#power

She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#clothes #had #influence #instinct #magic

Everyone has their own insecurities, regardless of how you look or how people perceive you, but sometimes people give their insecurities too much power. Defining beauty is simply a matter of opinion. For me, real beauty has very little to do with the structure of someone's face or body. ↗

— Devon Aoki

#body #defining #everyone #face #give

Television is a powerful medium that has to be used for something better than sitcoms and police shows. On the other hand, if you don't recognize the forces that play on what people watch and what they don't then you're a fool and you should be in a different business. ↗

— Roone Arledge

#business #different #fool #forces #hand

Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#another #arises #fall #lifting #mode

Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#christianity #classification #distinguished #good #knowledge

Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you. ↗

— Nicholson Baker

#apply #friend #him #his #life

It is not short of amazing, the power of a great idea to weld men together. There was in it a peculiar, intense, vital spirit if you will, that I have never felt before in any strike. ↗

— Ray Stannard Baker

#any #before #felt #great #great idea

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. ↗

— Russell Baker

#ah #like #make #power #suffer

I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old dictionaries. Words, I think, are very powerful and they convey an intention. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#convey #dictionaries #dictionary #english #english language

Individual investors have become far more powerful than anyone gives them credit for. Today, 85 million Americans invest in stocks. Collectively, that kind of buying and selling power can move markets. ↗

— Maria Bartiromo

#become #buying #collectively #credit #far