Quotes about Powers

Tim Powers is a brilliant writer. Votes: 3

If you like Powers, you'll love The Victories! Votes: 3

Klaus Toppmoller: hair like David Gower and dress sense like Austin Powers. Votes: 3

Powers once assumed are never relinquished, just as bureaucracies, once created, never die. Votes: 3

The hero of 'Dark Powers' can touch murder victims and read their last memories. Votes: 3

Me being able to beat up Austin Powers? I mean, how great can that be? Votes: 3

I would love to do something like Austin Powers to show off my comic timing. Votes: 3

Cities and Thrones and Powers Stand in Time's eye, Almost as long as flowers, Which daily die Votes: 3

They are strewn with the wreckage of dead Empires-past Powers only the Albanian "goes on for ever." Votes: 3

But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no. Votes: 3

Poetry, Painting & Music, the three Powers in man of conversing with Paradise, which the flood did not sweep away. Votes: 3

I remember, when I saw the first 'Austin Powers' movie, I was blown away by how fun and original it was. Votes: 3

Charlie Huston, who showran the first season [of Powers], is a novelist, and likes to internalize fiction as a novelist does. Votes: 3

Mini-Me was the pint sized clone that was the perpetuation of Dr. Evil's own legacy [in Austin Powers]. That concept earned the sequel. Votes: 3

I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career. Votes: 3

When we become hollow bones there is no limit to what the Higher Powers can do in and through us in spiritual things. Votes: 3

I've had the same car for five years - it's a convertible Jag which I bought with my own money. It's very Austin Powers. Votes: 3

'Perfect justice rules the world' for the Powers that are superior to us know the whole life of the Soul and all its' former lives. Votes: 3

Nor less I deem that there are Powers Which of themselves our minds impress; That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness Votes: 3

My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success. Votes: 1

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging. Votes: 1

Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Votes: 1

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. Votes: 1

When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you. Votes: 1

Nearness to nature... keeps the spirit sensitive to impressions not commonly felt and in touch with the unseen powers. Votes: 1

We are gods. Our tools make us gods. In symbiosis with our technology, our powers are expanding exponentially and so, too, our possibilities. Votes: 1

God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers. Votes: 1

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. Votes: 1

Science has produced such powerful weapons that in a war between great powers there would be neither victor nor vanquished. Both would be overwhelmed in destruction. Votes: 1

All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark. Votes: 1

The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours. Votes: 1

There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become. Votes: 1

The Golden Eagle, which has universally been considered as a bird of most extraordinary powers of flight, is in my estimation little more than a sluggard, though its wings are long and ample. Votes: 1

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow. Votes: 1

There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women. Votes: 1

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also. Votes: 1

The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail. Votes: 1

To a degree, the Greek and Roman mythological heroes are just the first superheroes. They appeal to children for much the same reason. These gods and heroes may have powers, but they get angry and they do the wrong thing. They are human too. Votes: 1

I represent poor people, I represent working people. I represent senior citizens. I represent family businesses. I represent people who don't have the wherewithal to hire overpriced Washington lobbyists and lawyers. I want to send the powers back to the states and the people. Votes: 1

Religion forbids us from assuming a God-like character. This is especially true in politics and government, where limiting the power of the state, division of powers, and the doctrine of checks and balances are established in order to prevent accumulation of power that might lead to such Godly claims. Votes: 1

After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory. Votes: 1

When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights. The people can act only by their agents and, within the powers conferred upon them, their acts must be considered as the acts of the people. Votes: 1

I definitely want to continue working in independent films - and big budget stuff as well - but there's a freedom you have when you're not getting paid. It's easier to say no and there's no pressure to please the powers that be. Also I don't have to hear 'flirt and smile more.' Votes: 1

Revolutionaries who come to power by force of arms usually have great crimes in their background. Leaders who survive campaigns by great powers to destroy them do not survive because they observe the niceties of law. Subversives who shape world events by covert action and violence work in shadows and detest the light of day. Votes: 1

With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look - for dizzier heights. Votes: 1

Belief releases creative powers. Votes: 0

Will power defeats all powers Votes: 0

Sadness diminishes a man's powers Votes: 0

Congress constitutionally lacks general police powers. Votes: 0

Consciousness of our powers augments them. Votes: 0

Nothing powers hate better than embarrassment. Votes: 0

Data really powers everything that we do. Votes: 0

Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Votes: 0

The race of children possesses magically sagacious powers. Votes: 0

How few writers can prostitute all their powers! Votes: 0

All the powers of imagination combine in hypochondria. Votes: 0

I would like 'I Dream of Genie' powers. Votes: 0

Equality of two domestic powers Breeds scrupulous faction. Votes: 0

Angels possess greater powers than do human beings. Votes: 0

Trust in God, the dependence on supernatural powers! Votes: 0

A good indignation brings out all one's powers. Votes: 0

Use your powers for good instead of evil Votes: 0

Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers. Votes: 0

Diseases of the mind impair the bodily powers. Votes: 0

The most awesome powers are those not wielded. Votes: 0

Spirits are as real as the powers they personify. Votes: 0

Civilization has developed executive powers far beyond its understanding. Votes: 0

