Powers Quotes - page 2

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. (Thomas Jefferson)
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect. View quote
Maimonides
Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
The powers, aspirations, and mission of man are such as to raise the study of his origin and nature, inevitably and by the very necessity of the case, from the mere physiological to the psychological stage of scientific operations. View quote
Richard Owen
Who ne'er his bread in sorrow ate, Who ne'er the mournful midnight hours Weeping upon his bed has sate, He knows you not, ye Heavenly Powers. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Rent is the portion of the earth, which is paid to the landlord for the user of the original and indestructible powers of the soil. View quote
David Ricardo
You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe. View quote
Edmund Burke
If the end be clearly comprehended within any of the specified powers, and if the measure have an obvious relation to that end, and is not forbidden by any particular provision of the Constitution, it may safely be deemed to come within the compass of the national authority. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects of faith to show their powers of painting. View quote
John Ruskin
Shall I show you the sinews of a philosopher 'What sinews are those' A will undisappointed evils avoided powers daily exercised careful resolutions unerring decisions. (Epictetus)
The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction. View quote
Samuel Johnson
When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat. View quote
Henry Miller
It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Do not put such unlimited powers in the hands of the husband, Remember all men would be tyrants if they could. View quote
Abigail Adams
I am a weak, ephemeral creature made of mud and dream. But I feel all the powers of the universe whirling within me. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging. View quote
Joseph Campbell
When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve. View quote
Napoleon Hill
I can imagine no greater disservice to the country than to establish a system of censorship that would deny to the people of a free republic like our own their indisputable right to criticise their own public officials. While exercising the great powers of the office I hold, I would regret in a crisis like the one through which we are now passing to lose the benefit of patriotic and intelligent criticism. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
Our earnest prayer is that God will graciously vouchsafe prosperity, happiness, and peace to all our neighbors, and like blessings to all the peoples and powers of earth. View quote
William McKinley
Life is action, the use of one's powers. As to use them to their height is our joy and duty, so it is the one end that justifies itself. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.)
After the spiritual powers, there is no thing in the world more unconquerable than the spirit of nationality. ... The spirit of nationality in Ireland will persist even though the mightiest of material powers be its neighbor. View quote
George William Russell
The nude gains its enduring value from the fact that it reconciles several contrary states. It takes the most sensual and immediately interesting object, the human body, and puts it out of reach of time and desire; it takes the most purely rational concept of which mankind is capable, mathematical order, and makes it a delight to the senses; and it takes the vague fears of the unknown and sweetens them by showing that the gods are like men and may be worshiped for their life-giving beauty rather than their death-dealing powers. View quote
Kenneth Clark
Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured Avails no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise. From him alone of all The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof. View quote
Aeschylus
Nor less I deem that there are Powers Which of themselves our minds impress That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness. View quote
William Wordsworth