Where there is power, there is resistance.

And so the mind or spirit is the great opportunist, itself impossible to pin down, take hold of, anywhere; one is tempted to believe that of all its influence nothing is left but decay. Every...

Love spells are nothing but wives’ tales. You can’t play magic inside the heart, for it’s more powerful than any spell. Lust you can order up with a wink, desire with a smile. But love...

Don’t be afraid when you have to pray fervently because of your circumstances. God is wanting to do something great through you!

The key ingredient in engaging the power available from service is motive.

The ‘will to power and independence’ has become so ubiquitous that it is now considered normal.

If we really are spiritual beings living a physical existence, then we have incredible power.

Often, our misunderstandings about love are born in disruptive family relationships, where someone was either one-up or one-down to an extreme. There is an appropriate and necessary difference in the balance of power between parents...

Fifteen years ago, a business manager from the United States came to Plum Village to visit me. His conscience was troubled because he was the head of a firm that designed atomic bombs. I listened...

At t de mare e puterea adevărului care, precum binele, se răsp ndește de la sine.

A lion may die of an ass’s kick.

We will not hesitate to use ever power, every relationship at our disposal.

Not the power to conquer othersBut the power to become one with othersis the ultimate power.

We’ve had numerous trees and power lines down, numerous homes that are damaged, and we are still handling emergencies.

The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.

As I am an honest man, I thought you had received some bodily wound. There is more sense in that than in reputation. Reputation is an idle and most false imposition, oft got without merit...

we have to provide them with agricultural assistance, invest in irrigation, build roads, and provide electric power and assistance in generating non-farm employment in rural areas.

Your identity depends on your heart’s ability to excuse not on the power or the money you own.

Soul and mind are the powers of mankind

Creating consent (hegemony) is never a simple act. It is rather the result of the social structures and the cultural patterns that dictates for each group its behavior and for each institutions its practices.

Being powerful means shifting our minds away from our troubles and into solution-thinking.

There’s been growing disquiet about the power of the big players, but arguably this decision’s come 30 years too late.

Wrote my way out of the hood…thought my way out of poverty! Don’t tell me that knowledge isn’t power. Education changes everything.

It’s disappointing when you see power exercised to benefit the auto industry rather than consumers or environmental challenges.

If you are lucky, there is a moment in your life when you have some say as to what your currency is going to be. I decided early on it was not going to be...

As the long limousine purred to life Edwina felt as if she were Elizabeth, setting sail to battle the Spanish Armada. She was Elizabeth, damn it! What she had built no one was going to...

Your thought should be creative and not destructive; it should be full of hope and faith for a more excellent future.

It is passing strange that our philosophers of the Revolutionary period should have formed their conception of a free society by reference to societies where everyone was not free – where, in fact, the vast...

For the young, there is nothing unattainable; a good thing desired with the whole force of a passionate will, and yet impossible, is to them not credible. Yet, by death, by illness, by poverty, or...

Let me tell you something, kid,” said Mrs. H of Boston and Beacon Hill. “Magic is just a word for what’s left to the powerless once everyone else has eaten their fill.

… in a cycle as old as tribalism, ignorance of the Other engenders fear; fear engenders hatred; hatred engenders violence; violence engenders further violence until the only “rights”, the only law, are whatever is willed...

You endure what is supposedly unbearable, and before you know it, you would have done the impossible by bearing the unbearable.

Pain cannot be ignored. However, it can be endured. When necessary, a great deal of pain can be endured. Just ask my mother.

Mtu akikutukana mwambie asante au samahani. Asante au samahani vina nguvu kuliko kuomba (asikutukane) au kutukana.

I think if I were to sit down in a bid for power, I would ask myself what I should control if I want to control the people. The answer would be sex. Money. And...

Humans elect leaders on the basis of the promises they make. We [vampires] try to elect ours based solely on the strength of their character.

Now and again. Good residency is about having the power to ask someone to do something, but not necessarily exercising it.

As women glide from their twenties to thirties, Shazzer argues, the balance of power subtly shifts. Even the most outrageous minxes lose their nerve, wrestling with the first twinges of existential angst: fears of dying...

Every empire grow until its reach exceeds its grasp

Asides your power, passion and poise, what glues the posters of your impacts on memorial walls is how you treat those you need and those who need you.

The blessing of resistance lies in its power to illuminate those aspects of ourselves which have eluded our appreciation.

You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and exert the utmost power of your mind. If one way does not lead to the desired meaning, take another; if...

It is always the enemy who started it, even if he was not the first to speak out, he was certainly planning it; and if he was not actually planning it, he was thinking of...

My power is everywhere propping up illusions, but I’m taking it back by letting go of them & just riding the stallion into wonderland. Let’s see what you’ve got to say about the darkness in...

When sex and money are fused in the service of exploitation, the two create an even more destructive form of rage of a type often exhibited in narcissistic and potentially psychopathic populations.

My Master had power and law on his side; I had a determined will. There is might in each.

My main concern is with the world order

One of the key characteristics of an elite corps is its susceptibility to those more powerful than itself. Elite power is naturally attracted to a power hierarchy and fits itself neatly, obediently into the one...

Asking in prayer helps you to see your problem in the light of God’s power.

You have the power to motivate and inspire. Let your enthusiasm shine.