#power

Jim Brooks is a very powerful director and it was a lot of intense work. ↗

— Tea Leoni

#director #intense #jim #lot #powerful

Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#education #power #tyranny #education

Even one billion Chinese do not a superpower make. ↗

— John Lukacs

#chinese #even #make #superpower

The United States cannot feed every person, lift every person out of poverty, cure every disease, or stop every conflict. But our power and status have conferred upon us a tremendous responsibility to humanity. ↗

— Richard Lugar

#conferred #conflict #cure #disease #every

With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#artist #blow #defiance #every #exists

If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect. ↗

— Maimonides

#alike #apprehend #apprehension #been #body

Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power. ↗

— Maimonides

#almighty #both #comparison #existence #greatness

Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression. ↗

— Malcolm X

#defense #freedom #greater #oppression #power

I think that presidents don't give up power that has accrued to them by the precedent of previous presidents. Even when they say they would like to, I think once they get there they don't give it up. ↗

— Rachel Maddow

#get #give #i #i think #like

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#cheerful #cheerfulness #endurance #longer #man