#power

And then, when I thought about joining the Air Force, flying seemed like a natural extension of the motorcycling experience. You're going faster, higher. You're operating a machine that's a lot more powerful than you are. ↗

— Duane G. Carey

#air #air force #experience #extension #faster

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#allow #never #person #say #tell

But the nuclear powers still cling tenaciously to their weapons. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#nuclear #nuclear powers #powers #still #their

The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait come across as meaningfully as possible. ↗

— Galen Rowell

#angles #being #being there #come #i

Lately I've been falling asleep listening to 'Common One' by Van Morrison, specifically the song 'Summertime in England.' It's 15 minutes long, so to make it through the entire song is a real task unto itself, but Van has that emotional payoff that makes even his most tiresome songs more powerful than most people's entire catalog. ↗

— Nate Ruess

#asleep #been #catalog #common #emotional

At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#british #british empire #dealt #empire #england

A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power. ↗

— Mark Rutherford

#our #ourselves #power #true #true knowledge

It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#determines #economic #economic power #governments #political

Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#making #now #our #place #power

That is where the power, opportunity, and choice come from-when you have money. Money equals opportunity. There is no question. ↗