I believe that cronyism is nothing more than welfare for the rich and powerful, and should be abolished.

Music is a powerful tool for change.

I get strength from my art – all the paintings I own are powerful.

Power without guilt, love without doubt.

A new, a vast, and a powerful language is developed for the future use of analysis, in which to wield its truths so that these may become of more speedy and accurate practical application for the purposes of mankind than the means hitherto in our possession have rendered possible.

Words are more powerful than some noises. Noises won’t last long. Lyrics are so important, and people don’t realise that.

The power of technology lies in its ability to connect people.

Hope is the most powerful weapon.

Some say Google is God. Others say Google is Satan. But if they think Google is too powerful, remember that with search engines unlike other companies, all it takes is a single click to go to another search engine.

Britain needs a real push. It needs nationalism. The sort of spirit that comes during a war. It needs people really to want to see the UK sitting again, maybe not as a colonial power, but as an economic power.

Don’t underestimate the power of a good silly dance. It can cure all that ails you.

Grief is nature’s most powerful aphrodisiac.

Music is a powerful thing. It can bring people together, make them dance, make them cry.

Technology can be a powerful force for good if used responsibly.

You are more powerful than you think.

Your mind is the most powerful tool you have.

It is not in our power to anticipate our destiny.

What this power is, I cannot say… All I know is that it exists.

The power of Russia lies in its unity and strength.

There is no ‘power’ without a bit of ‘ow.

The division of labor, then, is the cause of the increase in the productive powers of labor.

Knowledge is the most powerful tool we have for changing the world.

Storytelling is the most powerful way to connect with people.

Powerful ideas are just in your pocket.

Powerful ideas are just in your pocket.

Blasphemy: a law to protect an all-powerful, supernatural deity from getting its feelings hurt.

Body language is more powerful than words.

A synopsis is a cold thing. You do it with the front of your mind. If you’re going to stay with it, you never get quite the same magic as when you’re going all out.

The desire of posthumous fame and the dread of posthumous reproach and execration are feelings from the influence of which scarcely any man is perfectly free, and which in many men are powerful and constant motives of action

We have previously suggested that philanthropy combines genuine pity with the display of power and that the latter element explains why the powerful are more inclined to be generous than to grant social justice.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

The ultimate authority resides in the people, and that if the federal government got too powerful and overstepped its authority, then the people would develop plans of resistance and resort to arms.

Experience assures us, that the efficacy of the provision has been greatly over-rated; and that some more adequate defense is indispensably necessary for the more feeble, against the more powerful members of the government.

Should an unwarrantable measure of the federal government be unpopular in particular States, which would seldom fail to be the case, or even a warrantable measure be so, which may sometimes be the case, the means of opposition to it are powerful and at hand.

When comfort is withdrawn, do not be cast down, but humbly and patiently await the visitation of God. He is able and powerful to give you more grace and more spiritual comfort than you first had.

There are few more powerful tools for promoting stability than the institution of marriage.

The desperate need to belong is perhaps never as great as during adolescence. Advertisers seek to communicate with teenagers by frequently using that powerful appeal.

My attachment to my wedding ring is a powerful symbol of the infinite love that I have for my wife and children.

Consumer behaviour is a powerful realm from which to explore our biological heritage.

The power of the individual is as powerful as the universe is infinite.

Saying no to something is actually much more powerful than saying yes.

My songs are all about celebrating poignant music. While some of them focus on fun and revelry, they are fortunately backed by powerful lyrics. Put together, the lyrics, tune and my voice strive to take the songs to the next level.

Romantic Orientalism was fascinated by the color and excitement of a powerful culture, and nearly always approached its subject with love.

We have this powerful ideological basis to the country that I don’t think any other country in the world quite can brag about. It’s a very complicated nation, and it’s very fertile.

With all women gentleness is the most persuasive and powerful argument

The Internet is a very powerful tool; unfortunately its starting to get a little saturated

If you ever had a pet, with me it was a dog, with that sort of unconditional love that only dogs can give, people can’t do that; that sort of thing where it’s very powerful, it’s kind of your first love and your first real relationship, and usually your first experience with death

Any powerful technology can be abused.

