Pastoral Resources

If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.

Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.

Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.

The future condition of the conquered power depends on the will of the conquerer.

The imagination is man's power over nature.

Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them.

With the people, especially a people seized of property, resides the aggregate of original power.

There was nothing there but black water and American fire power.

Merely that I have a World Wide Web page does not give me any power, any abilities, nor any status in the real world.

You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.

Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.

I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.

The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.

Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power.

It was under a solemn consciousness of the dangers from ecclesiastical ambition, the bigotry of spiritual pride, and the intolerance of sects... that is was deemed advisable to exclude from the national government all power to act upon the subject.

Though, with the ascendancy of Louis, the political power of the nobles finally came to an end, France remained, in the whole complexion of her social life, completely aristocratic.

I don't think a powerful man would be interesting unless he'd be nice, attractive, with or without the power. Men are interested in powerful men. Women are interested in terrific men!

Now, at this point, I can wrestle, I can go out there and cut an entertaining promo, I can also do the backstage stuff... and if you can contribute more to the show, you have more staying power.

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

For the victor peace means the preservation of the position of power which he has secured. For the vanquished it means resigning himself to the position left to him.