#power

The elements and majestic forces in nature, Lightning, Wind, Water, Fire, and Frost, were regarded with awe as spiritual powers, but always secondary and intermediate in character. ↗

— Charles Eastman

#awe #character #elements #fire #forces

Public radio has always been so powerless. ↗

— Bob Edwards

#been #powerless #public #public radio #radio

You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#brought #carried #could #difficult #difficult times

We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living. ↗

— Tryon Edwards

#careful #company #dead #keep #living

I cured with the power that came through me. ↗

— Black Elk

#came #cured #i #me #through

The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice to men, that though to the larger and more trifling part of the sex, imbecility in females is a great enhancement of their personal charms, there is a portion of them too reasonable and too well informed themselves to desire anything more in woman than ignorance. ↗

— Jane Austen

#clichés #desirability #disdain #education #empowerment

So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be! ↗

— Barry Cornwall

#calms #deepest #fed #gentlest #how

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will. ↗

— Epictetus

#about #beyond #cease #only #our

The power of sound to put an audience in a certain psychological state is vastly undervalued. And the more you know about music and harmony, the more you can do with that. ↗

— Mike Figgis

#audience #certain #harmony #know #more

Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#fantasies #massive #never #never underestimate #out