powers Quotes
Great progress was made when arbitration treaties were concluded in which the contracting powers pledge in advance to submit all conflicts to an arbitration court, treaties which not only specify the composition of the court, but also its procedure.
Ludwig Quidde
German Politician
The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
American essayist
Barack Obama is not a man of The Gut, and it is driving official Washington crazy. This is a good thing, because resisting The Gut is what the Constitution is all about, especially in its war powers, which this president is conspicuously contemplative about exercising, at least in every context except launching drones.
Charlie Pierce
American sportswriter
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.
John Dewey
American philosopher,
When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
Henry Miller
American novelist
Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers.
Gerrit Smith
Former United States Representative
With the rise of America, the global balance of power shifted away from the old European powers.
Armstrong Williams
American commentator
Unfortunately, once a person who is willing to act against the interests of the United States assumes the awesome powers of the presidency, the laws and investigative techniques we use in ordinary national security situations are woefully inadequate.
Asha Rangappa
Lawyer
One knows something is important when the powers that be choose not to acknowledge it in public.
Linda Colley
British historian
There are so many stories about boys becoming heroes, learning their powers and becoming incredibly heroic. There have to be those stories for girls, too.
Cassandra Clare
American author
In the instance of Iran for Russia, Iran is a very important counterweight to the Sunni Muslim powers in the Gulf, but Russia's always been very concerned about potentially proselytizing and supporting groups inside of the Russian federation itself.
Fiona Hill
Former Deputy Assistant to the President of the United States
When you're lucky enough to get paid a nice chunk of change to write a movie or a TV show, you have no right to complain, really. I guess it's more of an appeal to the powers that be that the less they interfere, the more likely, actually, they are to get something that works, I think.
Beau Willimon
American playwright
It doesn't matter what the colour of your skin is, your sexual preference, the region where you were born, your gender. We're all equal... We can't take certain minorities and think they have super powers and are different from the others.
Jair Bolsonaro
Former President of Brazil
God will not damn a lunatic's soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for those of us with weak minds.
Garrett Fort
American short story writer
Great wars can only be fought by great powers.
Michael Mandelbaum
American author
The Supreme Court is the last line of defense for the separation of powers and for the rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution.
Brett Kavanaugh
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
We've built our own technology platform in-house, which operates our website and powers our retail stores.
Neil Blumenthal
CEO of Warby Parker
I thought this must be obvious to everyone else, as it seemed obvious to me; and that, if once it became apparent that we were on the edge, all the Great Powers would call a halt and recoil from the abyss.
Edward Grey
British Liberal statesman
Creative writing lessons can be very useful, just like music lessons can be useful. To say, as Hanif Kureishi did, that 99.9% of students are talentless is cruel and wrong. I believe that certain writers like to believe they arrived into the world with special, unteachable powers because it is good for the ego.
Matt Haig
Author
'Frankenstein' was all about the idea that, through electricity and the destruction of night, man creating light and darkness, we took on god-like powers and then abused them like gods, and we are only men. That's a story about man making a man in his own image. The inversion of natural order.
Benedict Cumberbatch
Actor
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