#power

'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#brute force #charm #effect #employing #force

If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

#blind #destroy #free #imprison #make

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

Let us face it: in the world today, money and economic strength remain more powerful arguments than the number of people you represent. ↗

— Guy Verhofstadt

#economic strength #face #let us #money #more

He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#alive #aphrodisiac #completely #detached #devil

I don't feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they're extremely well informed. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#beliefs #comfortable #extremely #feel #i

Cooking with kids is not just about ingredients, recipes, and cooking. It's about harnessing imagination, empowerment, and creativity. ↗

— Guy Fieri

#cooking #creativity #empowerment #harnessing #imagination

Everyday do one thing to move you in the direction of your dreams. ↗

— Carolyn Edwards

#empowerment #empowerment-of-woem #inspiration #self-help #dreams

I have a mess in my head sometimes, and there's something very satisfying about putting it into words. Certainly it's not something that you're in charge of, necessarily, but writing about it, putting it into your words, can be a very powerful experience. ↗

— Carrie Fisher

#certainly #charge #experience #head #i