Power

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  • Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping-stone to greatness.
        Oprah Winfrey   Best?
  • Women are the glue that hold our day-to-day world together.
        Anna Quindlen   Best?
  • If I'm supposed to carry the banner for all the nerds in the world, I'm fine with that.
        Clay Aiken   Best?
  • Wildness. We're running out of it, even up in Alaska. People need to be reminded that the world is unsafe and unpredictable, and at a moment's notice, they could lose everything, like that. I do it to remind them that chaos is always out there, lurking beyond the horizon. That, plus, sometimes you have to do something bad, just to know you're alive.
        David Assael   Best?
  • A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.
        Emily Dickinson   Best?
  • Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
        Louisa May Alcott   Best?
  • What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and yet loses his soul?
        Jesus Christ   Best?
  • Every pursuit is great when greatly pursued.
        Oliver Wendell Holmes   Best?
  • The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.
        Humphrey Bogart   Best?
  • Energy is eternal delight.
        William Blake   Best?
  • There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
        Edith Wharton   Best?
  • Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
        Plato   Best?
  • Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
        Carl Jung   Best?
  • Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
        Isaac Newton   Best?
  • The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.
        Aesop   Best?
  • All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.
        Cicero   Best?
  • The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.
        François de la Rochefoucauld   Best?
  • We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.
        C. S. Lewis   Best?
  • Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
        Martin Luther King Jr.   Best?
  • And so, my fellow americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
        John F. Kennedy   Best?
  • If I ever marry, it will be on a sudden impulse - as a man shoots himself.
        H. L. Mencken   Best?
  • Stupidity is the devil. Look in the eye of a chicken and you'll know. It's the most horrifying, cannibalistic, and nightmarish creature in this world.
        Werner Herzog   Best?
  • He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.
        Plato   Best?
  • Nothing great was ever acheived without enthusiasm.
        Ralph Waldo Emerson   Best?
  • Americans have different ways of saying things. They say `elevator', we say `lift'...they say `President', we say `stupid psychopathic git'....
        Alexi Sayle   Best?
  • VOTE, n. The instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • HIPPOGRIFF, n. An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin. The griffin was itself a compound creature, half lion and half eagle. The hippogriff was actually, therefore, a one-quarter eagle, which is two dollars and fifty cents in gold. The study of zoology is full of surprises.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • The measure of a man is what he does with power.
        Pittacus   Best?
  • Advice is the only commodity on the market where the supply always exceeds the demand.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
        Old Indian saying   Best?
  • Never let your inferiors do you a favor - it will be extremely costly.
        H. L. Mencken   Best?
  • Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.
        Abraham Lincoln   Best?
  • Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
        Abraham Lincoln   Best?
  • Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
        Cornelius Tacitus   Best?
  • Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.
        Daniel Webster   Best?
  • A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.
        William Hazlitt   Best?
  • Our humanity is trapped by moral adolescents. We have too many men of science, too few men of God. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom and power without conscience.
        General Omar Bradley   Best?
  • The stronger must dominate and not blend with the weaker, thus sacrificing his own greatness.
        Adolf Hitler   Best?
  • The stability of the whole is guaranteed by the instability of its parts.
        Karin Meienburg   Best?
  • I have never examined the subject of humor until now. I am surprised to find how much ground it covers. I have got its divisions and frontiers down on a piece of paper. I find it defined as a production of the brain, as the power of the brain to produce something humorous, and the capacity of percieving humor.
        Mark Twain   Best?

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