Quotes About Power Cuts

#1. Obedience and resignation are our personal offerings upon the altar of duty.

Hosea Ballou

#2. It should be illegal to look this good in public. He should be confined to a museum and never let out in real life. His looks are distracting. They could cause an accident one day.

T. Torrest

#3. Life is a series of decisions that cuts off infinite possibilities at every turn. Most people look at that as a sad unfortunate fact of life. Successful people see it as a source of tremendous power.

Mark Joyner

#4. We've become so addicted to instant gratification that we're blind to the impact it has on our lives.

Frank Sonnenberg

#5. If you can integrate your life to have a kind of meditative practice that is considering others.

Anne Waldman

#6. The only time we get to fight the powers of darkness is during one of the kingdom's frequent power cuts

Jasper Fforde

#7. It wasn't my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.

Charles Bukowski

#8. From CATS ARE KIND
A man said to the universe,
'Sir, I exist!'
'Excellent,' replied the universe,
'I've been looking for someone to take care of my cats.

Henry N. Beard

#9. There is an old Arabic proverb, 'When the king puts the poet on his payroll, he cuts off the tongue of the poet', so throughout the ages, people in power have liked to control music, they used to throw songwriters in jail throughout history, and were assassinated.

Pete Seeger

#10. Regarding national security, we need to restore the defense cuts of Barack Obama to rebuild our military, to destroy ISIS before it destroys us. Regarding economic security, we need to take power and money away from Washington D.C. and empower American families so that they can rise up again.

Jeb Bush

#11. When we experience fear, it cuts us off from our power. It cuts us off from knowledge and experience. It is a guillotine that falls and separates.

Frederick Lenz

#12. Forgiveness offered -especially when so undeserved - cuts chains off the human heart that no other power in any universe anywhere can rattle much less break ... love did what hatred can not and never will.

Charles Martin

#13. I am speaking from experience when I say that forgiveness offered - especially when so undeserved - cuts chains off the human heart that no other power in any universe anywhere can rattle much less break.

Charles Martin

#14. I know that whenever I see some goon energetically mouthing the words to a song I can't hear, I assume the worst: Creed

John Sellers

#15. I love art because I feel that it's evidence of the great shared universal power. I like art that feels real, that cuts the bullshit.

Ottessa Moshfegh

#16. When your power comes from others, on approval, you are their slave. Never sacrifice yourselves - never! Whoever urges you to self-sacrifice is worse than a common murderer, who at least cuts your throat himself, without persuading YOU to do it.

Tobias Wolff

#17. (On Panic Attacks) And once I had my first one with Maegan, they crept up about once a month. And without warning. It was worse than getting my period. In fact, I called it my exclamation point.

Mamrie Hart

#18. The power of music rests in its ability to reach inside and touch the places where the deepest cuts lie.

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#19. What could be more real than the chemestries of our bodies being in perfect sync? And I don't think I want you, I know it."

~Ethan

Rosalie Lario

#20. Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.

Abraham Cahan

#21. Politics draws lines between people; in contrast, Jesus' love cuts across those lines and dispenses grace. That does not mean, of course, that Christians should not involve themselves in politics. It simply means that as we do so we must not let the rules of power displace the command to love.

Philip Yancey

#22. Suffering begins when you mentally label a situation as bad. That causes an emotional contraction. When you let it be, without naming it, enormous power is available to you. The contraction cuts you off from that power, the power of life itself.

Eckhart Tolle

#23. Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don't let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.

Eckhart Tolle

#24. I've never sold my publishing. I have 100% control of all of my publishing and that includes everything, every use of my songs.

Natalie Merchant

#25. There is apparently nowhere a workable majority in the representative assemblies for making the specific cuts in expenditure which could bring down the taxes, and in election after election the people vote into power representatives who are as unable as they are unwilling to do anything about it.

Gunnar Myrdal

#26. For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.

Roald Dahl

#27. The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality.

Raymond Queneau

#28. Worst of all were the highly unlikely science-fiction novels, or the equally implausible futuristic tales.
Couldn't my mom and Nana Victoria see for themselves that I was both mystified and frightened by life on Earth?

John Irving

#29. Liberal Democrats are inexorably opposed to tax cuts, because tax cuts give people more power, and take away from the role of government.

Rush Limbaugh

#30. Almost all great writers have as their motif, more or less disguised, the passage from childhood to maturity, the clash between the thrill of expectation and the disillusioning knowledge of truth. 'Lost Illusion' is the undisclosed title of every novel.

Andre Maurois