His had disappearedDid you know they have mystical powers? Votes: 0

Greater powers and resources do not guarantee tactical superiority. Votes: 0

Without passion, the powers-that-be can run roughshod over you. Votes: 0

Fasting will also overcome sexual additions and demonic powers. Votes: 0

Great wars can only be fought by great powers. Votes: 0

Psychaiatrist realize that there are curative powers in confession. Votes: 0

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers. Votes: 0

Hero is he alone who vies with powers supreme! Votes: 0

Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. Votes: 0

We are lived by powers we pretend to understand. Votes: 0

All the powers in the universe are already ours. Votes: 0

Women do not know all their powers of flirtation. Votes: 0

Separation of powers is a problem for foreign policy. Votes: 0

When you doubt your powers, you power your doubts Votes: 0

Governments without separation of powers commit the worst crimes. Votes: 0

Perhaps living souls had greater phantom powers than the dead. Votes: 0

But the nuclear powers still cling tenaciously to their weapons. Votes: 0

The two super-powers cannot divide the world into their oyster. Votes: 0

Surrender to sensuality paralyzes the powers of the moral person. Votes: 0

Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers. Votes: 0

I'd not underestimate the competitive powers of the Japanese people. Votes: 0

Government has within it a tendency to abuse its powers. Votes: 0

Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Votes: 0

How many people here have telekenetic powers? Raise my hand. Votes: 0

The policies of all powers are inherent in their geography. Votes: 0

Breathing control gives man strength, vitality, inspiration, and magic powers. Votes: 0

The powers of the Soul are commensurate with its needs. Votes: 0

Psi and/or magical powers, if real, are nearly useless. Votes: 0

Don't mess with the dead, boy, they have eerie powers. Votes: 0

Words, like angels, are powers which have invisible power over us.... Votes: 0

Just what we need," moaned Holly. "Artemis Fowl with magical powers. Votes: 0

The legislative powers of government reach actions only and not opinions. Votes: 0

Teaching brings out innate powers, and proper training braces the intellect. Votes: 0

Properly channeled, common feelings of inadequacy lead to powers of accomplishment. Votes: 0

Believing I had supernatural powers, I slammed into a brick wall. Votes: 0

Everyone is prejudiced in favor of his own powers of discernment... Votes: 0

Joy is the effect which comes when we use our powers. Votes: 0

Today, the Muslim world is the poorest of the global powers. Votes: 0

[War] can no longer be of concern to great powers alone. Votes: 0

World full of love, will spark the force of divine powers. Votes: 0

All powers are within you, you can do anything and everything. Votes: 0

Hear all ye angels, progeny of light, Thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, powers. Votes: 0

We have usurped many of the powers we once ascribed to God. Votes: 0

The vices of youth now exceed my powers, but not my fancy. Votes: 0

I'll rebel against powers and principalities, all the time. Always, I will. Votes: 0

Imagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can match. Votes: 0

All powers, all laws, are but the fair Embodied thoughts of God. Votes: 0

Why four great powers should fight over Serbia no fellow can understand. Votes: 0

There are powers that can counterfeit almost everything in the Christian life. Votes: 0

Art is the employent of the powers of nature for an end. Votes: 0

Hackers are seen as shadowy figures with superhuman powers that threaten civilization. Votes: 0

Other crack teams get bat boomerangs and wall-climbing powers; we get Aquatruck. Votes: 0

If one abuses or neglects internal powers, external forces will act accordingly. Votes: 0

A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man. Votes: 0

And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend. Votes: 0

Monitor, transparently, and enforce the separation of Democracy powers: Legislative; Executive; Judicial Votes: 0

Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers. Votes: 0

Great powers reserve the right to police bad actors in their neighborhoods. Votes: 0

This government is acknowledged by all, to be one of enumerated powers. Votes: 0

You're saying we lost the powers of magic because we grew lazy. Votes: 0

Secession withdraws the State out of the reach of the usurped powers Votes: 0

The great moral powers of the soul are faith, hope, and love. Votes: 0

There are but few naval powers, but there are many land powers. Votes: 0

Angels are the powers hidden in the faculties and organs of man Votes: 0

I believe that writing is an account of the powers of extrication. Votes: 0

The power to tax and spend is restricted by the enumerated powers. Votes: 0

Allow me to congratulate you on your very astute powers of observation. Votes: 0

The martyrs shook the powers of darkness with the irresistible power of weakness. Votes: 0

Historically, foreign powers have always been the ones to keep Latin nations divided. Votes: 0

I don't have any powers other than the power of sex. And humor. Votes: 0

An immense effect may be produced by small powers wisely and steadily directed. Votes: 0

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, altogether past calculation its powers of endurance. Votes: 0

Principle III:;: Presumptive rights are the conditions under which individual powers normally develop. Votes: 0