I think masculinity is bravado against the mystery of the universe of women. It’s just a fear of not knowing what women have that’s so powerful. It’s this shield they put up to try to get closer.

They think I’m too old to cause trouble.
Old age is a powerful disguise.

The poetry I grew up on is really an intense form of poetry; it’s so pure and powerful.

Language is our most powerful tool and our greatest gift.

Language is a tool for understanding and empathy, and literature is its most powerful expression.

A page of Addison or of Irving will teach more of style than a whole manual of rules, whilst a story of Poe’s will impress upon the mind a more vivid notion of powerful and correct description and narration than will ten dry chapters of a bulky textbook.

It is the place where all the aspirations of the Western World meet to form one vast master aspiration, as powerful as the suction of a steam dredge. It is the icing on the pie called Christian civilization.

There was a powerful and effulgent smell of industrial disinfectant. It’s a smell that never reassures you about cleanliness; rather, it makes you doubly squeamish of lurking vileness. Soap smells clean, disinfectant smells dirty. Funny that

I wish that the adults who are ‘in power’ cared more about what their children read. Books are incredibly powerful when we are young – the books I read as a child have stayed with me my entire life – and yet, the people who write about books, for the most part, completely ignore children’s literature.

Our democracy’s history is littered with names we neither remember nor celebrate – people who stood in the way of progress while protecting the powerful. On Wednesday, a number of senators voted to join that list.

Now is the perfect time to make powerful change-your willingness is at an all-time high.

Right now we’re in a special and powerful position, because the world is having a spiritual awakening.

Whoever has experienced the power and the unrestrained ability to humiliate another human being automatically loses his own sensations. Tyranny is a habit, it has its own organic life, it develops finally into a disease. The habit can kill and coarsen the very best man or woman to the level of a beast. Blood and power intoxicate … the return of the human dignity, repentance and regeneration becomes almost impossible.

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

[Colonel Aureliano Buendía’s] orders were being carried out even before they were given, even before he thought of them, and they always went much beyond what he would have dared have them do. Lost in the solitude of his immense power, he began to lose direction.

I am, by calling, a dealer in words; and words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

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Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

I’m so powerful on stage that I seem to have created a monster

Power will be maintained by the groovy guy or gal who gets the most media coverage for his sleaze. Naturally, his friends in various businesses will do okay, too

Love yourself fiercely and unapologetically, because you are worthy of all the love and happiness in the world.

I can’t quite say that I was raised Muslim, but I remember up until 5 or so I would pray, you know, with my dad. And it’s actually a beautiful practice. It’s giving of yourself to a higher power – no matter what you call that higher power. Living your life as close to what you think that higher power wants you to be is a really powerful thing.

I don’t know what in the world happened. I don’t know if it was the power of the prayer or God himself, but it just reached out, either while I was driving or walking down the sidewalk or sleeping, and it just – the power of God in Jesus just grabbed me… All of a sudden, I just believed in Jesus Christ. I did, I believed in him!

My own judgment of how the world is gonna end is that there will be a country led by a madman that will build a nuclear bomb with so much force, so much power, that it will be dropped somewhere on the face of this earth and that the earth will lose it’s jplace

I was born in that breath of recognizing that they might be more powerful than you are, that they might have more technology than you have, they might think that they are wiser than you, they might control all of the institutions, but you control your mind, and that is what sets you free.

I live only because it is in my power to die when I choose to: without the idea of suicide, I’d have killed myself right away.

Never underestimate the power of determination and dedication.

Only those moments count, when the desire to remain by yourself is so powerful that you’d prefer to blow your brains out than exchange a word with someone.

A thing that many young fellows don’t seem to realism at first is that success depends on oneself and not on a kindly fate, nor on the interest of powerful friends.

We are all built differently. Some guys are more powerful. Some guys are very tall. I’m not very tall, so I rely on quickness.

