The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
John F. Kennedy
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The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
Thomas Jefferson
Lady you bereft me of all words, Only my blood speaks to you in my veins, And there is such confusion in my powers.
William Shakespeare
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Edmund Burke
I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.
George W. Bush
Love and respect woman. Look to her not only for comfort, but for strength and inspiration and the doubling of your intellectual and moral powers. Blot out from your mind any idea of superiority; you have none.
Giuseppe Mazzini
The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.
William Makepeace Thackeray
To display the greatest powers, unless they are applied to great purposes, makes nothing for the character of greatness.
William Hazlitt
Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time, Be crushed by the spirit of light.
Boris Pasternak
These are major European powers projecting their power by building these bastions. It gets to the importance of this corridor to them in that age.
Howard Coffin
God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.
Abdul Kalam
Unlike the other Muslim countries caught in the eye of the storm, Malaysia is free of the hegemonic consequences of big powers that are experienced by Afghanistan and Iraq for example.
Chandra Muzaffar
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
We are singing and rejoicing, calling people to rejoice this night when the powers of darkness are overcome by the light of Christ.
Rev. Steve Thomason
Give yourself an even greater challenge than the one you are trying to master and you will develop the powers necessary to overcome the original difficulty.
William Bennett
It's a defining point for us, and for Penn State. You can't ask for much more in a game. Two teams that it means a lot to, with good records and two historic national powers.
Bobby Carpenter
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks.
Phillip Brooks
Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems.
Paul J. Meyer
The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.
Michael Faraday
The race of children possesses magically sagacious powers.
Gail Godwin
Right now some 60 entities in South Carolina have eminent domain powers, and it's been discussed generally (in the General Assembly) to commit it to elected bodies and some others like the Department of Transportation and the Ports Authority.
Howard Duvall
We played 32 minutes of very good defense. We attacked in the fourth quarter, and Arielle Powers played incredible defense on Sam Cutting.
Deb Rathburn
Many of the previous powers the City Council enjoyed are now largely irrelevant under the current conditions.
Jim Brandt
There is also a perfection of degrees, by which a person performs all the commands of God, with the full exertion of all his powers, without the least defect. This is what the law of God requires, but what the saints cannot attain to in this life.
Charles Buck
The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.
Tryon Edwards
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.
Phillips Brooks
Be bold and mighty powers will come to your aid.
Basil King
Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they actually paralyze what slight powers of cerebration man can normally muster.
James Harvey Robinson
It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.
Marya Mannes
Has criticized the exclusionary rule . . . and [as an appellate judge] has favored police powers over privacy concerns.
Andrew Napolitano
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Norman Vincent Peale
These all are attempts to protect the weak party against other political powers. They are afraid of the Brothers and they are afraid of all potential political power. They are so weak that they put all other political powers under siege.
George Ishaq
...no man of genuinely superior intelligence has ever been an actor. Even supposing a young man of appreciable mental powers to be lured upon the stage, as philosophers are occasionally lured into bordellos, his mind would be inevitably and almost immediately destroyed by the gaudy nonsense issuing from his mouth every night.
H. L. Mencken
It is not in our [India's] interest to have more nuclear powers in our vicinity.
Ram Madhav
They will have powers. They will be sworn in as auxiliary German police officers but their powers will be limited to the railway system and the airports.
Stephen Thomas
Next week's market is going to be big for tech companies. As long as the Nasdaq powers ahead, we're going to see more and more filings.
Jeffrey R. Hirschkorn
It is good for man To try all changes, progress and corruption, powers, peace and anguish, not to go down the dinosaur's way Until all his capacities have been explored: and it is good for him To know that his needs and nature are no more changed, in fact, in ten thousand years than the beaks of eagles.
Robinson Jeffers
He's not your classical sexy type but he is Batman and you can never underestimate the powers of a superhero!
Christian Bale
I fully appreciate the ability of trees to attract kites. They have special powers that way.
