Powers Quotes

Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.

I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry.

I would love to do something like Austin Powers to show off my comic timing.

You desire that which exceeds my humble powers, but I trust in the compassion and mercy of the All-powerful God.

And one of the frustrating parts, but it's an inherent part of our democracy, is we have separation of powers.

But, I know enough people in that court, through the years, to know one thing: There's always somebody who surprises you, who rises above what they thought they appointed him for, and stays with the separation of powers, and with the right of the law to decide.

The idea that you surrender your identity when you relinquish national powers is unhelpful. No, indeed, precisely the opposite is the case: if done in an intelligent way, you attain the sovereignty to better solve national problems in cooperation with others.

Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his own powers for his own welfare.

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

In spite of this fact, the Western powers have never given sufficient importance to the Muslim world. They have always been inclined to treat it as a big backward and lethargic child.

You see, nature will do exactly what it must, and if we are a hindrance to its development, to even its destructive powers to reform itself and we are in a way, we will go.

The consequence of a world full of nuclear powers to me is so incomprehensible in terms of the dangers that that implies.

Pulling the plug on the BlackBerry could cost corporate America millions of dollars. The BlackBerry is more than e-mail but a handheld office, and if you shut down the BlackBerry, you shut off the data that powers American business.

The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.

We cannot suppose therefore that God has made an order of beings, with such mental qualities and powers, for the sole purpose of being used as beasts, or instruments of labour.

Me being able to beat up Austin Powers? I mean, how great can that be?

Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.

Nearness to nature... keeps the spirit sensitive to impressions not commonly felt and in touch with the unseen powers.