Life is the faculty of spontaneous activity, the awareness that we have powers. Votes: 0

Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam. Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind. Votes: 0

Peace is a virtual, mute, sustained victory of potential powers against probable greeds Votes: 0

Abortion is a denial of one of those powers which make women women. Votes: 0

Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers. Votes: 0

Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate. Votes: 0

Freedom is when you really get your own powers which are within you. Votes: 0

I will not use my legislative powers except in a very limited framework. Votes: 0

Once again the powers of light and good have triumphed over the media! Votes: 0

The powers of nature are never in repose; her work never stands still. Votes: 0

My work is like a dialogue between me and unseen powers, like alchemy. Votes: 0

From him [Death] alone of all the powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof. Votes: 0

The margins don't get erased by simply insisting that the powers-that-be erase them. Votes: 0

When things go awry, trust powers the generators until the problem is fixed. Votes: 0

The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center. So does a person. Votes: 0

I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers. Votes: 0

Foreign powers do not seem to appreciate the true character of our government. Votes: 0

We start with first principles. The Constitution creates a Federal Government of enumerated powers. Votes: 0

The most dangerous states in the international system are continental powers with large armies. Votes: 0

In heaven, knowledge shall be commensurate with the enlarged powers of the glorified soul. Votes: 0

The Gita distinguishes between the powers of light and darkness and demonstrates their incompatibility. Votes: 0

You've got on a white coat. (Ephani) Awesome cognitive powers you have there. (Alexion) Votes: 0

Activists and geeks, standing together, are demonstrating powers beyond the reach of government control. Votes: 0

This world is a vast unbroken totality, a deep solidarity joins its contrary powers. Votes: 0

with the true convert, holiness is woven into all his powers, principles, and practice. Votes: 0

Seeing artistically does not happen automatically. We must constantly develop our powers of observation. Votes: 0

He was endowed with the extraordinary powers of endurance characteristic of madmen and simpletons. Votes: 0

There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man's reasoning powers. Votes: 0

However exalted our position, we should still not despise the powers of the humble. Votes: 0

The mind, in addition to medicine, has powers to turn the immune system around. Votes: 0

To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one's powers than the other. Votes: 0

Long before they slump into poverty, great powers succumb to a poverty of ambition. Votes: 0

Thrones, dominions, princedoms, virtues, powers-- If these magnific titles yet remain Not merely titular. Votes: 0

I shall tell my doctors baseball has more curative powers than all their medicine. Votes: 0

Nations, great nations have limitations. All nations have limitations. Even great powers have limitations. Votes: 0

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers. Votes: 0

Even more amazing than the wonders of Nature are the powers of the spirit. Votes: 0

Words possess primitive mystical incantatory healing powers... Their articulation represents a complete, lived experience. Votes: 0

Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail. Votes: 0

The greatest powers cannot injure a man's character whose reputation is unblemished among his party. Votes: 0

When multi-national corporations are given the same powers as feudal states or nations: expect wars. Votes: 0

Headmasters have powers at their disposal with which Prime ministers have never yet been invested. Votes: 0

Every human being has creative powers. You were born to create. Appreciate your inborn potential. Votes: 0

It's very difficult to pin down the President of the United States without subpoena powers. Votes: 0

Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed Votes: 0

Playing music to me is as close to having super powers as you can have. Votes: 0

Humans create their cognitive powers by creating the environments in which they exercise those powers Votes: 0

When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve. Votes: 0

When your desires are strong enough, you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve. Votes: 0

If I wrote a Jewish superhero, he'd have awesome time-traveling powers. I'd call him Doctorow. Votes: 0

Faith in your own powers and confidence in your individual methods are essential to success. Votes: 0

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. Votes: 0

Premature development of the powers of both mind and body leads to an early grave. Votes: 0

We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers Votes: 0

Of all the powers conferred upon government, that of taxation is most liable to abuse. Votes: 0

Nationalism is war. - in arguing to strengthen the federal powers of the European Union Votes: 0

Among living artists, George Condo may be the most embraced by the powers that be. Votes: 0

To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships. Votes: 0

Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems. Votes: 0

Big wave surfers are human beings that have powers. They are men of enormous gentility. Votes: 0

Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood. Votes: 0

Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers. Votes: 0

Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers. Votes: 0

Socialize' means we turn more of our personal powers over to Big Brother, not free enterprise. Votes: 0

I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well. Votes: 0

We passed important laws to give the authorities responsible for investigation wide powers to defend us. Votes: 0

You know, great powers don't get angry, great powers don't make decisions hastily in a crisis. Votes: 0

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff. Votes: 0

Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers. Votes: 0

History has demonstrated time and again the inherent resilience and recuperative powers of the American economy. Votes: 0

The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction. Votes: 0

no subject of study is more important than reading"¦all other intellectual powers depend on it. Votes: 0

Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice. Votes: 0

Methodological individualism is the doctrine that psychological states are individuated with respect to their causal powers. Votes: 0

Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated. Votes: 0

The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers. Votes: 0

Happiness is... the grace of being permitted to unfold... all the spiritual powers planted within us. Votes: 0

Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force. Votes: 0

Great powers must be forever vigilant and never subordinate survival to any other goal, including prosperity. Votes: 0

capital cannot be more beneficially employed, then in strengthening and aiding the productive powers of nature. Votes: 0

The greatest calamity which could befall us would be submission to a government of unlimited powers. Votes: 0

All truth is precious, if not all divine; and what dilates the powers must needs refine. Votes: 0

Our freedom of speech is freedom or death, We got to fight the powers that be! Votes: 0

We owe the government taxes. We owe our creditors interest. What do these powers owe us? Votes: 0

The possession of great powers no doubt carries with it a comtempt for mere external show Votes: 0

They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers. Votes: 0

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers. Votes: 0

Symbols are to the mind what tools are to the hand--an extended application of its powers. Votes: 0

I think: the powers like to talk about "freedom" in order to wash the population's brains. Votes: 0

For great as the powers of destruction may be, greater still, are the powers of healing. Votes: 0

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers. Votes: 0

The powers of a man's mind are directly proportional to the quantity of coffee he drank. Votes: 0

Some things are best left alone. Such as interfering in things which are beyond our powers. Votes: 0

If you start getting instability in large powers with nuclear weapons, that's not a good day. Votes: 0

A cultivation of the powers of one's personality is one of the greatest needs of life. Votes: 0

I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry. Votes: 0

I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go. Votes: 0

As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers. Votes: 0

Faith and unfaith can ne'er be equal powers; Unfaith is aught is want of faith in all. Votes: 0

Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one's own powers. Votes: 0

Computer users soon learn that the miraculous powers of personal computers are based on avoidance of error. Votes: 0

The powers contained in a constitution...ought to be construed liberally in advancement of the public good. Votes: 0

Our relations with the other powers of Europe have experienced no essential change since the last session. Votes: 0

A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers. Votes: 0

Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and has powers of reality. Votes: 0

Her new powers surging, she went to have a long overdue Come-to-Jesus talk with the goddess. (Tory) Votes: 0

The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence. Votes: 0

For each of us there is a set limit to our intellectual powers which we cannot pass. Votes: 0

Few of us ever test our powers of deduction, except when filling out an income tax form Votes: 0

The powers that be don’t want athletes or boxers to become as smart as they are. Votes: 0

One can only learn his powers of action by action, and his powers of thought by thinking Votes: 0

Economics and politics are the governing powers of life today, and that's why everything is so screwy. Votes: 0

To write honestly and with all our powers is the least we can do, and the most. Votes: 0

Although our powers are great, they are not unlimited they are bounded by some lines of demarcation. Votes: 0

I'm the beacon of hope, and I have mental powers you never dreamed of. Now be quiet. Votes: 0

It's very, very tempting to make a superhero film or show and make it about the powers. Votes: 0

Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition. Votes: 0

I'm sorry that your mystical, godlike powers do not instantly work as you would like them to. Votes: 0

I am not invested with dictatorial powers. If I were, I should be quite ready to dictate. Votes: 0

With the rise of America, the global balance of power shifted away from the old European powers. Votes: 0

The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing. Votes: 0

Music, because of its specific and far-reaching metaphorical powers, can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable. Votes: 0

So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be! Votes: 0

It is the population which decides when it's time for a leader to leave, not foreign powers. Votes: 0

No powers determine our lives more completely than those we think we have under our control. I Votes: 0

The one being abhorrent to the powers above the earth and under them is the hyphenated American Votes: 0

The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new. Votes: 0

As the kundalini rises, the knowledge and powers of those dimensions will begin to come to you. Votes: 0

As the kundalini rises, the knowledge and powers of those dimensions will begin to come to you. Votes: 0

A corporation has all the powers and privileges of an individual: all it lacks is a conscience. Votes: 0

Money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace & conspire against it in times of adversity. Votes: 0

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. Votes: 0

The root of joy, as of duty, is to put all one's powers towards some great end. Votes: 0

Everyone hooks up with George Clooney. He's a genuinely cool guy. He's using his powers for good. Votes: 0

Magic and all that is ascribed to it is a deep presentiment of the powers of science. Votes: 0

Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers. Votes: 0

The power of the priesthood heals, protects, and inoculates all of the righteous against the powers of darkness. Votes: 0

Nothing is finer for the purposes of great productions than a very gradual ripening of the intellectual powers. Votes: 0

We all wish we had super powers. We all wish we could do more than we can do. Votes: 0

We can grieve over lost powers and memories, or rejoice over gained knowledge and maturity, according to taste. Votes: 0

We all have the potential to climb to greater heights through the infinite powers of dreams and actions. Votes: 0

Where other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given. Votes: 0

Convictions are the mainsprings of action, the driving powers of life. What a man lives are his convictions. Votes: 0

