#powers

You are my life, but you are not my purpose. ↗

— Nina Malkin

#life

They say that right before you die your whole life flashes before you – a medley of your own personal greatest hits. Well then, I must be about to live, because events that haven’t happened yet are constantly pushing themselves into my head. ↗

— Emlyn Chand

#fiction #paranormal #psychic-powers #ya #yalit

To live your life afraid of others and deny them a chance to come close is to not live at all. ↗

— Heather Marie Adkins

#supernatural-powers #the-temple #life

Our safety, our liberty, depends upon preserving the Constitution of the United States as our fathers made it inviolate. The people of the United States are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#government #judicial-power #republicanism #separation-of-powers #men

I identify with Superman. I am adopted, I am an only child, and I love the idea that he comes from another world, that he's the ultimate immigrant. He has all these extraordinary powers, and he has a righteousness about him. ↗

— Bryan Singer

#adopted #am #another #child #comes

A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. ↗

— William Wordsworth

#almost #blunt #causes #combined #discriminating

Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers. ↗

— William Wordsworth

#getting #lay #our #powers #spending

Yes, it's a prequel. It tells the story about how the girls were born with superpowers, but they weren't necessarily heroes at the beginning of this movie, so the movie is about the events that happen in their life to make them decide to be heroes. ↗

— Craig McCracken

#beginning #born #decide #events #happen

I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody's face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways. ↗

— Duane Michals

#face #great #i #i think #know

The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off. ↗

— Benito Mussolini

#birth #bound #decadence #empires #fate