Charlie Dunton
There will be a meeting of the great powers who will disagree, and the next noise we hear will be the screeching of elevators going up and down from heaven to hell.
Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
The quick powers Mr Blair is issuing for the police to give instant justice are not as effective as he is making out.
Mark Oaten
But it is impossible to divide a cube into two cubes, or a fourth power into fourth powers, or generally any power beyond the square into like powers; of this I have found a remarkable demonstration. This margin is too narrow to contain it.
Pierre De Fermat
Let [woman] receive encouragement for the proper cultivation of all her powers, so that she may enter profitably into the active business of life.
Lucretia Mott
This is not just a private right - but one belonging to legislators as part of the separation of powers and as part of the essential functions of government.
David Abney
The incident was the consequence of the home minister's statement giving unlimited powers to security personnel.
Subodh Pyakurel
To say 'well done' to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge.
Phillip Brooks
Xbox owners can get a fresh dose of Hell with DOOM 3: Resurrection of Evil. We're turning up the heat by arming you with incredible new weapons and powers for an all-out battle with the Hunters -- a new breed of demons Hell-bent on killing you.
Todd Hollenshead
Not to be cheered by praise, Not to be grieved by blame, But to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers Are the characteristics of an excellent man.
Saskya Pandita
The powers given to the president exceed the boundaries of parliamentary democracy.
Ahmet Necdet Sezner
Powers at work about which we have no knowledge.
Walter Rodgers
What you see in that document is the traditional powers exercised by the president at Massachusetts Maritime Academy.
Adm. Richard Gurnon
Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.
Satchel Paige
What we can do for another is the test of powers. What we can suffer for is the test of love.
Bishop Westcott
High oil prices and the emergence of a number of new players on the world stage - not just China and India but also Russia and even Iran - have made it possible to play the major powers off against each other.
Klaus Schwab
Under the war powers (of the Constitution), it is defensible and he has the responsibility to do what is necessary to protect the country. Does this mean federal agents are going to start following me or you? No. This is very circumscribed.
Gene Riccio
I can't believe this would have happened if this was a Haitian official or someone in favor with the powers that be.
Jack Lieberman
The concentration and reciprocal effect of industry and agriculture conjoin in a growth of productive powers, which increases more in geometrical than in arithmetical proportion.
Friedrich List
The individual involved has been stripped of police powers and the matter remains under investigation.
Monique Bond
Fifty dollars is conservative. The 'powers that be' worry about giving away something and not getting enough in return.
Brian Platter
A district attorney can indict anyone for anything, and it's not surprising that this DA has once again misused his powers to trump up charges against a Republican.
John Doolittle
This is something we all know, that a way of dealing with human-rights activists is to claim they have secret relations with foreign powers. This very much limits our actions. It is very dangerous to our society.
Abdolfattah Soltani
Will suggest that the great aim of our education is to bring out of the child who comes into our hands every faculty that he brings with him, and then to try to win that child to turn all his abilities, his powers, his capacities, to the helping and serving of the community which is a part.
Annie Besant
The results were actually rather meager, ... and yet all the powers put enormous resources into intelligence in the Far East.
Bernard Wasserstein
The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
William Wordsworth
Your statutory powers to consider these matters are explicitly set forth in New Mexico Food Act (25-2-1 through 25-2-19) poisonous & deleterious food adulteration is the province of the EIB; your powers in that regard are very precise.
James Turner
From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind acquires new ideas, and by frequent exercise of its powers, the understanding gains fresh vigor.
Joseph Addison
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
Johann Gottfried Von Herder
I know that I haven't powers enough to divide myself into one who earns and one who creates.
Tillie Olsen
They really will feel that the European institutions have gone too far -- both the commission and the court -- and they will then try to reduce their powers in other areas ... where they are currently accepting their powers in competition or internal market.
