The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no power to exist.
Many people focus on my power and talk about my power, but I have many more qualities in the ring. I like to surprise everyone.
The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism, and ought to have no place among Republicans and Christians.
The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
If somebody wants to have plastic surgery, more power to them. I think there's a point where you go overboard.
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.
I have had friends who have acted kindly towards me, and it has been my good fortune to have it in my power to give them substantial proofs of my gratitude.
Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.
A writer who doesn't need the money gains power and is dangerous in a negotiation.
I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.
Through our Building Bridges dialogues at Accenture, where we have brought together people from diverse backgrounds to have sometimes difficult conversations, such as around race, I have experienced the power of storytelling to help people from diverse backgrounds understand each other.
I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on my side.
President Bush has asserted the right to wiretap and eavesdrop on any American without a warrant in the name of fighting terrorism. He has asserted presidential power beyond stated constitutional rights, and there is no Republican gutsy enough to call his hand.
What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive!
Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.
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.
Just as Jimmy Stewart and Tyrone Power get 50 percent of the profits, so do I.
He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.
Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.
Money is power. Power is an aphrodisiac.
Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them.
By a great man, however, we mean a man who, because of his spiritual gifts, his character, and other qualities, deserves to be called great and who as a result earns the power to influence others.
I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.
Well, I think having your kids see you role model behavior of dignity when it's hard, when you're upset, when you want to confront somebody but you don't want to and you're nervous about it, when you are having moments where abuse of power is coming on to you. I think it's really important for kids to see how you handle that.
The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.
It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.
Defining marriage is a power that should be left to the states. Moreover, no state should be forced to recognize a marriage that is not within its own laws, Constitution, and legal precedents.
My parents made it clear that I should never display even the slightest disrespect to individuals who had the power to let me skip a half grade or move into more challenging classes. While it was all right for me to know more about a topic than my sixth-grade teacher had ever learned, questioning her facts could only lead to trouble.
I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.
Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.
Illinois' economy will benefit from the modernization of the power sector.
If you're already somebody who's feeling different, you'll do everything in your power to fix it because children will do everything in their power to fit in and assimilate.
The '60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together.
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