If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression.

We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle sir is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant the active the brave.

As water when transmuted into steam becomes a new, more definite and wide-reaching power, so passion when transmuted into intellectual and moral force becomes a new life, a new power, for the accomplishment of high and unfailing purposes.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.

Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.

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

Of course there is no question that Libya - and the world - will be better off with Gaddafi out of power. I along with many other world leaders have embraced that goal and will actively pursue it through non-military means. But broadening our military mission to include regime change would be a mistake.

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.

Cliches about supporting the troops are designed to distract from failed policies policies promoted by powerful special interests that benefit from war anything to steer the discussion away from the real reasons the war in Iraq will not end anytime soon.

It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views, for these also contributed something by developing before us the powers of thought.

The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them and the will of the majority is supreme.

But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution the answer is no.

The essence of Government is power, and power lodged as it must be in human hands will ever be liable to abuse.

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often but by striking true.

The only thing that white people have that black people need or should want is power-and no one holds power forever.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power and teach us that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

I never seek another Sai Baba

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that and live that way you are really a wise man.

Self-reverence self-knowledge self-control, these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

You hear a lot about God these days: God the beneficent, God the all-great, God the Almighty, God the most powerful, God the giver of life, God the creator of death. I mean we're hearing about God all the time so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God God is arbitrary.

Utility is the great idol of the age to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.

When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

Where globalization means as it so often does that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.

Mind is the Master/power that molds and makes and Man is Mind and ever more he takes the Tool of Thought and shaping what he wills brings forth a thousand joys a thousand ills/He thinks in secret and it comes to pass, Environment is but his looking-glass.

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Let us develop the resources of our land call forth its powers build up its institutions promote all its great interests and see whether we also in our day and generation may not perform something worthy to be remembered.

The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.

Analysis brings no curative powers in its train, it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil which oddly enough is consciousness.

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts the other breaks into pieces.

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are as standing in a dictionary how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

And in my own life in my own small way I've tried to give back to this country that has given me so much. That's why I left a job at a law firm for a career in public service working to empower young people to volunteer in their communities. Because I believe that each of us - no matter what our age or background or walk of life - each of us has something to contribute to the life of this nation.

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.

In the United States though power corrupts the expectation of power paralyzes.

Learning too soon our limitations we never learn our powers.

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room each believing himself in mortal peril from the other whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

Where an excess of power prevails property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions his person his faculties or his possessions.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

He who controls others may be powerful but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

I don't think I've ever been an agnostic. I've always thought there's a superior power that this is not the real world and that there's a world to come.

You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something or that you were forced to but actually whatever you do you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well when there aren't enough criminals one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

Power is no blessing in itself except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Spend a few minutes every morning and evening in the Silence of your own shrine or home, spend them with the highest of all the Powers that you know of. Be in His elevating and Inspiring company, worship Him mentally, offer unto Him all the work you do, you will come out of the silence nobler and more heroic than when you went in.

I learned a good deal about economics and about America from the author of the Reagan tax reforms - the great Jack Kemp. What gave Jack that incredible enthusiasm was his belief in the possibilities of free people in the power of free enterprise and strong communities to overcome poverty and despair. We need that same optimism right now.

Generally about all perception we can say that a sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet ring without the iron or gold