#power

Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity. ↗

— Geoffrey Chaucer

#agree #chastity #filth #i #old

People feel powerless and useless in the world. But they can buy something. It can give them a sense of value, of power. ↗

— Daphne Zuniga

#feel #give #people #power #powerless

A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#like #looks #major #military #only

He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#argument #been #greater #his #persuade

We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

#more #need #power #seen #spiritual

Pope John Paul II brought hope to all corners of the world, to people of all faiths and backgrounds, with his powerful belief in the human spirit. ↗

— Jerry Costello

#belief #brought #corners #faiths #his

The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired. ↗

— Gustave Courbet

#artist #beauty #conception #direct #expression

Apart altogether from our own vital interests, we cannot and must not desert those other nations who have already gone through so much tragedy and suffering to defeat the evil designs of the Axis powers. ↗

— Stafford Cripps

#altogether #apart #axis #cannot #defeat

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power. ↗

— Raoul Vaneigem

#power #purchase #purchasing #purchasing power

Well, we're trying to patch and fix and put a cast on a broken system here. You can call it what you want, but we'll continue to purchase power in a private market. ↗

— Gray Davis

#call #cast #continue #fix #here