Power Stance Quotes

#1. If someone teaches you alignment and - I'm not a tai chi expert by any stretch - so interviewing me about tai chi is kind of the cart before the horse - but just from my point of view as a student, it's simply that Master Ren can show you the relationship of power, stance and form.

Lou Reed

#2. The power of collective memory does not lie in its accurate, systematic, or sophisticated mapping of the past, but in establishing basic images that articulate and reinforce a particular ideological stance.

Yael Zerubavel

#3. While most streams of Buddhism take a contemplative stance on passion, pleasure, and pain, Sufism encourages us to be open to our passions - to dive into the sea, to become at one with the beauty and power of the waves.

Charlotte Kasl

#4. Sex is not an exam and you do not need an orgasm to pass.

Merlyn Gabriel Miller

#5. There is nothing missing.

Alan Cohen

#6. Freedom will cost you the mask you have on, the mask that feels so comfortable and is so hard to shed off, not because it fits so well but because you have been wearing it so long.

Florinda Donner

#7. Such a small impact on the world, yet the very centre of my own.

Clare Mackintosh

#8. The core power of tai chi begins with awareness. Our stance is the posture of infinity: not tense but relaxed and upright, expectant. From this nothingness, all things begin.

Jean Kwok

#9. The exceptional patient is the person who, despite their diagnosis, takes charge of their health and decides to be responsible to their illness or their condition and not necessarily feel responsible for it. One stance is drenched in blame and the other is full of power.

Christiane Northrup

#10. I do not give the honorific name of 'poetry' to the primitive and the unaccomplished.

Helen Vendler

#11. You ache with loneliness one night so much you weep and I say 'here is a rope tie it around me Hafiz will be your companion for life'.

Hafez

#12. Everything that is wrong with this sinful world, is rooted in the selfishness of man. Rom. 8:5

Felix Wantang

#13. I accept the proposition that ... to judge is an exercise of power and because ... there is no objective stance but only a series of perspectives
no neutrality, no escape from choice in judging, I further accept that our experiences as women and people of color affect our decisions.

Sonia Sotomayor

#14. Now there she goes again, the dopest Ethiopian,
And now the world around me be gets movin in slow motion
Whenever she happens to walk by, why does the apple of my eye
Overlook and disregard my feelings no matter how much I try?

Fatlip

#15. Those who are unconquered in spirit are the real successes in life. If you can so train or condition your mind that you are content regardless of what you have or do not have, and if you can stand the challenge of all your trials and remain calm-that is true happiness.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#16. There is a kind of latent omniscience, not only in every man, but in every particle.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#17. The only difference between the East and the West seems to be that you have ancestors and we are going to be ancestors.

Harold Bell Wright

#18. And the relationships that happen become so intense, deep, involved and complex and really hard to say goodbye to. The hardest part of the show is saying goodbye when it's all done. It really breaks you.

Genevieve Gorder

#19. Philosophers and psychologists may argue over what's real and what isn't, but most of us living ordinary lives know and accept the texture of the world around us.

Stephen King

#20. Wonder is not a Pollyanna stance, not a denial of reality; wonder is an acknowledgement of the power of the mind to transform, to notice, to decide what experience shall mean.

Christina Baldwin

#21. Strain on the community -- That's a ridiculous arguement. Then nobody in the world should have children. I think asking people not to have children is just another form of genocide.

Rebecca Lee

#22. Postmodernism is an outlook that depends not a little on what are perceived to be the fundamental limitations on the power of interpretation: that is, since interpretation can never be more than my interpretation or our interpretation, no purely objective stance is possible.

D. A. Carson

#23. Possession of the box conferred a kind of power on the wielder
which was that anyone, confronted with the hypnotic glass eye, would submissively obey the most peremptory orders about stance and expression.

Terry Pratchett

#24. My family, my friends, and skiing ... thats it for me, thats my life. The joy I get from skiing, thats worth dying for.

C. R. Johnson