Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: power

There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators.

If you stay true to yourself and true to your vision and your own values, you can power through and make an impact on modern life.

Darkness is good. Dick Cheney. Darth Vader. Satan. That's power.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

The nature of power in the modern world is that it is also constructed in relation to political, moral, intellectual, cultural, ideological, sexual questions.

Balk the enemy's power; force him to reveal himself.

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

Cash - in savings accounts, short-term CDs or money market deposits - is great for an emergency fund. But to fulfill a long-term investment goal like funding your retirement, consider buying stocks. The more distant your financial target, the longer inflation will gnaw at the purchasing power of your money.

Hatred will always give birth to more and more hate, and love has the power to demolish the borders between us.

The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.

Everyone has power. But it doesn't help if you don't use it.

As a businessperson, I don't have the power to change the government. That is in the hands of the political leaders. However, as a taxpayer, we have the right to be critical of the government and demand change.

Together, we have the power to inspire, connect, and deliver on new opportunities and rich experiences that can open doors to innovation and progress while growing global economies and increasing well-being.

The world is a complex place, and the influence of the media in its representation and its power of communication and interpretation is a remarkable amplifier of emotions, and of illusions.

The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power.

The future condition of the conquered power depends on the will of the conquerer.

I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence.

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.

The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion's roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.

If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.

As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.

The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.

Power is not alluring to pure minds.

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.

The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.

The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.

The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.

We have it in our power to begin the world over again.

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.

Generally speaking, if people are prepared to stick their heads above the power pit, like Zinn says, and absorb what's going on around them, it makes them think.

Power has no limits.

To have command is to have all the power you will ever need. To have all the power you will ever need, is to have the world in the palm of you hand.

My life is storytelling. I believe in stories, in their incredible power to keep people alive, to keep the living alive, and the dead.

The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.

I didn't become an actor to have power, but it just happens that I have it and so I have a lot of opportunities.

Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.

The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.

Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government.

Comebacks don't seem likely when your back is up against the wall and your hope is depleted. But if you will stay the course, you will discover God's power to reverse the irreversible in your life.

It is easy to predict that some of the discoveries of research directed towards Grand Challenges - but only the most unexpected ones, and at the most unexpected times - will be the basis of revolutionary improvements in the way that we exploit the power of our future computing devices.

Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.

Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.

One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.