Countervailing Power Quotes

#1. Politics is not an isolated, individualist adventure. Women really need to emerge as a power to be the countervailing power to the men. And Eleanor Roosevelt's really the dynamo and the spearhead of that effort.

Blanche Wiesen Cook

#2. Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

Zelda Fitzgerald

#3. You know a dream is like a river
Ever changing as it flows.
And a dreamer's just a vessel
That must follow where it goes.
Trying to learn from what's behind you
And never knowing what's in store
Makes each day a constant battle
Just to stay between the shores.

Garth Brooks

#4. Coal is good for humanity, coal is good for prosperity, coal is an essential part of our economic future, here in Australia, and right around the world.

Tony Abbott

#5. We persevere because we are preserved by our High Priest's intercession.

R.C. Sproul

#6. If you can get life outta love, you should die trying to get love outta life.

Shane Rainey

#7. In any country, if you don't have countervailing institutions, the power of any one president is problematic for democratic development.

Condoleezza Rice

#8. Life is a flash of lightning in the dark of night. It is a brief time of tremendous potential.

B. Alan Wallace