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  • Many rich and powerful men would pay dearly to see the Lord or His Most Pure Mother, but God does not appear in riches, but in the humble heart... Every one of the poorest men can be humbles and come to know God. It need neither money nor reputation to come to know God, but only humility.

  • As we get used to women in power, we are likely to discover that they behave much like powerful men - vain, entitled, always looking for more.

    Powerful   Men   Vain  
  • Imagine if you could actually be that happy? That would be powerful, man. People would be tunneling under the street to avoid you. They'd go 'Oh, man - is that happy guy still out there?'

    YouTube Channel "walbertcito"/"Jim Carrey - Unnatural Act (1991)", www.youtube.com. June 11, 2012.
  • His Majesty has always been a powerful man. Perhaps he has never had to distinguish between the two.

    Powerful   Men   Two  
    Alison Goodman (2011). “Eona”, p.143, Penguin
  • One minute I'm exactly what Churchill described me the most powerful man in history. Now the Order's given, hell; I'm just audience front row center to the shoe. But a Corporal on Juno, a Private on Utah there the ones who will affect the outcome not me. It's up to them now.

    Powerful   Men   Order  
  • Bush has done more to create passions for what they call terror than any other Administration in this nation's history. I get rather afraid when the most powerful man in the world talks to, and gets answers back from, God.

    Powerful   Passion   Men  
    Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.
  • Don't have a high school diploma? You're in my Cabinet. Why? For 200 years, a lot of Cabinets have existed in our government. Powerful men. Well-educated. So let's try something totally new.

    Powerful   School   Men  
    "Talking to Dick Gregory: Comedy, Selma and Cosby". Interview with Christopher Borrelli, www.chicagotribune.com. April 10, 2015.
  • In acknowledging woman-to-woman help it is important to recognize that power, within the family and elsewhere, can be used vindictively, and that it is not only powerful men who abuse women; women with power may also abuse other women.

    Powerful   Men   Abuse  
  • Powerful men who have powerful passions use much of their strength in forging chains for themselves.

    Powerful   Passion   Men  
  • Ordinary men live in fear all the time. Didn't you know that? We're afraid of the weather, we're afraid of powerful men, we're afraid of the night and the monsters that lurk in the dark, we're afraid of growing old and of dying. Sometimes we're even afraid of living. Ordinary men are afraid almost every minute of their lives.

    Powerful   Dark   Night  
    David Eddings (2010). “Magician's Gambit: Book Three Of The Belgariad”, p.136, Random House
  • There is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.

    "The New Freedom". Illustrated & Biography Added,
  • Watching my father plan and strategize for the resistance has taught me about trust.” She leaned forward. “Personal trust is very different from political trust, my lady. The first thrives on faith. The second requires proof, whether it be upfront or covert.” Awkwardly, she patted my hand. “His Majesty has always been a powerful man. Perhaps he has never had to distinguish between the two.

    Powerful   Father   Men  
    Alison Goodman (2011). “Eona”, p.143, Penguin
  • Women themselves are so happy, and so beautiful, when they're strong, that they naturally choose powerful men, even if that power's so enermous there's a real risk it could shatter them.

  • She raised her eyebrows in a look that she hoped conveyed how much she was all right with him leaving her. After all, he was a prince. The most powerful men and women on Earth had summoned him. She understood. And yet he was still here, with her. "I'm fine," she said. "Go away.

    Powerful   Men   Eyebrows  
  • At this gathering [Council of Niceau in 324 AD] many aspects of Christianity were debated and voted upon ― the date of Easter, the role of the bishops, the administration of sacraments, and, of course, the divinity of Jesus... until that moment in history, Jesus was viewed by His followers as a mortal prophet... a great and powerful man, but a man nonetheless. A mortal.

    Jesus   Easter   Powerful  
  • People in the U.K. cannot understand whether Blair has lost his mind or whether his ambition to be the second-most-powerful man in the world made him lose his mind.

    Powerful   Ambition   Men  
  • I've worked with many powerful men in the music industry.

    "What I know about men". Article by Tori Amos, www.theguardian.com. July 05, 2009.
  • Once more, I am watching the most powerful men in the kingdom bring their power to bear on a woman who has done nothing worse than live to the beat of her own heart, see with her own eyes; but this is not their tempo nor their vision and they cannot tolerate any other.

    Powerful   Heart   Eye  
    Philippa Gregory (2013). “The Lady of the Rivers”, p.156, Simon and Schuster
  • We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

  • I know the resurrection is a fact, and Watergate proved it to me. How? Because 12 men testified they had seen Jesus raised from the dead, then they proclaimed that truth for 40 years, never once denying it. Every one was beaten, tortured, stoned and put in prison. They would not have endured that if it weren't true. Watergate embroiled 12 of the most powerful men in the world-and they couldn't keep a lie for three weeks. You're telling me 12 apostles could keep a lie for 40 years? Absolutely impossible.

    Jesus   Truth   Powerful  
  • Wisdom is considered a sign of weakness by the powerful because a wise man can lead without power but only a powerful man can lead without wisdom.

  • You, your families, your friends and your countries are to be exterminated by the common decision of a few brutal but powerful men. To please these men, all the private affections, all the public hopes, all that has been achieved in art, and knowledge and thought and all that might be achieved hereafter is to be wiped out forever. Our ruined lifeless planet will continue for countless ages to circle aimlessly round the sun unredeemed by the joys and loves, the occasional wisdom and the power to create beauty which have given value to human life.

    Country   Art   Powerful  
  • The recognition of human wretchedness is difficult for whoever is rich and powerful because he is almost invincibly led to believe that he is something. It is equally difficult for the man in miserable circumstances because he is almost invincibly led to believe that the rich and powerful man is something.

    Powerful   Believe   Men  
    Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.122, Psychology Press
  • Control over a woman is the only form of dominance most men possess, for most men are merely subjects of more powerful men.

    Marilyn French (2008). “From Eve to Dawn, A History of Women in the World: Revolutions and Struggles for Justice in the 20th Century”, p.3, The Feminist Press at CUNY
  • A lot of people say, 'I always knew Lucky Luciano as a very smooth, very elegant, very powerful man.' All the accounts of him as an older man were that he was very genteel but he still had the look of smothered violence behind his eyes.

    Powerful   Eye   Men  
  • Whoever controls the volume of money in our country is absolute master of all industry and commerce...when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate.

  • If you're a history buff, you know about J. Edgar Hoover. He was likely the most powerful man in the US. If you start reading about him, the books contradict each other constantly. I was often left with very little sense of the man personally. I had a sense of what he did and didn't do and what people disagreed about whether he did this or didn't do this or that, but I was like, "Why? Why was he doing all of this?" That was my big question.

    Powerful   Reading   Book  
    Source: collider.com
  • In an effort to civilize combat sports, authorities mandated padded gloves and instantly made the sports far more savage. Granted, putting gloves on the hands seems like a nice thing to do. If you were being punched in the brain by a powerful man, wouldn't you rather he strap a pillow around his fist? But the glove doesn't do anything to diminish your brain damage.

    Sports   Powerful   Nice  
    "A Talk With The Savage English Professor". Interview with Sam Harris, www.thedailybeast.com. March 5, 2015.
  • The powerful men in my life have always believed in me: my husband, my son

    Powerful   Husband   Son  
  • To be fearless in the Lord does not require us to be great and powerful men, but only to believe in the great and powerful God.

    Powerful   Believe   Men  
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