Unpowerful Quotes & Sayings

Stagnation is self-abdication. — Ryan Talbot

Scholarly translations of the Tao Te Ching as a manual for rulers use a vocabulary that emphasizes the uniqueness of the Taoist "sage," his masculinity, his authority. This language is perpetuated, and degraded, in most popular versions. I wanted a Book of the Way accessible to a present-day, unwise, unpowerful, and perhaps unmale reader, not seeking esoteric secrets, but listening for a voice that speaks to the soul. I would like that reader to see why people have loved the book for twenty-five hundred years. — Ursula K. Le Guin

The church does not exist to provide an ethos for democracy or any other form of social organization, but stands as a political alternative to every nation, witnessing to the kind of social life possible for those that have been formed by the story of Christ. — Stanley Hauerwas

When you feel you cannot continue in your position for another minute, and all that is in human power has been done, that is the moment when the enemy is most exhausted, and when one step forward will give you the fruits of the struggle you have borne — Winston Churchill

The devil doesn't fill us with hatred for God, but with forgetfulness of God. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Love lost, is still love ... You can't see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken, another heightens. Memory. — Mitch Albom

Now that it's over, I just wanna hold her
I'd give up all the world to see
That little piece of heaven looking back at me.
Now that it's over, I just wanna hold her.
I've gotta live with the choices I've made
And I can't live with myself today. — Skillet

Douglas: You really got to stop doing that.
Isabel: Doing what?
Douglas: Getting prettier everyday. — Julie Garwood

I'm a New Yorker, so I speak really fast, naturally. — Katie Lowes

In show business, more showgirls are kept than promises. — Fred Allen

Nanny Ogg looked under her bed in case there was a man there. Well, you never knew your luck. — Terry Pratchett