Where a man does his best with only moderate powers, he will have the advantage over negligent superiority. Votes: 0

The powers of the mind are like the rays of the sun when they are concentrated they illumine. Votes: 0

Individuals achieve optimal stupidity when they're given substantial powers while being insulated from the results of their actions. Votes: 0

Education demands, then, only this: the utilization of the inner powers of the child for his own instruction. Votes: 0

For children in their most impressionable years, there is, in fantasy, the highest of stimulating and educational powers. Votes: 0

I have three powers to win the world: my omnipotent love, my omnipresent kindness, and my omniscient compassion. Votes: 0

Never had Parliament or the crown, or both together, operated in actuality as theory indicated sovereign powers should. Votes: 0

He uses his good powers for evil, and that's when it gets to the dangerous side of it. Votes: 0

The sin of all time has been the exercise of assumed powers. This is the essence of tyranny. Votes: 0

We should set goals within the limits of our resources while working to the limits of our powers. Votes: 0

After death something new begins, over which all powers of the world of death have no more might. Votes: 0

Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war. Votes: 0

The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers. Votes: 0

I know that I haven't powers enough to divide myself into one who earns and one who creates. Votes: 0

...the fullest development of the highest powers of men can be achieved only in a world of peace. Votes: 0

A successful school has to engage all the people, all the powers, and all the capacities within it. Votes: 0

Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated. Votes: 0

I think there are unseen powers who don't want pop music to be anything other than glorified Madonnas. Votes: 0

Because your own strength is unequal to a task, do not assume it is beyond the powers of man. Votes: 0

Nearness to nature... keeps the spirit sensitive to impressions not commonly felt and in touch with the unseen powers. Votes: 0

Most enlightened people can do miracles. Some have powers, some don't. Some people who have developed powers aren't enlightened. Votes: 0

Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes. Votes: 0

To display the greatest powers, unless they are applied to great purposes, makes nothing for the character of greatness. Votes: 0

Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes. Votes: 0

The strangest of our powers Is the courage to live Knowing that we will die, Knowing nothing more true. Votes: 0

Things we do regularly become buried with habits, and we lose the ability to extract their powers to inspire. Votes: 0

They say that your powers of memory are at their peak when you're 26, and it's all downhill after that. Votes: 0

Adversity is the touchstone of character: it is not in success but in misfortune that hidden powers bear fruit. Votes: 0

It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing. Votes: 0

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers. Votes: 0

I ain't got no magical powers and mystical trips and all that kind of crap. It's kind of silly. Votes: 0

Meditation will bring back the powers and awareness from the past; more importantly, it will expand your consciousness today. Votes: 0

Sharpie? A mischievous smile spread across her face. I thought you said you couldn't control your powers. Beginner's luck. Votes: 0

Storybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling; true happiness involves the full use of one's powers and talents. Votes: 0

Let it Ride channels Elmore Leonard at the height of his powers, with dialogue Quentin Tarantino would kill for. Votes: 0

I certainly think that a Labour Government will have to have effective powers to control the outflow of capital. Votes: 0

It is not by the consolidation or concentration of powers but by their distribution that good government is effected. Votes: 0

The sole aim of the arts of scene-designing, costuming, lighting, is to enhance the natural powers of the actor. Votes: 0

Faith in oneself unlocks those hidden powers that all of us have, but that so few of us use. Votes: 0

It is a universal principle that whenever one refuses to use his God-given powers, these powers decay and perish. Votes: 0

Of all treasures of knowledge, the most vital is the knowledge of God, his existence, powers, love, and promises. Votes: 0

If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride, because it shows you trust in your own powers. Votes: 0

From the nature of things, every society must at all times possess within itself the sovereign powers of legislation. Votes: 0

Extensive powers not exercised as far as was necessary have, I believe, scarcely ever failed to ruin the possessor. Votes: 0

[W]here other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given. Votes: 0

Man with his new powers became rich like Midas but all that he touched had gone dead and cold. Votes: 0

Wearing a bath towel around the school yard and pretending it's a cape doesn't mean you have magical powers. Votes: 0

My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil. Votes: 0

Dictators are actually very fearful themselves. Even when they're asleep, they're afraid that others will take their powers away. Votes: 0

An aware person is in tune with all the powers of God and makes them his or her own. Votes: 0

Wisdom's daughter walks alone. That didn't just mean without other people, Annabeth realized. It meant without any special powers. Votes: 0

Broken people misuse their power while people who have values don't use their powers in a way that harms. Votes: 0

A smile remains the most inexpensive gift I can bestow on anyone and yet its powers can vanquish kingdoms. Votes: 0

The objective laws of form and color help to strengthen a person's powers and to expand his creative gift. Votes: 0

You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed. Votes: 0

All the big powers they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right. Votes: 0

A smile remains the most inexpensiv gift I can bestow on anyone and yet its powers can vanquish kingdoms. Votes: 0

Where there are large powers with little ambition, nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes. Votes: 0

