Power Qoutes Quotes & Sayings

Once there, the chaplain closed the door and threw his arms around her. Alarmed, she jammed the heel of her pump into his foot. He let go with a howl and she fled. The incident was never spoken of again until she had daughters of her own. I can remember at about thirteen staring wide-eyed at my proper mother when she thought it time to tell me this cautionary tale. — Katherine Paterson

as I drove her into the dirt and fucked her. — Penelope Douglas

Power is like a nuclear weapon,
very dangerous in the wrong hands. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Gratitude is a species of love, excited in us by some action of the person for whom we have it, and by which we believe that he has done some good to us, or at least that he has had the intention of doing so.

Passions, III, 193. XI, 473-474. Trans. John Morris — Rene Descartes

This is how you explain how you feel: broken words and hard truths. — R. YS Perez

There is a dead spot in the night, that coldest, blackest time when the world has forgotten evening and dawn is not yet a promise. A time when it is far too early to arise, but so late that going to bed makes small sense. — Robin Hobb

The West is a civilization that has survived all the prophecies of its collapse with a singular stratagem. Just as the bourgeoisie had to deny itself as a class in order to permit the bourgeoisification of society as a whole, from the worker to the baron; just as capital had to sacrifice itself as a wage relation in order to impose itself as a social relation - becoming cultural capital and health capital in addition to finance capital; just as Christianity had to sacrifice itself as a religion in order to survive as an affective structure - as a vague injunction to humility, compassion, and weakness; so the West has sacrificed itself as a particular civilization in order to impose itself as a universal culture. The operation can be summarized like this: an entity in its death throes sacrifices itself as a content in order to survive as a form. — The Invisible Committee

I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory. — Keith Richards

going to be thinking anyway, — Kathy Collins

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole. — Malcolm X

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things. — Rainer Maria Rilke

I've found that musical theater is my passion. — Samantha Barks

PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE
I have so much to do today.
I can't possibly get it all done,
so I'm not going to start. — Chocolate Waters

I have watched how steadily the general feeling, as shown at elections, has been rising against Slavery. What a proud thing for England if she is the first European nation which utterly abolishes it! I was told before leaving England that after living in slave countries all my opinions would be altered; the only alteration I am aware of is forming a much higher estimate of the negro character. — Charles Darwin

My knowledge of the letter of the Shastras is better, but of true religion they are able to give me but little. — Mahatma Gandhi

Put simply, if an interface is poorly designed, I will not see the data I looked for, even if it is right there on the page. — Jeffrey Zeldman