The Doctor: It's my nose; it has special powers. Nancy: Yeah? That why it's so. . . ? The Doctor: What? Nancy: Nothing. The Doctor: What? Nancy: Nothing. Do your ears have special powers too?
I don't have any problem with the United States acting on behalf of its own interests. That's what big powers do; that's what all countries do. I would just like to see us analyze in a serious way what really is in our interest. Sometimes we intervene in foreign countries in ways that seem successful at first. In the end, however, we wind up with unpredicted consequences that make us regret those operations.
Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.
A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
Faith and unfaith can ne'er be equal powers; Unfaith is aught is want of faith in all.
After death something new begins, over which all powers of the world of death have no more might.
Oh, and she told me that men want only one thing. And on that note, I must give praise and thanks to the powers that be. I don't want much else from them either.
It's not about who's got powers, morons. It's about who's not afraid. And who's going to do what has to be done.
Now we have a whole series of problems - energy, environment, proliferation - which go beyond the nation. And we also know that a conflict between major powers would be a catastrophe for which there is no compensation in anything you can gain.
Let woman then go on-not asking favors, but claiming as a right the removal of all hindrances to her elevation in the scale of being-let her receive encouragement for the proper cultivation of all her powers, so that she may enter profitably into the active business of life.
The executive shall never exercise the legislative and judicial powers, or either of them, to the end that it may be a government of laws and not of men.
For each of us there is a set limit to our intellectual powers which we cannot pass.
The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.
Is America a weakling, to shrink from the work of the great world powers? No! The young giant of the West stands on a continent and clasps the crest of an ocean in either hand. Our nation, glorious in youth and strength, looks into the future with eager eyes and rejoices as a strong man to run a race.
Poetry, Painting & Music, the three Powers in man of conversing with Paradise, which the flood did not sweep away.
When we had ideas that earned there way in [Austin Powers], it began to get okay. The hook for me was 'Mini-Me. ' We only auditioned one guy - Verne Troyer - and at the time I said, 'we have to get this guy, get him life insurance, whatever he needs' because there was no other way or actor to do it. It was amazing to me just to talk to him. . . he was Mini-Me.
Nothing powers hate better than embarrassment.
For more than half a century. . . this Union has stood unshaken. Whatever dangers may threaten it, I shall stand by it and maintain it in its integrity to the full extent of the obligations imposed and the powers conferred upon me by the Constitution.
Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer.
We should use this public sphere and redefine - beyond China's borders - what a government is allowed to do, where its powers end and where the realm of a citizen's privacy begins.