By The Power Invested In Me Quotes

#1. People.. especially people in positions of power.. have invested a tremendous amount of effort and time to get to where they are. They really don't want to hear that we're on the wrong path, that we've got to shift gears and start thinking differently.

David Suzuki

#2. The trite answer is that everything is true but none of it happened. It is emotionally true, but the events, the plotting, the narrative, isn't true of my life, though I've experienced most of the emotions experienced by the characters in the play.

Patrick Marber

#3. I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve.

Nate Silver

#4. Though Fortune's malice overthrow my state,
My mind exceeds the compass of her wheel.

William Shakespeare

#5. You don't just give the executive branch unlimited resources, unlimited power. Our founders were very concerned about too much power being invested in any one, in any branch. The balance of power is fundamental to our system.

Mike Huckabee

#6. Why do croutons come in airtight packages? It's just stale bread to begin with.

George Carlin

#7. Probably the arrogance of the community that surrounds it. Knowing Lisp certainly doesn't make one a better person, nor even necessarily a better programmer.

Anonymous

#8. Power, when invested in the hands of knaves or fools, generally is the source of tyranny ...

Charlotte Charke

#9. Inside the room, a man and a woman were wrestling. They were both naked.

George R R Martin

#10. That is the way it is with a wound. The wound begins to close in on itself, to protect what is hurting so much. And once it is closed, you no longer see what is underneath, what started the pain.

Amy Tan

#11. A pound invested in energy efficiency buys seven times more energy solution than a pound invested in nuclear power.

Zac Goldsmith

#12. I always felt as a kid that I was underappreciated, invisible or weird, but I've always secretly thought people would one day appreciate what is different about me. I'm always putting that message out there.

Judd Apatow

#13. All who die by the way, whether by land or by sea, or in battle against the pagans, shall have immediate remission of sins. This I grant them through the power of God with which I am invested ...

Pope Urban II

#14. The good of the people must be the great purpose of government. By the laws of nature and of reason, the governors are invested with power to that end. And the greatest good of the people is liberty. It is to the state what health is to the individual.

Denis Diderot

#15. What's scarier than death? Not living.

Lindsay Eagar

#16. My handsome, intelligent, inimitable, delightful, prickly, unlucky Alexei Pavlovich, by the power of imagination invested in me I'll make you who you are because I want to.

Mikhail Shishkin

#17. The truth was, Azoth hated Azoth. Azoth was a coward, passive, weak, afraid, disloyal. Azoth had hesitated. Master Blint didn't know it, but the poisons on the needle had killed Azoth. He was Kylar now, and Kylar would be everything Azoth hadn't dared to be.

Brent Weeks

#18. By the power invested in me by the state of New York and the Universal Life Church, I now pronounce you husband and husband. You can kiss the groom.

Conan O'Brien

#19. How can those who are invested with the power of government be prevented from the abuse of those powers as the means of aggrandizing themselves? ... Without a strong constitution to counteract the strong tendency of government to disorder and abuse there can be little progress or improvement.

John C. Calhoun

#20. The circulating medium being issued only by those who labor, they would suddenly become invested with all the wealth and all the power; and those who did not labor, be they ever so rich now, would as suddenly become poor and powerless.

Josiah Warren

#21. The best dividends on the labor invested have invariably come from seeking more knowledge rather than more power. Signed Wilbur and Orville Wright, March 12, 1906.

David McCullough

#22. We, as licensed protectors of the species and members in good standing of the master-class of the race, by the power invested in us by those who wish to survive and reproduce, vow to enforce the fiction that life is worth having and worth living come hell or irreparable brain damage.

Thomas Ligotti

#23. The power of the brand is not in the name but what has been invested in that name over the years.

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#24. I find that the great artists I've met are people who are so playfully invested in their process that, even if it doesn't come out the way they like, they still power through and even take energy from it.

George Saunders

#25. The conceit of man was explained by this storm to be the very engine of life. One

Stephen Crane

#26. As we know from our government, the more power you have, the more of a bureaucrat you are, and the more ego you have invested in being right, the greater the odds are that you will never change your opinion.

Richard Linklater

#27. (On Charles Dickens) It has been the peculiarity and the marvel of this man's power, that he has invested his puppets with a charm that has enabled him to dispense with human nature.

Anthony Trollope

#28. I feel guilty for being a member of the human race.

Jack Kerouac

#29. Release yourself from the power you've invested in your mirror and those around you - take control of who you are and how you feel!

Denise Austin

#30. The quality of your thoughts and the state of your mind will define how happy you are as a person. Happiness in your life comes from the way you think!

Sanchita Pandey