There is an eloquence far more powerful than the eloquence of words in the quiet, consistent life of a pure, true Christian. What a man is has more influence than what he says.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

I remember many late nights coming out of the Mac building when I would have the most incredibly powerful feelings about my life.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

The most powerful and sustaining motivation for success comes from within, not from anticipating rewards that come from the outside.

When I was at school, I used to stay on a balcony singing and people would stand around listening.

English fans love spectacular players like Alan Shearer and that is exactly what United have now signed. He has magic in his boots. The first thing you notice about him is that he is incredibly quick and very, very powerful for such a young man. He has great, close control and his technique is excellent. He believes he can do anything with the ball, and that confidence makes him very special indeed.

A man is powerful on his knees.

Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness.

The wonderful thing about praying is that you leave a world of not being able to do something, and enter God’s realm where everything is possible. He specializes in the impossible. Nothing is too great for His almighty power. Nothing is too small for His love.

Any powerful idea is absolutely fascinating and absolutely useless until we choose to use it.

Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.

When you find a guy who is powerful, a big father figure, you latch onto him immediately.

Love is the most powerful and still most unknown energy in the world.

Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.

Justice remains the tool of a few powerful interests; legal interpretations will continue to be made to suit the convenience of the oppressor powers.

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

Peaceful coexistence cannot be limited to the powerful countries if we want to ensure world peace

I think the power of the mind is amazing, and we’ve barely scratched the surface of what it can do.

The single most powerful thing I can be is to be myself.

As one who sees in dreams and wakes to find the emotional impression of his vision still powerful while its parts fade from his mind – Just such am I, having lost nearly all the vision itself, while in my heart I feel the sweetness of it yet distill and fall.

What I’m looking for is not out there, it is in me.

We might as well preach to stone walls as preach to humanity unless the Holy Ghost be with the word, to give it power to convert the soul.

When we have God in clear focus, His powerful presence eclipses our fear.

There is a light in this world, a healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter.

Surprise becomes effective when we suddenly face the enemy at one point with far more troops than he expected. This type of numerical superiority is quite distinct from numerical superiority in general: it is the most powerful medium in the art of war.

Strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one’s balance in spite of them.

Space has not changed but technology has, in many cases, improved dramatically. A good example is digital technology where today’s cell phones are far more powerful than the computers on the Apollo Command Module and Lunar Module that we used to navigate to the moon and operate all the spacecraft control systems.

What a marvelous cooperative arrangement – plants and animals each inhaling each other’s exhalations, a kind of planet-wide mutual mouth-to-stoma resuscitation, the entire elegant cycle powered by a star 150 million kilometers away.

I believe our future depends powerfully on how well we understand this cosmos in which we float, like a mote of dust in the morning sky.

The idea of an all-powerful divine Being is present everywhere—unconsciously if not consciously, because it is an archetype

Reason is just as cunning as she is powerful. Her cunning consists principally in her mediating activity, which, by causing objects to act and re-act on each other in accordance with their own nature, in this way, without any direct interference in the process, carries out reason’s intentions.

Ever since I started using guys, I feel so powerful.

I be in and out them banks so much, I know they’re tired of me

I believe we are powerful, but we don’t use our minds to full capacity. Your mind is powerful enough to help you attain whatever you want.

We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen

Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty — it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.

If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way.

Anger should be expressed. Any anger that is not coming out, flowing freely, will turn into sadism, power drive, stammering, and other means of torturing

Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.

We think we’re powerful because of what we’ve achieved rather than because of what we are.

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for war.

Whether manufactured by black, white, brown or yellow hands, a widget remains a widget – and it will be bought anywhere if the price and quality are right. The market is a more powerful and more reliable liberating force than government can ever be.

One of the worst days in America’s history saw some of the bravest acts in Americans’ history. We’ll always honor the heroes of 9/11. And here at this hallowed place, we pledge that we will never forget their sacrifice.

Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer – and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

A quality education has the power to transform societies in a single generation, provide children with the protection they need from the hazards of poverty, labor exploitation and disease, and given them the knowledge, skills, and confidence to reach their full potential.

