Power
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As I'd go out learning to surf, I'd feel the power of waves coming over my body. It's like you're with God.
If you walk down the street and smile at someone, that will get passed on to the next person. That has the power to change someone's day.
Long ago, I realized that my only talent — aside from the rugged good looks, of course, and the strange power I hold over elderly women — can be reduced to a single word: doggedness.
The only real power comes out of a long rifle.
When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.
Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future.
The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.
I'm not patient at all. I avoid writer's block by writing. I power through with a bad version, so I can move on, and usually once I've gotten to the next scene, I'll discover what was missing from the bad version scene. Then I can easily rewrite it to get back on the right path.
The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball — the further I am rolled the more I gain.
While Napoleon believed his fortunes to be governed by destiny, his real genius lay in self-control and martial daring coupled with an indomitable will to power.
One of the first rules of playing the power game is that all bad news must be accepted calmly, as if one already knew and didn't care.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
My beginnings in the Southwest are clear and palpable. My beginnings here made me pay attention to where the sun is, where the winds are, the power of the site... I take that baggage with me.
It is an abuse of power, when you are President of the United States, to use the White House to single out a single news organization, and castigate them and try to delegitimize them.
One day in 1984, at the height of his fame, Michael Jackson made a visit to the White House. President and Nancy Reagan may not have dug his music, but they understood the power Mr. Jackson commanded as a common pop-cultural touchstone for just about everyone else.
Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.
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