged the utilities a 50 percent credit penalty for the power they were buying from you. You're charging us a penalty. You're not going to get two bites of the apple here.
~By Gray Davis ~
In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state.
~By Peter L. Berger ~
I beg my Children to be just and virtuous, never to disgrace my name or theirs, and then they are out of fortune's power.
~By Thomas Willis ~
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.
~By Brigham Young ~
Those guys were made for me and Muhammad because they come straight in and don't back up but you had to watch out for his punching power but if we could have neutralized that then we would have been fine.
~By Larry Holmes ~
I have two favorite songs. My first is called 'Dance of The Robe' and it's a very powerful number where she is feeling the pressure from her people to take on the responsibility of leading them.
~By Deborah Cox ~
Conditions are ripe for triumph. We will win. And we will wield great power here.
~By Daniel Ortega ~
Vision is perhaps our greatest strength... it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown.
~By Li Ka Shing ~
Power without abuse loses its charm.
~By Paul Valery ~
A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory.
~By Friedrich Durrenmatt ~
Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
~By Edward de Bono ~
As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
~By William Blake ~
I am subject to very powerful lows. When you have highs, you have terrible lows. When you pinpoint that you are responsible for everything that happens to you, it is very frightening.
~By Jeanne Moreau ~
South Vietnam had to be built from scratch and, from the very beginning, depended far too much on the Western superpowers. As in the case of a person on public welfare, this dependency, which became greater with each day, was quite difficult to shake.
~By Nguyen Cao Ky ~
I believe that detente was having almost the opposite effect of what was intended. What was intended was to sort of end the contest for power and to stop Soviet expansion, especially by military means and the military build-up, the military contest.
~By Jeane Kirkpatrick ~
It's the Power of the Almighty, the Splendor of Nature, and then you.
~By Al Franken ~
I have - I have more than an interesting task in piloting Wales into our new democracy, without wanting to exercise draconian powers on behalf of anybody else - I can assure of that.
~By Ron Davies ~
The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.
~By Ferdinand Foch ~
Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge.
~By John Charles Polanyi ~
The equality among all members of the League, which is provided in the statutes giving each state only one vote, cannot of course abolish the actual material inequality of the powers concerned.
~By Hjalmar Branting ~
Even military ministers have no more than a certain amount of control. It is customary that they have the right and the power to participate, from a political and military point of view, in the planning of actual operations.
~By Hideki Tojo ~
The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no power to exist.
~By Franz Liszt ~
Since governmental quotas expand bureaucratic power, provoke a backlash and are unfair to individuals, we need to find a better way to increase minority opportunities.
~By Marvin Olasky ~
We're also far enough from the publishing power that we have no access to the politics of publishing, although there are interpersonal politics, of course.
~By Katherine Dunn ~
For in 1900 all electromagnetic radiation of longer wavelengths was already known at least to the extent that one could not seek in it the more striking characteristics of X-rays such as, for example, the strong penetrating power.
~By Max von Laue ~
Now there is so much expertise and brainpower it's hard to be at the cutting edge of what's cool and not do something that's totally geeky.
~By Darren Aronofsky ~
All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
~By Victor Hugo ~
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 ~
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