Conflicting Powers Quotes & Sayings

Male chimpanzees have an extraordinarily strong drive for dominance. They're constantly jockeying for position. — Frans De Waal

I have never believed we had to choose between either a clean and safe environment or a growing economy. Protecting the health and safety of all Americans doesn't have to come at the expense of our economy's bottom line. And creating thriving companies and new jobs doesn't have to come at the expense of the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat, or the natural landscape in which we live. We can, and indeed must, have both. — William J. Clinton

Sure, women sportswriters look when they're in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a word? — Bob Uecker

Men had better be without education than be educated by their rulers. — Thomas Hodgskin

To achieve a more balanced international system over time, countries with excessive and unsustainable trade surpluses will need to allow their exchange rates to better reflect market fundamentals. — Ben Bernanke

I first met Bev Shea while in Chicago when he was on Moody Radio. As a young man starting my ministry, I asked Bev if he would join me. He said yes, and for over 60 years we had the privilege of ministering together across the country and around the world. — Billy Graham

There are people into whose heads it never enters to conceive of any better state of society than that which now exists. — Henry George

An orotundity, which I define as Nobelitis a pomposity in which one is treated as representative of more than oneself by someone conscious of representing more than himself. — William Golding

I love you above all things, even pie. — Christopher Moore

Under our Constitution, military leaders have no choice but to endorse the president's decision after giving him their best advice. — Robert Kagan

Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble. — Shah Rukh Khan

I don't think my work has to be loved by everyone, and it's loved by enough people that I'm grateful and able to keep going. — Rebecca Solnit

The progress of the human race is effected by the operation of two forces which correspond in most respects to what in physics are often called, for want of better terms, the centripetal and centrifugal forces. These are the forces of convergence and divergence, the one tending to concentration of powers and properties, and the other to their separateness or the independence of parts. Socialism and Individualism are to appearance conflicting, though in reality complemental, in their relations to the societary movement. — Joshua K. Ingalls

To take a breath of water: does the thought panic or excite you? — Maggie Nelson