Donald Trump's big goal is to become the richest man in the world, abusing the powers of the presidency. Votes: 0

The child has other powers than ours, and the creation he achieves is no small one; it is everything. Votes: 0

When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person... there can be no liberty. Votes: 0

When the most important decisions are made in secret, we lose our ability to check the powers that control. Votes: 0

Analysis, if it is really carried out with a complete concentration of his powers, forms and completes a chess player. Votes: 0

The powers that be understand that sexual freedom or liberation with any kind of joy means they are losing control. Votes: 0

Yeah, right. Instead of watching TV, we'll practice our weird magical powers. Great. What's next? Zooming around on flying carpets? Votes: 0

Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. Votes: 0

The last western society to worship female powers was Minoan Crete. And significantly, that fell and did not rise again. Votes: 0

I'm not that familiar with Andrew Garfield, but if the powers that be chose him, I'm sure he'll be good. Votes: 0

Whatever evil voices may rage, Science, secure among the powers that are eternal, will do her work and be blessed. Votes: 0

Sometimes we are devils to ourselves When we will tempt the frailty of our powers, Presuming on their changeful potency. Votes: 0

Suffering comes from not understanding or a full potential or full powers within ourselves to heal, to nurture, to nourish. Votes: 0

Not all powers are spectacular." Hestia looked at me. "Sometimes the hardest power to master is the power of yielding. Votes: 0

Eloquent testimony to the recovery powers of wild animals frequently becomes apparent from the study of skeletons housed in museums. Votes: 0

pity and charity may be at root an attempt to propitiate the dark powers that have not touched us yet. Votes: 0

While Mojo suggests any art that invokes supernatural powers, for us creators Mojovation means finding magic in what we do. Votes: 0

It will follow that that government ought to be clothed with all powers requisite to complete execution of its trust. Votes: 0

I do not hesitate to say that the limitation on naval craft between the great naval powers was too high. Votes: 0

No man has the right to use the great powers of the Presidency to lead the people, indirectly, into war. Votes: 0

It is an amazing thing, the difference to one’s powers of concentration a pair of comfortable shoes can make. Votes: 0

Our goal is to displace the entrenched powers in Washington, restore the rightful balance between the state and federal government. Votes: 0

A Witch's work is mind work and utilizes powerful metaphors, allegories, and images that unlock the powers of the mind. Votes: 0

Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others. Votes: 0

We can't do this without you," I managed at last. "Everyone talks about my powers, but you're the badass here. Votes: 0

Cities simply don't have the powers they need to radically innovate in cutting obesity or the number of disaffected teenagers. Votes: 0

Therefore, I feel convinced that any political picture can be changed to suit the needs of the powers that be. Votes: 0

I always watch superhero movies, and I like the action and the fighting and all the different kinds of powers. Votes: 0

Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance. Votes: 0

We are always at the mercy of powers greater than us, even when our power is at its highest level! Votes: 0

Science bestowed immense new powers on man, and at the same time, created conditions which were largely beyond his comprehension. Votes: 0

If I've got the powers of a god, then why am I so..." "Lame?" Sadie suggested. "Shut up," I said. Votes: 0

It is a sin to regard the fact that God cannot do the impossible as a limitation on his powers. Votes: 0

These stories of people with unusual powers and unusual appearances, who do unusual things, people are always fascinated by them. Votes: 0

You desire that which exceeds my humble powers, but I trust in the compassion and mercy of the All-powerful God. Votes: 0

My powers of persuasion are only as strong as the bullshit I have to back it up. - Charley Davidson Votes: 0

What we can do for another is the test of powers; what we can suffer is the test of love. Votes: 0

Magic is the practice of causing change through the use of powers as yet not defined or accepted by science. Votes: 0

Men do not fear a powerful hostile army as the powers of hell fear the name and protection of Mary. Votes: 0

The dreamer and his dream are the same...the powers personified in a dream are these that move the world. Votes: 0

People acting in their own self-interest is the fuel for all the discovery, innovation, and prosperity that powers the world. Votes: 0

And one of the frustrating parts, but it's an inherent part of our democracy, is we have separation of powers. Votes: 0

It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment. Votes: 0

Government does not have magic powers. In fact, the opposite is true; it is the least effective agency invented by man. Votes: 0

Did you do that? (Simone) Sometimes my powers work. Sometimes they don't. Looks like this time they did. Yea, us. (Xypher) Votes: 0

Vice incapacitates a man from all public duty; it withers the powers of his under- standing, and makes his mind paralytic. Votes: 0

The mind is incredible. Once you've gained mastery over it, channelling its powers positively, for your purpose you can do anything. Votes: 0

Life is an apprenticeship to the constant renunciations, to the steady failure of our claims, our hopes, our powers, our liberty. Votes: 0

The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers. Votes: 0

There can be no finer example of the inspiring powers of competition to shatter the status quo than Hungary's Judit Polgar. Votes: 0

Labor is the instituted means for the methodical development of all our powers under the direction and control of the will. Votes: 0

