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Quotes About Powers

Beauty is the externalisation of Harmony, and Harmony is the co-ordinated working of all the powers of Being, both in the individual and in the relation of the individual to the Infinite from which it springs; and therefore this Harmony conducts us at once into the presence of the innermost undifferentiated Life.
~ Thomas Troward
It aroused my paranoia (which is always there in ready supply, since it is preferable to poor powers of anticipation).
~ Norman Mailer
Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
Affirmative Prayers Release Powers By Which Positive Results Are Accomplished.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
Maybe we're assigning Achilles supernatural powers," said Petra. "He isn't a god. Not even a hero. Just a sick kid." "No," said Bean. "I'm a sick kid. He's the devil." "Well, so," said Petra, "maybe the devil's a sick kid.
~ Orson Scott Card
H]is 'philosophy' seemed to consist of anything that would be particularly annoying to the powers that be without being so shocking that they would fire him. He got the reputation among the students as an original and a rebel without having to pay the penalty for actually being either.
~ Orson Scott Card
Every line we succeed in publishing today - no matter how uncertain the future to which we entrust it - is a victory wrenched from the powers of darkness.
~ WALTER BENJAMIN
His notebooks have been rightly called "the most astonishing testament to the powers of human observation and imagination ever set down on paper.
~ Walter Isaacson
Henry's not a good guy. He's getting the life he deserves and most days he seems okay with that. I forget that the majority of people don't want special powers, like Henry, who can just barely handle being normal.
~ Charles Yu
[I]t is out of the lore and experience of the ancients and all of those who have studied the powers of the Un-Dead. When they become such, there comes with the change the curse of immortality; they cannot die, but must go on age after age adding new victims and multiplying the evils of the world; for all that die from the preying of the Un-Dead become themselves Un-Dead, and prey on their kind. And so the circle goes on ever widening, like as the ripples from a stone thrown in the water.
~ Bram Stoker, Dracula, 1897
forces lie just outside the range of physical sight, but entirely within the range of spiritual vision, precisely as the tellers of these old stories divined; mystery and wonder enfold all things, and not only evoke the full play of the mind, but flood it with intimations and suggestions of the presence of more elusive and subtle forces, of finer and more obedient powers, as the world of fairies, magi and demons enfolded the ancient earth of daily toil and danger.
~ Hamilton Wright Mabie
To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love, occurs in such a way that it is truly the creature that provides the response, with its own nature and its natural powers of love.
~ Hans Urs von Balthasar
Respect," he declared, "forms the basis of every negotiation with these powers. The respect which one power has for another, is in the exact proportion of the means which they respectively have of injuring each other with the least detriment to themselves.
~ Harlow Giles Unger
The study, therefore, of the representation of visible nature and of the powers of expression possessed by form and colour is the object of the painter's training.
~ Harold Speed
A student is not a professional athlete. ... He is not a little politician or junior senator looking for angles ... an amateur promoter, a glad-hander, embryo Rotarian, caf-society leader, quiz kid or man about town. A student is a person who is learning to fulfill his powers and to find ways of using them in the service of mankind.
~ Harold Taylor
It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language
~ Jane Austen
And what are you reading, Miss? Oh! it is only a novel! replies the young lady, while she lays down her book with affected indifference, or momentary shame. in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language.
~ Jane Austen
The genius of the American Founders was to create an intricate system of balanced powers both within the state and between state and society - a system that has fostered unprecedented political, social, and intellectual freedom.
~ Nancy Pearcey
Nearness to nature... keeps the spirit sensitive to impressions not commonly felt and in touch with the unseen powers.
~ Charles Eastman
I like superheroes who are very human and underdog. That's why I relate to my character in 'A Flying Jatt': because he is a very normal person and very human. He was very unsure about his super powers; he didn't know how to use them. He is scared of heights, speed. Especially he is scared of his mom, but he has to listen to her.
~ Tiger Shroff
One of the worst things about ageing is the waning of your physical powers. I live in a house with 64 stairs, and I cannot run up and down them any more; my knee has conked out.
~ Miriam Margolyes
Divine the Powers that on this trio wait. Supreme their conquest, over Time and Fate. Love, Work, and Faith - these three alone are great.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
A Witch's work is mind work and utilizes powerful metaphors, allegories, and images that unlock the powers of the mind.
~ Laurie Cabot
My work is like a dialogue between me and unseen powers, like alchemy.
~ Cai Guo-Qiang