Charles Jenkins
That's a very perverse case of emergency rule-making powers. The law gives the opportunity to know the rules may change, and for people to be heard at a reasonable time. The hope here is that government doesn't act in this fashion.
Karen Murphy
I have always recommended natural beauty products. I'm concerned about the artificial ingredients in many beauty products. I thought about more novel approaches, and I looked at ancient species of mushrooms for their anti-inflammatory powers.
Andrew Weil
'Never must the physician say, the disease is incurable. By that admission he denies God,our Creator; he doubts Nature with her profuseness of hidden powers and mysteries.'
Morris Fishbein
We really haven't played a lot of teams outside of our area, so there is a bit of an unknown going in. There are several powers that are always good on the A level — Bradley, Emerson, Guy Perkins and Kingston. We just want to go down there and play our best basketball.
Kevin Osnes
It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.
Anne Sullivan
There is not only basis but in reality. She's avoiding the use of Martial Law, but she's exercising powers that can only be justified under a Martial Law situation. So it's a clever use of phrases that is meant to disguise the intent of the President and also to confuse the people. She's doing things that only Martial Law can justify without calling it as Martial Law, without the name.
Aquilino Pimentel
There is a possibility that the number of offences will increase. That in itself could be a sign of success because more people are using the powers of the act.
James Purnell
This was the week that the administration discovered the tide wouldn't come in forever on presidential powers. Partly, that is because so much time has passed without a new attack. And partly, it is because there were so many missteps.
Richard Falkenrath
Wherever the powers that be set these bars, we're going to meet and exceed them.
Michael Casserly
What we saw today was not Saddam admitting guilt, but admitting to the fact that he acted in accordance with his official duties and powers.
Nehal Bhuta
Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good.
Daniel P. Moynihan
You cannot give all the powers to the secretary general. The General Assembly has to keep its main prerogative, and the secretary general and all bodies should be accountable to the General Assembly.
Abdallah Baali
I'm saddened and frustrated because the ordinary people think that Congress is powerful and they expect that congressmen have the powers too. But it appears now that we don't have that power even to fight a sergeant who may want to arrest us and that is pathetic.
Teodoro Casino
The president needs to rein in -- not bolster -- the attorney general's insatiable appetite for new and unnecessary spying powers.
Anthony D. Romero
Europe needs a clear and more collective policy on the security of our energy supply. Now, powers reside at the national level and we need a Europe-wide approach.
Andris Piebalgs
Don't forget you have the new centers of emerging powers: China and India.
Zeyno Baran
Already the days are gone when Chinese characters would lurk in the background, the women merely looking beautiful and the men harboring mystical martial arts powers.
Arthur Jones
The powers of the legislature are defined and limited; and that those limits may not be mistaken, or forgotten, the Constitution is written.
Dr. John Marshall
The board should take into consideration a blunder of NB Power's management and whether that should reflect on the determined rate.
Peter Hyslop
The resignation of Gloria is the solution to the crisis, not emergency powers to the usurper of the presidency.
Aquilino Pimentel
There are powers inside of you, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.
Orison Swett Marden
These powers may appear Draconian, but when they are weighed against the hardship these people can cause, my sympathies are with the community, not the individual.
Kenny Macaskill
There are definitely powers working in the northeast at the moment who do not want peace.
Hagrup Haukland
Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy.
Denis Waitley
I'll rebel against powers and principalities, all the time. Always, I will.
Paul Thomas Anderson
(Officials' powers) are so vaguely formulated, they are so broad, that in effect a bureaucrat, if he wants to ... can put our existence under threat.
Oleg Orlov
Stopping motorists or pedestrians in order to provide verbal or written information concerning the current job action is an improper and abusive use of police powers.
Bill Blair
We are too interconnected to try to hold China at arm's length, hoping to promote other powers in Asia at its expense.
Robert Zoellick
We are going to ask the powers that be to fully support this.