I have great satisfaction in stating that our relations with France, Russia, and other powers continue on the most friendly basis. Votes: 0

The great powers claim that whatever they possess is theirs by right, but whatever we, the smaller countries possess is negotiable. Votes: 0

The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt. Votes: 0

We all possess more power and greater possibilities than we realize, and visualizing is one of the greatest of these powers. Votes: 0

The sign that the kundalini is releasing is not the development of miraculous powers, but that your mind is becoming quieter. Votes: 0

Either the distances betweem the distant quarters of the globe are diminished, or you have extended the powers of human action. Votes: 0

I always feel like hard work leads the way, and from there, I leave it up to the powers that be. Votes: 0

It is practice alone that brings the powers of the mind, as well as those of the body, to their perfection. Votes: 0

I'm really excited for people to be able to see what else I can do, besides high heels and magic powers. Votes: 0

I want to perceive and understand the hidden powers and laws of things, in order to have them in my power. Votes: 0

This must be how the guys in Space Jam felt when MJ gave them their powers back through that old basketball. Votes: 0

One of the things that I've been doing over the past few years is reevaluating my own powers of political analysis. Votes: 0

I am not wrong in the belief that its public funds are more secure than those of all the European powers. Votes: 0

Step aside, boys. I have the evil powers for this." "“ Abigail "My lady got mad skills." "“ Sundown Votes: 0

For the first rate poet, nothing short of a Queen or a Chimera is adequate for the powers of his praise. Votes: 0

Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done. Votes: 0

Most of my girlfriends are sent by the Devil and seem genuinely bemused when I do not succumb to their powers. Votes: 0

They say that man is mighty, He governs land and sea, He wields a mighty sceptre, O'er lesser powers that be. Votes: 0

What we can do for another is the test of powers; what we can suffer for is the test of love. Votes: 0

I would rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my powers and dominion. Votes: 0

We never know we are beings till we love. And then it is we know the powers and potentialities of human existence. Votes: 0

The aim of education is to strengthen and multiply the powers and activities of the mind rather than to increase its possessions. Votes: 0

The powers that be are trying to meld, shape, and corral the culture of hip-hop into another speaking voice for the government. Votes: 0

It's not about who's got powers, morons. It's about who's not afraid. And who's going to do what has to be done. Votes: 0

The time for arguing about the powers the people want is over. It's time now to use the powers that we have. Votes: 0

The soul is created in a place between Time and Eternity: with its highest powers it touches Eternity, with its lower Time. Votes: 0

My impression, is that prayer is one of the most basic forms of magic. That it's harnessing the powers of your mind Votes: 0

The Constitution of the United States doesn't change the powers of the president based on the number by which you get elected. Votes: 0

The only way to meet the modern demon-stration of the powers of darkness is by a demonstration of the power of God. Votes: 0

My impression, is that prayer is one of the most basic forms of magic. That it's harnessing the powers of your mind. Votes: 0

Just as the police review their operational tactics, so we in the Home Office will review the powers available to the police. Votes: 0

I know that there are no limits to which the powers of privilege will not go to keep the workers in slavery Votes: 0

And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere 'modernity' cannot kill. Votes: 0

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend. Votes: 0

The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction. Votes: 0

Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing. Votes: 0

All my life I have studies the peculiar powers of music. It has a force of its own that few would deny. Votes: 0

What we call powers, secrets of nature, and force, are all within. In the external world are only a series of changes. Votes: 0

A man of over thirty might be held to be at the height of his powers, but not necessarily of his wisdom. Votes: 0

I believe in the curative powers of love as the English believe in tea or Catholics believe in the Miracle of Lourdes. Votes: 0

The consequence of a world full of nuclear powers to me is so incomprehensible in terms of the dangers that that implies. Votes: 0

The last time I did anything like this [special powers] was with the Narnia film with two swords, the same but different. Votes: 0

But it's a child! You're a man!Your powers of observation are formidable, said Charles. You are a credit to your optician. Votes: 0

Since the primitive times, the wealth of the popes was exposed to envy, their powers to opposition, and their persons to violence. Votes: 0

People who know the truth have no business to allow the powers of darkness to silence them on any point that matters. Votes: 0

Whatever my powers--feminine or the contrary--God had given them, and I felt resolute to be ashamed of no faculty of his bestowal. Votes: 0

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be. Votes: 0

[I]f you want instant, reflexive support for the US government's police and military powers, MSNBC is the place to turn these days. Votes: 0

I don't have any premonitions. I don't have any supernatural powers. I just have a typical woman's intuition, and I go with that. Votes: 0

With hidden powers of unknown extent apparently at his disposal, Curwen was not a man who could safely be warned to leave town. Votes: 0

What we believe and trust becomes the very ruler for our souls by the influence of powers which work either righteously or evilly Votes: 0

If you have to be the antagonist, you often have a lot more creative powers. You have a lot more color to you. Votes: 0

I believe that the mind powers the body, and once the mind says we want to do it, then the body will follow. Votes: 0

