Power

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  • Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power.
        Thomas Hobbes   Best?
  • In great attempts, it is even glorious to fail.
        Vincent T. Lombardi   Best?
  • Besides anarchy, the worst thing in this world is government.
        Henry Ward Beecher   Best?
  • Friend, be not afraid of thy office, thou sendest me to God.
        Saint Thomas More   Best?
  • To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.
        William Blake   Best?
  • ...the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness, the independence of solitude.
        Ralph Waldo Emerson   Best?
  • Men, in general, are but great children.
        Napoleon Bonaparte   Best?
  • Between two products equal in price, function and quality, the better looking will out sell the other.
        Raymond Loewy   Best?
  • At the risk of sounding ridiculous, a true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.
        Ernesto "Che" Guevara   Best?
  • Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
        Louisa May Alcott   Best?
  • At the beginning of a great national change, the patriot is a scarce man: scorned, ridiculed and forgotten. When his cause succeeds, however, all men will join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
        Mark Twain   Best?
  • It's not the critic who counts. Not the man who points out how the doer of deeds might have done them better. Instead, the credit belongs to the man in the arena whose face is marred by sweat and blood and tears.
        Theodore Roosevelt   Best?
  • Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete. There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force... If we assume that life is worth living, if we assume that mankind has the right to survive, then we must find an alternative to war.
        Martin Luther King Jr.   Best?
  • Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes.
        C. S. Lewis   Best?
  • You know the great thing though? It's that change can be so constant that you don't even feel a difference until there is one. It can be so slow that you don't know that you life is better or worse until it is. Or it can blow you away--make you better in an instant.
        Kevin Kline   Best?
  • Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
        Edward Abbey   Best?
  • Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
        Zora Neale Hurston   Best?
  • The vow of silence, that's the mind-blower. See, talking is what I do... [i] t's a real need with me, a craving, I'm like a word junkie. I never shut up. I talk to myself, I talk in my sleep. The idea of voluntarily turning off that tap, I can't imagine it! It'd be like, I don't know, all the rivers in the world just slammed to a stop. No churning, no flowing, no white water, just stillness, crushing stillness. I don't think I could stand it, locked up like that in my own psyche. I'd collapse into myself, I'd implode!
        Northern Exposure   Best?
  • Dreams are postcards from our subconscious, inner self to outer self, right brain trying to cross that moat to the left. Too often they come back unread: "return to sender, addressee unknown." That's a shame because it's a whole other world out there--or in here depending on your point of view.
        Dennis Koenig and Jordan Budde   Best?
  • You know, I think that if parents would spend less time worrying about what their kids watch on TV and more time worrying about what's going on in their kids' lives, this world would be a much better place.
        Trey Parker and Matt Stone   Best?
  • We're like actors, turned loose in this world to wander in search of a phantom, endlessly searching for a half formed shadow of our lost reality. When others demand that we become the people they want us to be, they force us to destroy the person we really are. It's a subtle kind of murder. The most loving parents and relatives commit this murder with smiles on their faces.
        Jim Morrison   Best?
  • I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between. I want the freedom to try everything.
        Jim Morrison   Best?
  • The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair; and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.
        J. R .R. Tolkien   Best?
  • This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.
        Voltaire   Best?
  • Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
        Cicero   Best?
  • Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
        Leo Buscaglia   Best?
  • I worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.
        Groucho Marx   Best?
  • Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
        George Bernard Shaw   Best?
  • But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
        Benjamin Franklin   Best?
  • The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be; and if we observe, we shall find, that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of them.
        Socrates   Best?
  • I am a man, and whatever concerns humanity is of interest to me.
        Terence, Roman Dramatist   Best?
  • The cause is hidden. The effect is visible to all.
        Ovid   Best?
  • Man has six organs to serve him and he is master only of three. He cannot control his eye, ear or nose, but he can his mouth, hand and foot.
        Leone Levi   Best?
  • Persuasion is often more effectual than force.
        Aesop   Best?
  • Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.
        J. R .R. Tolkien   Best?
  • It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
        Douglas Adams   Best?
  • A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business.
        Henry Ford   Best?
  • Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
        Franklin D. Roosevelt   Best?
  • The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.
        Douglas Adams   Best?

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