Sue Marlowe
All I know is the powers that be selected us to be in this game. We just received the trophy.
Matt Mauck
Arrogant powers intend to make countries local and national economy bankrupt in an attempt to make more benefits from establishing a big market.
Mahmud Ahmadinejad
One can only learn his powers of action by action, and his powers of thought by thinking.
John Burroughs
I think we got lucky when we picked up Powers in goal. He looks like a good one.
Wayne Puglisi
As parliamentary speaker and under the constitution, I assume powers as head of state until the new presidential election.
Nino Burdzhanadze
There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.
William Godwin
I would like to see all persons no matter what they're sexuality be ordained as clergy as elders as deacons be married, and be able to rejoice in that. Not fight the powers that be about it.
Dee Miller
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives to his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm
The authority was the perfect legal vehicle to do that. Legal in that it had the powers to enter into public/private partnerships. That is, I guess, a very popular, and probably very palatable way, of handling development in today's time.
Bob Newsome
In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function. Its deliberative powers are paralyzed.
John Rawls
I recognize that politics is very much in play here. There has to be a good relationship with the powers-that-be to try to change the physical nature of a big, old neighborhood.
Pete Witte
It is impossible for any number which is a power greater than the second to be written as a sum of two like powers. I have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.
Pierre De Fermat
It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing.
Quintilian
I believe, however, that such abnormal moments can be found in everyone, and it is all the more fortunate when they occur in individuals with creative talent or with clairvoyant powers.
Giorgio De Chirico
This joint project between Southern Company and Duke Power is a good fit. Duke Power's business model is compatible with Southern Company's, and Duke Power is well respected in the nuclear industry for its nuclear expertise and strong operating experience. The joint project maximizes benefits for both companies.
Barnie Beasley
Premature development of the powers of both mind and body leads to an early grave.
John Quinton
Okemos was playing really well, and that had a lot more to do with it than us playing poorly. They were all over us; we couldn't buy a shot. But Tyler Reed played awfully well, and Joe Powers came through for us.
Bruce Larner
We have a long history of justices not doing exactly what the appointing powers thought they'd do. We don't know where Roberts lies, and people change. As times change, people change.
Janine Geske
What I do is based on powers we all have inside us; the ability to endure; the ability to love, to carry on, to make the best of what we have – and you don't have to be a 'Superman' to do it.
Christopher Reeve
You don't suddenly get Jedi powers by upgrading. It's just a number.
Hans Arnesen
If no one wants to talk to you about the fact that you're dying, you feel very isolated, ... That's one of the powers of a group.
David Spiegel
We are taking collectively very big decisions -- for (powers of) arrest, for money laundering -- in all the chapters where we need new cooperation against terrorists.
Romano Prodi
Idaho Power's customers are taxpayers, too.
Greg Panter
Certain kinds of legal reforms are seen as excessively limiting the powers of government officials or the party. There are obstacles from tradition and history.
Paul Gewirtz
Have you forgotten that Israel is the occupying power here? Do I need to remind you of an occupying power's obligations under international law?
Nayef Rajoub
Any change to the constitution signals a red light. But this is a very drastic measure which reduces the inherent review powers of the courts.
Prof Marinus Wiechers
Each ruling may be correct. But it seems to me that the cumulative effect of these decisions makes it increasingly difficult for the president to operate in a separation of powers context.
A. E. Dick Howard
The administration is claiming extraordinary presidential powers at the expense of civil liberties and is putting the president above the law.
Caroline Fredrickson
It was fortunate for Ben that he was given the opportunity to return to the NFL as a coach. The powers that be (at Livingstone) felt, why shop around when you've got a guy in place?
Robert Massey
We can cite them for violations, but we don't have enforcement powers.
James Polk
I would like to be assured it had exhausted its powers before getting more.
Ian Davidson
But the data on sustained stress shows a decrease in functioning over time, even though a person may believe he is at the height of his powers.
