At the age of fifty-six Eleanor Stoddard was still a beautiful woman. She owned three hotels in France and another two in England. From nothing at all, she had built an empire. Eleanor had it...

You can use songs, scriptures and godly pictures to chart your thought-course in the right direction.

Command is a mountaintop. The air breathed there is different, and the perspectives seen there are different, from those of the valley of obedience. The passion for order and the genius for construction, which are...

You may bend, but you will not be broken.

The mind is constituted to accept the god of the more powerful. If you have to choose between the god of the slave owner and the god of the enslaved, naturally you will choose the...

You could get carried away with the superlatives. Not just his power, but his selectivity at the plate. That type of approach can carry over to the other guys in the lineup.

And power without compassion is the worst kind of evil there is.

Mtu aliyepoteza kila kitu katika maisha yake ana uwezo wa kufanya chochote.

The Greeks made Space the subject-matter of a science of supreme simplicity and certainty. Out of it grew, in the mind of classical antiquity, the idea of pure science. Geometry became one of the most...

For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.

…There are also those who inadvertently grant power to another man’s words by continuously trying to spite him. If a man gets to the point where he can simply say, ‘The sky is blue,’ and...

A solitary figure, Lord Hutton has enormous power

Beware of more powerful weapons. They often inflict as much damage to your soul as they do to you enemies.

If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man happy – improve yourself!

Words have power, my son. Words can cut to the heart and soothe the deepest hurts. They can be puzzles that leave another pondering for days. I prefer to cast my spells of words in...

The viscountess had raised the forefinger of her right hand and made a pretty gesture toward a stool at her feet. There was such intense tyrannical passion in the gesture that the marquis relinquished the...

I can give her no greater power than she has already, said the woman; don’t you see how strong that is? How men and animals are obliged to serve her, and how well she has...

The ruling power is always faced with the question, ‘In such and such circumstances, what would you do?’, whereas the opposition is not obliged to take responsibility or make any real decisions.

Patience is power.Patience is not an absence of action;rather it is “timing”it waits on the right time to act,for the right principlesand in the right way.

Valdžia yra ten, kur žmonės mano ją esant. Nei daugiau, nei mažiau.

Our destiny is not mapped out for us by some exterior power; we map it out for ourselves. What we think and do in the present determines what shall happen to us in the future.

[‘] ‘Distance is of no issue anymore, … ‘The longer you make it, the more you make it a power game.

Love is more powerful than any gun. Still, I’d recommend wearing a bulletproof vest.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will...

[The American President] has to take all sorts of abuse from liars and demagogues.… The people can never understand why the President does not use his supposedly great power to make ’em behave. Well, all...

This is a bigger story for Apple than for Intel. Apple liked Intel’s roadmap better than that of Power PC, and the idea is that they will now sell a higher percentage of notebook computers.

I had never met a lord before, nor had I ever expected to meet one. It didn’t matter what he looked like: he was a lord first, and a human being, with a face and...

Power, it seems, is one of those terms we all understand and can explain–until asked to do so.

If you don’t start playing by my rules, you’ll be lucky to be licking stamps in some lowly, legal aid office.

Men don’t rape women because their women are ugly,” cousin Jostien said, but there was a protest at his words. “That’s what my fa said! He says that inside their hearts and spirits they are...

I mind the unmindful, but I mind my own mind too. Mine your mind, and mine the minds of others. Mind.. you are mine!

On Andrew Jackson: “His native strength compelled every man to be his tool that came within his reach; and the more cunning the individual might be, it served only to make him a sharper tool.

The bullies are always popular.Why?People love power.

Knowledge is power and at the end of the day, our health, the health of our children, the health of our community, and the health of Mother Earth is our responsibility. Therefore, it is imperative...

The world is a much more beautiful and incredible place than you think, and each of us has a great deal of power to make it more so.

I always loved running / it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you...

El carisma es el arma más poderosa de un hombre

What you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you.

I think it’s important to live in a nice country rather than a powerful one. Power makes everybody crazy.

Light and Darkness. One cannot exist without the other. There is no true Master, without the power of balance. ☥

We do not take away the powers of surveillance, … We do not take away the right and the power of the government to go after those who would do us wrong.

A las mujeres les gustan los hombres poderosos, que estén al mando de los demás.

Really? And what curse befalls the Adams of the world?”Ann opens her mouth and, presumably thinking of nothing to say, closes it again. It is Felicity who answers, eyes steely. “They are weak to temptation....

The have influence, but no power.””In my experience, influence is power.

How would it alter Juliet’s love perception to learn the sea is but a rounded jug of water? Would her sensuous analogy turned simple simile unveil to her the limits of herself? Or would she...

The only reason pain exists is because we let it feed on us and that gives it the power to continue existing (I.R.V)

I pull my power more tightly around me like a magic binky.

Silicon Valley has some worldwide power players. It’s a good place to be again.

The Christian theory is little else than the idolatry of the ancient mythologists, accommodated to the purposes of power and revenue; and it yet remains to reason and philosophy to abolish the amphibious fraud.

In the beginning, the taste of power is sweet, savored on the tongue, like fine wine. It whispers promises in your ear and pretends to be your friend. It is easy to become addicted to...