I do not like broccoli, and I haven’t liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I’m president of the United States, and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli.

When I dare to be powerful to use my strength in the service of my vision then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid

When I dare to be powerful – to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

This army is powerful because all its members have a conscious discipline; they have come together and they fight not for the private interests of a few individuals or a narrow clique, but for the interests of the broad masses and of the whole nation. The sole purpose of this army is to stand firmly with the Chinese people and to serve them whole-heartedly.

All reactionaries are paper tigers. In appearance, the reactionaries are terrifying, but in reality they are not so powerful. From a long-term point of view, it is not the reactionaries but the people who are really powerful.

There were times when I asked myself whether I was being principled or simply a coward…. I was wrapped in the cocoon of tennis early in life, mainly by blacks like my most powerful mentor, Dr. Robert Walter Johnson of Lynchburg, Virginia. They insisted that I be unfailingly polite on the court, unfalteringly calm and detached, so that whites could never accuse me of meanness. I learned well. I look at photographs of the skinny, frail, little black boy that I was in the early 1950s, and I see that I was my tennis racquet and my tennis racquet was me. It was my rod and my staff

We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.

All I know is that the first step is to create a vision, because when you see the vision, the beautiful vision, that creates the want power.

I was always dreaming about very powerful people – dictators and things like that. I was just always impressed by people who could be remembered for hundreds of years, or even, like Jesus, be for thousands of years remembered.

When your vision is powerful enough, everything else falls into place: how you live your life, your workouts, what friends you choose to hang out with, how you eat, what you do for fun. Vision is a purpose, and when your purpose is clear, so are your life choices. Vision creates faith and faith creates willpower. With faith, there is no anxiety, no doubt – just absolute confidence.

The roles we play in each other’s lives are only as powerful as the trust and connection between us – the protection, safety, and caring we are willing to share.

The curve is more powerful than the sword.

I am fast and very powerful on the court, so this is what matters

Those born into poverty or on the margins of society require our extra support to realize their dreams

He who causes another to become powerful ruins himself, for he brings such a power into being either by design or by force, and both of these elements are suspects to the one whom he has made powerful.

The power of the Plus Factor is potential but it is not self-activating.

The controlled person is a powerful person. He who always keeps his head will get ahead.

Forgiveness liberates the soul. It removes fear. That is why it is such a powerful weapon.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

Jesus is not a memory. He is an actual, contemporary, reachable Person. He is the living Christ, who has the power to enter into people’s lives and change and lift them up.

A peaceful mind generates power.

Learn to use one of the most powerful laws in this world; change your mental habits to belief instead of disbelief. Learn to expect, not to doubt. In so doing, you bring everything into the realm of possibility

Faith is the most powerful of all forces operating in humanity and when you have it in depth nothing can get you down.

Medication is of course important but do not conclude that a pill dissolving in your stomach is necessarily more powerful than a healing thought in your mind.

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

Believe you can, and you can. Belief is one of the most powerful of all problem dissolvers. When you believe that a difficulty can be overcome, you are more than halfway to victory over it already.

I may be alone in this, but I do sense the power of film, in that movies have the ability to literally change people’s minds. That’s pretty powerful stuff when you consider that.

The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient’s hopes are the physician’s secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription.

Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out their conscience, thus helping bring the collective conscience to life.

In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility.

Laughter is a powerful way to tap positive emotions

The greatest force in the human body is the natural drive of the body to heal itself – but that force in not independent of the belief system. Everything begins with belief. What we believe is the most powerful option of all.

Thought is powerful in all phases. Even in my career, even in my life, things end up exactly how I visualized them

There are few genuine conservatives within the U.S. political system, and it is a sign of the intellectual corruption of the age that the honorable term ‘conservatism’ can be appropriated to disguise the advocacy of a powerful, lawless, aggressive and violent state, a welfare state for the rich dedicated to a lunatic form of Keynesian economic intervention that enhances state and private power while mortgaging the country’s future.