Jerrold Post
We don't want to raise expectations. The joint powers authority is one option, but it's one of the scenarios on the table.
Adrienne Laurent
We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.
Marguerite Gardiner
I'm sure it's embarrassing to some people to have their names listed as owing taxes. But it's our duty to do everything in our powers to collect the taxes.
Gloria Whisenhunt
Playing in Europe so many years, you see more strategy, not so much freestyle game. You learn how to make plays for your teammates. For me, that is one of my powers.
Fabricio Oberto
We shot the ball really well, and that was the difference tonight. Tom Powers made six 3-pointers and was everywhere on the court. It was just a great performance for our team.
Dean O'connor
This government will be credible only if it has real powers..., ... must, therefore, be accepted by the different political forces and the main communities, the Sunnis, the Shiites and the Kurds.
Michel Barnier
Thomas Jefferson called the Barbary States 'petty powers' and declared they were no match for the new America, but the pirates commissioned by these North African states managed to stop American shipping and commerce cold.
Frank Lambert
We're not giving the police any new powers, it's just keeping up with the technology and keeping up with the criminals.
Ontario Liberal
Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his own powers for his own welfare.
William Graham Sumner
The grand jurors have done their work extraordinarily well, bringing to bear all of their legal powers, life experiences and shrewdness.
Alex Hunter
The majority of these foods are considered ?super foods' due to their high concentrations of disease-fighting nutrients. However, their powers do not just protect men. These super foods are beneficial to both men and women in the prevention of heart disease, cancer and even aging.
Sara Murkowski
That would be a power we have as property owners, separate from our local police powers, so there wouldn't be any preemption problem.
David Acton
The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers.
G. M. Trevelyan
I would love to think that because of the Emmy, the powers that be might be a little bit more inclined to use the character in a more fulsome way.
Charles Keating
We didn't have any arrest powers so when a dog alerted, we would notify a deputy and then send a report to Tallahassee on the alert whether there was an arrest or not.
Kevin Dean
Most definitely, the U.K. government will play an integral part in the investigations since RIPA provides such sweeping powers.
Phil Huggins
To divide a cube into two other cubes, a fourth power or in general any power whatever into two powers of the same denomination above the second is impossible, and I have assuredly found an admirable proof of this, but the margin is too narrow to contain it.
Pierre De Fermat
We need a panel of qualified experts that is knowledgeable and objective and has all the investigative and subpoena powers necessary.
Kathleen Tierney
The French government will not face a Tony Blair moment because the police have enjoyed steadily increasing powers in France for the last few decades. What Blair tried in Britain or Bush did in the U.S. with the Patriot Act were major shifts in the legal landscape.
Olivier Roy
Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
Eric Butterworth
How many people here have telekinetic powers? Raise my hand.
Emo Philips
Nirvana? That's the place where the powers that be and their friends hang out.
Zonker Harris
Fullback Heather Powers had a great defensive game. She was outstanding getting the ball in for us.
Eva Hemond
Military training is dangerous. It has always been that way. The powers that be are careful to avoid mishaps. But they happen.
Eugene Alvarez
I can invent my own creatures and give them their own powers. It was great fun.
Eoin Colfer
I can invent my own creatures and give them their own powers.
Eoin Colfer
Your powers are dead or dedicated. If they are dedicated, they are alive with God and tingle with surprising power. If they are saved up, taken care of for their own ends, they are dead.
Eli Stanley Jones
It is wholly unhealthy for us as a Parliament to give this government unseen powers over the citizen and over the way in which he conducts his or her life.
Edward Garnier
Part of the responsibility has to be on the opposition powers. If they can't organize and they can't put up attractive candidates and develop a message that galvanizes the people, they aren't going to succeed.
Edward Walker
I think it is high time that a statement is made. The assault on our children must stop, something must be done, and we are calling on the powers that be to do something about it.
Earl Smith
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