Prayer is not a substitute for work; it is an effort to work further and be efficient beyond the range of one's powers. Votes: 0

I think that artworks are like these spiritual objects: I think that they have energies and powers beyond what the eye can see. Votes: 0

The programmers of tomorrow are the wizards of the future. You're going to look like you have magic powers compared to everybody else. Votes: 0

Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks. Votes: 0

What is it that's taken hold of me, for me to carry on like this in relentless pursuit of something beyond my powers? Votes: 0

I grow more and more suspicious of the political powers that take men away from their work and set them shooting one another. Votes: 0

The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear. Votes: 0

I am a weak, ephemeral creature made of mud and dream. But I feel all the powers of the universe whirling within me. Votes: 0

Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable. Votes: 0

For in this strange anatomy we wear, the head has greater powers than the hand; the spirit, heart, and mind are over all. Votes: 0

Poetry is one of the oldest of all art forms, and one of its powers for shamans and tribal leaders was the mnemonic. Votes: 0

Hold your powers together for something good and let everything go that is for you without result and is not suited to you. Votes: 0

The God of life summons us to life; more, to be lifegivers, especially toward those who lie under the heel of the powers. Votes: 0

Students are very engaged by the issues, and it's not surprising because food choices are one of the few powers a child has. Votes: 0

No one can give you magickal powers. You have to earn them. There is only one way to do this. Practice, practice, practice! Votes: 0

I have seen people who practice yoga and Buddhism who are scared to death of the sorcery powers of others. This is absurd. Votes: 0

The propriety of a law, in a constitutional light, must always be determined by the nature of the powers upon which it is founded. Votes: 0

I can't go back because I lost all my Soul Reaper powers! - Rukia You lost your powers? What are they, socks? - Ichigo Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If we fail to see that there are powers that cause people to be bowed down in bondage, we are fighting the wrong battle. Votes: 0

A prince ought to have two fears, one from within, on account of his subjects, the other from without, on account of external powers. Votes: 0

We honor revelation too highly to make it the antagonist of reason, or to believe that it calls us to renounce our highest powers. Votes: 0

There are only three great powers in the universe: God in heaven, the pope in the Vatican and Dadá in the great box. Votes: 0

I'd like to be able to use Storm's powers for good, like have it rain more in Southern California. We could do with it. Votes: 0

The mind has powers that allow us to go beyond our normal or habitual way of being, and beyond what we think is possible. Votes: 0

Peace between good and evil is an impossibility; the very pretence of it would, in fact, be the triumph of the powers of darkness. Votes: 0

The principle of Yoga is the turning of one or of all powers of our human existence into a means of reaching divine Being. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

God will not damn a lunatic's soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for those of us with weak minds. Votes: 0

To let the child do as he likes when he has not yet developed any powers of control is to betray the idea of freedom. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

Uri Geller may have psychic powers by means of which he can bend spoons; if so, he appears to be doing it the hard way. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I thought that the United Nations is a creature of the five super-powers who were given veto powers. I don't like veto powers at all. Votes: 0

Man is not made for the State but the State for man and it derives its just powers only from the consent of the governed. Votes: 0

I am a woman in the prime of my life, with certain powers and those powers severely limited by authorities whose faces I rarely see. Votes: 0

Nature has not implanted any power in man that was not meant to be exercised at times, though too often our powers have been abused. Votes: 0

Basically all the religions,sciences and powers of the world boil down to a simple truth. The Best Story Teller will win in the end! Votes: 0

This is peculiarly an age in which each of us may, if he do but search diligently, find the literature suited to his mental powers. Votes: 0

I tried to will them with my super mental powers so he'd put them around my waist, but apparently I had no super mental powers. Votes: 0

My joy knows no bounds... I will devote all my energy and all the powers available to me to the service of Nigeria and humanity. Votes: 0

I'll no longer say that I have supernatural powers. I am an entertainer. I want to do a good show. My entire character has changed. Votes: 0

In prosperous times I have sometimes felt my fancy and powers of language flag, but adversity is to me at least a tonic and bracer. Votes: 0

To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world. Votes: 0

Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea; but a good writer is a critic of the society he lives in. Votes: 0

I could fall in love with a supernatural creature because I think it's hot having super powers and being a little bit of a badass. Votes: 0

While an author is yet living, we estimate his powers by his worst performance; and when he is dead, we rate him by his best. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The occult powers may be possessed by soul, but if they are not used in the right way it is a loss rather than a gain. Votes: 0

To slight a single human being, is to slight those divine powers and thus to harm not only that being but with him, the whole world. Votes: 0

You can't explain the feeling of singing hit songs to an audience - it's like being a genuine sports star at the peak of their powers. Votes: 0

Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time Be crushed by the spirit of light. Votes: 0

Believe me, when I say; There are no two powers That command the soul. One is God The other is the tide. -Anon From the novel Abarat Votes: 0

A man's Self is the sum total of all that he can call his, not only his body and his psychic powers, but his clothes and his house. Votes: 0