#power

The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now. No powers are to be employed that are not natural to the globe, no action to be admitted except those of which we know the principle. ↗

— James Hutton

#admitted #employed #except #explained #globe

Film is such a powerful medium. It's like a weapon and I think you have a duty to self-censor. ↗

— Peter Jackson

#film #i #i think #like #medium

Often, these downplay the power of cultural imperialism - in that sense, playing the game of US interests - by reassuring us that the global success of American mass culture is not as bad as all that. ↗

— Fredric Jameson

#bad #cultural #culture #downplay #game

Science has produced such powerful weapons that in a war between great powers there would be neither victor nor vanquished. Both would be overwhelmed in destruction. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#both #destruction #great #neither #nor

He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles. ↗

— Walter Scott

#exact #fewest #greatest #motive #obstacles

There will be a meeting of the great powers who will disagree, and the next noise we hear will be the screeching of elevators going up and down from heaven to hell. ↗

— Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

#down #elevators #going #great #hear

Everyone has an angel... A guardian who watches over us. We can't know what form they'll take. One day old man next day little girl. But don't let appearances fool you, they can be as fierce as any dragon. Yet they are not here to fight are battles, but to whisper from a hearth. Reminding that its us... its everyone of us who holds the power of the worlds we create. ↗

— Zack Snyder

#art

I know where my game is. I know I'm a power hitter and an RBI guy. I need to get on base for my teammates behind me and just stick with my game. I don't try to do too much. Sometimes when you try to do too much in this game you pretty much can't do anything. And that's pretty much my mentality. ↗

— Marco Scutaro

#base #behind #game #get #guy

Only now did I recognize the reciprocal relationship which exits between manufacturing power and the national system of transportation, and that the one can never develop to its fullest without the other. ↗

— Friedrich List

#develop #did #exits #fullest #i

By this act the president alone is empowered to make the law, to fix in his mind what acts, words, what thoughts or looks, shall constitute such a crime. ↗

— Edward Livingston

#acts #alone #constitute #crime #empowered